=============================================================================== RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA GOPHER =============================================================================== NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN' Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland MORE VERONICA SEARCHING We've looked at several Gophers that are trying to improve information access on the Internet by grouping information by subjects. Yet Veronica is able to go through all of Gopherspace and find specific or general information tailored to your needs. Here is an example of using Veronica to look for general information containing the word "business." ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: business --> 1. Alt.business.multi-level FAQ 2. biz. ---------- business newsgroup listings 3. Teleconferencing for small business. 4. Teleconferencing for small business. 5. Business plan for CWIS. 6. 4.9.1 is open for business. 7. Internet Business Report. 8. U.S. Sprint Enters TCP/IP Internet Business. 9. all this phonebook business.... 10. : To appear in the Commerce Business Daily. 11. examples of business uses of the Internet?. 12. Re: examples of business uses of the Internet? . 13. Permission to Post About Business Journal?. 14. Permission to Post About Business Journal?. 15. Re: examples of business uses of the Internet?. 16. Re: examples of business uses of the Internet? . 17. REPLY: Internet/NREN Business Journal FYI/RFC. 18. Re: examples of business uses of the Internet? . Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/12 ********** We've retrieved twelve pages of information. (This is the 200 item default limit. Using the "-m" feature can increase the number of items retrieved.) This first menu contains all text files. I suspect that this is only a partial list of Gopherspace information that contains the word "business." You would probably want to browse through the menus and read relevant documents to find other keywords to narrow your search. For example, from this one page, if I were interested in business uses of the Internet, I might try to use the terms "business and Internet" to narrow my search to only those items that have both words in them. You may also want to expand your search to include other pertinent words. Here I use the words "business or commerce" to add any documents with the word "commerce" to my earlier search. ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Bookmarks 1. Library administration/ 2. Library science/ --> 3. Search gopherspace at NYSERNet 4. Search gopherspace at PSINet +--------Search gopherspace at NYSERNet-----------------------+ | | Words to search for business or commerce | | [Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter] | | +---------------------------------------------+ ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: business or commerce --> 1. Quantitative Business Analysis . 2. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS-LEARNING CTR - STUDENT SERVICES CORD. 3. Business/ 4. Business and Computing Faculty/ 5. business - cheyenne mountain sertoma club.txt. 6. The Internet Business Journal LISTSERV List. 7. Latin American Business Briefs. 8. DECnews..Bruce Ryan Named Vice President of Industries 9. 070293:Access to Confidential Business Information by 10. Business/ 11. Manchester Business School (organization)/ 12. Business/ 13. Business Logistics . 14. Business/ 15. Business/ 16. Small Business Week, 1993 5/14/93. 17. 58 FR 33763:Returns Relating to Cash in Excess of $10,000 18. Business/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/12 ********** This search returns twelve pages of information. Note the differences from our first search. In particular, there are more directories in this first screen than earlier. An anomaly is that nothing on this first page has the word "commerce" while the first search on just the word "business" did get us a document with the word Commerce in it. Documents with "commerce" appear in later pages. Let's try it again. We'll use the "and" and "or" to both expand and limit our search and use a wildcard to get both commerce and commercial and any other word starting with "commerc." ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Bookmarks 1. Library administration/ 2. Library science/ --> 3. Search gopherspace at NYSERNet 4. Search gopherspace at PSINet +-----Search gopherspace at NYSERNet-----------------------+ | | Words to search for (business or commerc*) and internet | | [Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter] | +------------------------------------------------+ ********** ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: (business or commerc*) and internet --> 37. Re: Commercial Internet connections. 38. Internet Commercialization BOF scheduled for INTEROP.. 39. Internet Commercialization BOF scheduled for INTEROP.. 40. New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm).. 41. Re: New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm).. 42. Re: New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm).. 43. Re: New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm). . 44. Re: New Commercial Internet Service - RadioMail(tm).. 45. Internet commercial growth/article. 46. Joe, sex, and the commercialization of the Internet. 47. New commercial Internet service to come on-line in 48. EINet - "The Business Internet" ?. 49. EINet - "The Business Internet" ?. 50. EINet - "The Business Internet" ?. 51. Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ?. 52. Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ? . 53. Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ?. 54. Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ?. Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 3/12 ********** Well our search did pick up information on business and the Internet as well as commercial and commercialization with Internet. Duplicate items are common in a Veronica search, although Veronica has a mechanism that removes many duplicate items it is not perfect. I'm learning along with you. I went to the end of the list, page twelve, and found a message telling me that there are additional items if I want to get more information. ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: (business or commerc*) and internet --> 199. Re: Internet Is Going / Has Gone Commercial. 200. Re: Internet Is Going / Has Gone Commercial. 201. ** There are 168 more items matching the query "(business or comme... Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 12/12 ********** I can now do the search over and add "-m368" to the search to retrieve all of the pertinent documents. Well the best way to learn how to search using Veronica is to practice. You'll find that keeping the search simple is the easiest way to search Gopherspace. The more complicated the search the longer it takes to get information. You have to be careful when developing a complicated search in that you have the information in the correct position to get valid results. Experiment by Navigating through Gopherspace with Veronica. Richard J. Smith smithr@clp2.clpgh.org The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Jim Gerland gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu State University of New York at Buffalo Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology Manager, Network User Support Services .