regional.htm: How to search the web, by fravia+ regional

~ Regional search engines ~

				Regional search engines

Updated December 2004

[Regional search engines of choice]
[The searching value of Subsidiarity]
[Google's regional masks]
[List of International search engines]
[SLS: Seekers' Linguistic Station]

main search engines usenet live compound local B k:f l a n g e o f m y t h

(For regional searching purposes you may also enjoy Das grosse européenne belllissimo search and some of the tools listed in our Seekers' Linguistic Station)

An interesting (albeit small) search engine for regional clues: wotbox

Regional search engines
Searching our signal where the noise does not await us

European

[Euroseek]

French engines
Buscadores hispanos
Motori di ricerca italiani
Greek search engines
Deutsche Suchmaschinen

Romania
Polska

Russian [Yandex] [Rambler] [Russky FTP-search] [Tela] [Delphi]

Japanese [RCAUU] [ODIN] [DragonNext] [GOO] [Naver]

Chinese [Baidu] [Sohu] [Sina]

[Thailand] search engines [Vietnam] search engines

African [Aardvark] Indian [Zatka] [Other Indian search engines]
Elsewhere [Khoj (Sify)] [Israeli Search Engines] [Australian]

How to find messageboards
"For instance Brazilian" by Nemo

For instance Brazilian

try this query on Yahoo:

region:northamerica feature:form california re (brasil OR brazil) (title:forum OR title:message-board OR title:messageboard OR title:portal)

A brief query's explanation:

region:northamerica: restrict your search to north america region. It goes without saying that local inhabitants know better.
feature:form: I'm searching for a forum, there's no use searching for sites that don't contain a form, because forums can't be made without forms!
california: you want to meet people on California.
re: almost all forums add an Re to answers.
brasil OR brazil: Yep! There is two spellings for Brasil.
title:forum OR title:message-board OR title:messageboard OR title:portal: That's a kind of site where you are likely to meet people. Pages must have credible / meaningful titles in order to convince that they aren't merely a collection of spamwords.
The selected language is portuguese, because Brazilians will likely talk Portuguese, so this is an easy way of getting rid of lots of spam.

See my Inktomy's search syntax to know how to search on Yahoo (yes, Yahoo is a disguised Inktomi:).

Nemo

The searching value of Subsidiarity

So-called "regional" search engines are extremely important for fetching info. Most 'main' search engines à la google DO NOT index the most interesting parts of the web: they index commercial over educational sites, 'popular' sites (read sites loved by the zombies) over relatively unknown jewel-sites and US sites over European sites. Well, this section should allow you - at least - to compensate for this last disadvantage.

You want a quick example of what I mean? Try this german engine, for instance.

Foreign-language savvy searchers, like us, have an ENORMOUS advantage, vis-à-vis linguistic impaired (syntactically inconvenienced? cosmpolitanically challenged? :-) Internauts, obviously. Yet you should never underestimate the incredible wealth of knowledge that you can gather from 'alien browsing' EVEN IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND a word of a given language. (You may need & enjoy the help of our SLS: Seekers' Linguistic Station,by the by).

To begin with, the html language of choice is everywhere english, of course, so in a site written in, say, polnish, you may hover your cursor over a link named "Szukaj" and discover that it brings you to a "search.htm" page... duh.
The same 'source snooping' can find useful applications onto a japanese, tuwanian or chinese site, of course... (note that some knowledge of the main search terms could come handy, by the by.

Note also that there are a lot of automated translation tools and facilities as well, on the web, that you can use if necessary.
But there is MUCH more: knowing how to search, how to stalk and -especially- how to comb the web you'll also easily find out WHERE you can get a quick (and good) translation of a given language, no matter how 'queer', from a fellow human, maybe found on usenet (and if you know how to evaluate your quarries you may even find a good expert for such task).
Moreover the different conditions (ethical, political, onthological) existing in the different parts of our planet (notwithstanding the heavy-handed attempts to transform us all in a bunch of cloned Euro-American zombies who drink the same coke with the same bottles, wear the same shirts, and the same shoes and sit ritually in the same McDonald's in order to perform their compulsory "reverse shitting") will GUARANTEE that some of the most juicy targets of your searches will anyway be 'abroad'... whatever such a word should mean on our cosmopolitan web :-).

Qui aimes-tu le mieux, homme énigmatique, dis? Ton père, ta mère, ta soeur ou ton frère ?
- Je n'ai ni père, ni mère, ni soeur, ni frère.
- Tes amis?
- Vous vous servez là d’une parole dont le sens m'est restée jusqu'à ce jour inconnu.
- Ta patrie?
- J'ignore sous quelle latitude elle est située.
- La beauté?
- Je l’aimerais volontiers, déesse et immortelle.
- L’or?
- Je le hais comme vous haïssez Dieu.
- Eh ! qu'aimes-tu donc, extraordinaire étranger?
- J'aime les nuages... les nuages qui passent... là-bas... là-bas... les merveilleux nuages !

