Ranking
of Newsgroup Search Engines
(ranked from best to worst)
Topic: Computer Science
By: Greg Duncan MWF --2:00
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Search Engine |
Comments |
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48900 items (I didn't read all!) I found an
interesting site at www.graphicsnews.com
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Yahoo |
183 items. I joined the signature country
newsgroup, a group that discusses computer graphics, |
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Netscape |
I found mediachannel.org to be the most appropriate, but found nothing of interest there. |
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Ask Jeeves |
Not much here either. I tried to access news.bates.edu but couldn't (Using the lab computers) |
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Lycos |
Couldn't access Trumpet.com, the only source of interest here. |
I accessed some newsgroups in
news:microsoft.public . To me, they really didn't have much
interest. In
order to complete this
lab, here are a few of the hundreds of newsgroups available at the
MicroSoft
site:
- news:microsoft:public.basic.dos
- news:microsoft:public.basic.other
- news:microsoft:public.biztalk.server
- news:microsoft:public.clip.gallery
- news:microsoft:public.internet.explorer.ieak
- news:microsoft:public.inetserver.asp.general
- news:microsoft:public.windowsxp.network_web
This part of the lab
took about
an hour and a half to complete. Unlike all of our other labs, I didn't
find
this to be very interesting or relevant to the semester project.
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