Robelle | Products | Library | Support | Partners | Contact Us | Papers

[ Previous | Next | Overview ]

Interesting Places to Visit

The WWW is a huge place. The following are a few personal recommendations for sites that we have found interesting or useful. Your mileage may vary.
Virtual References

The Web contains links to everywhere. We show you a few sites that have a lot of excellent reference materials.

Travel Resources

Finding good travel information is a challenge. Here are a few suggestions for WWW travel resources.

Searching WWW

So much information is available via the WWW that finding the answer to a specific question can be hard. Here are some WWW search engines that help you to search the Web.


Virtual References

Yahoo contains links to many Internet resources organized into subject catagories. If you have ever had trouble finding someone's e-mail address, try the Four 11 Directory Services or WhoWhere? instead. You can also add your own e-mail address and other information about yourself to the Four11 or WhoWhere? directories.


Travel Resources

Curious about a city, a region, or a country? Planning for that big trip across Europe or Asia? You might first want to check out one of these travel resources.

We have found the Rec.Travel Library to be useful. The travel library is based on discussions from the rec.travel newsgroup.

O'Reilly and Associations publish technical books, especially about UNIX. O'Reilly was one of the first companies to publish an on-line magazine called The Global Network Navigator. Included in GNN, is the GNN Travel Center with current travel information and links to many Internet travel resources.

Internet travel resources tend to be organized into major areas (e.g., Canada and the US, Europe, Asia). You often have to be patient when accessing their indexes, since they cover all countries and cities in an area. Keep in mind that England, Scotland, and Wales are usually indexed under United Kingdom, which is at the end of any listing for Europe.


Searching WWW

Users have invented robots to search the Web for documents. Since searches take a long time, these robots usually index everything they find into a database. The server provides the tools to search these databases. For example, InfoSeek, Lycos, Alta Vista from Digital, WebCrawler Search Database, or Architext Excite are all good. Because these databases are indexed from the entire WWW, you usually have to qualify your searches in order to find what you are looking for. For example, if you search for "travel" you will likely have too many choices, but if you search for "travel Alaska" the list may be just what you want. Each database is different, so be sure to try two or three before giving up on your search for information on the Web. MetaCrawler will search many of the popular search databases at once.