Hi Folks. ogie is a busy man and doesn't like to waste time. I'm always busy working to improve my page for your convenience, enjoyment and entertainment. When I'm not doing that I'm e-mail chatting with my Net Buds. Knowing you are probaly like minded you will not find many items under each catagory, only the best. Remember you will not find much but rest assured you will find the best, right here on OGIE'S WEB GUIDE. Hope this helps free some of your time so you can use it for the pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness. :-)) ...... ogie
A search engine is a device for searching data bases. You may also see them refered to as web worms or web
crawlers. There are two kinds. Individual which
searches one data base and Meta or Mega and these
search more than one data base at one search.
How does one know or learn the best way to search for
information? This is just a little of what I have
learned through trial and error. If you can't find
what you're looking for on a general engine look for
a specialized engine. For instance my son was
looking for information on his hero, special effects
artist Rick Baker. We looked in one of the best
individual general search engines and it gave
references to sites with information on Rick Baker a
golf pro and one listing to a site with information
on the Rick Baker he was looking for but it was a
German page. We went to one of the most popular
general meta search engines that searched 25 other
general search engines and found three sites
containing information on Rick Baker the special
effects artist but alas they were all in foriegn
languages. We then went to a specialized engine that searched movie data and there found several sites
that contained his bio, all the movies he had worked
on in his career and all of the awards he had won
throughout his career.
How does one go about finding a specialized engine?
I am going to give you a link to Beaucoup which is a
list with links to over a thousand search engines!
If you are looking for information on a journalist
scroll down to the list of "media" engines and you
will find several specalized engines there with
nothing but data on newspaper articles and
journalists.
Meta Search. Why search one data base when you can
search five or 25 at once? I am going to give you a
link to Freeality Meta Searches which is a page with
a long list of general multiple search engines that
can all be searched from the same page. If you click on the name of the engine it will take you to that
engines Home Page where you can find all the engines
it searches. However remember it is not necessary to go to the Home Page as they ALL can be conviently
searched from the Main Meta Searches page in the
boxes provided. I personally start my searches with
Inference Find because it is a good engine and
searches a few but most of all I like the way it
lists its results best. If I don't find what I'm
looking for there I go up a couple of spaces and try
my favorite, Dogpile, which searches 25 at once.
Experiment, try typing the same query into all of
them and compare results. If you try a few and
aren't having much luck go to Beaucoup and look for a
list of more specialized engines. Book mark both of
these and that should take care of all your search
needs. ogie says, "Happy hunting!"
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Edward D. Webb has compiled one of the best reference pages there is. This site is a webbies dream! Free
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This may well be the greatest web information source
guide anywhere! For the person new to the net or the seasoned hand, this is YOUR guide. Thousands on
thousands of links on every subject under the sun.
Want to know where to find info on health, military,
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want to know, not after they book mark The Info
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Guide.
Thinking about building or already have built a web
site? What's next? Banner advertising. Mark J.
Welch's twenty odd page report on banners, banner
exchanges, counters, trackers, brokers, related
books, pay per click money generators all explained.
Reports on many sites he has tested himself. Some
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Looking for Midi's of the kind of music you like
best? Building a web page that needs music that
reflects "you"? Need that back ground music in your
e-mail signature that gets the hidden message across? Or perhaps you just enjoy surfing and listening to
Midi Music. James of jmusic.com has compiled a great
list of Midi sites that you'd better take a sack
lunch with you when you go to it as you may end up
like I did, lost in it for a while. Thanks James, a
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penCentral is one of the most unique sites I have
come across in my surfing career. Put together by a
computer whiz that uses webtv named penryn from
Austin, Texas. penryn's penCentral site is still
under construction and as good as the three sections
he has open now are I can not wait to see what he
will come up with next. penryn has compiled the best
list of Webtv newsgroups I have seen. These can be
found by clicking on his NEWSGROUPS catagory on
penCentrals main page. The most concise, articulate,
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preaches and you can find him participating in some
of these newsgroups. I enjoy seeing his sometimes
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newsgroups.
In addition to penCentral's Webtv newsgroups
penCentral has World Wide News from many different
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even from The Vatican! And if that were not enough
even in Spanish! With a link to a Newstand, Magazine
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about has ALL the NEWS covered! All you Webtvers Hear all the latest World Wide News from around the globe
as it happens. All this can be done by clicking on
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