Cabrillo College Library 
  • Visualizing the Internet 
  • New & Useful 
  • New & Fun 
  • Don't trust Everything on the Internet
  • More on Search Engines 
  • Practice Questions 
  • Live search displays 

    • The famous Cathy Erny Internet Resources for Travelers Web page from last year-- revised and updated!! 
     

    How to Get to This Page on the Internet 
     
     
     
     
    Visualizing the Internet
    Internet growth is phenomenal and pervasive.  Here are some new ways of visualizing it. 
    Recent growth One picture of U.S. connectivity
    World connectivity Satellite tracker  Select deny for the plugin
     
    New and Useful 
    Store your bookmarks on the Web at Bookmarkbox.com.  Your bookmarks are then accessible from any computer with Internet access.  You can also share your bookmarks with others (suppose you and a buddy had a hobby in common and wanted to share specialized Web resources?)  Directions for Bookmarkbox.com. 

    Message Boards  Create your own!   What's a message board good for?  Suppose your far-flung family were planning a big  reunion.  Everyone can post to the same message board ("Aunt Alice says she's bringing all her old photos!  Let's all bring some to share.")  You can get free message boards here:  BeSeen.com  and  InsideTheWeb.com 
     
    New and Fun
    Listen, or watch it, here! 
    APB Online  Want to listen to police scanners from large U.S. cities? 
    Listen to the News  Links to many news broadcasts, worldwide 
    MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet 
    RadioInfo 
    TV Stations on the Internet 
    vTuner  Radio stations all over the world 
    World Wide Black Radio Stations  Especially good for Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Soul, Reggae, etc. 

    Is the Flight on Time? 
    Flight Tracking from TheTrip.com 

    Looking Down 
    Explore these sites for overflight images: 
    Public Eye          TerraServer.com 
     
    Dont' Trust Everything on the Internet  ; -)
    It probably doesn't need saying, but the Internet offers all kinds of resources.  You have to think about the type and quality of resources you get access to.  What do you make of these sites? 

    1+1=3? 
    Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide 
    Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division 
    Oklahoma Association of Wine Producers 
    California's Velcro Crop 
    Mankato, Minnesota 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    More on Search Engines
    None of the search engines covers all of the Internet or the Web. 
    Two new major search engines: FAST Search and Google! 
     

    Some sample searches
     
    AltaVista Simple whale sharks Belize 74,025 If you don't indicate how to handle the words, AltaVista Simple returns Web pages that have any of the words.  Tries to rank the most relevant ones on top.
    AltaVista Simple +"whale shark" +Belize 102 Put phrases in quotation marks.  The plus (+) in front of a term requires it in the search result. 
    AltaVista Advanced "whale shark*" NEAR Belize 29 An asterisk (*) searches for any word beginning with those letters.  NEAR means within 10 words of each other.  Use AND to have the terms on the same page.
    Excite "whale shark*" AND Belize 50 Phrases go in quotation marks.  Use asterisk (*) for word stems.  Find a really good site?  Return to the results list and click on Search for more documents like this one.
    FAST Search +"whale shark*" +Belize 133 Put phrases in quotation marks.  The plus (+) in front of a term (no space) requires it in the search result.
    Google! "whale shark*" Belize 147 Words are automatically ANDed together.  In the results list, sites are ranked higher according to how frequently they are referenced on the Web.
    HotBot "whale shark" AND Belize 81 Have to change the option box to  
    Click on More Search Options to explore ways you can limit searches, e.g., to audio or video files, to specific countries, etc.
    Infoseek Belize|"whale shark*" 102 Use the pipe key ( |; it's near the Backspace key) to simulate a Boolean search.
    Northern Light "whale shark*" AND Belize 244 Try clicking on Power Search (at top of screen) and then in box next to  Sort results by date (you'll have most recent on top). Click to limit your search to the World Wide Web.  Results are sorted into folders for you -- a very useful feature!
     
    To find a list of the search engines: 
    Cabrillo College Library    Click on Search the Internet  
    Keyword Search Tools 
     
    Practice Searches  -- to apply  search techniques
    You can click above to go to the practice search problems (and some ways to solve them).  The practice searches (and answers) are also on your handout. 
     
    Just for fun: Live Searches  -- just what ARE people looking for on the Internet?   
    NOTE:  I'm not responsible for content!  ; -)
     
    Ask Jeeves Peak Through The Keyhole 
    http://www.askjeeves.com/Peek/peek.asp?r=x     		 Blue Window Spy (from Switzerland) 
    http://sear.ch/SPY.tbw?pg=SPY&lang=e 
    byteSearch Agent 007 
    http://www.bytesearch.com/cgi-bin/agent007.pl     		 Fireball LiveSuche  
    http://www.fireball.de/voyeur-fireball.fcg 
    Magellan Search Voyeur 
    http://voyeur.mckinley.com/cgi-bin/voyeur.cgi     		 MetaCrawler MetaSpy 
    http://www.metaspy.com/ 
    SavvySearch SavvySnoop 
    http://www.savvysearch.com/snoop     		 searchUK Spy  
    http://www.searchuk.com/spy/ 
    WebCrawler Search Voyeur  
    http://webcrawler.com/SearchTicker.html 
     

    How to Get to this Page on the Internet: 
      This page, and the Internet Resources for Travelers page, are posted on the Internet at topsy.org 

      Go to this URL:   http://www.topsy.org 
       
      Alternatively, these pages can be accessed at:
      http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/lrc/library/tsmalley/What'sNewS99.html
      http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/lrc/library/tsmalley/Travel99.html 

    T. N. Smalley  5/99