Who is Jerry Yang and how did he make a million, no, make that billion bucks?

What is an Internet Directory?  How is it created?

What is the difference between a search engine and a web directory?

Why do directories have "search interfaces?"

What criteria to web directories use in their selection process?  Why is this important?

Are directories a substitute for search engines?

What are the best directories?

WorldCat as a web directory.

What is an Internet search engine?  How is it created?

Search Engines

• All The Web
• Altavista
• Excite
• Google
• HotBot
• Lycos
• Northern Light
• Ask.com
• WiseNut

Meta-Search Engines

• DogPile
• SearchCaddy
   

The United States government is the largest creator of information in the world.  What are the best online indexes for government information - federal, state, local, and international?

Why is CAREFUL EVALUATION of WWW resources so crucial?

Assignment:   Web Page Project - Click here for webpage criteria.  You will also find a sample of interface and content analysis. 
NOTE: Digital file of web page is due NO LATER than Tuesday 11-25-08. 

Scout Report Archive - over 23,000 sites are organized using Library of Congress classification and subject headings, making this site very easy to browse and search 

INFOMINE -  over 100,000 resources organized by information specialists from the University of California, Riverside and other universities

WWW Virtual Library - "The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web."

Yahoo! - is really a commercial portal.  It provides news, free e-mail, stock quotes and a myriad of other services as well a a directory of web sites 

Librarian's Index to the Internet (LII) - "began in the early 1990s as reference librarian Carole Leita's Gopher bookmark file. It migrated to the Berkeley Public Library's Web Server in 1993 as the Berkeley Public Library Index to the Internet."

WorldCat - WorldCat is selectively cataloging web pages.  Will it become a WWW directory to beat all directories?

Internet Tutorial at the University of Albany

• How the Internet works - protocols, browsers, URLS, and more
• How to use the Internet as a research tool

The Federal Web Locator - one stop shopping for federal government information on the WWW - Villanova University

The University of Michigan Documents Center -  local, state, federal, foreign or international government information.  This is perhaps the best site available for finding government information of all types.

Evaluating Internet Sources

• Evaluating Web Resources - Tate and Alexander at Widener University
• The Good, The Bad & The Ugly:  or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources - courtesy of Susan E. Beck at New Mexico State University