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[4]Rockwell, 1922
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Version April 2009
This is a windrose
[[7]What is combing?]
[[8]Older combing essays]
[[9]The "double combing" approach]
[[10]Old (but still useful) combing resources]
[[11]Useful combing resources]
[12]vertical search engines o o [13]social bookmarking search engines
This is a windrose
"For most given targets, topics and interests, there are ALWAYS already people
interested in it, and some will have ALREADY put up, on line, a maze of web
sites, internet communities, or other resources devoted to that specific target
of yours, where you'll be able to find and fetch valuable information and quite
relevant links.
By finding these "specialists" and their resources -instead of trying to reinvent
the wheel on your own- you could bypass months, and in some cases even years, of
[14]long term searching"
What is combing?
"To find out about the web ahead, ask those coming back"
Combing is a very effective search strategy: basically, instead of simply
searching, you search those that have already searched. This will give you a
quick 'jumpstart' possibility.
Let's begin with the beginning: usually a good seeker does not search directly a
specific target: you search people that have already searched the web for years
for that target. The web is so big and deep that you'll always have some weirdo
that has spent three years of his life cataloguing all possible variants of the
Yak2 russian fighter plane, and putting on line all possible plans, blueprints,
data and projects related to it, if you see what I mean.
Note that if the target has enough signal-power (a large "beacon"), you may even
search among the noise for searchers that have searched people that have in turn
searched for that specific target... :-)
That's combing, in a nutshell. But it'isn't all!
"Ah! combing! Combing the hairs of our web to find some "knots" of people that
have dedicated a considerable amount of their time to a specific topic. This can
be so incredibly useful to "jumpstart" a query! Think about it: readers that have
found this site of mine, for instance, will discover a considerable amount of
information about web searching. If you land on the site of a -say-
[15]passionated steam locomotive driver, you might discover there, on onto the
related "[16]hairknot", more valuable info than what you would have found on your
own in a month time".
So let's comb the web, let's find out the nuggets inside her long galaxies of
site-hairs!
You may usefully comb on [17]usenet or on the thousand many private messageboards
dealing with your target stuff or on [18]private homepages, or on ad hoc
webrings, or some useful referrals lists, or applying klebing (i.e. referral
based), or [19]luring techniques. You may have to recur to social engineering as
well. [20]Stalking maybe an important option too, and you may have to put on the
web some clever "honeypots" to stalk your targets through a klebing approach.
You may comb directly or you may use combing [21]bots or [22]scrolls
You may also use various older net resources like the continuously updated "Top
100" or "Top 1000" URL-locations; all kind of [23]ftp [24]searches and the
various "vigilant filters" and automated server loggings.
"Obviously combing is an important technique for whatever interest you may have,
quite useful in order to spare an incredible amount of Internet searching hours"
Caveats
Using others' research when delving into specialized topics is very useful,
however beware obsolescence when seaching the deep web!
You might encounter link lists preopared during the last millennium, and never
updated. Wade among mailing lists which are in a torpor state since the Serbian
invasion, and find sites which have been plain abandoned long ago. Thi sdoes not
necessarily mean that you should discard such findings!
In fact on the web the data and info you gather might -or might not- be still
valid after some years.
Much depends on the kind of subject you are investigating: so while -say-
cryptography treaties might be already obsolete after six months, byzantinistic
or early medieval researches written two hundred years ago still easily beat
black and blue most contemporary essays (yep: many sciences, especially in the
hulanistic field, are -alas- in full decadence).
Anyway it is always worth paying attention to whether or not what you found has
been updated recently.
Older essays about combing
1. [[25]whitemea.htm]: Proxy Logs - The Other White Meat, by Finn61 part of the
combing [[26]section]
"So now you should have some large lists of URL's you can scan for that
hard-to-find document or program"
March 2002
2. [[27]Web wizard searching techniques, anti-advertisement galore and software
reversing tips], a draft of fravia+'s session at [28]HAL2001 in August 2001
(see the 'how to search' part).
