Search Tools: Commercial-Quality Control
These services, such as McKinley and JumpCity, are structured like a Michelin guide with a stream of rated indices...
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These services, such as McKinley and JumpCity, are structured like a Michelin guide with a stream of rated indices. Currently, they can be downloaded at no cost but they are evolving into a fee-for-service product.In addition to standard search capabilities, Northern Light has initiated a fee-for-service for access to special collections and you can try before you buy. For continuing education or for advanced student research projects this site is a taste of the future, especially where access to sources far from home and pocketbook is needed to complete a task.
Dogpile, like some of the other search engines free to educators, searches the Web, usenets and ftp sites. It also hosts an auction and facilitates sales of books, flowers and stocks.This kind of service is the all-in-one approach to consumerism.
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A good preview of future products for quality control of Web resources. You could even design an assessment rubric for your students' work from this system!
