For instance, if you're searching for Civil War sites, you'll be led to the ones that people visit most often. Rather than searching a lengthy list, searchers may select the top 10 results. Among the tips listed on Calishain's Web page is a lead to a searching tutorial for newbies put up by John Henderson of the Ithaca College Library Reference Department. Highwired hopes to create a network of online student newspapers by simplifying the publishing process. Parents and business students will be interested in a new service offered by Infonautics, of Wayne, the people who gave us E-Library.
Registration is required, but the service is free.
Enter the name of the company you are interested in, and Company Sleuth will compile daily e-mail reports from Securities and Exchange Commission filings, patent applications and other sources. That doesn't work. People frustrate themselves by going directly to a search engine when they should start with a subject directory. Parents don't surf with their kids. If you care enough to monitor what your child watches on television, you should similarly monitor how your child uses the Internet.