Google regional searches ~ Searching signal where the noise does not awaits us

Regional google directories

Subsidiarity Googles
EU:	DEU FRA ITA BE/NL UK AUT IRL
NOT-EU:	PL CH RUSSIA LITAUEN ISRAEL
AMERICA NOT-STATES:	CANADA ARGENTINA BRASIL CHILE
STATES ONLY :-)	UNCLESAM
FAR EAST:	KOREA JAPAN NewZealand

Euroseek

Euroseek, not bad at all, search for [fravia] (for instance :-) and see how the results are cleverly parsed. Note also the "any region" specific options.

Choose your own language to use with EuroSeek:
Search in in

Arianna

Arianna -- Il motore di ricerca italiano

Greek search engines

Forthnet: http://search.forthnet.gr/


web news directory

Phantis: http://www.phantis.com/

NIFTY
A small translator (check also Seekers' Linguistic Station): http://www.nifty.com/globalgate/

RIKAI
An incredible translator!
http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl
Try it for instance onto http://www.shirofan.com/ See? It "massages" WWW pages and places "popup translations" from the EDICT database behind the Japanese text!

RCAAU

RCAAU -- Discovery System for WWW Resources (Result includes Japanese characters.)

ODIN

ODIN -- good for finding japanese sites of interest ^-^)

ODIN

DragonNext (DragonField)

DragonNext -- good for finding japanese sites of interest ^-^)

GOO

GOO -- good for finding japanese sites of interest ^-^)

http://searchc.naver.com/

Naver

Chinese search engines

Baidu
The powerful chinese Google alternative... with CACHE!
"...the world's second largest independent search engine..."

BAIDU ADVANCED
DIQU BAIDU (regional)

Sohu
Has a directory search function as well...

Sina
...

Thailand search engines

www.thaipro.com at http://thaipro.com (The Thailand Search Engine in English Language)
Pretty useless, very heavily comercial oriented.
www.sanook.com at http://sanook.com
Not in english, yet slightly better.
Google Thai Search: http://www.google.com/intl/th/
i-Kool Network: http://www.i-kool.com/
Link Siam: http://www.linksiam.com/
Lycos Asia - Thailand: http://th.lycosasia.com/
NECTEC: http://www.nectec.or.th/net-search.html
Pantip: http://www.pantip.com/
Search Thai: http://www.searchthai.com/
Siam Guru: http://www.siamguru.com/
Thailand2000: http://www.thailand2000.com/
Thailand Phonebook: http://phonebook.tot.or.th/www/cgi-bin/ida_qry
Thai-English Site Search: http://chaokhun.kmitl.ac.th/links/index-t.html
ThaiFind: http://www.thaifind.com/
Thai Index.com: http://www.thai-index.com/
Thai Search Engine: http://search.cscoms.com/
Thai Web Search: http://abac.bobsville.com
Thai Yellow Map: http://www.thaiyellowmap.com/html/default.htm
Thailand Yellow Pages Business Telephone Numbers Directory: http://www.yellowpages.co.th/

Vietnam search engines

Saigon.com at http://www.saigon.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi

African search engines

Aarvdark

Aardvark, a south african search engine (with javascript functions)

Russian search engines

yandex
Maybe the best russian search engine

Check the help file for some interesting nifty features like NEAR operators (/) with pre-fixed proximity counters

Rambler

Rambler, a good russian search engine

Russky FTP

Yumm! You can find wonders in Russia :-)

Tela

Tela english

Tela: slow but sturdy russian search engine

Delphi

Delphi, a good russian (actually latvian) search engine

Khoj (now Sify)

KHOJ INDIA DIRECTORY - The Great Indian Search Engine: khoj means search in Hindi

Zatka

Another Hindi search engine
123-India a2z-India Indian Alta Indian Yahoo! India-Construction india-info India-Seek Indias-Web INDO-link indya Jadoo Khoj Locate-India Indian Lycos Indian MSN Samilan Sawaal Search - India Sify silicon india Surf India TARAhaat

Israeli Search Engines

According to nonetheless than +ORC, if you need really 'nasty' software you either visit the developers in Bern or you visit the developers in Tel Aviv :-)
Maybe you can postpone these visits and try searching for your target on the web first...

http://www.iguide.co.il/
Googgle Hebrew Search

walla israel: powered by FAST, a good index, a quick engine. Search the web in Hebrew (or the "hebrew web" in english)!

Walla!

German Search Engines

http://www.wseeker.com the best, by far.
Try for instance "suchen im internet"

http://www.abacho.de/ Die starke Suchmaschine. Mit Meta-Suche, Profi-Suche, Bilder-Suche, Life-Suche.

http://www.dino-online.de/

Suchen:
	Web-Seiten Video Audio Bilder Produkte

Austrian, almost german:-)

http://austronaut.at/

Webwombat

Local advantages ~ different social models

He he, some data are more fun than others...

Where do you think clever humans prefer to work?

All the above is in fieri, of course, it represents a choice, and many more regional search forms will be added in due time. Awaiting feed-back, corrections, advices, ad hoc translations (and new interesting and useful engines) from my foreign-language savvy readers...

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