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Sound Card

An expansion board that enables a computer to manipulate and output sounds. Sound cards are necessary for nearly all CD-ROMs and have become commonplace on modern personal computers. Sound cards enable the computer to output sound through speakers connected to the board, to record sound input from a microphone connected to the computer, and manipulate sound stored on a disk.

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The new music files that you are sharing are excellent.  I'm saving them each day in a folder that I created on my Windows Desktop.  Thanks."

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WEEKLY IN DEPTH...

Note: this search engine info will remain here for the entire week.

 

How Search Engines Work


People often mistakenly think search engines respond to your queries by searching the entire Web each time. But the Web grows much too fast for any search engine to keep up. 

Here's what happens.  When you search, your results come from a search engine's index, not the entire Web. 

Spiders crawl across the Web. Also called crawlers and sometimes called 'bots, these suckers travel across the Web collecting keywords and links from webpages.  Spiders navigate the Web the same way we do. Each time a spider finds a hypertext link on a page, it moves on to that page. 

Search engines then take all the links and index them with their own proprietary algorithms.  All search engines use a different method.  That's why you might get different results from different search engines. 

When you search, your results come from a search engine's index, not the entire Web.

Here are links to some of the more popular search engines.  Check them out by searching for the same thing at each search engine and see which search engines you like best.

Infoseek aka GO
AltaVista
Yahoo
Google
Excite
Ask Jeeves
HotBot
Lycos
Netscape Search
AOL Search
NBCi

Below is a more comprehensive descriptive listing of Search Engines...

Google http://google.com gives terrific results by analyzing a page's popularity. It also offers a government search http://google.com/unclesam 

Alta Vista http://www.altavista.com offers efficient Web search; its new Raging Search http://www.raging.com is even better.

Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com Subject guide and free-text searching of the World Wide Web 

Fast Search http://www.alltheweb.com lives up to its name 

Excite's http://www.excite.com concept searching is highly effective 

Northern Light http://www.nlsearch.com categorizes search results to help you focus 

Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com now comes to you from Lycos http://www.lycos.com 

search.com http://search.cnet.com has the Infoseek engine http://www.infoseek.com as well as more obscure topic-oriented choices 

Abuzz http://www.abuzz.com People with questions find people with answers. (From New York Times Digital) 

Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com/ searching with a human touch 

Ixquick http://www.ixquick.com searches multiple search engines and quickly returns filtered results. 

ProFusion http://www.profusion.com , SavvySearch http://www.savvysearch.com/ , Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com and Metacrawler http://www.metacrawler.com offer simultaneous searches of multiple Web search engines 

Magellan http://magellan.excite.com/ describes and rates Web resources. Also visit Voyeur
http://voyeur.mckinley.com/cgi-bin/voyeur.cgi to spy on other searchers 

Looksmart http://www.looksmart.com searches a selection of sites chosen by humans 

About.com http://www.about.com has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics. 

Britannica http://www.britannica.com adds human judgment to searching, and presents the results in an unusually effective way

Searchmil.com http://www.searchmil.com searches for information in military (.mil) computers 

ForumOne http://www.ForumOne.com/ One-stop guide to forum topics around the Web 

Deja.com http://www.dejanews.com lets you search for Usenet postings or posters 

CNet http://www.cnet.com combines computer news, reviews, software and services. Also see their news.com 

Achoo http://www.achoo.com and The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences 
http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md.html catalog health related sites 

Archieplex http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/archieplex/ Search FTP archives around the Internet 

Liszt http://www.liszt.com and Tile.Net http://www.tile.net/ will help you find Internet mailing lists 

Yack Guide to live events on the Web http://www.yack.com 

Altavista Images searches the web for photos and drawings that are associated with particular words http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?mmdo=1&stype=simage 

Altavista MP3/Audio searches the web for sounds that are associated with particular words or titles http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&stype=saudio 

Altavista Video searchs the web for video and moving graphics that are associated with particular words or titles http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&stype=svideo 

All In One - harnesses a number of other search engines to search the web for you all at one time http://www.allonesearch.com/ 

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