A. Country information sites 

• Yahoo! Spain (http://www.yahoo.es/) 

Each search engine may have slightly different conventions for entering the search statement in search box. However, a couple general strategies are: 
• Use upper and lower case letters (rather than all capitals or all lower case)
• Use quotation marks (" ") if the company name is more than one word
• Use plus signs (+) directly in front of words or phrases if combining two or more words or phrases (or use AND)
Once connected to the search engine, try typing +"Burkino Faso" +voyage in the search box to find travel information about the country of Benin. 

These are a couple search engines I recommend: 
 

• MetaCrawler (http://www.go2net.com/search.html) - Simultaneously searches seven search engines and ranks hits by relevancy. Will retrieve Spanish and English-language web sites.
• HotBot (http://www.hotbot.com) - Allows you to limit your search to Spanish language sites.
• Altavista (http://altavista.digital.com) - A popular search engine that will retrieve lots of hits. 

1.  LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe provides access to Spanish-language news sources. Once connected to LEXIS-NEXIS, select General News Topics, then under Source, select Spanish Language News. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe can be accessed throughout the St. Mary's University campus or remotely by St. Mary's University students and staff (click here for more information about remote access). 

2.  LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe also provides information about countries in English.  Once connected to LEXIS-NEXIS, select Country Information. 

Company web sites can be accessed in one of three ways: 

• by using the company's name in the body of the URL (uniform resource locator or address),
• through search engines, or
• through business information or meta-sites.

If you have trouble locating a company's web site through the strategies above: 

• Determine if the company is a subsidiary or division of another company. If so, try searching for the parent company through the above strategies.
• Keep in mind that not all companies have web sites!

Try using the company's name in the subdomain of the URL or address.  For example, to find the web site for Airbus Industrie, type www.airbus.com in the Location Or Netsite box near the top of the Netscape browser and press <Enter>. This should connect you to the Airbus web site. 

You might initially be connected to an English-language version web site, but many of these companies with have a Spanish-language version, too. 

Each search engine may have slightly different conventions for entering the search statement in search box. However, a couple general strategies are: 
• Use upper and lower case letters (rather than all capitals or all lower case)
• Use quotation marks if the company name is more than one word
Once connected to the search engine, try typing "Compagnie des Machines Bull" in the search box to find the company web site. 

These are a couple search engines I recommend: 
 

• MetaCrawler (http://www.go2net.com/search.html) - Simultaneously searches seven search engines and ranks hits by relevancy. Will retrieve Spanish and English-language web sites.
• HotBot (http://www.hotbot.com) - Allows you to limit your search to Spanish web sites.
• Altavista (http://altavista.digital.com) - A popular search engine that will retrieve more than just the company home page. 

Some business information sites that provide information about companies include: 

• Yahoo! Spain (http://www.yahoo.es/) - From this subject directory, select "." 

1.  LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe provides access to Spanish-language news sources. Once connected to LEXIS-NEXIS, select General News Topics, then under Source, select Spanish Language News. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe can be accessed throughout the St. Mary's University campus or remotely by St. Mary's University students and staff (click here for more information about remote access). 

2.  LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe also provides information about companies in English.  Once connected to LEXIS-NEXIS, select Company News or Company Financial Information. 

3.  ABI/Inform provides English-language information about companies and industries.  Includes citations and 150-word abstracts and indexing for articles in over 1,000 management, marketing, and business periodicals from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The full-text (no graphics or charts) from over 500 of of the periodicals indexed is included. The database covers 1985-present and is updated monthly. ABI/Inform can be accessed throughout the St. Mary's University campus or remotely by St. Mary's University students and staff (click here for more information about remote access). 

4.  Moody's International Companies is an English-language CD-ROM product available on the Reference computers on the 2nd floor of the Blume Library or remotely by St. Mary's University students and staff (click here for more information about remote access). This English-language database provides financial and company history information about major publicly traded companies around the world.

 
 

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