This month s column should help a bit. It took quite a while to assemble this collection of links to useful websites, and I hope that it will be of use to all of our members who are on the Internet. If you are looking for the latest updates on weather or traffic, information from the federal, provincial, or city governments, health and wellness resources, business resources, technology resources, visit your favourite newspaper or TV station, or places to start searching the net yourself, you should definitely check out these pages. The links I ve assembled take you directly to the interesting or useful parts, so there s little fear of your getting lost in some of these truly huge websites. Resource pages like our new ones at GWIN are one way to start finding things on the Internet.
Search engines are specialized websites that collect information on other websites.
Even those members who aren t on the Internet have probably heard of places like Yahoo, Alta Vista, Northern Light, and Google. These search engines categorize websites and allow you to type in words and search for webpages that have those words associated with them. If you re having problems finding something, be creative with your keywords and you ll get better results from your searches. The way they are organized, you start at the most general level and work your way down to a more and more specific topic. Many of the search engines also act as portal sites.