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The web is defined as a system of interlinked, hypertext documents that runs over the internet. Search engines on the other hand, operates algorithmically and are a mixture of algorthmic and human input. They are more robot than human. Here's a picture for better description.

Yeah, that's what i think of it as. Correct me if I'm wrong. So basically, there are many other portals, directories and web pages invisble to the search engine user. Generally, web directories are maintained by human editors. Here are several pointers to getting around information in the world wide web.

1. Directories and Portals.

Useful when :

• quality is the priority
• you're looking for chosen, reviewed and commented upon sites
  
• it's a bottom's up situation. Starting with a general topic.

Because of the nature of reviewing and evaluation of humans, the indexed sites are generally quality ones. However, because of physical and time limiations, the information may not be parallel to time. Several directories worth a look at :

Librarian's Internet Index
a collection of over 20,000 quality websites, organized into 14 main topics, 300 related topics and 40, 000 subscribing to their weekly newsletter.

Find Law
the highest trafficked legal website.

Info Mine
a university resource collection divided into 9 categories for university staffs, students and professionals.

2. Invisible Searchable Sites and Databases.

Useful when :

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If you’re working on a project and you’re looking for sound effects, this is it.

If you’re looking to create an advertisement banner with sound effects, you’ll find a lot here.

Wherever you are, if sound effects is what you’ve been looking for, look no further.

Find Sounds, the sound effect search engine is here to help. Below is a table comparing Find Sounds to the internet’s major search engines.

As you can see, Find Sounds is fully devoted to searching sound effects and musical instrument samples. It has simple, easy to use features that is suitable for users of all ages. To all parents, relax, because audio files containing obscenities will not be found in the search results. They are filtered out before the results are returned.

A user is allowed to play around with the search criteria so that the results are narrowed down. I’ll take the first result of the search term ‘laugh’ and explain a bit further about what you’ll see.

The waveform provides visual information about the content of the audio file. It’s actually a graph of loudness over time. On the other hand, the colour reflects the frequency of the file. There are 2 buttons at the side. The left button is for listening to the file, the right for files similar to this one. A short description is displayed below the direct URL and the technical properties are shown at the bottom.

That’s about it. Keep a bookmark, cause you never know when it might come in handy. =)

Find Sounds
Sound effect search engine