• finger command
– finger user@hostname
• Finger command generally works on local network
• It may not work on other networks.
– You cannot finger username@wam.umd.edu from outside of wam.umd.edu.
– finger –l gives more information.

• Whois command used to find who owns a site.
• 2-step process:
– Type whois hostname to find whois server
– Type whois –h (whois server name) hostname
• Eg: whois cnn.com
– Then whois –h whois.networksolutions.com cnn.com

• Access .gov whois files differently
– http://www.nic.gov/whois.html
– Don’t put the www in front of the domain.
• Other country domains
– www.nic.uk/whois.html -- United Kingdom
– www.nic.fr/whois.html -- France
• General site for country-specific domains:
– http://world-whois.com

• Text-based browser
– lynx www.umd.edu
• Up-down arrows scroll among links
• Left = back, right = forward
• Enter = click on link
• Space = pagedown, - = pageup
• G = go to another site
• Q = quit

• Type a then d.
• That will save a bookmark.
• To use the bookmark, type v to view them and then select one.

• Let you enter data and send it to the server.
• Can be buttons, text, dropdowns, etc…
• Can cycle through form elements using tab.
• Can hit enter or click on a certain send button to send this data.

• Use search engines to find webpages
• Start searches simple.
• Make them more specific only as necessary.
• Search engines have programs that search the web for pages and data.
• Not all data is webpages
– www.invisible-web.net

• Type some keywords into the space given.
• The search engine will look for pages with those keywords
• Some require AND’s between words, some don’t (like google).
• The results will be displayed.

– Generally the results appear as a list of links.
– There may be several pages of results.
– There may be short excerpts from the document.
– There may be a cache.
– There may be options to download.
– There may be other links or suggestions on the page.

• Example: Yahoo
• Hierarchical menus that let you find the subject you want.
• Eg, Tennis elbow :
– Health ->Diseases ->Sports ->Tennis Elbow
• Search by idea rather than by exact phrases.

• Metacrawler searches other search engines for your query
• It waits a few seconds, then displays the top results from each
• Can be useful since different search engines use different methods for finding and categorizing pages.