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Reference Desk
Computers
Internet Guides & Tutorials
- How to Search the World Wide Web:
A Tutorial for Beginners and Non-Experts
204.17.98.73/midlib/tutor.htm
- Internet Detective
www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
Free but requires registration to login.
- Library of Congress Brief Guides to the Internet
lcweb.loc.gov/loc/guides
- University at Albany Libraries Internet Tutorials
http://library.albany.edu/internet/
- WebTeacher
www.webteacher.org/winexp/indextc.html
Good introduction to the web/Internet for beginners including information about web browser basics, email, telnet, FTP, newsgroups, mailing lists, chat groups, finding things, image files, etc. Also good for more experienced users; info. about teleconferencing, distance learning, HTML, Java and CGI.
Search Engines
- AllSearchEngines.com
www.allsearchengines.com
List of search engines and directories categorized by topic and type such as META search engines. "Complete list" is misleading because there are some SE's not included.
- Foreign Search Engines
http://allsearchengines.com/foreign.html
This commercial site has links to over 100 search engines in
Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia. Most are
in other languages and users may need to download programs
for reading non-Roman alphabets. The site solicits new
listings from users but does not provide selection criteria. It is
a useful tool for those seeking information in other languages
and regional information.
- AltaVista
www.altavista.com
- AltaVista Education Directory
tools.altavista.com/s?spage=av/SEdu.htm&only=y
- AltaVista Government Directory
tools.altavista.com/s?spage=av/SGov.htm&only=y
- The BigHub
www.thebighub.com
Search for images.
- Ditto
www.ditto.com
- Dogpile
www.dogpile.com
- Excite
www.excite.com
- Infoseek
infoseek.go.com
- Google
www.google.com
Uses weighted link popularity as a primary part of its ranking mechanism. Each page has a rank, based on the number of other pages linking to it and the importance of those pages. Importance is derived from an overall link count.
- Google Image Search
images.google.com
- Guides to Specialized Search Engines
www.searchability.com
- HitBox
www.hitbox.com
- HotBot
www.hotbot.com
- Inference Find
www.infind.com
- Looksmart
www.looksmart.com
- Lycos
www.lycos.com
- Mamma
www.mamma.com
- Metacrawler
www.metacrawler.com
- Northern Light
www.northernlight.com
- Oingo
www.oingo.com
Conducts a "conceptual search" to make sure that it understands your request.
- Orientation
www.orientation.com
Emphasizes regions beyond North America and Western Europe including Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East, and Oceania.
- Profusion
www.profusion.com
- Proteus
www.thrall.org/proteus.html
- Search Engines & Tutorials
www.lookoff.com
- Search Engine Watch
www.searchenginewatch.com
Gives information about changes in major search engines; explains how each engine indexes.
- SearcheBooks.com
searchebooks.com
- SearchEdu.com
searchedu.com
- SearchEngines.com
www.searchengines.com
- SearchGov.com
searchgov.com
- Searching the Web
spireproject.com/webpage.htm
- SearchMil.com
searchmil.com
- Veronica Gateway
www.scs.unr.edu/veronica.html
Searches through gophers.
- Yahoo!
www.yahoo.com
Search Engine Guides
Internet Service Providers
- Dawn McGatney's Complete Guide to Finding a Decent ISP
dogwolf.seagull.net/
- Free USA ISPs
nzlist.org/user/freeisp/index.htm
- ISPs.com
www.isps.com
A list of over 4,000 internet service providers which can be searched by price, area code, name and whether the ISP is national or is toll-free. Provides details of services offered by individual ISPs. News & Help section includes information about modems and how to choose an ISP. The Internet Access Guide includes news, reviews, and analysis of Internet access technologies from several magazines including Internet Week.
- The List
thelist.internet.com
List of over 7,300 internet service providers. Categorized by area code, country code, and alphabetically by name of ISP.
