Find It On The Internet

These are some sites that can teach you about the Internet and about searching.

Internet Beginner Guides, Tutorials, and General Computer Information

• Kansas City Public Library's Technology Guide
• Search Engine Watch : An overall guide to search engines.
• Search Engine Guide
• Search Engine Showdown by Greg R, Notess, Reference Librarian at Montana State University, has lists of engines with critiques as well as search strategies.
• Search Engine Colossus - International Directory of search engines
• SearchEngines.com for marketing
• Pandia Search Engine News
• Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher
• Bright Planet guide to effective searching
• UC Berkeley Guide and Tutorial to finding information on the Internet
• Infopeople Search Tools
• Virtual Chase -teaching legal professionals how to search
• Noodle Tools search stratagies
• Learn The Net is an overall tutorial and covers not only searching, but email, news groups, and the Internet in general.
• Help Site's guide to Internet tutorials and information, maintained by Nicholas Reynolds.
• Exploring the World Wide Web tutorial from the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
• WindWeaver, by Tracy Marks, offers a guide to searching the Internet, mailing lists/usenet, web design, chat and Windows.
• ResearchBuzz.com started as the online companion to the Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research, and has evolved to focus more on Internet research resources.
• Pandia search tutorial
• Finding Data On The Internet, A Journalist's Guide, by Robert Niles.
• Back To School:The Electronic Classroom 101, from the University of South Carolina, has thirty lessons on how to use the Internet and is geared towards librarians with little or no Internet experience.
• WebTeacher sponsored by the National Cable TV Association, has an extensive tutorial on the Internet.
• The Help Web is another guide for Internet beginners.
• Finding Information on the Internet guide from Berkeley.
• Evaluating Internet Research Resources by Robert Harris of Southern California College.
• The ICYouSee Guide to the World Wide Web from the Ithaca College Library.
• Librarians' Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids from the American Library Association.
• Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide, is getting old (1992) but is still useful.
• WhatIs.com is a great site with loads of information about the Internet and how to use it, and lots of information about computers and technology. You can search the WhatIs data base using the search box below.
• University of Reading's Guide to Finding Information on the Internet

General Computer Information

• The World Wide Web Consortium in Switzerland is a good place to get information about the Web and its history.
• The National Center For Supercomputing Applications: At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• PCWebopaedia has information on computing, including Internet applications like telnet.
• NetLingo!: An online dictionary containing definitions for hundreds of Internet and World Wide Web words.
• Ziff Davis, publisher of PC Magazine and many other computer magazines, and ZDNet. Excellent sources for all sorts of computer information.
• IDG Online Network, publishers of PC World and Computer World.
• Maximum PC Magazine
• Smart Computing, formerly PC Novice, is an excellent magazine for learning about how to use a computer.
• O'Reilly, publisher of the "In A Nut Shell" series.
• C-NET, the Computer Network..
• Internet Weather Report is a site that reports packet loss rates on the Internet.
• Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world.
• CNET's bandwidth indicator - test your connection speed.

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