Thanks for your answer. Below I have outlined a way a team of people could do a search. If you have any suggestions on an easier way to do it, please let me know. If we could find an efficient way to do this it could benefit a lot of people.
Unless there is software to do this automatically, it seems for a group to do a search, a member doing the search would probably have to do the following.
Each member of the team would check their email to see if other members on the team emailed them a list of the URL's they have visited. If another member emailed them their list the member would combine the URL lists to form a "total URL list". In this example I am assuming the "total URL list" is just like a text or doc file.
After the member did that, they would go to the search engine and bring up the targeted sites. If the description of a site looks as though it may contain what we are searching for, the member would have to copy the URL or web address of the site link displayed in the search engine. Then they would have to open the "total URL list" page and paste the URL address or the domain into the search facility that is used to find text on that page. For example in Microsoft Word they would have to go Edit, Find and the press the keys Ctrl + V to paste. If the URL is not already on the page, the member would past the URL into their URL list and click on the link in the search engine and visit the site.
It would need to be remembered that many people with websites would own their own domain name, and have many different pages that would each appear in the search engines, and each of them would belong to the one webmaster. In this case it would be best if only one member in the team went to this domain once to contact the webmaster.
On the other hand, many domains are shared by many people. For example, many people host sites on their Internet service provider's site or on free sites such as Geocities or Anglefire..
In the first case, where the domain is owned by the webmaster, it would be best if members only pasted the domain name into the text search facility of the "total URL list".
However, in sites that share a domain name it may be best to include more of the URL or the full URL in the text search facility. If you use the text search facility to search the list for the full URL, it would not pick up another URL on the same domain. If this method was used for the first case where the domain is only owned by the webmaster, members in our team would go to different pages of the same webmasters site. This would cause unwanted duplication and mean the webmaster of the site could be emailed several times.
Sometimes it would be best to search the "total URL list" for the domain name only and other times it would be best to search for the full URL. People would need to recognize the difference between the two above cases.
It would also pay for each member to copy the email address on the page they visited in their web search and paste it into another list of email addresses. As with the URL's each member of the team would need to email the other members of the team a list of the email addresses they have contacted. Each member would combine the email lists to form a "total email list". However, before they do paste the email address they found in the email list or contact the email address, each member should paste the email address into the text search facility of the file containing the "total email list". Then they would run the search to ensure the email address is not already there. If it is there, the email address would not be added or contacted.
Do you think there is much chance that any software would save a manual process of using the text search facility to search the list of URL's or email addresses to confirm they are not already listed?
If you have any suggestions on an easier way to do this, please let me know.
Your help is appreciated
Regards Richard.
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Followup To
Question -
Hi
Do you know a solution to these 2 problems? Overcoming them would help a lot of people find what they need in web searches.
PROBLEM 1
Mostly links change color to purple when they are visited in search engines.
I used to think that the links were purple because they were stored in the history. However, I have several URL's in my history, but the links are no longer purple, even though the exact URL's are the same. Do you know why this is?
Is there a way, or is there any software that would maintain the links in the color they change to after visiting them for an indefinite period? For example, it would be good if those links that change from blue to purple remained purple indefinitely.
PROBLEM 2
I would like to get a team of people to do a search for something that would take one person too much time. The problem is different members of the team would go to the same websites, and contact the same people, asking the same questions. This would waste time and annoy people.
A solution could be if each member of the team emailed the other members a list of the URL's they have visited, perhaps in a history file. Each member would combine the URL lists to form a "total URL list". It would be good if each member of the team had software to color the links on their webpages a different color if they are in the "total URL list". Then, the blue links would indicate sites nobody in the team have been to, and purple links would indicates sites that have been visited by someone in the team. I am not sure if there is a way to install and combine the history folders of the different members of the team.
Do you know an easy way to do this or any software that could help?
I have written to google.com and asked them if there was a way to search so the search would only bring up URL's with a certain letter. But they said they did not have this feature yet. The project could involve one person doing a search on all the URL's beginning with "A" and another person would do all the URL's beginning with "B". Others would do other letters. This would save overlap or two people in the team searching on the same URL addresses. It would also save similar emails being sent to the same webmasters asking the same thing, if people in the team were writing letters.
Do you have any suggestions on the easiest way to do this?
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Your help is appreciated
Regards Richard.
Answer -
Hmmmmmmm.....
Interesting...
You see the Link behaviour...is normally embeded in the
web page you are visiting....that is ....defined in the
webpage...itself....the reason we sometime see....visited
links retain their different color while we visit them
again...and some time do not retain their different color
when we visit them...seems to be due to the Browser's
internal cache...and History .....If it retains those
web pages which were visited earlier..then the Links visited
should in theory...retain the color change...but if the
browsers cache is cleared...then It may loose ..this color
change ....of the visited link...
But again...Its the Web page itself...which should have
defined the color change...or should have conformed to the
default W3 standard for web page design...
....People with acceability Option...Use these feature...
But I am .afrain I am ....Not well versed with any such
Utilities...which enable that...
Just a few suggestions....Maybe they help or maybe they do
not...But ..anyway...
Tools--->> internet Options...
then click the Advanced Tab....
scroll down to the browsing section...
and choose ...the Underline Links option...if its not
already selected...Also have a look at various other
setting there...May be some setting...changes...the
browser's behaviour like you want it to be..
....The other options is to get hold of a programmer..
and ask him to write a pluggin ....for such ....for your
browser...Maybe He could write any such...
beside....I have heard ...there are these Bookmark
Utilities....which are highly configureable...
you can have a look at various...of them...from
www.download.com or www.tucows.com then
serach for Bookmark utilites....Browse around..Maybe
you find something....that Helps you..
I am sorry If its not much....since programming is not
my field...But any way...I hope it helps...
or techniques...which ...could
Answer
Pick up a good bookmark utility....
with the facility to import and export the bookmarks....
from both Internet explorer and/or Netscape...or any other
browser....
Usually such utilities have built in search functions...and
catagorizing facility for the URLs..thats is URLs meeting
specific criteria goto specific category....etc..e.tc..
Just search for these book mark utitlites....
you will find many .... Freeware, shareware, and commercial
