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advanced search:

... the use of features which improve search efficiency. Advanced search features may include that logic/algebraic processes developed in the 19th century by George Boole. Perhaps the most used feature is that of creating a search phrase by setting a keyword combination inside quotation marks. For example, copy and paste the search search phrase "definition of economic development" or definition of "economic development" to the search engine above and Google. This simple advanced search technique is demonstrated throughout The Network using numerous applicable keyword combination in order for you to have as comprehensive a resource as is currently available online in support of your participation in its mission.

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access advanced search:

We define advanced search above. The list of search engines below is a reprint of that which is published in the introduction to The Network. Most links provide direct access to advanced searches. Your use of any search engine listed is covered by a promise when there is an interest in finding resources for the kind of enterprise development that leads to economic development or business in general which The Network provides as an online information service.

spacerAll The Web / http://www.alltheweb.com
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spacerAlta Vista / http://www.altavista.com
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spacerAsk / http://web.ask.com
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spacerBing / http://www.bing.com connects through MSN Live also / http://search.live.com
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spacerClusty / http://clusty.com
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spacerCuil / http://www.cuil.com / CLICK HERE for more about the Cuil Search Engine
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spacerDogpile / http://www.dogpile.com
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spacerEntire Web / http://www.entireweb.com
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spacerGoogle / http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
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spacerGoogle/.network search engine / http://www.findmehere.com/network/goose.htm
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spacerIxQuick / http://www.ixquick.com
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spacerKompass search / www.kompass-int.com / more Kompass links in the .network library
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spacerOpen Directory / http://dmoz.org / ODP note
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spacerYahoo / http://www.yahoo.com.

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search engine ratings and guides:
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dotspacerSearch Engine Watch.comdashSearch Engine Ratings and Reviews
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dotspacer.network search helpdashSearching the Web (search help directory)
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dotspacerGoogle Help Centraldash Google search engine adapted for .network use
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dotspacerUniversity of California BerkeleydashFinding Information on the Internet ...
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dotspacerUniversity at Albany / LibrarydashInternet Tutorials
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dotspacerOWL at Perdue UniversitydashSearching the World Wide Web
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dotspacerThe Spider's ApprenticedashA Helpful Guide to Web Search Engines
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dotspacerImaginary Landscape.comdashThe HelpWeb
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dotspacer.network glossarydash(file) Weaving the Web (a book by Tim Berners-Lee)
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dotspacerPanda Search Centraldashabout this Web search resource
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dotspacerNoodle ToolsdashInformation Literacy: Search Strategies
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dotspacer.network Websearchdashthe library where this list of resources / links originated
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dotspacerDialog white paperdashWeb Searching / Know Your Tools
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dotspacerDialog viewdash... invented online information services.

Disclaimer: There is no relationship between the definition of online information services as provided by The Network and the claim of its invention by Dialog (Dialog invented online information services). It was suggested by an anonymous .network user that a link to the Dialog resource be published after the term was defined in the glossary.

CLICK HERE if you have a question or comment about the above disclaimer.

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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 communitiesdashthat 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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Maps for site selection:

The Map Room of the Enterprise and Economic Development Library has links to various resources.The first link is to ... area and local maps as a site selection resource, i.e., economic development data. Select the link for information about maps as a location data element.

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researching communities ...

We (who we are) assume that the expression includes searching for location data suppliers, then contacting those who can provide information, such as economic development data, about places of interest. To learn more about where the quoted statement, researching communities, will find a profusion of information sources to get started, fits into the site selection process overall see Enterprise Development: 10 steps for site selectors.

Internet Information Resources Model:

... The first email program was developed in the 1970s using a network of computers, thus giving university researchers ideas for developing an innovative means of information storage, retrieval and exchange. Their ideas came together in 1984 in the form of a computer network spread throughout the world's academic research centers. It wasn't until the 1990s, however, that serious thoughts began to enter peoples' minds about moving this paradigm of manipulating information resources in a large, compatible network sharing environment beyond academic research and military applications. At that point the Internet Information Resources Model was clearly established. Expression such as The Information Age and Information Superhighway confirmed the model.

Note: Much of the background for the Internet Information Resources Model can be found in book Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee.

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AOL was at one time listed among the search engine links above. We were not correct in inferring that a provider of online and interactive computer services was a search engine. AOL Search is enhanced by Google. The Network is enhanced by Google as an online information service.

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The search engine provided by Cuil, Inc of Menlo Park, CA was recommended to The Network by a Merrill Lynch financial consultant who stated that it is ... the world’s biggest search engine ... better than Google. We (who we are) tested it with the keyword combination, economic development network, as a phrase by setting the text inside quotation marks (advanced search) but it didn't seem to make a difference. Our conclusion is that Cuil doesn't have advanced features that users can control to search the Web. Since we responded to a financial consultant by adding Cuil to the .network list of search engines, you may be interested in knowing its investors: www.cuil.com/info/investors.

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The ODP (Open Directory Project), which is also called DMOZ (see the Open Directory search engine access at www.findmehere.com/about/websearch.htm) is, according to ActiveMedia.com, the ... largest human edited directory on the internet. Google and thousands of other websites are using its data throughout the web. The quote is from ActiveMedia's online marketing and search engine optimization glossary. The search engine at the top of this page for querying the Web is provided by Google.

The expression open economic development directory project is defined in the .network glossary. It is an undertaking to provide an economic development directory online that allows resource and service providers engaged in the process to obtain listings of their contact data for free and that also allows its users free-access. CLICK HERE for more information from the glossary.

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Lycos.com provides the Ask search engine (link accesses advanced search). Although no longer listed among .network user recommended search engines, Lycos does have resources.

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The Find Me Here main directory page provides access to various search tools.

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The Network makes a distinction between business development as enterprise development and new business developmentdash.network glossary definition of business development.

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