Catalog of the Internet: Veronica?

[Adlington,Janice;Library;]

	I'm preparing for a training session on searching the Internet, 
and wondering what to show people.  Reading up on search tools, I come 
across statements such as:

	"I expect that Web search sites can take care of all your
	 queries now.  I see little need to use Archie or Veronica
	 anymore."  ("Cataloguing the Web", _Searcher_)

For the last six months, I've been saying similar things ("start with 
Lycos, it's great!").  However, recently I've been doing some in-depth 
searches where the "good" files showed up on large gopher sites.  Lycos 
completely misses these files (presumably because they build their index 
by following links, and no one has linked down to this level of 
specificity?)  

	I'm starting to come around and think I should always search both 
Lycos and Veronica.

	Have you experienced this?  What do you recommend in training?

					Janice Adlington
					Memorial University of Newfoundland

(P.S. I'm not going to mention the files that don't show up on Lycos _or_ 
Veronica...)