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Tips on international searching
January 12, 2000 Summary posted by Alice
R Klingener
The only suggestion I have is the series of articles that were published
in Searcher during 1999 by Sheri Lanza. Her articles may not be directly
on point, but they did contain very useful information.
Linda M. Stevenson, KnowledgeWorks, knowledg@frontiernet.net
European Search Engines
EuroFerret - www.euroferret.com
Tips & Trends - EuroFerret
www.euroferret.com
Owned by Dialog www.muscat.co.uk/euroferret
35 million pages
Comparison of those in European Domains
EuroFerret 36,835,615
AltaVista 24,761,810
HotBot 18,662,045
Tips & Trends - Euroseek
www.euroseek.net
Offers searching in 40 languages
Access by many countries, regions
Boolean, phrases, exclusion capabilities
Results are 10 at a time (drawback)
Better results for several of my searches than others
European & International Search Engine Links
Links to international search engines www.arnoldit.com
European search engines and directories by Chris Sherman
http://websearch.miningco.com/internet/websearch/msub12-m13.htm
Search Engine Colossus - Directory of more than 1,000 International Search
Engines
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com
Hard to Find Information
International Statistics
International Research Center www.researchedge.com/irg/stat.html
U.S. and International Links
European Union - http://www.europa.eu.int
International Business Resources on the Web
http://ciber.bus.msu.edu/busres.htm
Corporate Information Metasite
www.corporateinformation.com
300,000 company profiles from around the world
Links by Industry, Country or State
Search Engine
U.S. public and private companies
15,000 company research reports from around world (free at this time)
from Worldscope in an abbreviated information. Will be $15-$20 per report
In French (upcoming) for Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, Switzerland and
France
Planning Spanish or Portuguese for Mexico and Latin American Countries
Financial Times U.K.
Company Briefing
Company Briefs and Financials from quoted companies worldwide
www.globalarchive.ft.com/cb/cb_search.htm
Free with registration but you must use password
95% of Dow Jones World Reporter content for free if you register
Internet Mailing Lists
International Business List (IBL)
Subscribe to Digest:
join-intlbiz-igest@gs2.revnet.com
Subscribe to Individual Messages: join-intlbiz@gs2.revnet.com
I was thinking about the language part of your question and wanted to
let you know when I was in London I talked to quite a few Europeans who
tell me that English is being used more and more in business and on the
Web. An IS person from the European Union in Paris was in a seminar I
gave and I asked him if they did their Web work in English and French.
He told me there were supposed to but that they mainly used English (time
and staff? and who knows what else the reason?).
I also want to mention Aileena - http://www.aileena.ch/aileena.htm maintained
by Ionos in Zuerich, Switzerland. They link to newspapers in native
languages.
Yahoo has world Yahoos and Lycos has been getting into the other languages
and countries business too but I haven't checked it lately.
Amelia Kassel, MarketingBASE, amelia@marketingbase.com
Here are some sources for international search engines:
About.com's Search Engines & Directories page includes links to regional
search engines
http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/msubmenu12.htm
Search Engine Colossus -- search engines by country
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
Search Engines Worldwide
http://www.twics.com/~takakuwa/search/search.html
Patrick Dawson, Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C., pdawson@wfg.com
So far, as long as they are Latin-alphabet based -
I have been doing ok without using an alphabet with various diacritics.
I do use the European versions of Alta Vista and Yahoo. Although
the companies claim that there is no difference, in the past, I have found
websites in the European versions that were not listed on the US-based
ones.
One search engine that is geared toward European domain sites is www.euroferret.com.
Like with all search engines, I have had various luck with this one.
Danguole Kviklys, dank@panduit.com
Try this one. It has an overview of search engines
per country. http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
Sabine Besselink, Web-Diggers
My first instinct would be to check whether Garrett
Wasny, compiler of the web directory called "How to conquer the world",
has done anything. His web site is www.howtoconquertheworld.com
Maggie Weaver, TradeLink Toronto, mweaver@ntc.on.ca
My own tips, such as they are:
1. If you run a search in one of the international Yahoos, they often
provide links that will run your search in other country-specific search
engines at the bottom of your results page.
2. If your knowledge of the target language is a little rusty, there is
an index of online foreign-language dictionaries at http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Alice Klingener, kling010@tc.umn.edu
Edited
on September 23, 2005 |
