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Internet Search Starting Points

Where can I go to find:

How do I find someone?

Common Places for finding e-mail addresses

  • To find someone at Goshen College go to the GC homepage and at the top they have e-mail search window.
  • To find someone at EMU Eastern Mennonite University, look on the left side of their home page.
  • To find someone at Other Colleges and Universities , try this web site. Once you get to the school you are looking for, look around for a phonebook, "CSO", or other e-mail directory.
  • Here is another College and University list that has 2400 listings useful for finding a campus e-mail directory or just to find out information on another school.
  • IAF Internet E-mail Address Finder.

"White Pages", other places to try for e-mail, phone numbers, and addresses

  • The Ultimates: Scott Martin's neat site to help you find people. It enables you to search White Pages, Yellow Pages, or e-mail directories through a common interface. Just fill out the first form and when you tab to the next field, it automatically copies your entry to the corresponding fields for the other services
  • WhoWhere White Pages Often can tell you where that person is from, so you know if its the same one you are looking for.
  • Addresses.com A variety of people information searching tools
  • Switchboard's Phone Book and e-mail address search
  • Finally "Reach out..." Call them on the phone and ask them what their e-mail address is.

How do I find the address for an Internet site

By type of service

  • World Wide Addresses
      • An easy way is to just try adding "www" to an obvious name
    • example: www.hesston.edu
    • example: www.goshen.edu
    • example: www.emu.edu
    • example: www.ibm.com
    • example:www.oxford.edu.en

Next try searching with a search engine for the full company name

Electronic Discussion Groups (mailing lists/listservs, Usenet)

Listservs are mailing lists you subscribe to, sort of like a magazine. Messages get sent directly to your e-mailbox.

What lists are available on a specific topic? Check these sites.

Usenet "news" groups are group discussion lists, but you have to "go out" and read them, they don't come to you.
At Google Groups you can search for Usenet discussion forums

Online guides to what is available on the Internet

To search by subject

  • Yahoo was started at Stanford but is now commercial and the most popular destination on the net.
  • The Argus Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
    An extensive library based collection that gathers diverse resources into useful subject guides.
  • Easy Searcher 2 is a listing of search engines that work on specific subjects only. Choose your subject area and they will give you choices of sites where you can search only in that specific area.
  • Mennonite Information Center has links to online Mennonites and Mennonite organizations.

Search Engines (What's a Search Engine?)

Search Engines are computer tools where you can enter key words and they will search "CyperSpace" for documents that contain those key words.

  • UC at Berkeley has links to the major search engines and also tells about their capabilities.

Popular Search Engines

Search engines work in many different ways - some search titles or headers of documents, others search the documents themselves, and still others search other indexes or directories.

Here are some good starting points

Search Engines

Easy Searcher 2

Easy Searcher 2 is a listing of search engines that work on specific subjects only. Choose your subject area and they will give you lists of sites where you can search only in a specific area.

Meta-Search Tools

Search on more than one search engine with one query

Electronic Books

Electronic Periodicals

On-line libraries and research sites

How do I locate Government information?

  • First.gov Your first click to the US government
  • The goal of NTIS FedWorld is to provide a one-stop location for the public to locate, order and have delivered to them, U.S. Government information. Much of the information is still through a telnet accessible site.
  • The FedStats Web site lets you search through one governmental agency or all of them for statistics generated by the federal government. You can also browse to find links to agencies, programs, and regional statistics.
  • United States Postal Service

What if I need information on current events?

Thanks to Bob Skinner at SMU for the original design of this page.

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