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You should by now be familiar with the fact that special Web sites exist that are devoted to providing information on the ever-changing content of the World Wide Web. In Setting Up Netscape you first came across the Yahoo listing at Stanford University. In Browsing the Web with Netscape and Making a Hotlist we encouraged you to browse the Web any way you wished, saving bookmarks and making and organizing your hotlists. We hope you had fun doing it.

By now, you will have realized that the Web is vast and very dynamic. It's almost impossible to know its full extent, or even to guess where specific information is hidden -- not good for using the Web to achieve a definite information purpose. Here, we focus on the advanced search techniques you can use to find specific information on the Web.

Netscape's Internet Search List

Once again, the makers of Netscape have provided a useful built-in link that returns a listing of powerful Web search sites, with a brief description of each one. If you click on the Internet Search Directory button, or select Internet Search from the Directory menu, you will link to Netscape's listing of available Web and Internet search sites, plus pointers to other search site lists.

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The Lycos Search Site

The Lycos catalogue Home Page at Carnegie Mellon University is a useful Web search starting point. Lycos allows "ordinary language" searches and has indexed over a million URLs. If you click on The Lycos Home Page: Hunting WWW Information, on the Netscape Internet Search list, you'll see a newer version of the following page:

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You'll find many things of interest, and soon will find yourself absorbed as you jump from link to link. You may even forget why you started that surfing session. Lost in Cyberspace, for the first time! Now what?

What To Do When You're lost

This where the Go menu becomes useful. When you link to a document with Netscape, its URL is registered as a history item and added to the bottom of the Go menu for as long as you have that Netscape browser window open. You can reload it any time by selecting that link from the menu. It's actually cached (saved) on your hard drive, so it doesn't have to be retransmitted.

Or, you can use the keyboard equivalent Control-H (Windows) Command-H (Macintosh) to open the History Window, and then double-click on a link to go there, or select the link and click the Go to button. Netscape has many ways of doing the same thing.

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