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Searching the World Wide Web

Learning to Successfully Search the Internet

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Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, May/June 1998
Kari E. Boyce, M.Ed., RDMS, RDCS

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

--Chinese Proverb

Give a man a URL and he might find the web page. Teach a man to search and he will find what he seeks.

--Kari E. Boyce

Web Resources Listed in This Article

Online List of Sites http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kboyce/jdms/

Search Engine Watch http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

The Spider’s Apprentice http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

Search Engines Dedicated to Newsgroups and Listservs:

DejaNews http://www.dejanews.com/

TileNet http://tile.net/

Liszt http://www.liszt.com/

Search Engines:

AltaVista http://altavista.digital.com/

Excite http://www.excite.com/

Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com/

Lycos http://www.lycos.com/

WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com/

HotBot http://www.hotbot.com/

Open Text http://index.opentext.net/

Directories:

Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/

Channels by Excite http://www.excite.com/

Infoseek Channels http://www.infoseek.com/

Lycos Web Guides http://www.lycos.com/

Magellan http://www.mckinley.com/

WebCrawler Channels http://www.webcrawler.com/

Metacrawlers:

Ask Jeeves http://www.askjeeves.com/

Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/

Inference Find http://www.inference.com/ifind/

MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com/

ProFusion http://www.designlab.ukans.edu/profusion/

SavvySearch http://savvy.cs.colostate.edu:2000/

Online Catalogs of Search Engines and Directories:

All-In-One http://www.albany.net/allinone/

DirectoryGuide http://www.directoryguide.com/

WebTaxi http://www.webtaxi.com/

People and Email Finders:

Excite People Finder http://www.excite.com/Reference/people.html

Bigfoot http://www.Bigfoot.com/

Four11 Directories http://www.Four11.com/

Internet Address Finder http://www.iaf.net/

Lookup USA People Directory http://www.salesleadsusa.com/
aka. Database America's People Finder (follow "American Directory Assistance" and "Find People" links)

Switchboard http://www.switchboard.com/

Yellow Pages:

Excite Yellow Pages http://www.excite.com/Reference/yellow.html

Big Book http://www.bigbook.com/

Zip2 http://www.zip2.com/

WorldPages http://www.worldpages.com/

ATT Toll-Free Number Directory http://www.tollfree.att.net/dir800/

Health Care Publication Databases:

Yahoo Health Index http://www.yahoo.com/Health/

Medsite Navigator http://www.MedsiteNavigator.com/

WebTaxi Database Dispatcher http://www.webtaxi.com/ (select Health or other subcategories)

Medline Search Tools:

Medline is available by visiting non-commercial or registering at any of several commercial health related websites including:

PubMed (National Library of Medicine) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Medsite Navigator http://www.MedsiteNavigator.com/medline.medline.html

InteliHealth http://www.intelihealth.com/ih/ihtHome

MedScape http://www.medscape.com

HealthGate http://www.healthgate.com

Image Search Tool:

Image Surfer http://isurf.yahoo.com/ or http://ipix.yahoo.com/

Examples from Scenarios:

Prostate Pointers http://rattler.cameron.edu/prostate/

San Diego Bleeding Esophageal Varices Study http://medicine.ucsd.edu/surgery/pcshunt/

References:

  1. Sikorski R, Peters R. Internet Anatomy 101: Accessing information on the world wide web. JAMA, publication date: January 8, 1997. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/jama, select NetSight column; Medsite Navigator's http://www.MedsiteNavigator.com, select JAMA columns. Accessed January 31, 1998.

  2. Peters R, Sikorski R. Navigating to knowledge: tools for finding information on the internet. JAMA, publication date:February 12. 1997. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/jama, select NetSight column; Medsite Navigator's http://www.MedsiteNavigator.com, select JAMA columns. Accessed January 31, 1998.

  3. Sikorski R, Peters R. Medical literature made easy: Querying databases on the internet. JAMA, publication date: March 26, 1997. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/jama, select NetSight column; Medsite Navigator's http://www.MedsiteNavigator.com, select JAMA columns. Accessed January 31, 1998.

  4. Feldman S. Just the answers, please. Searcher: The magazine for database professionals, May 1997; 5(5), pp. 44-57. Available at http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/may/story3.htm

  5. Gray TA: How to search the web: A guide to search tools. Available at: http://daphne.palomar.edu/TGSEARCH/, 1997.

  6. Gibbs S, Sullivan-Fowler M, Rowe NW. Mosby’s Medical Surfari: A guide to exploring the internet and discovering the top health care resources. Chicago: Mosby, 1996.


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