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Reynilda Cortez
Welcome back, and thanks for joining us today. This hour we explore the
Search Engine MetaCrawler.
It dares you to be engaged. But can you return? And will the Mad Creator of MetaCrawler get his research project completed? Or merely be paid in more millions? What can it do for YOU, our audience?
All this and more links, folks, when we return.
MetaCrawler is a Search Engine's Search Engine. One of the great things is its inclusion of the search engine Galaxy, which may be one of the most fun places because it is developing so quickly. For information about Web browsers they're punching up, check out winWeb, a guide to exploring Internet resources all over the world. But please, for security reasons set forth by winWeb (apparently these guys can get legal), download it according to the address provided.
And for those of you interested in more search engines and Websites, have we got a new search engine for you! Check out for NEXUS!!! This is a search engine with a sense of humor, and you can scroll down the list (like your trusty Search Engine hosts), and find whatever you want, from engineering schools at certain universities to humor pages to interactive games, to anything you can think of. Worth the time, say Rey and Lori. Big fun, guys. It gives you a guide, rather than having you type in commands, and you can surf through the different categories. It's the never-ending Loop of CyberFUN!
Well, Search Engine Central has finally found the Holy Search Engine (till next time). Welcome to an engine that incorporates all possible engines available, by way of opening a subject link (like People), and that link takes you to an engine specifically for it! It's a search engine with bizillions of search engines as links! If you need to find something or want to see something new (okay, ANYTHING NEW), or if you're just a NetHead who has to decompress before going out into society, this can do it all! Get the overall picture, hot off the presses! Ladies and gentlemen, the Search Engine Extravaganza of the Day: THE ALL-IN-ONE SEARCH PAGE!! Yes, yes, yes, the labryinth of the Internet has led to another gem in the dark, shifting mass of Cyberspace. It's available in a French-translated seach engine, which produces the same kind of response, whether you type in Mitterand or Chirac or Bush or Clinton. Select a topic from the World Wide Web to People to Software to Publications/Literature to Other Interesting Searches/Services, and you pull up a series of search engines specifically geared to that subject.
For example, under Publications/Literature, it pulls up for you the search engines for the U.S. Senate, the Getty Art History Information Program, for CMP Tech Search, Shakespeare, and the Bible Gateway, and others. Each engine title is clickable, if you want to go to the home page, but you can conduct any search while within the All-in-One Search Engine. And for those of you who need humor on the Internet, the background for this search engine consists of a series of question marks. (I enjoyed this screen a little more than I should have because this is often how I feel when surfing the Internet: what's this? what does this do? how can I use this? where does this link go?; you get the gist...)
Yes indeedy-do, folks, it's a weird, weird, web out there today. It gets weirder tomorrow, and by the time next week's show rolls around, many of you will see us with antennae and a biological link to the Internet. We're dedicated, you know (yeah, right). It can be fun...live the Net, be the Net, bay-bee.
More information on Metacrawler and the magnificent Creator to come!