Volume 16, Number 16
February 9, 2010





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emirI would like to present you with some websites that can help with your lectures and studies. This week's opening website may address any sort of people. You can look up this website to research something or to have an exciting time by playing constructive games which help improve your English knowledge. This webpage is separated into five different parts, 1) An English dictionary, 2) A highly recommended Visual Thesaurus to find out the meaning of English words, including idioms and slang with their synonyms and antonyms. You can also listen to pronunciation. 3) An encyclopedia with data capacity that may not be larger than Wikipedia.  Nevertheless, feel free to use this website as a reference in your essays and research papers since all its information is written by professionals.  The rest consists of translators powered by Google, and a Web search engine by ask.com.
www.reference.com

Before Google and the establishment of other leading search engines, there were some undeveloped, cumbersome and deficient search engines on the World Wide Web. Now millions of people click Google more than once a day to reach information easier or to surf the Internet. Nonetheless, it has to be known that when you are searching for something, Google or other top search engines cannot bring all websites, all data to your computer because of its working principle. If you think Google, 20search, Altavista or Mamma do not meet your needs or you wonder what other search engines are available for your use, Metasearch is just for you. It is an outstanding example of a "metasearch engine," a Web search tool that employs over 1,000 search engines running in parallel to help you find what you are looking for. Its user interface is as simple as Google's.  If you desire to see all types of information right in front of you with a single click, make this website your homepage.
www.search.com

Emir Fatih Özdel (CTIS/II)
Bilkent News

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