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Whether you’re looking for new advertising venues or authoritative texts on a particular
subject, there’s a ton of resources on the net to help you find info from
various types of publications. Scan magazines. Search journals. Find books (at the best price). Read newspapers. Every type of print media is online. Traditional live news sources now have digital counterparts. Some say competition. I say the more the merrier, when I need to know what I need to know. Link to commercial tv and radio stations. Search for TV and radio sites on an international basis at TvRadioWorld. And don’t forget to explore the many new media resources that are rich in content and very ‘connected,’ particularly DesktopNews, Real.com and iCast. Resources to search for multiple types of media include E&P Media Links, AJR NewsLink and Gebbie Press. |
New search engines seem to pop up every day - general, topical, directory style,
and indexed by bot. There are uses for each of them. After a fairly extensive analysis (really), I’ve found the best indexed results come from All the Web, All the Time, a search engine that digs deep and fast. And I mean really fast. For directory-style searches, I have yet to be dissapointed by Yahoo. Topical search engines don’t yet exist for everything, but hey – the day’s still young. Check out the search engine search engine (yes, you read that correctly) - AllSearchEngines - to find a place to find just about anything you want to find. Got that? Some useful specialty engines I've discovered are for small business, manufacturing, magazine articles, and PDF documents all over the web. In addition to specialty search engines, there are also specialty search methods, including parallel (meta) and geographical searches. One of the coolest (re)search methods I've seen in a while is from Karnak, where someone else does the tough sorting and link checking work for you. And if you’re really stuck you can always AskJeeves. You may be surprised at how many free searchable databases there are on the web, on an amazing variety of subjects. I've found Search Systems public record databases and sv.com's venture capital database to be useful. Ya gotta love the net. |
Here’s one of my favorite analogies: When you needed to look up something at the library, you’d go to card indexes which led you to books via the Dewey Decimal System (remember that?) and archived publications on microfiche machines. Searching for the nuggets you needed - and searching some more. Being on the net is like walking into the library and shouting ‘bring me everything you’ve got on training dogs!’ and having thousands of people run to you with bits of relevant information. Now we’re talking. Libraries are on the net. Encyclopedias are on the net. Any kind of dictionary you can imagine is on the net. Just make sure your searches are narrow enough to get you the results you seek without wading through lots of irrelevant stuff. Find people. Find places. Or find just about anything else you need to find. By the way, I still love going to the library. I think it’s the smell of the books. |
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