local.htm: How to search the web, by fravia+ "local" search engines

~ "Local" search engines ~

				Local search engines

Version March 2001

Fravia's search engines pages

[main] [local] [regional] [usenet] [compound]
[special databases] [combing resources]
LocPagProviders: [LPP]

So-called "local" search engines are extremely important to fetch info. Freepages providers, counters, stats applications and all other finalized search engines... that you can use at leisure... for fun, study purposes, "strafing", slowbombing and/or knowledge profit. This page of mine is meant only giving you an idea of the many 'local' treasures you can dif out on the Web.

A very important Project: [oslse] (The Open Source Local Search Engines Project) on my swiss server.

"Local" searching:
valuable pointers

[Hitbox] [Dejavue] [Erolinx] [Idexer] [Acrofinder] [OLGA] [AOL]
Russki area tops: [Rambler's top 100] [Spylogs's top] [1000stars's top]
[webrings]

[Homepages searching] (eheh :-) [Xoom] [Tripod] [Fortunecity] [Geocities] [Crosswind]
See also: LocalPageProviders, huge list: [LPP]

Other stuff [Robot generated WWW-Indexes] [WOLF]

enjoy & send valuable additions!

Local search: valuable pointers

Hitbox (now yep)
Warning!: Advertisement & Akamai webbuggers infested
search model: http://www.yep.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?criteria=%22how+to+search%22&x=28&y=13

Their top sites are at
http://www.yep.com/cgi-bin/displayRank_yep.cgi?Topsite/ranking/10
(just modify the last number, here 10, to get to the location you want... for instance:
http://www.yep.com/cgi-bin/displayRank_yep.cgi?Topsite/ranking/60 will give you all results from 51 to 60

Dejavue
Dejavue has been acquired by Google

Usenet repository: a dynamic repository of practical wisdom with access to more than 40,000 online discussion forums

NEW ADVANCED GOOGLE USENET MASK

Erolinx

Don't underestimate smut-search engines as learning tools! Go to the Webmasters / chatboard & lounges part of this smut search engine in order to learn how these idiots are trapping lusers to their ads-infernos...

iDexer Adult Search

Don't underestimate smut-search engines as learning tools! ...

Acronim finder

Type in the acronym to search for without periods or quotes (example: ASAP)
Cut and paste following example (and edit):
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=ASAP&String=exact&search.x=63&search.y=9

OLGA Search Engine
(courtesy of P.Cook)
If searching for a song or a band, simply enter the name. Eg 'dont think twice' 'pearl jam'.
If searching for an individual artist, (or a band named after an individual artist) enter the last name (and then, if you want, the first name.) Eg 'cohen leonard' 'piaf edith' 'conte paolo'.

AOL

The following three russian pointers have been ported here from a closed pagetool of mine: they are quite useful in order to find a lot of interesting stuff (and Bilibin's images). Enjoy!

Rambler's top 100

For instance mp3: http://top100.rambler.ru/top100/MP3/index.shtml.ru

Or free soft and web tools... http://top100.rambler.ru/top100/Software/index.shtml.ru

Spylog's top

1000stars' top

'Webrings searching' (eheh :-)

How important this can be! A thousand voluntary opearators at your disposal!
See also [The importance of Webrings for combing purposes]: . You'll use this approach again and again once you'll have understood the limits of the 'main' search engines :-)
Let's start with the RingSurf Directory...

Search

in:

for:
Family Filter Off:

among: Keywords Title Description

Yahoo has 'fagocitated' various webring centrals, but you can still search Yahoo's webrings!

Homepages searching

Woah! Say... have you ever tried this "homepage fishing"? Have a go and lemme know what you think...
Freepage providers are of course pavid commecial bastards, that you should avoid at all cost for real publishing purposes... BUT NOT for searching purposes. Infact these clowns will ruthlessly use everything you post, they will track (cowardky & hiddendly) any visit to your site, and at the same time they will be pleased to nuke your site -just in case- as soon as they realize that you are offering for free something that they would like to sell... yet they are not very clever, Gott sei dank, and their grepping bots are quite simple & silly (or worse). Therefore ~S~eekers can still find -through these very "free" sites' specific search engines- a lotta "hidden" sites with valuable (if scattered) info... yet you better understand the [evaluation] lore first

An interesting trick (by sonofsamiam) in order to rank, for instance, all geocities pages (are they really 132150?) through the following querystring:
http://us.geocities.yahoo.com/search?p=a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j+k+l+m+n+o+p+q+r+s+t+u+v+w+x+y+z+_+0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9&o=o&h=s
Note the rank order... and note that we loose only relatively few pages (less than 4%!) if we omit the numbers in our searchstring:
http://us.geocities.yahoo.com/search?p=a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j+k+l+m+n+o+p+q+r+s+t+u+v+w+x+y+z&o=o&h=s
this "number rarity" (only 7% of the pages: 9242) proves once more how PREDICTABLE the stringpatterns are inside webpages...
Xoom

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Search tips

Tripod (& Angelfire)

Search

Search Tripod on "how to search":
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/bin/search/search_tripod?query=%22how%20to%20search%22

Search Angelfire (connected to Tripod) on "how to search":
http://www.angelfire.com/cgi-bin/search?first=6&maxhits=20&catalog=Angelfire&query=%22how%20to%20search%22

Fortunecity

Fortunecity is a collection of free pages, launched in November 1996, transformed from a UK-based (London) company into a full-fledged international operator with main strongholds in UK, Sweden and Germany. Bought recently France's Citeweb. 3,5 million sites, growing.
Fortunecity Searchstring
http://www2.fortunecity.com/apps/Search/Search?searchterms=%22how+to+search%22&searchtype=fc%3AFC_index

Geocities

http://www.geocities.com/cgi-bin/search/isearch The search engine is an Inktomi-type. Geocities pages are often used as 'repositories' for files you may be searching for (often with faked endings to avoid sysads snooping): mp3 files abound.

Crosswind
Keyword Search for Crosswind

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