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The importance of getting to your signal 'behind' the main search engines is quite evident. Remeber, though, that among our [scrolls] you will find various possibilities to query local search engines on the web... Specific for www.searchlores.org we have: 1) A "sitemap" for wanderers (wait for upload and gasp in awe) 2) Our amazing "namazu" search engine: [search @ fravia] |
So-called "local" (or specialised) search engines are extremely important to fetch info. Freepages providers, counters, stats applications and all other finalized search engines... that you can use at leisure... for fun, study purposes, "strafing", slowbombing and/or knowledge profit. This page of mine is meant only giving you an idea of the many 'local' treasures you can dif out on the Web.
A very important Project: [oslse] (The Open Source Local Search Engines Project) on our swiss server.
[Homepages searching] (eheh :-) [Xoom] [Tripod] [Fortunecity] [Geocities] [Crosswind]
See also: LocalPageProviders, huge list: [LPP], and of course check our [scrolls]
[Robot generated WWW-Indexes] [WOLF]
[Amazon browser] [CUI: Computer Science Library] [Internet library for librarians]
[RFC search] [FAQ search] [FAQ search (Utrecht)]
[RFC search] (Request For Comments archive: more than 3100 RFCs)
Enter the search string, select the type of search, and click on the Search button to initiate the search.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/: Internet FAQ Archives
http://www.cs.uu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais: Utrecht CS News.Answers FAQ Access Methods
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| Don't underestimate smut-search engines as learning tools! Go to the Webmasters / chatboard & lounges part of this smut search engine in order to learn how these idiots are trapping lusers to their ads-infernos... |
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Type in the acronym to search for without periods or quotes (example: ASAP)
Cut and paste following example (and edit):
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=ASAP&String=exact&search.x=63&search.y=9
(courtesy of P.Cook)
If searching for a song or a band, simply enter the name. Eg 'dont think twice' 'pearl jam'.
If searching for an individual artist, (or a band named after an individual artist) enter the last name (and then, if you want, the first name.) Eg 'cohen leonard' 'piaf edith' 'conte paolo'.
| The following three russian pointers have been ported here from a closed pagetool of mine: they are quite useful in order to find a lot of interesting stuff (and Bilibin's images). Enjoy! |
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For instance mp3: http://top100.rambler.ru/top100/MP3/index.shtml.ru Or free soft and web tools... http://top100.rambler.ru/top100/Software/index.shtml.ru |
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How important this can be! A thousand "voluntary operators" at your disposal!
See also [The importance of Webrings for combing purposes]. You'll use this approach again and again once you'll have understood the limits of the 'main' search engines :-)
http://www.webringworld.org/: World of Webrings
"This web site is the result of the collaborative effort of some experienced ringmasters engaged in the webring community"
http://www.webringworld.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Search&file=index&mid=15: Webringworld's search function (bad php, does not work properly on good browsers, you may have to use some MSIE-crap for this).
The RingSurf Directory search engine is SLOW, be patient...
Yahoo has 'fagocitated' various webring centrals, but you can still search Yahoo's webrings!
http://www.crickrock.com/ringlist.html 'crickrock' rings:
"Face it, Yahoo! screwed you and your webring when they acquired webring.org. Move to CrickRock an d solve your problems"
http://www.ringlink.org/: the Homepage of Ringlink. Ringlink is ...
- The Ringlink Program - A Perl program that provides the tools you need to run one or more webrings, i.e. systems of links between related web sites.
- The Ringlink Project - An open source project aiming to further develop the Program, and support its use.
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http://www.bravenet.com/sitering/search.php
Weblogs... even more blah blah blah you could possibly fear to waste your web-life with :-)
Check the ad hoc blogs section.
Recall is, strictly speaking, no real search engine. But it gives you the possibility to check the spreading and the fortunes of a given 'term' on the web.
So it is, after all a local search engine.
Use our [scrolls]!
Woah! Say... have you ever tried some "homepage fishing"? Have a go and lemme know what you think...
Freepage providers are of course pavid commecial bastards, that you should avoid at all cost for real publishing purposes... BUT NOT for searching purposes. Infact these clowns will ruthlessly use everything you post, they will track (cowardly & hiddenly) any visit to your site, and at the same time they will be pleased to nuke your site -just in case- as soon as they realize that you are offering for free something that they would like to sell... yet they are not very clever, Gott sei dank, and their grepping bots are quite simple & silly (or worse). Therefore ~S~eekers can still find -through these very "free" sites' specific search engines- a lotta "hidden" sites with valuable (if scattered) info... yet you better understand the [evaluation] lore first
homepage searchingengines: hpsearch.unitrier.de
An interesting trick (by sonofsamiam) in order to rank, for instance, all geocities pages (are they really 132150?) through the following querystring:
http://us.geocities.yahoo.com/search?p=a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j+k+l+m+n+o+p+q+r+s+t+u+v+w+x+y+z+_+0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9&o=o&h=s
Note the rank order... and note that we loose only relatively few pages (less than 4%!) if we omit the numbers in our searchstring:
http://us.geocities.yahoo.com/search?p=a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j+k+l+m+n+o+p+q+r+s+t+u+v+w+x+y+z&o=o&h=s
this "number rarity" (only 7% of the pages: 9242) proves once more how PREDICTABLE the stringpatterns are inside webpages...
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| http://www.geocities.com/cgi-bin/search/isearch | The search engine is an Inktomi-type. Geocities pages are often used as 'repositories' for files you may be searching for (often with faked endings to avoid sysads snooping): mp3 files abound. |