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Internet searching and watching


Content :

1. Directories, Engines, Meta-engines

2. Newsgroups & Mailing lists, Intelligent agents, FAQ , Chats

3. Pull, Push, Anonymizer, Security

4. FTP, Invisible web, Finance

5. Ancestors : Telnet, Archie, Wais, Gopher, Veronica

6. Libraries, Dictionaries, Other searching sites

7. Newspapers, Downloads, Patents

8. Biomedical, Legal, Miscellaneous
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Directories :

Anglo-Saxon

The first american portal

The second american portal

open directory : dmoz

Google's directory
Mba101
Eaglenet
Nbci
Internet directories
Weborama
Cnet
Cnet's services
Best internet directories
Search iq
All in one

French

The first french portal

The second french portal

francité

Yahoo france
Lycos france
Respublica
CTrouvé
Adminet
Urec
Pages blanches
Pages jaunes
Recherche par numéro
Journal du Net

Engines :

Anglo-Saxon

The best search engine

The first powerful search engine before Google

All the web (well, almost...)

AskJeeves
Northernlight
Excite
Hotbot_Lycos
Dialog_Datastar
Aol

German

Wissen Fireball.de
Google.de

French

Lokace : one of the first french search engines

Ecila : one of the first french search engines. Now Tiscali

lycos-hotbot


Misc.

Magellan_excite
Galaxy
Submit express
Simple search

Super-engines

FinderSeeker
Freeality
LucidDreams
Big search engine
Best search engines
Search Engine Watch
Search engines tips

A few more advice

Meta_engines :

International

ixquick : the best online meta-engine

metacrawler : one of the well-known meta-engines

profusion version 2

Dogpile
Copernic
QbSearch
Mamma
Search.com
Debriefing
Web ferret
Meta engines user guide
Search tools review

Newsgroups and mailing lists :

Anglo-Saxon

Now : Google groups (Google groups)
Deja was purchased by Google in mid-2001

Google : Basics of Usenet
Google : Internet tutorial

topica : list of forums and mailing lists Liste de forums de Liszt
Main forums and mailing lists

Yahoogroups

French

A list of french lists
as the name says...

Get ze news :-)
Get ze news, in french :-)

E-groups france, now YahooGroups france
Egroups (french), became YahooGroups france

Miscellaneous


Usenet newsgroups
Delphi Forum
Web Search Forum
Geocrawler
Columbia_edu
Usenet.com
Bubl_link
Paml : numerous mailing lists

For those who dislike Outlook Express Free agent : a good software to consult the Newsgroups
(remember : the Newsgroups technically don't  belong to the Web, and appeared more than 10 years before the Web)

Intelligent agents :

 A very good Intelligent agent
Web Seeker : the reference

The IA with a sophisticated lexico-graphical analysis and representation
Umap offers a sophisticated lexico-graphical analysis and representation (by Trivium)

Digout4u (Arisem)
LexiBot
Datops
Basis (Opentext)
Net attaché pro
Strategic finder
Smart agents
Agents 101
A few other agents...
General presentation
Asktibbs.com
Robots and Agents
AgentLand (by Cybion)

To find recent articles on a given subject :
Google News
Newsmonger
NetMinder

FAQ :

Internet FAQ archives
Netscape unofficial FAQ
The use of computers
Java FAQ archives
Mailing lists FAQ index
FAQ for mailbase users
Usenet-FR FAQ

Chats :

mIRC
New IRC users
MIRC palace

ICQ :

Download ICQ
("I seek you" = "je vous recherche")

Pull :

(you go get information and  "pull" it to you)

 La référence en matière d'aspirateur de site The main "site sweeper", to put a complete copy of a site on your machine (and several other monitoring functions).

WebWhacker
E-catch
Binary Boy to find binary files

How to pull information

Push :

(a Web service "pushes" information into your e-mailbox)

Qui vous tient au courant... The Informant, now Tracerlock

Votre ordinateur en téléscripteur.Pointcast / Infogate : news headlines and clippings showing in a banner on your screen

Netmind.com
Digimind monitor
Getupdated.com
Spyonit.com
Pushcentral
Cyberalert
Net2one.com
Net2one.fr
My Yahoo
My Newspage
My Excite
My Altavista
Back web
Marimba
Push information services
Push information advice

A good article on "Web spies" put to work for you

Anonymizer :

Anonymizer
Anonymity
Zero knowledge
Hotmail address

 

Security :

Web Secu : explains what spywares do
Some known spywares
The list by Terroir de France.
Their comments :
"All Windows based PC should at least be equipped with the following security tools :
  • A FireWall (preferably ZoneAlarm, by far the best) (free for personal use),
  • A host list (preferably managed by SpyBlocker),
  • An anti-virus software (for instance Norton Anti Virus and also Norton System Works - but w/o Norton's firewall which is not as good as ZoneAlarm's)
  • Anti-spyware softwares,   Ad-Aware (free) and SpyBot (free),
  • The anti-WebBug WebWasher (free)
  • An anti PopUp (preferably PopUp Stopper) (free)
  • the startup cleaner RegCleaner (free)
  • the footsteps cleaner Internet Sweeper (free)"
Gibson Research Corp.
Ad-Aware (the reference in spyware cleaners)
Sygate Online Services
Test de PC Flank
Symantec Security Check
Des infos sur les Pare-feu
ZoneAlarm
BlackICE
Symantec/Norton
Stop-Sign (avec DrWeb)
Mailwasher (mail cleaner)
PopUpBuster
 SecureLab
Safeweb
Christopher Drake
Security and related topics
Once bitten...

