Основные руководства по поиску в сети
AltaVista Search—How to get the most out of it
An excellent tutorial on using the huge search engine, from Richard
Seltzer, co-author of The AltaVista Search Revolution.
Best of the Internet Tutorials
A guide to the best online tutorials, compiled by the Department of
Telecommunications of Bowling Green State University.
Boolean Searching on the Internet
(Want to be a great searcher) and (do not know Boolean logic) or (how it
works)? Do not (miss this exceptional illustrated primer on the topic).
Evaluating Quality on the Net
Once you've found a site, how do you know if it's any good? Here are
practical tips on distinguishing the valuable nuggets from the junk.
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
From the Teaching Library at UC Berkeley, offering beginning,
intermediate, and advanced sections on using the Internet's resources to
find information.
Finding It Online: Web Search Strategies
This tutorial presents an easy-to-follow process on using search engines
and subject directories for finding what you need on the World Wide Web.
How to Choose the Search Tools You Need
The Teaching Library at UC Berkeley shows you how to choose a search
engine that matches the optimal database size with the features you need
to research your topic successfully.
How to Search the World Wide Web
This tutorial for beginners provides helpful explanations of how the
various search engines work. Especially useful are the "Hints" and
"Planning and Conducting a Search" sections.
Making Web Research Pay Off
Reviews of Web research tools that help you keep your favorite Web sites
organized.
The Many Faces of Inktomi
The Inktomi database serves several Web search engines, such as HotBot and
Yahoo, but doesn't provide identical results. Here's why.
Power Searching 101
An in-depth Web searching tutorial, organized to proceed from the basics
to more advanced topics. It has 12 parts containing 48 topics.
Search Engine Help: Documentation and Resources on the Web
A guide to search engine help resources, advanced searching commands, and
other "helpful" sites, from your About.com Guide.
Search Engines: What they Are & How They Work
An excellent overview of how search engines work, with examples to
illustrate which engine performs the best for specific tasks.
Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools and Techniques
Notes for a Web searching workshop which includes a lot of useful tips and
techniques, and comparisons of different search engines.
The Spider's Apprentice
A good, reasonably thorough tutorial on search engines, how they work, how
to plan a search strategy, and brief reviews of popular search sites.
Things to Know About the Internet
An outstanding, densely-packed but easy to read "cheat sheet" for key
information about the Internet, e-mail, and searching the Web.
Tips On Popular Search Engines
This concise overview of all major search engines describes how they work
and offers tips for getting the most from each.
Web and Internet Search Engine FAQ
An excellent overview and tutorial on search engines and how to use them
most effectively, including several specialized search engines.
Web Search Help and Tips
An annotated guide to Web search help, with explanations of how to get the
most from each search engine, from your About.com Guide.
Web Teacher - Finding Things
This basic tutorial on Web searching is part of the comprehensive Web Primer covering just about
everything you might want to know about the Internet.
Search Help & Search Tutorials
New to the Internet? There are plenty of good search help and tutorial
resources to teach you how find your way around on the Web, from your
About.com Guide.
Основные файлы "помощь"
AltaVista
http://altavista.com
AltaVista offers
Basics, Advanced Help,
and help with its
Refine Results feature, a tool that dynamically sorts your results
into different topics to help you become more exact with your search
keywords.
Excite
http://www.excite.com
Excite has a number of help files, including What is Excite
Search?, General Search Tips, Advanced Search Tips,
how to interpret
Search Results.
HotBot
HotBot provides basic help with Getting
Started, and extensive help for its advanced searching features in Advanced
Search Features List.
Infoseek
Infoseek (now the search service for the GO network) provides How to Search,
complete with examples linked to actual queries. Infoseek also provides a Quick Reference to
Search, a Quick Reference to
Syntax, and help for
Advanced Search.
Lycos
Lycos provides
General Search Tips, help with interpreting
Search Results, Lycos
Pro Search Tips, as well as links to help files for other specialized
searches offered through the Lycos Network.
Northern Light
Northern Light's
Search Help is simple but adequate, and also features links explaining
how to use its various specialized search capabilities.
Webcrawler
Webcrawler Help offers useful tips for this relatively
limited-coverage search engine.
Yahoo
Yahoo has two sets of help files.
Browsing Yahoo describes the structure of the directory and how to use
it. Yahoo also features a fairly powerful search engine.
