Seek on Internet
...The art and the manner

 

Methodology
Tools of search
On line Resources

Méthodology :

Seek by Boolean operators
Syntax of the research
"Exact expression"

Seek by Bolean operators

END, OR, EXCEPT (in french ET, OU, SAUF )

These operators are the base of search.
They allow "to dialogue" with the tools you use for your search.
These terms are common to all search tools on the Internet that is the reasonwhyit is a necesity to know how to use them.

Opérator AND (ET)

The research is made on the terms that you seek:
- example in french : entreprise ET business ET internet
- example en english : enterprise AND business AND internet

Result : The anwers will obligatorily contain the words undertaken business - internet.
The more you use terms, the more precise your answers will be and it will take less time to consult the displayed pages

Operator OR (OU)

La The search is done on one or the other terms
of your seek.terme

- example in French: entreprise OU business OU internet
- example in English: enterprise OR business OR internet

Résult: The answers will containt either entreprise, or business, or internet.
SIts advantage is that you can use two synonyms in your seek.

Operator NOT (SAUF)

La recherche se fait sur le terme précédent SAUF
- exemple en français : entreprise ET business SAUF internet
- exemple en anglais : enterprise AND business NOT internet

Result : the answers will containt the terms business, entreprise but not the term internet

EXAMPLE OF A RESEARCH
with brackets

The brackets allow you to specifidy your seek and to make it more easy to understand by the engine in a case of a complex research.

For example for a bilingual seek :

example : entreprise OR enterprise AND business AND internet

Result : the pages of the results will containt either the term entreprise or the term enterprise but also they will all content business and internet.

One can consider the following request :
(entreprise OR enterprise) AND business AND internet

Results : the pages of results will containt either entreprise or undertaken enterprise but also they will all content business and internet.

Syntax of the research:

Words required and prohibited words(+,-)

Use the sign (+) in front of a word so that this word will appear in the results:
to compare Internet and Internet + innovations.
Use the signe (-) in front of the word you want to exclude of your results:to compare multi-media and multi-media-internet

"Exact expression " :

To put a sentence or an expression between quotation marks makes it possible to restrict the results of your seek to the documents containig the same words in the same order.
"Business creation"

Without quotation marks, you will find a quantity of pages
especially is one of the word is a very common one.

Tools search:

Zoom on...:
French directories
French engines
International directories
International Engines
European engines
Directories of list of diffusion
Meta-engines

Zoom on...:
New : http://www.caloweb.com
Discover Copernic 2000 : http://www.copernic.com
Find a new site : http://www.actusite.com
The biggest index on the web: http://www.raging.com

French Directories

http://www.carrefour.net/
http://www.ecila.fr/
http://www.eureka-fr.com/
http://www.francite.fr/
http://www.hachette.net/
http://www.lokace.fr/
http://www.nomade.fr/
http://www.spray.fr/
http://www.urec.cnrs.fr/annuaire/
http://www.wanadoo.fr
http://www.yahoo.fr/

French Engines

http://www.caloweb.com
http://www.ecila.fr
http://www.francite.fr/
http://www.lokace.fr
http://www.netscan.fr/
http://www.souany.com/
http://www.voila.fr/

International Directories

http://www.excite.com/
http://www.euroseek.net/
http://dmoz.org
http://www.hotbot.com/
http://www.infoseek.com/
http://www.looksmart.com/
http://www.lycos.com/
http://magellan.excite.com/
http://www.snap.com/
http://www.webcrawler.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/

International Engines

http://www.alltheweb.com/
http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.aol.com/netfind/
http://www.excite.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.goto.com/
http://www.hotbot.com/
http://www.infoseek.com/
http://www.lycos.com/
http://www.northernlight.com/
http://www.webcrawler.com/

European Engines

http://www.euroferret.com//french/
http://www.euroseek.net

Directories of list of diffusion

http://www.francopholistes.com/
http://www.liszt.com/select/News
http://www.cyberfiber.com/new.htm
http://www.dejanews.com/
http://www.loria.fr/services/news/
http://www-sor.inria.fr/~pierre/news-groups-fr.html

Meta Engines

http://all4one.com/
http://www.ariane6.com/
http://www.c4.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.mamma.com/
http://mega.francite.com/
http://www.metacrawler.com/
http://www.metafind.com/
http://base.ctw.cc/trouve/outils.html
http://www.profusion.com/
http://www.thebighub.com/
http://www.savysearch.com/
http://www.search.com/
http://www.trouvez.com/

On line resources :

The search of cyber-information
La quête de la cyber-information
(http://www.sam-mag.com/cyber_info)
by Yann Gourvennec

Seek on Internet
Rechercher sur Internet
(http://universite.online.fr)
by Jean-Marc Loisil

The guide of searching information on Internet
Le guide de la recherche d'information sur internet (http://www.asktibbs.com)

The search engines news
L'actualité des moteurs de recherche (http://www.abondance.com/docs/index.html)
by Olivier Andrieu