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Try one of these Scottish search engines:

Visit Knowledge Base, "a database of answers to frequently asked questions in Scottish archives, combined with a directory of where to find historical records arranged geographically.  Over the next two years it will gradually build into a research resource for all types of archive users, from complete beginners to regular researchers, with contributions from SCAN's participating archives.  The Knowledge Base is arranged into four sections: people, places, subjects, and record types.  You can browse the list of topics in any section now.  In due course you will be able to search the Knowledge Base, for a particular word or term. "

Scotland.org.uk Websites about Scotland is Scotland's largest list of websites about Scotland and all things Scottish.  Whether you are looking to visit Scotland or live here and need a service - this is the right place to look.  You can search here by topic and by places of interest.

SaltireCross.com - many current features.

Visit Scotland On-Line.

Scotsmart, Scottish Directory of websites about Scotland, things Scottish or organisations based in Scotland.

ScotFind.com - A searchable link engine for Scottish web sites in many categories including accommodation, business, education, community, leisure, shopping and sport.

Scotland.org.uk Websites about Scotland is Scotland's largest list of websites about Scotland and all things Scottish.  Whether you are looking to visit Scotland or live here and need a service - this is the right place to look.  You can search here by topic and by places of interest.

ScottishSearch.com - free webmail, dating, shopping, Internet Access, webspace and several other features.

Visit "SiliconGlen.com".  "Silicon Glen, Scotland - Where more computers are made per head of population than any other country in the world.  Silicon Glen is the name given to the region of Central Scotland broadly encompassing Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Livingston, Linlithgow, Glenrothes, East Kilbride, Dundee and areas between.  However, it is also used in a broad sense to mean the Scottish computing, internet and high technology sector as a whole."
The FAQ for soc.culture.scottish is hosted here.

View Scotland's first on-line guide at Silicon Glen.  Silicon Glen is the name given to the region of Central Scotland broadly encompassing Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Livingston, Linlithgow, Glenrothes, East Kilbride, Dundee and areas between.  However, it is also used in a broad sense to mean the Scottish computing, internet and high technology sector as a whole.  More computers are made there per head of population than any other country in the world.  Enjoy the Silicon Glen site!

Are you a webmaster? See A Search Engine for Your Site - "There are hundreds of free search engines out there - both general and specialised.  Many of them offer a form which you can add to your own site to help enhance its content.  This site gathers info on these services in a single convenient location."

See Internet Sleuth to look up people (Find People), topics, organizations, businesses (Yellow Pages) and much other information.  Excellent initial results.  Pay-as-you-go for very detailed information.

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World Wide Web Search Engines

Other search engines that are useful in finding information about Scots (and any other subjects) are:

• Raging - is dedicated to providing the best pure search experience on the Internet.  That means the most relevant results, the fastest search, and the easiest site to use.  They combine the biggest and freshest index of Web pages, sophisticated technology to sort through that index, text relevance, and link analysis.
   
• Ask Jeeves - This site searches databases and assists by letting the user narrow the further search on selected sources.
   
• Webcrawler - One of the earliest search engines.
   
• AltaVista
   
• Starting Point
   
• Lycos Search Engine
   
• Excite
   
• Metacrawler
   
• Dogpile
   
• SEARCH.COM
   
• Infoseek
   
• InfoSpace
   
• The Internet Archive
   
• Nerd World Media
   
• Alta Vista
   
• Northern Light
   

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Techniques for Using Search Engines:

Web Search Lores - This site teaches basic and advanced search techniques for people interested in finding any kind of information on the Web.  The site also addresses the use of .pdf files including how to convert them to ASCII text and other topics including the following:  a) Searching problems and techniques for overcoming them; and,  b) Many facts about the performance of search engines.

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