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Depth-first search, when you’re browsing the net,
Is a way to get sidetracked. You set
Out to read, so you think,
But you follow each link
And you’ve not found an end to it yet. — Jim In Roses
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Introduction1
Web Search Strategies in Plain English (Common Craft)
Dictionary
search : computer software used to search data (such as text or a database) for specified information; also a site on the World Wide Web that uses such software to locate key words in other sites — Webster
Free Dictionary, Wiktionary, OneLook
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Glossary
Encyclopedia
Search engine is a computer program to find answers to queries in a collection of information, which might be a library catalog or a database but is most commonly the World Wide Web. A Web search engine produces a list of “pages”—computer files listed on the Web—that contain the terms in a query. — Encyclopædia Britannica
Search
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Innovation
Technology
The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook (Book)
How Search Engines Work (How Stuff Works)
Commerce
How Google Makes Money (GOOG) (Eric Rosenberg, Investopedia)
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Preservation
History
The Google graveyard: Remembering three dead search engines: Hey Google, whatever happened to Ask Jeeves, Dogpile and AltaVista? (J. Conditt, Engadget)
Search Engine History: From 1945 to Google Today
Library
WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
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Participation
Education
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (UC Berkeley)
Community
News
Search Engine Land
Search Engine Watch
Book
Government
Document
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Expression
Fun
Humor
Music
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Reference Dictionary, Thesaurus, Glossary, Encyclopedia, Outline, Guide
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1. The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.