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"Yahoo Inc. has purchased Inktomi Corp. for about $235 million, the companies announced today. Yahoo will add Inktomi's Web search technology to its portal sites in hopes of becoming the premier destination for Web searches, it said." ... "Foster City, Calif.-based Inktomi has deals with Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.com portal, according to its Web site. Computerworld.com also uses Inktomi search software." -By Tom Krazit -IDG.net via -Computerworld - "Yahoo Buys Search-Software Maker Inktomi." ... "Internet media company Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O on Monday said it would pay $235 million to buy Internet search-software maker Inktomi Corp. INKT.O , strengthening its position in the growing Web search business." ... "The cash deal of $1.65 per share valued Inktomi, a high-flyer during the Internet boom, at a 41 percent premium to Friday's close but at less than a third of its value at its 1998 initial public offering." -By Ben Berkowitz -Reuters/Business  - Discussion - "Yahoo Buying Inktomi."  -Slashdot  20021115 "Guides: Directories - Directory: Guide News: Pathfinder Meta Directory of Subject Categorized Pathfinders & Hierarchy Trees of Internet Resources." The /guides page has been substantially updated with descriptive annotations of current useful guides including: 911 News Resource Meta Index - Archive.org - Argus - BUBL /LINK - dmoz - Environment -FAQs - FindLaw - Google>Directory >Groups - HardinMD - IPL - LII - LookSmart - MiningCo/About - RDN.ac.uk - RefDesk - ScoutReport -VLib  - WebRing - Yahoo. 200206112 "New Design for the Internet Public Library." ... "New features being offered: searching tools that include a "Search This Site" function, navigational menus that include a top "You Are Here" menu and a sidebar menu, and a consistent layout and graphical design that extends over the whole site including our youth areas (KidSpace and TeenSpace)." -IPL.org  20020601 "EDUCAUSE.edu's Resource Site Map."  -By Hermit ;-) -Posted 1st @ LISNews.com 20011220 "Historical "ephemeral films" archive -free .avi downloads." - From the Media Librarian in All of Us ;-) Dept. --By Hermit;-) - Posted 1st @ LISNews.com - Comment? 20011205 "The strange saga of Yahoo and WebRing:  The sad tale of a hip little software program for linking Web sites together that was swallowed by by a once-hip behemoth -- then crashed and burned." ... "On Sept. 5, 2000, the day Yahoo assimilated WebRing, the "ringmasters" responsible for tending the chains of Web sites linked together by WebRing software fumed with pitched fury." ... "WebRing is essentially little more than a way for sites devoted to similar topics to share links and boost each other's traffic. But to its fans, it makes beautiful order out of chaos." ... "Even now, more than a year later, after the somewhat anticlimactic liberation of WebRing from supposed Yahoo tyranny, the ringmasters are still angry." (1, 2, 3, 4) -By Katharine Mieszkowski -Salon	Guides are directories. This page was added with the intent that the directory  page would focus on links for finding  people or businesses while this page would include directories with either a broader or narrower focus than just people or businesses. An alphabetized description of the Guide Links is below: 911 News Resource Meta Index - September 11th, 2001 News Sources. Links to news and resouces covering the tragedy. - HavenWorks.com/911  Archive.org - The Internet Archive ... "building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."  This site provides a retrospective of web pages that have either been substantially changed or removed from the Internet  Special Collections:  September 11th  Election 2000   Movies: Prelinger Archives  Argus - The ArgusClearinghouse - ClearingHouse.net - May shut down soon.  The Argus Clearinghouse was (is) a meta-directory (a directory of directories) organizing web directories by subject. BUBL.ac.uk /LINK- About - "a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described. Links are checked and fixed each month." ... "...with a Special Focus on Library andInformation Science.*" - Admin - FAQ: Started in 1990, BUBL "stood for BUlletin Board for Libraries. However it is now known as the BUBL Information Service, or BUBL for short." - LINK - "LIbraries of Networked Knowledge" - a subject tree of Internet resources.  "BUBL LINK is also accessible via Z39.50 by connecting to port 210 on link.bubl.ac.uk using database name Zpub." Dewey Decimal Classification - DDC A-Z Subject Terms : A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |  Search + Internet Resources by Type - Main Subject Menus - Updates/Current -  Countries and Continents -  United Kingdom - United States of America ... dmoz.org: "ODP - Open Directory Project." ... "The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors." More about the Open Directory. FAQs - "Internet FAQ Consortium." ... "Internet FAZ Archives." ... "This archive contains Usenet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) postings in Hypertext format and in FTP archive textual format." Environment: WebDirectory.com- "Environmental Organization WebDirectory!"  