Is Yahoo! still useful?

[Joe Barker]

I think EINet Galaxy, with its reviews, is often a very useful research 
aid. http://lmc.einet.net/galaxy.html
	In the advanced searching classes I teach, I recommend Yahoo! not 
as a general web searching tool, but one of several sources for pages 
rich in links on some topics.  I suggest searching for a topic term and 
"indices" in Yahoo.  
	I also recommend Argus Clearinghouse, Galaxy, the Internet Librarian, 
the WWWVirtual Library mirrored at Stanford (mentioned earlier in this 
discussion).  And some other rich sites like MVRD.
	For a complete listing of these pages and the other resources 
recommended in this advanced course, see:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/
			Guides/Internet/BeyondWeb.html#Webliographies

Joe Barker, Teaching Library, UC Berkeley


On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Louis Rosenfeld wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, CMUNSON wrote:
> 
> >      I'm looking forward to more responses, but does this indicate that 
> >      there may finally be a need to have a comprehensive subject guide 
> >      coordinated by librarians?
> >      
> >      Are there any promising projects out there?
> >      
> >      Chuck
> 
> Depends on how you define promising. ;-) 
> 
> I'll nominate the Argus Clearinghouse (http://www.clearinghouse.net) for
> purely selfish reasons.  We've tried to focus on a valuable niche (topical
> guides to Internet resources), centralize what seems to make sense to
> centralize (classification and rating of guides), and decentralize the
> rest (creation and maintenance of guides by independent authors).  The
> part we've never achieved is a sound economic model; The Mining Company
> succeeded in getting the capital to do the things we'd hoped to, but the
> jury is still out on their financial success. 
> 
> Louis Rosenfeld                                             lou at argus-inc.com
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> 
> Information Architecture for the World Wide Web  (L. Rosenfeld & P. Morville)
> O'Reilly & Associates; Jan 1998.      http://www.ora.com/catalog/infotecture/
> 
>