WebScout
Search Engines for Information about Peru
By Marcia Koth de Paredes

The idea of the WebScout column is to exchange recommendations about our favorite sources of information on the web... especially the sources that help us enjoy our work and social activities in Peru. I am going to prepare reports on a monthly basis, alternating between topics of general interest and management concepts for achieving quality and efficiency in government and private organizations. Hopefully, you will send me your favorites to include in these reports to help develop a useful directory of information for the ACAP. My email is: rumicuna2@yahoo.com.

This report is to recommend portals to search engines for information on Peru. You may want to use one of the portals or bookmark your own favorites that you find in the links suggested below.

PORTALS

Colegio Roosevelt Media Center
http://www.amersol.edu.pe/mc/search.asp
Eleven links to English language search engines plus three especially aimed at students. There are also online reference materials linked to the same page.

Peru Search Engines & Information
http://www.kostenloses.com/southamerica/peru.html
or
http://www2.kostenloses.com/db_kolo/search.php?link=Peru
More than twenty-five links for searching. Also provides access to search engines for other regions of the world.

Search Engine Colossus
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Peru.html
Links to the most popular Peruvian Spanish language search engines.

Tus Buscadores
http://www.tusbuscadores.com
Links to search engines in English and Spanish for several countries in South America, including six of the most popular for Peru.

MY FAVORITES
The following search engines are my favorites:
Google: http://www.google.com
Yahoo: http://espanol.yahoo.com
Red Cientifica Peruana: http://www.yachay.com.pe
Adonde?: http://www.adonde.com
Oh Peru: http://ohperu.com/
Terra: http://www.lycos.com.pe

TRAIN YOURSELF TO SEARCH
Here is a suggestion for an online tutorial on how to search the web.
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml

The program is brief and was created in 2000 by Ellen Chamberlain, Library Director, University of South Carolina Beaufort campus. She explains the difference between search engines, metasearchers, subject directories, gateways and specialized databases. She proceeds with the process of setting up a search strategy and then gives you practice with most of the popular US search engines in English, including Dogpile, Gigablast, Google, MSN, Teoma, Vivisimo, Yahoo and Graveyard for Dead. The site was last updated in September 2004. There are both Spanish and English versions.