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How
to Research Resources
A Basic Tutorial on Search the Web
Visit this site to learn how to narrow your search results from
1,675,00+ down to 50 or less.
The Major Search Engines
AltaVista
AltaVista is one of the oldest crawler-based search engines on
the web. It has a large index of web pages and a wide range of
power searching commands. It also offers news search, shopping
search and multimedia search. AltaVista opened in December 1995.
It was owned by Digital, then run by Compaq (which purchased
Digital in 1998), then spun off into a separate company which
is now controlled by CMGI.
Ask
Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that aims to direct
you to the exact page that answers your question.
Excite
Excite offers a medium-sized crawler-based web page index, as
well as access to human-powered directory results from LookSmart.
Excite was launched in late 1995. It grew quickly in prominence
andconsumed two of its competitors, Magellan in July 1996, andWebCrawler
in November 1996. Magellan was discontinued in April 2001. WebCrawler
continues to operate as a separate service, but it provides the
same results at the Excite.com site itself.
Google
Google is a top choice for web searchers. It offers the largest
collection of web pages of any
crawler-based search engine. Google makes heavy use of link analysis
as a primary way to rank these pages. This can be especially
helpful in finding good sites in response to general searches
such as "cars" and "travel," because users
across the web have in essence voted for good sites by linking
to them. The system works so well that Google has gained wide-spread
praise for its high relevancy.
Google provides web page search results to a variety of partners,
including Yahoo and Netscape Search (see below). Google also
provides the ability to search for images, through Usenet discussions
and its own version of the Open Directory (see below).
HotBot
HotBot is a favorite among researchers due
to its many power searching features. In mostcases,
HotBot's first page of results comes from the Direct Hit service
(see above), and then secondary results come from the Inktomi
search engine, which is also used by other services. It gets
its directory information from the Open Directory project (see
below). HotBot launched in May 1996 as Wired Digital's entry
into the search engine market. Lycos purchased Wired Digital
in October 1998 and continues to run HotBot as a separate search
service.
Merriam Webster Dictionary On-line
http://webcenters.netscape.com/webcenters/research/netscape/reference.adp
Industry Partners/Training Centers
The Alaska Process Industry Careers
Consortium (APICC) is an industry
led partnership with education to develop the skilled workforce
needed for the future of our industries in Alaska.
http://www.apicc.org/
Delta Mine Training Center- The Delta Mining Training Center was established
to address the issue of local hire for mineral industry jobs.
The Center will work to recruit and help prepare Alaskans for
jobs in mining and mineral exploration. We want the Delta Mine
Training Center to be the connection for industry to find workers
and Alaskans to find employment. Our students will be held to
a standard that will meet the demands of the modern mineral industry.
http://www.dmtcalaska.org
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