What if you need to find a part for a broken piece of equipment, search for new chemistries, find a supplier or find out information about a particular customer? What are the latest environmental issues that can impact your plant? All of these questions arise sometimes on a daily basis when doing business. How do you get that information, fast and easy without all the frustration and hassle.

Luckily many people have already explored the internet and have helped to list some of the great sites available. Information can be great, but if you can't locate it, or it is a huge hassle to try to find it, it becomes useless. Hopefully, some of these sites may offer just what you are looking for.  If you have some favorites that you know of that you think we might like posting, drop us a line, we will be more than happy to add them to our Internet Links page.

Just like the size of the Internet itself, no one knows exactly how many documents there are on the World Wide Web, or how many servers there are providing access to these documents.  The Internet constantly changes, the links changes and the information on your favorite sites changes also. Remember when you finally find something you like, copy it to a word document for later use or print it out. It may not be there later!!

In February, 1996, the Alta Vista site ("the largest web index" at the time) claimed it indexed 21 million documents containing more than 10 billion words, and in March, 1997 most of the large index sites claim to index at least 100 million documents. It is likely that the total size of these documents exceeds several thousand Gigabytes. Needless to say, this growth is astronomical, and while certainly impressive, the downside is that all if it is useless unless you can find what you need. Searching for endless hours becomes frustrating and leads to less use of a very powerful tool.  Just plug in Search engine and  24,900,000 hits come up alone just  for search engines!!!!!

Finding what you want is not impossible, but it takes a bit patience and a little guidance. There are many sites on the Web that provide tools for doing searches. Some of these sites are comprised of searchable indexes created by automated web search programs, sometimes known as spiders, others are actually subject lists created by humans, similar to traditional library catalogs. A third category is Meta-Sites, combining access to numerous individual search programs--sometimes allowing simultaneous access--and often providing enhanced capabilities.  Another way is to copy lists of links that other people have created based upon their favorite sites.  You can add these to your favorites in your own website carrier, or save them to a word document for later use.