WestWeb

WestWeb:
Useful Web Resources


This section of WestWeb provides links to some useful tools for navigating the Web. Like much of the rest of WestWeb, it is constantly changing and developing. Under Web Tutorials, you will find several easy-to-follow lessons and a Web FAQ. Under Search Engines--Home Pages, you will find links to many of the major search engines available online; once you click on the homepage, you can just follow the instructions for each search engine.


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WestWeb graphics Copyright © Warrick J. Bell 1996-2001.
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Web Tutorials

  • Jeff Finlay's Web Tutorial from the Crossroads Site.

  • My tutorial for the Coalition for Western Women's History session, "The New El(ectronic) Dorado: The Internet and the World Wide Web as Resources for Western Historians," Western History Association/Western Literature Association Joint Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1996.

  • Thomas Boutell's World Wide Web FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions list, with answers).



    • Search Engines--Homepages

  • All the Web - From FAST of Norway, a very quick, high-quality searcher. Good adult-content filtering system which is turned off by default.
  • Alta-Vista - One of the best searchers there is, now with a plain-English query format.
  • Dogpile - "Fetches" results from many different search engines at one time.
  • exCite - Another very good searcher.
  • Google - Excellent search engine which boasts a database of more than 1.3 billion webpages.
  • Highway 61 - Sends your search to several search engines and collates the results.
  • HotBot - Very effective search engine for pop-culture, news, and online culture. Run by Wired Magazine and Lycos.
  • GO.com - Yields fairly comprehensive results.
  • Lycos - High-yield search engine; seems to find more "technical" pages easily.
  • Magellan - Good, comprehensive searcher.
  • Planetsearch - Searches 12 other search engine sites at once.
  • Webcrawler - Been around a long time, and still very good.
  • Yahoo! - The most famous one. Good for general categories and lightweight searches.


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