Dictionaries & Glossaries
Books
- InformIT
www.informit.com/itlibrary
View a list of electronic books from Macmilliam subsidiaries including SAMS and Que and others; register for The "Add To MyInformIT" link on each content page which allows you to save the chapter you are reading or save the entire book you are reading. Full-text and sample chapters cover web publishing and programming, JAVA, web servers and networks.
- ITKnowledge Academic
academic.itknowledge.com
Courses
News
- Andover News Network
www.andovernews.com
Focuses exclusively on high-tech industry news; news is updated every two hours, Monday through Friday Eastern Time.
Free Graphics
- The Amazing Picture Machine
www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
- Clip Search
www.netden.demon.co.uk/ClipSearch.html
Includes thousands of clip art images.
- Ditto.com
www.ditto.com
- Graphics
www.vol.it/mirror/Graphics/list1.html
- Icons
www.ender-design.com/rg/icons.html
Over 510 icons for designing web pages grouped into the following categories: characters, inline icons, standout, symbols and text.
- WebPlaces: Clip Art Searcher
webplaces.com/search
- WebSEEk
disney.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek
- Webseer
webseer.cs.uchicago.edu
Use form to request image including dimensions, colors, file size and origin; will find images of people. - Yahoo Image Surfer
ipix.yahoo.com
Software
- Association of Shareware Professionals
www.asp-shareware.org
- DaveCentral
www.davecentral.com
Specializes in shareware/freeware software related to the Internet, like email and conferencing prgorams, for Windows and Linux.
- Download - CNet
www.download.com
- Jumbo Web
www.jumbo.com
Over 70,000 shareware and freeware programs described in work and leisure categories.
- Microcomputer Software Guide Online
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6223
Directory of micrcomputer software and hardware in the U.S. Corresponds to the print "Software Encyclopedia".
- Public Software Library/DigiBuy
www.pslweb.com
A searchable database of 20,000 downloadable freeware and shareware titles for DOS, Windows, OS/2. Reviews titles and publishes a monthly CD-ROM of new programs.
- Softseek
www.softseek.com
Source for shareware, freeware and evaluation software categorized by topic. Includes search engine.
- Softwarevault.com
www.softwarevault.com
Allows searching of a database of Windows, Macintosh, OS/2 and Linux programs; has a list of new titles and some software reviews.
- Tucows
www.tucows.com
- Virtual Software Library
www.shareware.com
A database of over 160,000 software files drawn from shareware and vendor archives on the Internet. Files are available for searching, browsing, and downloading.
- Windows 95 Tutorial
www.dccc.edu/frr/HTML/dcwin95.htm
- ZDNet Software Library
www.zdnet.com/swlib
Web Development
Other Free Stuff
- Backflip
www.backflip.com
Backflip saves your Web page links and organizes them. You can upload your bookmarks and access them from any computer when you log in.
- Blink
www.blink.com
Register and you can store your bookmarks online. This site also includes a database of millions of links from other users.
- Clickmarks
www.clickmarks.com
Register and you can store your bookmarks on this site and move them from one folder to another by dragging and dropping. The "My Content" section allows you to click and drag to add content from other Web sites to your Clickmarks page. "My Accounts" allows you to add your other accounts to your Clickmark "My Accounts" page: you can combine multiple web-mail accounts, career accounts, travel agent accounts and so forth into a single view and also have Clickmarks log you into them by keeping track of your log-in names and passwords.
- eBoard.com
www.eboard.com
Your own "Virtual Corkboard" where you can post messages, photos and links online.
- The Free Site
www.thefreesite.com
Annotated links to sites offering free things such as free email, graphics, fonts, software, etc. Also links to other sites offering free things. Updated daily.
- Hotlinks
www.hotlinks.com
- X:drive
www.webteacher.org/winexp/indextc.html
Free service that gives users 25 megabytes of remote hard drive space that is accessible from any computer with Internet access.
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