FRS 117: Google and Ye Shall Find???

Fall 2007  

General Web Resources


Additional information may be added to this document at any time.


Independent guides to using Google:

Berkeley Lib: Googling to the Max - Getting the most out of Google
Google Guide by Nancy Blachman.

Lesser-known Search Engines  & Directories:

Seek and Ye Shall Find: Top Ten Alternative Search Engines - Lifehacker (this article is 2 years old - Dec. 15, 2005- but it gives you some lesser-known alternatives).
About the Open Directory Project


Search engine marketing and search engine optimization news sites:

Search Engine Journal 
Search Engine Land  (founded by Danny Sullivan after leaving Search Engine Watch).
Search Engine Watch (founded by Danny Sullivan)

Blogs by experts on Web and Internet policy issues:

John Battelle's Searchblog
Freedom To Tinker, by Edward Felton, Professor of Computer Science and founding Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy here at Princeton.
Lawrence Lessig Blog, Professor of Law and founder of the  Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School contains blogs by members of the Center.
NEW! The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, contains blogs by member sof the Center.

History

A Little History of the World Wide Web  from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet
NEW!Before the Web there was Gopher, by Frana, P.L,. in Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE, Vol.26(1), 2004, pp. 20-41.


A.S. LaPaugh Wed Oct 31 14:14 EDT 2007