3. [[29]Combing: The art of sailing in pure water] by Loki, October 2000 (A
little of "methodology" about the information)
4. [[30]Simple combing techniques] by Fravia+, October 2000 (part of a
conference held in Milan for the Linux day)
5. [[31]The importance of Webrings for combing purposes], by Lorenzo Gatti
Finally, you may find useful to peruse my obsolete 'lesson' [[32]combing and
klebing techniques] (November 1997)
This is a windrose
(You might also want to visit the old & frozen [[33]Combing resources] section)
(Note that some other, more recent, combing techniques have been described during
my [34]conferences)
Combing resources
"Finding communities" approaches:
Note that some basic knowledge of [35]trolling, [36]luring and general
[37]anonymity and [38]usenet lore will come quite handy
"Vertical" (communities') search engines
[39]swicki o o [40]rollyo
E.g: [41]infinite regression or [42]googling google
[43]Usenet, emails repositories and groups search (note that google's usenet
groups now fishes also into non usenet messageboards)
[44]yahoo groups o o [45]google groups
[46]topica ("email discussions": alas heavily commercial infested. Note that
[47]accmail retrieval techniques apply)
[48]tile.net ("email newsletters": for instance: [49]rhetoric site:tile.net
-inurl:news. Note that [50]accmail retrieval techniques apply)
"Social bookmarking" search engines
All these "social" web services do not make much sense for seekers (we rarely use
links: it is mostly easier, and often quicker, just to search for a particular
target afresh each time, in order to find it even if it has moved). Social
bookmarking services allow people with below average searching capacity to store,
share, and discover "interesting web bookmarks" signalled by other -equally
incapable- searchers. Wading inside this kind of stuff might of course just waste
our everyday seekers' time, yet if you are seriously combing, and especially if
you want to really comb the web in depth, you better learn the main tools of this
trade :-)
"[51]Delicious" (here with the param &lc=3):
search engines________________ Deliciousearch
Of course you are not limited to english: [52]suchmaschine or [53]motori di
ricerca or [54]buscadores
Note that you can also [55]search delicious by tags, for instance [56]google or
[57]search (note, here, the parameter ?setcount=100)
This is a windrose
"Regional, local and specialised" approaches:
Apply the usual [58]regional and [59]local searching techniques, season
generously with useful [60]translation tools, mix well and enjoy
* [61]The Mail Archive, search for instance: rhetoric argumentation
* [62]arXiv, very useful for "scientific" combing purposes: e.g.
"[63]information retrieval"
You can search for text snippets: [64]"search engines".
Search for: ________________________________________ in [Everything__________]
ArXiv Search See [65]ArXiv full text search help
* Another interesting target for combing purposes is [66]Merlot (Multimedia
Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching), very US-centric, but
full of "learning materials": here the [67]chemistry section.
Note however that some of these "learning materials" might be hopelessly
outdated (many are still quite useful, though): here the collection for
"[68]Library and Information Services"
* [69]Slashdot, can be also quite useful for general combing purposes. Search
for instance: [70]search engines
search engines__________________________ [Order By Score] Slashdotsearch
(*) Stories ( ) Comments ( ) Users ( ) Polls ( ) Journals
The "double combing" approach
As [71]Jeff realized and pointed out, simple combing techniques can give
incredibly accurate results.
I think if a person really thinks about this and puts together some good keywords
you can really find some terrific links to info thru BOOKMARKS ...and ALL THE
WORK has already been done for you!......all with headings and sometimes
alphabetized...:)
Just look at the following example: google... search... [72]bookmarks fravia...
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~lmccarth/bookmarks.html ....mostly lots of info on
crypto...
Indeed this kind of very simple combing approach (a combing querystring on a
[73]local search engine) can give impressive results. Try it out (here for
instance: [74]bookmarks proxies on crosswinds' homepages) and enjoy this kind of
fishing right now!
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