Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents
- A Couple of Webby Award Winners
- Tolerance--United States
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center Webby Award Winner: Tolerance.Org
I noticed that this important site was awarded a Webby Award the other night. While the entire site is highly useful and valuable, here are a few portions of the site that could be of use in a ready reference situation. 1) U.S. Map of Hate Groups, 2) Identify Hate Incidents in the U.S. (Stories in the Mainstream Press, Limit by State/Type of Incident), Hate in the News upcoming events and recent events.
-- Nature
Source: National Wildlife Federation Webby Award Winner: eNature.Com
Ready reference suggestions: eNature Online Field Guides, Native Plant Guide, Zip Guides, (Wildlife Guides by Zip Code), ParkFinder. See Also: A List of the Other Webby Award Winners (Many of Other Quality Resources)
-- Web Search Engines--Robots.Txt Another Webby Award Winner: The Food and Dining Site, Epicurious.Com The Epicurious Recipe Database has a great advanced interface and is home to over 14,000 recipes. However, most of these recipes are NOT crawled, indexed, and made searchable by the major general search tools. That's right, the only way to get at these resources is by using this database. Why can't you find these pages in Google, AllTheWeb, or AltaVista? It's quite simple. After running a search and finding a recipe, you'll see that the recipes sit in a directory called /run http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=10141. The site owners have placed a file on the Epicurious.Com server telling robots/crawlers, the software used to build web search databases, to "Keep Out" of this directory. The file (it sits on the web server) that directs the crawlers to "keep out" of this or any other directory or entire site, is called a robots.txt file and can be viewed here. Web page authors can also tell web crawlers to specifically stay away from specific pages by placing a meta tag in the html coding of the page. If you want to learn more about robots.txt and related protocols this is a great place to start.
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