Boolean Searches

A guide to using Boolean search terms to find things on the Internet efficiently.

Find Newsgroups

Here's where you can find a listing of all of the listservs on the web. Listservs are communities with specialized interests and you sometimes can find people discussing the very topic you're interested in. Then you can email them and use them as a resource.

Search Newsgroups

A guide to using Internet resources other than the web. Here you can find information on listservs, MOOs and MUDs and even that web precursor, the gopher.

Who Owns It?

The place to go if you're trying to find out who owns a particular webpage. Sometimes you can get unlisted phone numbers here as well.

Altavista

My favorite. Try the advanced search features which allows more precise Boolean searches.

Ask Jeeves

For the search impaired. It allows you to ask questions. Sometimes, it answers them correctly.

Excite

A good all-around search engine, this one is particularly good if you're looking for computer programs and similar stuff.

Google

Ranks webpages by popularity, giving you the most popular first. Not a good concept for the serious researcher. However, Google does have one outstanding feature -- its search engine scans Adobe .pdf files and creates them in text format. This allows you to import those files directly into programs such as Access or Excel.

Infind

InfoMine

Infoseek

Lycos

Good search engine and popular with those trying to find music files or movie files.

News Research

Resource Shelf

Signpost

The archives of the Scout Report. This site lists the webpages that the Scout Report has investigated and pronounced well done. Good place to find reliable sources of web information.