Help on Search describes the basic search capabilities, while Advanced
Search Syntax goes into more detail for refining searches.
Новости в сфере поиска информации
Search Engine Watch
The definitive source of information on Web search engines. Be sure to
sign up for the bi-monthly
Search Engine Report newsletter.
Поиск Web: Расширенные стратегии и техника
Search Tips & Tricks
Essential strategies and methods for finding information on the Web, for
beginner and expert alike, from your About.com Guide.
Расширенный поиск
Advanced Searching: Tricks of the Trade
An overview, with examples and commentary, of the advanced search
capabilities of popular search engines. From the May 1996 issue of
Online Magazine.
Honing Your Web Searches
This four-part series shows how to use operators to narrow searches at
Infoseek and AltaVista. The parts on Lycos
and Yahoo
have their own links, for some reason.
How to Do Field Searching in Web Search Engines
"Fields" are parts of all Web documents that contain narrow, specific
information. This article from
Online Magazine shows you how "harvest" these useful fields.
Internet Search Strategies
Techniques for sharpening Web searches, including some fun interactive
exercises for putting the strategies into action.
A Journalist's Guide to Web Searches
A good basic introduction and tutorial to searching the Web. Though
written for journalists, it's great for anyone who needs to find accurate
information fast.
Meta Search Engines
Nancy Garman, editor of Online Magazine, on getting the most out of
searching with meta search engines.
More Internet Search Strategies
Techniques for finding companies, conducting opinion polls, and other tips
for creatively using search sites, from super-searcher Greg R. Notess.
Results Ranking in Web Search Engines
How good are they? A study of how five major search engines retrieve and
rank documents in answer to sample search queries.
Search Engine Math
Learn how to easily add, subtract and multiply your way into better
searches at your favorite search engine.
Search Engine Showdown
Greg Notess summarizes, reviews, and compares the search features and
scope of Internet search engines and finding aids.
Searching for Current News
Search engines are not very effective for finding news. Greg Notess shows
you where—and how—to find news on the Web.
Suggested Internet Research Strategies
A detailed look at how to approach research on the 'Net, from Ronald W.
Kriesel, a retired librarian who also provides hints on avoiding the
dangers of "Web addiction."
Письма-рассылки на тему поиска
Free Pint
Free Pint is a free email newsletter written by information
professionals, providing tips, strategies, and articles on how to search
more effectively.
Internet Research News
Keep up to date with new developments in Web searching with Internet
Research News, a regular roundup of news and commentary from super
searcher Tara Calishain.
Search Engine Watch
The definitive source of information on Web search engines. Be sure to
sign up for the bi-monthly
Search Engine Report newsletter.
Обзоры
Choose the Best Search Engine
All search engines have different strengths and weaknesses. This table
helps you match the best search engine with each specific kind of query.
Glossary of Search Engine Terms
Compiled for I-Search, an
AudetteMedia mailing list focusing on Web search engine optimization,
also available in Dutch, German, Italian, Serbian,
and Spanish.
Internet Navigation Tools
Links to all major search sites, grouped by strengths in finding
information by subject, keyword, location, newsgroups/mailing lists, and
people.
Internet Scout Sidekicks
Sidekicks are a series of quick-reference summaries of how to use Internet
search engines, formatted in a way that makes them easy to print out and
keep as handy references.
Internet Search Tool Details
Excellent overviews of the major search sites, with key highlights and
search tips, from the U.C. Berkeley Digital Library.
Quick Reference Guide to Search Engine Syntax
These tables summarize not only the field searching capabilities of the
major search engines, but include descriptions of other advanced searching
commands as well.
Search Tools - A Guide
A terrifically useful summary of a multitude of resources for searching
the Web, presented in a concise table format on a single page.
Site Search Terms Glossary
Detailed definitions of key words and concepts that help you tightly focus
your searches and increase the quality of your results.
Internet Resources
Newsletter
Internet Resources Newsletter's mission is to raise awareness of new
sources of information on the Internet, particularly for academics,
students, engineers, scientists, and social scientists.
Internet Tourbus
Your free Tourbus ticket will take you on a guided tour of some of the
most interesting sites the Web has to offer, twice each week.
Librarians' Sites du Jour
Once each day Jenny Levine serves up a review of a Web site chosen for its
value to librarians—therefore useful sites for just about anyone.
The Scout Report
Published weekly, the Scout Report provides organized summaries of the
most valuable and authoritative Web resources available.
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