Indexes

• small   One professor's list of history exhibit sites (ca. 120)
• medium  The Encyclopedia Britannica's list of 75,000 vetted Web site
• medium  The Librarians Index to the Internet.  Search  the word renaissance   Note link for  Evansville.net page
(annotated list: five to 25 word descriptions of over 250 sites)
• Large  Yahoo!   500,000 sites divided into 25,000 categories

---

How big is the Web? How much of the Web do the search engines index? Answers from researchers at NEC Princeton

---

For example, All in one
    This is a list of various sort of search tools for various Internet resources.
    [Best short, visual explanation of  the Internet is the publisher Dorling Kinserley's
The Inter-net : how to get connected and explore the World Wide Web, exchange news
 and e-mail, download software, and communicate on-line (1996)]
 
 

Then among WWW search engines
 

    Alta Vista
 
[Excellent tutorial for Alta Vista is provided by Howard Strauss's slides]

Useful to note that Alta Vista provides search access to the structural parts of WWW pages, such as titles, images within, anchors (links), urls, as well as keywords within the text body of the page
 

Sample searches

    Which New Jersey schools have Websites that feature content about the Renaissance?

    enter search terms:    title:renaissance AND url:k12.nj.us

     Result 1
 
    Which US schools have Websites that feature content about the Renaissance?

    enter search terms:    title:renaissance AND url:k12.*.us

    Result 2

Special topics
 

    Music
 
    enter the search terms:   title:"renaissance music"

     note results -- refine by adding  NOT text:hotwired

     we are looking for educational sites -- at front of search string add  domain:edu
 
     choice 2  follow the link "Listen to a lute piece"  >  to ....dartmouth ... lute.html > "What does a lute sound like?"  > Morlaye piece comes through clearly

Books of use

• Alta Vista Search Revolution 1997
• Alta Vista Search Revolution Second edition 1998
• Search Engines for the World Wide Web / Visual Quickstart Guide series 1997