Bills itself as the: "Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory:  Earth's Biggest Environment Search Engine." FindLaw - Extensive legal portal. About the Company. - Background: "In January 2001, FindLaw became part of West Group, the foremost provider of e-information and solutions to the U.S. legal market." Googleis currently the search engine king.  Long live the king. >Directory - Google's directory is the dmoz.org directory with the web pages ordered with Google's secret page ranking algorithm.  This shows which of the web pages in each category have the most links to them.  This popularity formula isn't perfect but it's what makes Google marvelously effective.  Pages can also be re-ordered to "view in alphabetical order."  >Groups - "Usenet discussion forums." ... | alt. | biz. | comp. | humanities. | misc. | news. | rec. | sci. | soc. | talk. |||||| Browse complete list of groups...  HardinMD - "Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources." ... "The Medical Information Hub." The University of Iowa's Hardin Medical Library internet health portal. Hytelnet - An "Archive of Telnet Sites." - Used to be a directory of library OPACs - "Online Public Access Catalogs.". - Outdated - recommends using:  LibDex.com - "The Library Index." See the Country or USA listings. IPL.org - "The Internet Public Library." ... "The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information." More about the IPL. Subject Collections  Special Collections  Pathfinders - Guides "which are intended to help you get started doing research on a particular topic, both online and at your local library." LII.org - "Librarians' Index to the Internet - lii.org." - "Information You Can Trust.  A Program of The Library of California."  More about the LII. LookSmart - Used as a directory 'back end' by several corporate sites in combination with their site searches. MiningCo.com now: About.com - "Expert guidance from real people searching the Internet for the information, goods, and services that you need to know related to your passion." RDN.ac.uk - "Resource Discovery Network." - About - "The RDN is a collaboration of over sixty educational and research organisations, including the Natural History Museum and the British Library." ... "In contrast to search engines, the RDN gathers resources which are carefully selected, indexed and described by specialists in our partner institutions" SUBJECT 'HUBS':  BIOME.ac.uk - "Health and Life Sciences." Browse - About   EEVL.ac.uk - "Engineering, Mathematics and Computing."  About   Humbul.ac.uk - "Humanities." ...  Archaeology - Classics - Comparative Literature - English Studies - History - Linguistics - Religion & Theology + more...  PSIgate.ac.uk - "Physical Sciences." ... Astronomy - Chemistry - Earth Sciences - Histroy and policy - Materials - Physics -   About - What's new - Site map   SOSIG.ac.uk - "SOcial Science Information Gateway." - Business (including Management) | Economics | Education | Environmental Sciences and Issues | Ethnology, Ethnography, Anthropology | European Studies | Geography | Government and Public Administration | Law | Philosophy | Politics | Psychology | Social Science General | Social Welfare | Sociology | Statistics | Women's Studies | RefDesk - Reference Facts. ScoutReport - The Internet Scout Project's Current Scout Report provides descriptions of useful reference and informational websites.  As part of the National Science Foundation's [NSF.gov] National Science Digital Library [NSDL.org] the Scout Report has several subject based resource disovery publications: SUBJECT AREAS:  Life Sciences - "Biology, Zoology, Ecology, Botany, and other Life Science topics."  Physical Sciences - "Geology, Chemistry, Astronomy, Physics, and other Physical Science topics."  Math, Engineering, and Technology - "Industrial Engineering, Calculus, Algebra, Geometry, Civil Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Environmental Engineering, Computer Sciences, Human Factors, Hardware, and Software, and related topics." VLib - "The WWW Virtual Library." ... About: "The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web." WebRing.com - Initially designed as a way of connecting individual websites of similar interests (aka: ringmasters), the site has had problems after being bought up by Yahoo.com and then sold back to one of the original designers. dir.Yahoo.com - Yahoo.com's - original directory.	Guide Links: META PATHFINDER 911 News Resource Archive.org  BUBL /LINK Argus dmoz FAQs IPL LII VLib Environment FindLaw  Google >Directory >Groups HardinMD Hytelnet LookSmart MiningCo/About RDN.ac.uk  RefDesk  ScoutReport  WebRing  Yahoo Anywho(ATT) InfoSpace ;QwestDex. 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