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 Useful Information:
Search Engines:
 Specialist Search Engines:
Listed below are some of the Specialist Search Engines you can use to find photos, images, music, etc. If you find any dead or broken links, please do e-mail us on info@ucandoit.org.uk. Thank you.
Images and Photographs:
You can search for photos, graphics, buttons and banners in both black and white and colour on the Alta Vista site at
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&stype=simage
At the Lycos Image Gallery at http://pictures.lycos.com/ you can search for pictures using a search box or browse through the thumbnails shown as an index.
Webseek at http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/ is a content-based image and video search and catalogue tool with a huge range of categories. NB This link appears to be dead since about 27/12/00.
Ditto.com at http://www.ditto.com - here you can search for pictures across the web or just on the Ditto site.
Music:
Lycos Music at http://music.lycos.com/downloads/ - search for MP3 tracks by artist name or song title.
Napster at http://www.napster.com - as they say on their site "Join the largest, most diverse online community of music lovers in history by downloading and installing Napster. It's fun, simple and free."
News Sites:
Moreover.com at http://w.moreover.com/
- you can browse through 304 categories of news on this site.
NewsNow at http://www.newsnow.co.uk - update their extensive news categories every 5 minutes.
NewsIndex at http://www.newsindex.com - one of the original News Only search engines.
Adobe PDF Search Engine:
http://searchpdf.adobe.com/
The web search engines usually ignore Portable Document Format (PDF) files, for the most part listing only content on HTML pages and text files. That's much to the dismay of those in the academic world, as much content they are interested in is distributed as PDFs.
Try visiting the relatively new Adobe PDF Search Engine, which has summaries from more than a million documents across the web. However, Adobe do state on the site: "Please note, this service is for demonstration only". Selecting a link won't automatically download documents, which can be large. Instead, you will first be shown a summary, then you can choose to download or view through a properly equipped browser. You will need a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader software to view these files. If you don't already have that installed on your computer, you can download a free copy from the Adobe web site at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html It is a fairly large download, so it would be far simpler to buy a computer magazine from your local newsagents that has a free cover disk, as the Adobe Reader is usually given away with most disks.
Searching for Articles:
http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml
At FindArticels.com you can search through articles from over 300 sources, dating back to 1998, and view them for free. You can narrow your search to specific magazine categories, such as "Automotive", using a drop down option next to the search box. You can also search within a particular publication by using the "View Publications by Name" link, which appears below the search box. Find the name of the magazine you are interested in, click on its name, and the search box that appears searches against only that publication's content.
Geographical Searches:
Somewherenear - http://www.somewherenear.com is a Geographic Search Engine. It is a guide for leisure or business travellers looking for places to go and spots to visit with searchable maps showing distances from your location to the points you find.
Meta Search Engines:
Chubba at - http://chubba.whatuseek.com/ - searches the WhatUseek Web Index, AltaVista, Kanoodle, Infoseek, GoTo.com and Lycos all from a single search query.
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