|font:Courier New||B:O|One of your best tools for searching the raw, text-based Internet is Gopher. Select an item from your Gopher software's menu, and the Gopher tool then connects you to the computer in which the information is stored, which is called the Gopher server or site.|CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||B:1|1/5^|font:Courier New||B:O|The Gopher interface is menu based: You select an item on the menu, and the Gopher search tool takes you to an area that might contain the information you seek: library collections, software, discussion groups, e-mail addresses, and more. There are thousands of Gopher sites housed on computers all over the globe, and most of them are ultimately linked to each other. Better still, Gopher sites are usually pretty stable.|CR||CR||CR||B:1|2/5^|font:Courier New||B:O|While clicking on a Gopher menu item connects you directly to the computer where the information you want is stored, some Gopher tools do a much better job of laying out your options than others. If you're looking for weather forecasts or a copy of your local library catalog, you're usually in good shape, because items like these are typically listed on Gopher menus. The challenge comes when you try to find something that doesn't fit a preordained category.|CR||CR||B:1|3/5^|font:Courier New||B:O|That's where search tools like Veronica and Jughead come in. Both will appear as menu choices, most likely, on whatever Gopher site you find yourself connected to. Often they're described by what they do--Search All of Gopherspace (Veronica), or Search High-Level Gopher Menus (Jughead, or Search This Gopher Server).|CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||B:1|4/5^|font:Courier New||B:O|A Veronica search can be sluggish and frustrating; Jughead is usually faster and yields more targeted results. (Hey, in the comic books wasn't Jughead the dumb guy?) Also associated with Gopher sites is WAIS (wide-area information servers), a powerful tool that lets you do in-depth searches of documents. If WAIS is not loaded at your Gopher site, the Gopher might list a WAIS site. Go there, call it up, and ask it to search your site.|CR||CR||CR||B:1|5/5|CR||CR||CR|
