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- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 07:36:32 EST
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- From: Richard Smith <smithr@clp2.clpgh.org>
- Subject: #15 More Veronica Searching
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- NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'
-
- Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland
-
- MORE VERONICA SEARCHING
-
- We've looked at several Gophers that are trying to improve
- information access on the Internet by grouping information by
- subjects. Yet Veronica is able to go through all of Gopherspace
- and find specific or general information tailored to your needs.
-
- Here is an example of using Veronica to look for general
- information containing the word "business."
-
- **********
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: business
-
- --> 1. Alt.business.multi-level FAQ
- 2. biz. ---------- business newsgroup listings
- 3. Teleconferencing for small business.
- 4. Teleconferencing for small business.
- 5. Business plan for CWIS.
- 6. 4.9.1 is open for business.
- 7. Internet Business Report.
- 8. U.S. Sprint Enters TCP/IP Internet Business.
- 9. all this phonebook business....
- 10. : To appear in the Commerce Business Daily.
- 11. examples of business uses of the Internet?.
- 12. Re: examples of business uses of the Internet? .
- 13. Permission to Post About Business Journal?.
- 14. Permission to Post About Business Journal?.
- 15. Re: examples of business uses of the Internet?.
- 16. Re: examples of business uses of the Internet? .
- 17. REPLY: Internet/NREN Business Journal FYI/RFC.
- 18. Re: examples of business uses of the Internet? .
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/12
-
- **********
-
- We've retrieved twelve pages of information. (This is the 200 item
- default limit. Using the "-m" feature can increase the number of
- items retrieved.) This first menu contains all text files. I
- suspect that this is only a partial list of Gopherspace information
- that contains the word "business." You would probably want to
- browse through the menus and read relevant documents to find other
- keywords to narrow your search. For example, from this one page,
- if I were interested in business uses of the Internet, I might try
- to use the terms "business and Internet" to narrow my search to
- only those items that have both words in them.
-
- You may also want to expand your search to include other pertinent
- words. Here I use the words "business or commerce" to add any
- documents with the word "commerce" to my earlier search.
-
- **********
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Bookmarks
-
- 1. Library administration/
- 2. Library science/
- --> 3. Search gopherspace at NYSERNet <?>
- 4. Search gopherspace at PSINet <?>
-
- +--------Search gopherspace at NYSERNet-----------------------+
- |
- | Words to search for business or commerce
- |
- | [Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter] |
- |
- +---------------------------------------------+
-
- **********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: business or commerce
-
- --> 1. Quantitative Business Analysis <Q B A>.
- 2. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS-LEARNING CTR - STUDENT SERVICES CORD.
- 3. Business/
- 4. Business and Computing Faculty/
- 5. business - cheyenne mountain sertoma club.txt.
- 6. The Internet Business Journal LISTSERV List.
- 7. Latin American Business Briefs.
- 8. DECnews..Bruce Ryan Named Vice President of Industries
- 9. 070293:Access to Confidential Business Information by
- 10. Business/
- 11. Manchester Business School (organization)/
- 12. Business/
- 13. Business Logistics <B LOG>.
- 14. Business/
- 15. Business/
- 16. Small Business Week, 1993 5/14/93.
- 17. 58 FR 33763:Returns Relating to Cash in Excess of $10,000
- 18. Business/
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/12
-
- **********
-
- This search returns twelve pages of information. Note the
- differences from our first search. In particular, there are more
- directories in this first screen than earlier. An anomaly is that
- nothing on this first page has the word "commerce" while the first
- search on just the word "business" did get us a document with the
- word Commerce in it. Documents with "commerce" appear in later
- pages.
-
- Let's try it again. We'll use the "and" and "or" to both expand
- and limit our search and use a wildcard to get both commerce and
- commercial and any other word starting with "commerc."
-
- **********
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Bookmarks
- 1. Library administration/
- 2. Library science/
- --> 3. Search gopherspace at NYSERNet <?>
- 4. Search gopherspace at PSINet <?>
-
- +-----Search gopherspace at NYSERNet-----------------------+
- |
- | Words to search for (business or commerc*) and internet
- |
- | [Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter]
- |
- +------------------------------------------------+
-
- **********
- **********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: (business or commerc*) and internet
-
- --> 37. Re: Commercial Internet connections.
- 38. Internet Commercialization BOF scheduled for INTEROP..
- 39. Internet Commercialization BOF scheduled for INTEROP..
- 40. New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm)..
- 41. Re: New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm)..
- 42. Re: New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm)..
- 43. Re: New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm). .
- 44. Re: New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm)..
- 45. Internet commercial growth/article.
- 46. Joe, sex, and the commercialization of the Internet.
- 47. New commercial Internet service to come on-line in
- 48. EINet - "The Business Internet" ?.
- 49. EINet - "The Business Internet" ?.
- 50. EINet - "The Business Internet" ?.
- 51. Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ?.
- 52. Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ? .
- 53. Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ?.
- 54. Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ?.
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 3/12
-
- **********
-
- Well our search did pick up information on business and the
- Internet as well as commercial and commercialization with Internet.
-
- Duplicate items are common in a Veronica search, although Veronica
- has a mechanism that removes many duplicate items it is not
- perfect.
-
- I'm learning along with you. I went to the end of the list, page
- twelve, and found a message telling me that there are additional
- items if I want to get more information.
-
- **********
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: (business or commerc*) and internet
-
- --> 199. Re: Internet Is Going / Has Gone Commercial.
- 200. Re: Internet Is Going / Has Gone Commercial.
- 201. ** There are 168 more items matching the query
- "(business or comme...
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 12/12
-
- **********
-
- I can now do the search over and add "-m368" to the search to
- retrieve all of the pertinent documents.
-
- Well the best way to learn how to search using Veronica is to
- practice. You'll find that keeping the search simple is the
- easiest way to search Gopherspace. The more complicated the search
- the longer it takes to get information. You have to be careful when
- developing a complicated search in that you have the information in
- the correct position to get valid results.
-
- Experiment by Navigating through Gopherspace with Veronica.
-
-
- Richard J. Smith
- smithr@clp2.clpgh.org
- The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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-
- Jim Gerland
- gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
- State University of New York at Buffalo
- Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology
- Manager, Network User Support Services
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-