AltaVista Strange Results

[Library Internet Resources Co-ordinator]

At 2:24 PM -0800 11/12/97, Even Flood wrote:

>...Yahoo! and the others are very good at picking up those.
> The web cataloges are then by far the best web tools.

This is tru to a degree. However there is much that these catalogs do not
have, a better choice are subject specific web link catalogs like we have
created (and are still creating) at the GTU.

Have you ever registered a series of pages with Yahoo? This is a very
tedious process with your having to fill out a form for every page.
Infoseek at least allows you to email a list of URLs and Hotbot you can
register your pages with one URL.

I often refer to the general catalogs when starting a new subject specific
links page but rarely get more than a basic start. A Hotbot search often
turns up much more.


Library Internet Resources Co-ordinator webguru at gtu.edu
(currently Gilles Poitras gpoitras at gtu.edu)
Graduate Theological Union Library
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