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Link of the Week: Mar.
30 - Apr. 5
Teoma
This week we continue our tour of sites trying to dethrone Google
as the number one search engine. Let’s look at Teoma.
“Instead of ranking results based upon the sites with the most links leading
to them,” Teoma’s site explains, the search engine “analyzes
the Web as it is organically organized—in naturally-occurring communities
that are about or related to the same subject—to determine which sites
are most relevant.” Teoma ranks sites “based on the number of same-subject
pages that reference it, not just general popularity.”
Teoma has a downloadable toolbar
for your browser that lets you search its engine without going to the Teoma
site (somewhat like Google’s toolbar). The toolbar also allows for easy
dictionary look-ups and helps you e-mail a page to a friend or highlight search
terms.
Check out Teoma’s Advanced
Search Tips to use Teoma to search specific sites, geographic areas and
even to locate web pages modified within a certain date range.
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Media Forum Links
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that were distributed by journalists at our media forum are online. Journalist
contact information is posted also, if you want to follow up with any of
the people you met at the forum (or if you live in the Asheville area and want
to see what you missed!).
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of the Week Archives
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weeks' featured links and articles.
The Missing
Link
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the information, we just may track down a link for you, or use your suggestion
as Link of the Week.
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