GEN: NEW SEARCH ENGINE

[Josephine Dervan <rderva@injersey.com>]

Dear Fellow LM_NET friends-

I have a weird experience that I have to share with you. Earlier this
week I was looking up sites for Beanie Babies. I went to the NET SEARCH
heading on my Netscape Navigator screen and went to a new engine called
GoTo.com. I put in "beanie babies" and it came up with many pages of 40
links each. The listings were annotated and after several checks I found
an interesting one at #77. It offered resonably priced BBs. So I clicked
on it and up came an X-rated site with a racy domain name. I was sure I
had made a mistake so I went back to the GoTo page and sure enough the
URL listed at the bottom was this one. As far as I could tell there was
nothing about BBs on the site although "babes" seemed to abound. Since
it was only #77 in thousands of hits listed by confidence levels, it
seemed out of place.

I sent an e-mail today to the president of GoTo.com but I sure am glad
that I was not at school with a child doing the search. I guess the
moral of this story is to limit searched of kids subjects to something
like Yahooligans or to install a filter.

Jo


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Josephine Dervan
Library Media Specialist and Internet Trainer
Strathmore Elementary School
Aberdeen, New Jersey, USA 07747

Home-rderva@injersey.com

"Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing"- CICERO

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