Specified Domain Search EnginesThanks to Chuck Reber - www.family.reber.org Tired of getting more than you want to see from your Web searches? Maybe the problem is that your search engine is looking at the entire Web to find the information you want. This is O.K. if you have the time to wade through page after page of hits to find the few hits that really identify what you are interested in seeing. There is a better way; there are a few search engines that allow you to tell them where you want them to look. These specified source search engines use Google.com, but allow you to tell Google that you are only interested in information from a specified source domain. For example, let's say you want to know something about the F-18 jet fighter. A Google search for F-18 will produce over a million and a half hits - too much for you to handle in the time you have available, and a lot of these F-18 hits don't have anything to do with Navy jets. Now let's say that we only want to look at what is on military Web sites about the F-18. To do this we'll use http://www.searchmil.com/ and only look at military sites. You still get a ton of hits, but now you know that the information is coming direct from the owner. Another significant difference is that the hits are now listed in order of popularity. The first hit is the most frequently requested and so forth. You can add still more terms to reduce the number of hits and focus your search on exactly what you want to see. Since we only want to know about the Forward Looking Infra-Red Pod on the F-18 we'll add those terms. Now our search produces only four hits, all Navy and all about the Forward Looking Infra-Red Pod on the F-18 fighter. There are four specified domain search engines: http://www.searchmil.com/ - Military - .mil http://www.searchedu.com/ - Educational Institution - .edu http://www.searchgov.com/ - Government - .gov http://www.searchebooks.com/ - E Books The specified source search engines might prove useful to Task Force members doing Web research.
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