The Nonprofit FAQ

Where can I find general searching resources on the net?

Nonprofit Connections -- Searching Resources



Welcome to a basic Internet web link resource for the use of nonprofit
entities done as part of the Information for Nonprofits FAQ (Frequently
Asked Questions). It is not our intent to create a comprehensive nonprofit
resource compendium on this page but rather to simply link pages which do
contain many such general resources and links of interest to nonprofits and
choice searching sites which can lead to such information. Comments,
suggestions and constructive criticisms are welcome. Feel free to email
Munn Heydorn, the maintainer of this page, at: munn@interaccess.com

There are three sections to Nonprofit Connections:



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Searching Sites:


The following sites are some of the sites which perform searches of the
World Wide Web or have a tree and branch searching structure (or both) to
enable you to look for topics. A number of them have suggestions on
searching techniques which are well worth reading. Some have more
sophisticated searching programs which will allow Boolean searches using,
e.g., 'not' or 'and' words to narrow searches. You might try various
searchers since they use somewhat differing algorithms and, for that reason
and others, sometimes yield somewhat different results from one another.


Search the Web - General
Searchers:



http://www.altavista.com
Altavista, a site which will yield a lot of so-called hits. (0501)


http://www.excite.com
Excite. (0501)


http://www.google.com
A favorite site; seems effective for most uses. Mathematicians use the word
'google' to mean 'a very large number.' (0501)


http://www.lycos.com
Lycos. (0501)


http://www.northernlight.com
Northern Light. (0501)


http://www.yahoo.com/
Yahoo. Yahoo also has a very good tree and branch searching structure at
their site. (0501)

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Master Lists of General and Scholarly Site URLs:



http://www.ipl.org/
Internet Public Library service of University of Michigan, School of
Information; references by topic. (0501)


http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html
Internet Resources Newsletter at Heriot-Watt University in the UK, a
resource for the higher education community. (0501)


http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.hmtl
Scout Report's sites at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (0501)

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Specialty Web Searchers and
Multiple System Searchers:



http://www.bizweb.com
Bizweb, a business searcher. (0501)


http://www.digiway.com/digisearch/
Digisearch multiple searcher. (0501)


http://www.dogpile.com
Dogpile, a searcher of searching sites. (0501)


http://www.euroseek.net
Euroseek, a European searcher. (0501)

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Searcher Reviews and Use
Hints:



http://www.notess.com
Greg Notess' search engine evaluation and use tips from a noted columnist
and information librarian. (0501)


http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Help/searchdetails.html
Search Details at Berkeley, Internet Search Tool Details. (0501)


http://www.searchenginewatch.com
Search Engine Watch, searcher listings, news, tips on use and on submission
to them, reviews. (0501)


http://www.zdnet.com/searchiq/
Search IQ's directory, reviews, and search guides for search engines at
ZDNet. (0501)




http://www.monash.com/spidap4.html
Spider's Apprentice at Monash, how to use searchers and spider information.
(0501)


http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
University of California at Berkeley, their library tutorial to finding
Internet information. (0501)


http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/search/
University of Indiana's Understanding WWW Search Tools. (0501)

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Searchers for People and
Companies:



http://www.555-1212.com
555-1212 Searcher, email addresses, telephone nos., area codes, reverse
directory, etc. (0501)


http://www.anywho.com
AnyWho at A T & T; yellow and white pages. (0501)


http://www.infospace.com
Infospace; searches for people and companies and other information. (0501)


http://www.iaf.net
Internet Address Finder, people and companies. (0501)


http://www.switchboard.com/
Switchboard, people and company searches. (0501)


http://www.teldir.com
TelDir, yellow and white page international directories. (0501)


http://www.trueyellow.com
True Yellow Pages for business listings. (0501)


http://www.where2go.com
Where2go business searcher (0501)


http://www.whowhere.lycos.com
WhoWhere at Lycos, people and company searches, telephones, email, etc. (0501)


http://www.worldyellowpages.com
World Yellow Pages for business. (0501)


http://people.yahoo.com
Yahoo; people searcher. (0501)

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Search for Usenet Newsgroups,
FAQs and Lists:



http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
CataList, listserv lists at Lsoft (0501)


http://groups.google.com
Deja, now part of Google, searches for Usenet articles by topic, can search
posters also. (0501)


http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html
FAQs for Usenet Newsgroups at Ohio State. (0501)


http://ps.superb.net/FAQ/
FAQ finder at Superb. (0501)


http://www.webcom.com/impulse/list.html
List of lists at Impulse, with information on use of lists. (0501)


http://paml.net
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists. (0501)


http://tile.net/lists/
Tile's lists of lists (Tile). (0501)

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Other Resources and Lists of
Resources:



http://www.clearinghouse.net/
Argus Clearinghouse, contains many subjects in document categories with
extensive resources (can be searched). (0501)


http://www.december.com/cmc/info/index.html
John December's computer mediated communication articles and other internet
information (0501)


http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/
Inter-Links at Alabanza, searchers, people, software, Usenet. (0501)


http://n2h2.com/KOVACS
Diane Kovacs' directory of scholarly & professional E-Conferences,
including web sites. (0501)

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Dates shown as (0501) indicate the last month and year a particular site
was checked.

This page was updated on February 25, 1997; revised May 21 (PB),
October 10 (MH), 1999, May 8, 2001 (MH).