FTP :

FTP sites :

Voila FTP search
FTP sites list
Well known FTP sites
World anonymous FTP sites
WS_FRP software
French firms FTP sites FTP 
 (a few are accessible to anyone)
Other FTP sites
A primer on FTP sites
FTP search engines

FTP softwares :

(now browsers are also FTP download capable, but usually not FTP upload)

Leech FTP
WS_FTP
Win Commander (multi-function file management software, including FTP)
Other FTP softwares

Invisible Web :

A bad naming to mean : "everything on Internet that is interesting and not within the Web"
(remember that the Web comprises all HTML pages and related stuff only)

Special search engines
Moreover.com
Kooha.com
CompletePlanet.com
Find same
xRefer
LexiBot (download)
BrightPlanet
Specialty search engines
Lycos searchable databases
WebData
Gary Price Direct Search
Infomine
Swish-e engine 
Ultraseek
LincOn
Direct search
Berkeley university's advice
LLRX : Mining Deeper Into the Invisible Web
Roger Williams University : Invisible web

Some good articles :
NYT
Web Search
Information highways
Deep web white paper
The Standard

Finance :

Anglo-Saxon

Hoover's on line
Corporate information (Wisi)
Financial find
Edgar on-line
10K wizard
Reuters
Bloomberg
Servers financial information
Financial Times
Wall Street Journal
Nasdaq case studies
Forbes
Telekurs financial

French

Societe.com
Les Echos
Boursorama
Cob
The internet industry portal
Decideur.com
Surf and biz
Finance-net
Euridile
AOL bourse france

Ancestors :
Telnet

 Hytelnet (Peter Scott)
Telnet applet
Telnet sites
Bibliothèque nationale de France (via Telnet)

Ancestors :
Archie & Wais

Archie
Wais
Archie, Veronica, Gopher

Ancestors :
Gopher

Gopher jewels
Gopher sites
How to use Gopher ?
Program Gopher client
Veronica

Libraries :

 Library index
The Net Library
Online digital texts (list of  free of rights texts in 20 languages)
Association des Bibliophiles Universels
Internet information resources
Les liens de la Bnf

Dictionaries :

Free on-line dictionary of computing
Whatis dictionary 
The dictionary of dictionaries
Le grand dictionnaire terminologique
Dictionnaire des synonymes
(with a wonderful
lexico-geometrical representaion)
Annuaire des dictionnaires
A good german set of dictionaries

Other searching sites :

Olivier Andrieu (Abondance)
L'Adit
Pierre Nygren (Décisionnel)
Carlo Revelli (Veille)
Abeille.org  disappeared... :-(
Abcdoc.net
Strategic Road
M. Rousseau
P.-A. Le Cheviller
Béatrice Piau
J.-M. Cense
Terry Metz
IAMM
Université catholique de Louvain
CEA
Université de Strasbourg

Newspapers :

 ZDNet
O1Net

Le journal du Net
Planete press
Press-on-line
L'usine nouvelle
News index

Chroniques de Cybérie
Uzine (ex-Minirezo)
Samizdat.net
Hardware.fr

Downloads :

Stroud's
Telecharger.com (purchased by O1NET)
5 star sharewares
Rocket download
Soft seek
Tucows
Zdnet downloads
Gratilog
Zdnet logithèque
Logithèque de Voilà
Computing.net
Web resources

Get Right software 

Patents :

Office européen des brevets
INPI
IRPI
OMPI
US patent and trademark office (USPTO)
The UK patent office
Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
Patentblatt.de
Japan patent office
Canadian patent office
Derwent (Value-added patent & scientific information)
Patent Database
Lattice software of Steve Mayall
Vtdim

Biomedical :

French

 Biomedical information
David Trystram's page
His favourite links
Linux based information
Biomedical searching
Caducée
Planetmedica
Medinfos
Ministère de la santé
Global santé

Anglo-Saxon

National library of medecine
Medline
Medline (revisited)

Legal :

French

Infos juridiques, fiscales et sociales
Lois et règlements en France
E-Juris
Legifrance
Le portail de l'administration française
Le journal officiel
Cour de cassation
Bibliothèque juridique virtuelle
JuriFrance
La FAQ juridique
Avocat on line
Droit.org
Rabenou.org
ORT

Anglo-Saxon

Find law
World wide legal information association

Miscellaneous :

Internet et Entreprise J.-M. Yolin's report
Quid
ISBN tools
Thèses soutenues en France
The american society for information science
World Wide Web Consortium
Babylon.com (multifunction translator)
Paypal (very convenient online payment system without a credit card)
Ecopay

Le quartier français du village planétaire
Ebig.com
Zope.org
TopOuaibe : Html & Javascript

The Internet Movie Database
The classical MIDI archives

A few P2P sites (after Napster )

(beware of the spywares that can play havoc with your system)

KaZaA (Peer To Peer, P2P, file exchange)
Imesh
Grokster
Gnutella
Morpheus
edonkey2000


An example of search :

Le poulet bicyclette