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Searching the Web: Google and Beyond
Resources:
The Internet -- If you know a bit about it, it's easier to search
- Network in Action
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Internet_map_1024.jpg -
The Internet's First Words
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/1stmesg - ARPANET Logical Map http://pic.srv3.wapedia.mobi/thumb/d36f14078/en/max/720/900/Arpnet-map-march-1977.png?format=jpg,png,gif
Cool Google Tips and Tricks
- Essentials of Google Search
http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=basics&hl=en
Google's own tips to improve your searches. - Google Search Features
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
Collection of many of Google's special features. Explains what each feature does and shows how to use it. You can search right from this page. - Google for Educators
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
Classroom Posters (and bookmarks)
http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html - Google Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
http://websearch.about.com/library/cheatsheet/blgooglecheatsheet.htm - Soople -- Easy Expert Search
http://soople.com
Use many of Google's Special Features from this page. Includes advanced search, calculator and translation tools. This site is not part of Google. - Google Labs -- what are they working on now?
http://labs.google.com/
Google Ride Finder -- Find a taxi, limousine or shuttle using real time position of vehicles
http://labs.google.com/ridefinder - Want to know how Google ranks pages?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
Beyond Google
LII - Librarian's Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
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Intelways super searcher http://intelways.com/
TIP: To get the URL address of the page in the results window to save it for future reference, bookmark it or send it to a friend in Internet Explorer, right-click > properties, in Firefox: right-click > this frame > view frame info. Or check the "New Window" box to get your search results in, well, a new window.
If all else fails.... try this.