Google/.network search engine:

Google the Web using the search tool above. It is powered by Google and made readily available throughout the archive. CLICK HERE to add choices for searching inside .network websites.

A search link is available when you enter .network website. Select the link to access a looped series of three pages that each show you the Google/.network search engine. For example, you are using Site Location Assistance.com—ENTER its search page in the series from here or by selecting SEARCH on the homepage. Page-in-series navigation buttons are available at the top of the page. They are linked so that you can move back and forth through the series to Google the Web or the .network website you access.

Most of the search engine links listed below are to advanced search features. Using such features where they are available improves search efficiency. Try using the search efficiency feature of setting a keyword combination inside quotation marks, with the search engine above or one selected from the list. For example, try using the combination of keywords that make up the expression, enterprise and economic development, by copying and pasting it as shown in italics in this paragraph. With: enterprise "economic development" and "enterprise and economic development" keep quotation marks intact. Each search should produce different results with the latter being queries for exact quotes.

For more about advanced search, CLICK HERE.

For points about searching the Web in Helpguide for Searchers, CLICK HERE

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Ask: www.ask.com/webadvanced

... started out in the mid-1990s as Ask Jeeves. Ask.com is owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp.

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Bing: www.bing.com

... a Microsoft Product. It doesn't display a link for an advanced search option. Two things you can do: (1) Copy and paste the following italicized text and search: "advanced search" bing — (2) Select the help button (lower-right) on Bing's main page or CLICK HERE and search for "advanced search" — Making what you search for a phrase is a simple advanced search technique.

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list of search engines:

All The Web / http://www.alltheweb.com

Alta Vista / http://www.altavista.com

Ask / http://web.ask.com

Bing / http://www.bing.com connects through MSN Live also / http://search.live.com

Clusty / http://clusty.com

Cuil / http://www.cuil.com

Dogpile / http://www.dogpile.com

Entire Web / http://www.entireweb.com

Google / http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

Google/.network search engine / http://www.findmehere.com/network/goose.htm

IxQuick / http://www.ixquick.com

Kompass search / www.kompass-int.com / more links in the .network library

Open Directory / http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/advanced_search.html

Yahoo / http://www.yahoo.com.

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search engine related resources:

Search Engine Ratings and Stats (http://searchenginewatch.com)

Helpguide for Searchers

Search section of the Enterprise and Economic Development Library

Search Online (Appendix I of the .network glossary)

World Wide Web (Appendix K of the .network glossary)

Weaving the Web Glossary

Googling the Web ... with the Google/.network search engine

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Using the Web for site selection:

... Dennis Donovan, principal, Wadley Donovan Gutshaw Consulting, says that the early part of a site selection project features speed and efficiency; however, the process features far less efficiency, effectiveness and timeliness during the middle stages of a project due to weak economic development Web sites. (Some members of the .network target audience) ... researching communities, will find a profusion of information sources to get started. This information, which can be purchased or licensed, as well as free information, has allowed site consulting groups such as Donovan's to build proprietary databases. “This has greatly facilitated our ability to conduct the up front part of location analysis very efficiently,” Donovan says. “When you start reaching out to the communities—that is when the process gets time consuming.” ... The source of the quoted (italicized) part of this paragraph is from the magazine, Business Xpansion Journal: Article titled: Positives And Negatives Of The Internet In Site Selection.

In a 2003 issue of Expansion Management Magazine, Donovan is quoted as saying: The Internet helps us gather information to both eliminate and include areas until we get down to the final choices ... We can use a combination of [Internet] sources to identify the best-looking communities. The source article was titled, The Internet Impacts Site Selection.

Note: As you may know, this resource archive is in Site Location Assistance.com, part of an online network dedicated to bringing communities throughout the world and their location data suppliers together with their prospects, which include Donovan and other site location consultants. They all have free access to the information The Network provides. Resource and service providers, including representatives of places of interest to prospects can obtain records in the Global Registry of contacts and have them maintained for free. Knowing this, you can perhaps help smooth the online search for information about locations and make it less time consuming. See Search for a Location in the Introduction to The Network; Also read about the unique search promise it offers.

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What is a mission contact?

... a resource supplier or service provider having something of value to offer a member of the .network user group (.network users engaged in enterprise and economic development, including site selectors, are considered participants in the mission when they search for resource and service providers for the purpose of building or maintaining working relationships). Mission contacts are listed as user contacts in the Global Registry of Contacts. They are also listed in one or more of the many other contact directories users are able to freely link to through The Network. Examples of contact directories you can access through The Network:

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definition of standard transportation map:

... is visual representation of an area as if seen from above which is widely accepted on its intrinsic depiction of features in relationship to its transportation infrastructure. A typical infrastructure pictured on a standard map would include systems for water and grround transportation as well as locations of airport facilities. The identities of places such as cities and town as well as boundries that are commonly recognizable and useful for reference are also included on a standard transportation map. They are maps useful to site selectors.

The .network library has a Map Room. The Global Registry of Contacts lists area and local development representatives ... user contacts, many of whom are in position to provide locaton packages which include standard transportation maps. See the definition of location data supplier for more information about contacts for maps and location data.go back

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ODP (Open Directory Project) ... What are open directory projects? answer

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http://www.lycos.com ... powered by the Ask search engine (announcement)

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Among advanced features offered by many search engines are logic/algebraic processes developed by George Boole ... credited as a founder of the field of computer science. Wikipedia has information about Boolean logic and its use with computer.

The Enterprise and Economic Development Library has an explanation of advanced search. Also, another example of advanced search features are pull-downs used with the search engine for the Global Directory of Contacts. CLICK HERE for information about using it in Helpguide for Searchers. For help searching the GRC, CLICK HERE.

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