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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
