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Hofstra University: Online Journalism
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Online Searches
Archie
Created in 1990 at the McGill University School of Computer Science
An Archie client connects to an Archie server and catalogs FTP sites all over the world
Named from Unix slang of 'Archive"
Still in use today
Best way to locate alternate download sites for new software releases
EXAMPLE: http://elfikom.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/Docs/net-serv/archie-gate.html
Gopher
Instead of web pages, it is a hierarchical display of folders and files without HTML formatting
Developed at the University of Minnesota
EXAMPLE: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Veronica and Jughead
Index of FTP servers and gopherspace
EXAMPLE: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/11/veronica%09%09%2B
Searching the WWW
Via directory: http://www.yahoo.com
Robots comb cyberspace and create a database. Results presented in hierarchical list based on number of search term matches.
Meta tags and Keywords
Companies can buy words on some search engines
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