These on-line tutorials will assist you in searching the vast resources of information available on the World Wide Web. It is only a start. We will be adding additional on-line resources for you to explore as we progress through the course. Look forward to hearing from you -- William E. Nix, Instructor.

Now that you have successfully downloaded and installed NetScape (I hope), then you are ready to learn how to use the various search engines available to you to find web sites, research topics, join newsgroups, upload and download files, etc. Searching the web is both an art and a science, in that many intuitive skills are required to be successful. Searches are separated into three broad categories.

• KEYWORDS
• SUBJECTS AND TOPICS
• GEOGRAPHICAL
• NEWS GROUPS
  

Examples of KEYWORD searches are "Olympics", "Swimming", "Diving"

Examples of SUBJECTS AND TOPICS are "Business", "Sports",

Examples of GEOGRAPHICAL searches are "France", "Germany", "Switzerland" using the virtual tourist image map to find your information.

Examples of Newsgroups are "Travel", "Rock Concerts", "Movie Reviews"

Using the browswer, you can now click on the selected search engines lised below that are hyperlinked to their web sites.

SEARCH ENGINES FOR THE WEB

YAHOO WEBCRAWLER ALTA VISTA Deja News Research Service INFOSEEK Useful Sites for searching the Internet Virtual Tourist World  Map Virtual Tourist European Map