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Search services

The big, popular services

• Search service »Lycos«, one of the biggest search services of America for internationally scattered sites
• Lycos Germany corresponding version for the German language area
• Search service »Yahoo!«, likewise well popular
• Infoseek, one of the big ones, too
• WebCrawler, also popular
• AltaVista search service with information about more than 225000 servers and 30 millions pages,based on a spider database¹. Operating authority: Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
• Excite Netsearch, very large, too
• MetaCrawler powerfulness like »Yahoo!« and »Lycos« but very busy and crowded
• Inktomi Web Services powerful search engine such as »Lycos« and »Yahoo!«
• Starting Point, not a real search engine, it only generates the matching links to all more popular search services with the ready entries such as ?query=My+Subject, so you save the repeated input of your subject

Small and not so well known services

• Swiss Search, a special search engine for Swiss sites
• Swissweb, an other search service for Swiss and Liechtenstein sites
• RBSE Spider, a search service on a small scale because this is not the main application of this server, based on a spider database¹.
• Home Pages Harvest Broker, Search database with more a smaller database for catchword search
• What's New Too! Search engine with a not too large database
• Open Text Corporation a simple search service with a not too big catchword database
• World Wide Web Worm search engine, database not too extensive
• Deja News actually more a discussion forum, not a WWW search engine!

¹A spider database is a WWW site index generated by machine only. The database computer simulates an artificial Internet user which reads base page first. Then the computer searches through this file about clear-cut catchwords, titles and document type tags to make possible a catchword search. In addition, all links (<A href=".."> tags) will be extracted, too where every not known yet link gives a new base page, so this procedure will be repeated until there aren't any unknown links, theoretically. In the practice the net performance isn't sufficient enough, so the extracted information already expire while the process => The already read addresses have to be read again uniformly, so actually this searching process never finishes, in fact.

Round about informatics/EDP

Programming language ADA

• The home of the brave ADA programmers, English
• Tutorial for ADA programming, a complete tutorial for beginners

If you want create your own homepage

• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web site from the CERN research centre Switzerland directly, the Creator of the »World Wide Web«. There are nearly all of information available about HTML and the WWW general, that means that this is a compulsory site for each WWW author! Some complete references about HTML 2.0/3.x/4.0 as well as style guides about lay-out a page generally and more are to find there.
• German HTML instructions, full detailed instructions about all basic commands, aspects of compatibility and conformity are considered likewise
• WWW-Doku, valuable information about creating HTML documents; especially it goes to the style guidelines more in detail, a definition about the »Word Wide Web« rules of decency.
• WebTechs, an online HTML syntax check service: You paste the HTML source code of your homepage in a form (e.g. with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V under Windows®) and submit it. Then you receive a error report about mistakes such as e.g. <H1>Wrong title</H2> Wrong &farc43; special character etc. Recommended for each WWW author!
• The World Famous Guestbook A special guestbook company which makes possible to realise your own homepage guestbook without any CGI programming knowledge

Online lexicons and dictionaries

• Translation service of the university Frankfurt. Single words can be translated by a form page directly
• Travlang Dictionary for various languages, German and French among other thing and a guestbook in addition. And an online attending course is also available! Strongly recommended for travel preparations It includes also some hearing samples in form of MIME sound files

Colleges and universities

• Fachhochschule Aargau (university for applied science) where I'm still studying at the moment
• Höhere Technische Lehranstalt Winterthur
• University of Québec, Hull (Canada)
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, university in Peru (South America), available only in Spanish language

Politics, state, compendiums of laws

• Switzerland Home, an overview map about all Switzerland guides you to any region after a mouse click
• Official Page of Federal authority of Swiss Confederation with all wordings of the law, topical bills in the parliament and more
• Swiss Federal Constitution from Bern directly (original statute book). Not available in English
• Index to all Swiss statute books, also from Bern directly. Not available in English
• Legislation in Switzerland - some information one of the rare English document on the Swiss Confederation server

Information about the weather, time table of public transports

• Test results to the Kassensturz provider test on the computer of the polytechnic Rapperswil. The popular programme »Kassensturz« of the Swiss television SF DRS tested various provider about dial-in node capacity, taxes etc. Very recommended if you want connect yourself on the Internet privately
• European time table information, this site isn't provided officially from the Deutsche Bahn AG contrary various false reports
• Recipes for some delicate meals, a complete and extensive cookery book
• German climatic computer centre, latest satellite pictures are ready on call, visitor's book
• Library of the FH Aargau. Requires Telnet
• Go away travelling by mouse clicking to Italy from your screen! Wide directory to a lot of sites in the whole Italy
• Red Cientifica Peruana Web site of a Peruvian institute. Get know South America and Peru a little closer...

Last update: August 25th, 1997

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