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Introduction: The Internet
1. Primer
2. Gateways
3. Supersites
4. Job Search Engines
Introduction: Research On The Internet
1. Directories
2. Search Engines
3. Best Search Engines
4. Meta-Search Tools
5. Clustering
6. Specialized Search Engines
7. General Research
8. Beyond Search Engines
9. The UnderWeb & Deep Searching
10. Beyond The Web: Usenet & Newsgroups
11. Evaluating The Data
12. Grants
Introduction: Contacts And Networking
1. Internet Networking
2. Finding People You Know
3. Finding People You Don't Know
4. Chat Rooms
5. Forums & Message Boards
6. Newsgroups
7. Mailing Lists
8. Networking Web Sites
9. A Category All Its Own
10. Miscellany
11. People At Their Business
12. E-mail
Introduction: Counseling, Testing & Advice
1. Online Job-Hunting Articles
2. Online Job-Hunting Guides
3. The Gateway Sites & More
4. Online Personality & Traits Tests
5. Online Careers Tests
6. Transferable Skills
7. Education
8. More Help: Career Counseling Offices
9. One-on-One Career Counseling
10. Offline Career Counseling
Introduction: Web Sites For Job Hunting Research
1. Geography/Moving/Where To Live
2. Identifying Careers
3. Salaries
4. Industry Research
5. Company Research
6. Company Research & Contact Info
7. Beyond Contact Information
8. More Specific Company Research
9. Self-Employed And Home Business
10. Part-Time, Contract, & Temporary Work
11. Non-Profits And Social Conscience
12. Work For Minorities
13. Work For Women
14. Work For The Disabled
Introduction: Job & Resume Sites
1. Resumes & Cover Letters
2. Portfolios
3. Job Boards: The Supersites
4. Job Boards: Job Search Engines
5. Job Boards: Regionals
6. Job Boards: The Networked Sites
7. Job Boards: College & Graduate Sites
8. Job Boards: Niche/Trade/Specialty
9. Job Boards: Diversity/Women/Disabled
10. Job Boards: Government
11. Job Boards: Contract & Temporary
12. Job Boards: Executive
13. Job Boards: International
14. Job Boards: Links To Job Boards
15. Job Boards: Articles About
16. Volunteering
Introduction: Job Hunting Online
1. Chapter One: Learn The Net
2. Chapter Two: Resumes
3. Chapter Three: The Job Boards
4. Chapter Four: Contacts And Networking
5. Chapter Five: Counseling And Testing
6. Chapter Six: Online Research
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Research on the Internet
Introduction to Research on the Internet
1 - Directories
2 - Search Engines
3 - Best Search Engines
4 - Meta-Search Tools
5 - Clustering
6 - Specialized Search Engines
2 - Search Engines
3 - Best Search Engines
4 - Meta-Search Tools
5 - Clustering
6 - Specialized Search Engines
7 - General Research
8 - Beyond Search Engines
9 - The UnderWeb & Deep Searching
10 - Beyond the Web: Usenet & Newsgroups
11 - Evaluating the Data
12 - Grants
8 - Beyond Search Engines
9 - The UnderWeb & Deep Searching
10 - Beyond the Web: Usenet & Newsgroups
11 - Evaluating the Data
12 - Grants
Meta-Search Tools
A meta-search engine is one where your query is submitted to a number of search engines; then a few of the returns from each are combined into a list of results. In practical terms, they are tools that cut broadly but not deeply. If you want to get a quick overview of what's available for a certain search query, then a meta-search engine may be okay. Because of their lack of depth, I personally believe that meta-searchers are of limited use "kind of between a directory and a normal search engine” but there are times when they can be useful.
Dogpile
Beaucoup
Among the search engines that Dogpile uses are Google, Teoma, Yahoo!, and Ask, as well as directories such as Looksmart and the Open Directory. There are other engines and databases it uses to return a certain amount of commercial results. Dogpile is one of the ethical sites where sponsored results are clearly marked as such. The site has some nice features; it remembers your last few searches; it suggests ways to refine your search; you can choose where to focus your search; for example, Web pages, multimedia, news, images, etc.
Beaucoup
A little different than your basic meta-search engine, Beaucoup queries, and returns results from, Google, Yahoo!, Alta Vista, Fast, Ask Jeeves, Lycos, MSN, Wisenut, Hotbot, and AOL Search, and tells you from which one each of its results came. You can also tell it to search only one of the engines at a time (though this is somewhat self-defeating - why use a meta-search engine at all?) "Sponsored results" are clearly marked in a separate list from relevant results. In addition to the search engines I listed, Beaucoup has other resources it can tap. There are some databases (UnderWeb stuff) that you can direct the Beaucoup search engine towards.