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It’s not too often that a major new search engine is introduced. But here are two, both (in a way) extensions of existing search engines. iLor First, there’s iLor (www.ilor.com). iLor is short for Internet Lore. iLor describes itself as “...the most user friendly search engine in the world” — no egocentric folks at this web site, folks! However, iLor does have a couple of neat features. First, it runs on top of Ask Jeeves. When it was initially introduced in beta form it ran on top of Google — but, for some reason, that arrangement went away and now it uses Ask Jeeves. What makes iLOR Search different is that it does not work with the search, but rather with the navigation, after the search is done. For example, enter “diablo valley” in the Find box and press Enter. First, note that DVPC is the second entry — or, at least, it was on 2/24/02 at 8:45 p.m. when I was writing this article (#2 ranking is pretty good, folks!). Now, point to “Diablo Valley PC Users Group” — you’ll see a little pop-up window with red underlined links on a yellow background with a black border. These are called LorLinks The links are: put in my list: Put link in a temporary list. go now-anchor here: Open link, and open a link back to iLor page in a small window. open in taskbar: Open link in a small window, keep iLor window in the foreground. open in new window: Open link in a new window. There’s a fourth link — Use menu on all websites — that takes you to a page where you can download iLor’s HydraLinks, a add-in tool for your Internet Explorer browser (only) that will give you LorLinks on every web site you visit, not just in the iLor search engine. Give iLor a try for searching the web. Google Catalog Search and Google Catalog List OK, you’ve used Google. But have you tried the Google Catalog Search? Or the Google Catalog List? “What are those?” you ask. Here’s what. Google Catalog Search (http://catalogs.google.com/) lets you search mail-order catalogs online for their content, much as how you search for web pages for their content. Enter what you’re looking for, and the relevant catalog pages will be displayed with your search words highlighted in yellow. The catalog cover is displayed to the left of the catalog page that has your search result, and a zoomed view of your search result is displayed to the right. Click on a catalog page or zoomed view, and the catalog page will open for browsing. Click on the cover and that will open. At the top and bottom of the page you’ll see a navigation bar. It shows the name of the catalog, the publication date, the telephone number for placing orders, a link to their web site (if they have one), and the catalog code (if there is one). The catalog page you are viewing is shown, along with the total number of pages in the catalog. Back and forward buttons let you |
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On some pages there is even a button labeled “The Boss Is Coming”, which when clicked opens a page that claims to be the front page of the New York Times! .NET: Ted reported a meeting he attended in San Francisco and hosted by Microsoft. It was to kick off .NET user groups in the Bay Area. This group is aimed more for the professional developer who uses software such as Visual Studio. Ted is starting a SIG for this, which will hold its first meeting near the end of April at the Concord Police Department. Watch the Newsletter for more details about this interesting group. |