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Because of the fact that I did this assignment obscenely late, there were no problems accessing gopher and veronica; I read other students' reports and used them as my guide. I chose to use the WS Gopher icon on the main windows menu, from there I clicked on "Other Gopher and Information Servers", then "Search Gopherspace using Veronica" and I was in there!! In an effort to expedite my searches, I first read how to compose veronica queries which helped a little. I figured from here it would be smooth sailing, WRONGO!!!
Anxious as I was, I typed in my search "ideas new busines* services* internet", which returned nothing, so I replaced the word ideas with suggestions and once again got nothng. Then I tried both searches again without the word "internet" and once again got nothing in return!!! The next attempt was a lot broader, using only "business and service", finally I got something!! The only problem was that I got crummy stuff, though that didn't surprise me very much, I always get crummy stuff when I search. As with past searches, a whole bunch of business services (i.e. accounting, marketing, etc.)were listed. Next search..."ideas for new services", surprisingly there were results, but once again, mostly crummy. Many of the directories or documents which sounded promising couldn't be connected to or turned out to be duds. Right now I want to search no more!!! Aside from the fact that nothing good turns up, these things are boring to view since they're text only. What probably makes searching difficult is this subject, "Good Ideas for New Services and Businesses on the Internet". Through every type of search that I have done, I found one other database which was trying to do the same thing I am, but there was no info. to be found there, it was just a place to drop off contributions. Everything else that I found was about services already on the net, the closest I came to my subject was new services that are offered, most of which are boooring.