Finding it on the Internet : the Internet Navigator's guide to search tools and techniques / Paul Gilster.

By: Gilster, Paul, 1949-.

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BookPublisher: New York ; Chichester : Wiley, c1996Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xviii, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0471126950.Subject(s): Internet searching

| Web search engines

DDC classification: 025.04

Contents:

Tools of the navigator -- The world wide web: hypertext as search tool -- Gopher: finding resources by menu -- Veronica: gopher as search engine -- archie: finding files -- WAIS: searching for text -- HYTELNET: finding telnet sites -- WHOIS, netfind, X500: finding people -- E-mail: noninteractive searching -- The future of internet searching.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The sheer volume of information available on the Internet is both incredible and intimidating. The author shows how to find what you want in the vastness of cyberspace. Now extensively revised to reflect the dramatic growth of the Internet, this edition explores the new generation of graphically-based search tools designed for the World Wide Web and the Internet. It also features updated coverage of traditional UNIX search tools. You'll not only find out how each tool works but learn research strategies to make each search as valuable as possible.

Includes index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

PAUL GILSTER is the world's premier author on the Internet and related topics. His other bestselling Wiley titles include The New Internet Navigator, The Mosaic Navigator, and The SLIP/PPP Connection. In addition to being President of the Internet Society of the Carolinas, he is a frequent contributor to CompuServe magazine and the author of "Computer Focus," a syndicated column on computers and business.