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Finding a needle in a bottle of hay http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/10.html Israel Middle East Russia Scandinavia South Africa United Kingdom For links to search services in other countries, try Search Engines Worldwide, Search Engine Colossus, and Country Specific Search Engines. The Financial Times Global Archive is another interesting offering. It has over 10 million articles from 2000 publications. Their news database is updated on a 24 hours / 7 days basis from selected international publishers and agencies. Search the five year archive of the Financial Times Newspaper as well as archives of European, Asian and American business sources. In the comp.infosystems.search newsgroup, discussion is focused on web searching: "Discussion about the different aspects, ramifications and use of search engines and associated technology." Non English language searches There are major structural differences between languages. An indexing system built for English text may therefore not be suitable for a text written in the language you're searching, and in particular if the other language uses special fonts. Using special purpose search engines may be the way to go in such cases. Some options: Arabic Chinese French (http://lokace.iplus.fr/ and http://www.ecila.fr) German (http://www.aladin.de/ and http://www.dino online.de/suche.html) Italian Japanese Spanish (Spanish language search engines). Another problem using the English language search systems is that you don't just have to understand English to get the most out of them, you'll have to understand English well. Searching Usenet After searching the Web, my next step is usually Google Groups, a large indexed database of archived Usenet news dating back to 1981. We're talking about over 700 million messsages here (2001)! It is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first hand historical account. You can use the service for research, or to locate interesting newsgroups worth your subscription. Google Groups' powerful filter lets you limit what records will be searched by a query. A search may be limited by date, author, newsgroup name (using wildcards, or range operators), wildcards (compan* matches companies, company, and much more. The order of the records in the hit list may be set to reflects how often the words you're searching for appear, as well as the importance you have given the posting date. This scoring will give you the records that best match your search at the top of the list. Once you have found an interesting message in a hitlist, you can retrieve the thread as it appears on the screen. InfoSeek lets you search many Internet newsgroups, news and business information from real time newswires, publications, broadcast programs, financial and government databases, World Wide Web pages, mailing list archives, and technical support information (including over a year of Computer Select database of the full text and abstracts of about 100 computer magazines). 6 of 10 23.11.2009 15:46
Finding a needle in a bottle of hay http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/10.html Queries can be entered as plain English, or by just entering key words and phrases. There is a Japanese language version at http://japan.infoseek.com. Searching Mailing lists and Web forums BoardReader claims to let you "search 732,456 forums and message boards from the Web, information that most search engines do not retrieve." The forums and boards are sorted in these top level topic groups: Art & Antiques, Automobile, Boating, Computers, &RQVROH *DPHV +REELHV +RPH *DUGHQ 0RWRUF\FOHV $79V +HDOWK Entertainment & Music, Outdoor Recreation, Sports, Social, Travel. Reference.COM (Chapter 11) indexes messages posted to several mailing lists and Web forum. This includes Kidlink's announcement lists. Several mailing lists let you search their archives of postings through the Web. For example, all postings to the TOW mailing list since 1993 are searchable. Hits can be filtered by strings found on the subject line, strings in the author's email address, or by giving a date range. Microsoft lets you search several of their mailing lists, like those on ATL, ActiveX, Active Server Pages Scripting, Authenticode, CIFS, Client Scripting, Cryptographic API, Distributed COM Based Code, Internet Explorer Html. Some other mailing list archive sites: American.edu Anet (via rutgers.edu) Buffalo.edu Asu.edu Emory.edu Gmd.de Hea.ie many lists focusing on Irish, Celtic and Gaelic culture and languages. Indiana.edu Lsoft Nih.gov mainly medicine and health related lists Nodak.edu carries all public Kidlink lists Polito.it Psu.edu Spc.edu Stjohns.edu Temple.edu Uta.edu Yorku.edu Catalist is the official catalog of LISTSERV mailing lists. This site lets you search for mailing lists of interest. It guides you to their web archive interface, if available. The LISTSERV web archive interface allows you to search the list's archive, and browse postings chronologically. Searching specialized databases If you are looking for more specialized databases, try The Internet Sleuth. It links to over 3,000 searchable databases on the Internet on a wide variety of subjects. Sleuth's categories include: Agriculture, Economics, Internet, Regional, Education, Legal, Sciences, Astronomy, Employment, Literature, Shopping, Aviation, Engineering, Mathematics, Social Sciences, Biology, Physics, Entertainment, Medicine, Software, BioSciences, Environment, Arts, Music, Sports, Business, Finance, News, Technology, Business Directories, Food & Drink, People, Trade & Industry, Chemistry, Genealogy, Travel, Commercial Databases, Government, Politics, Usenet News, Companies, Health, Computer Related, Recreation, Veterinary, Humanities, Reference, Web Search Engines. Database Central links to over 4,000 database resources. The resources vary widely, from software, shareware, and middleware to tips, tutorials, and white papers to 7 of 10 23.11.2009 15:46
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