[WEB4LIB] New search engine -- with filters

Tara Calishain calumet at mindspring.com
Wed Oct 21 10:02:58 EDT 1998


At 05:52 PM 10/21/98 -0700, Debi Westwood wrote:
>
>Fellow Web4Lib-ers:
>
>This timely notice just came my way, The people who bring (some 
>of) you Bess, the filtered ISP are now offering a filtered search engine.
>I did some quick experimenting with it on topics like "breast cancer",
>"gay teens" and even "Spice Girls" and got some decent hits. Seems like an
>interesting option for folks trying to avoid nasty surprises.

List folks might also want to make use of AltaVista's new FamilyFilter
option, which they've developed in conjunction with SurfWatch. You
can learn more about it at:

http://jump.altavista.com/cgi-bin/FF

Best,

Tara






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