CS Class Web Pages

Inform Search engines

1. Contact these search engines and request to have your web-page (here at UMHB, if you want to add other sites that is o.k., but at least add the one here at UMHB.) added to their search list. It will take a few weeks for the search engine to bring up your web-page; I will wait a few weeks to check and make sure the task has been accomplished.You will be required to give them topics appropriate for your web-page. You should keep these to 10 or less. Topics might be Christian, Games, Perl, C++, CGI Scripts, Greeting cards, etc.- you know your web-site best. Contact at least five of these (make sure you list the five sites you contacted):

Search Tools

Quick access to the 'Information Please' almanac.

Jeeves An interesting new phenomenon, the 'Portal', using natural language processing to understand and match users' questions to an extensive knowledge base. The Ask Jeeves knowledge base consists of thousands of question templates and millions of researched answer links to web sites.

Alta Vista and Yahoo
Beaucoup A rather large list of search tools

AltaVista Media Photo and Media Finder with over 17 million searchable images, audio clips and video files from the web and private collections. Yahoo has a simliar capability. And for music see MP3 at Lycos

AccuFind Lets you select from among a dozen or so search tools.

Google Searches based on citation ranking. I need to look into this.

W3 Search Engines This documents lists some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW.

All The Web search engine Fast Search & Transfer (FAST). FAST is the first company to create a search engine with the ultimate goal of searching "All The Web, All The Time." FAST Search is the result of more than a decade of research into optimizing search algorithms and architectures, a project originally initiated at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim.

Search Engine Guide There are 2264 search engines for you to choose from!