A BETTER WAY TO SEARCH THE WEB

[Omaha Steve]

A BETTER WAY TO SEARCH THE WEB

Ever searched for a word like 'strikers'? Google gives you links
about football.

Wouldn't it be great to have an intelligent search engine designed by
trade unionists, for trade unionists, that showed truly useful
results?

Good news - that search engine now exists. A fantastic initiative by
the International Labor Organization (ILO), Solicomm is our very own
trade union search engine.

You can now use Solicomm from the front page of LabourStart -- look
in the upper left corner.

A GENTLE REMINDER ...

LabourStart receives no support from governments or corporations. We
rely on you and on your unions to keep the project going. Please make
a generous contribution today:

http://www.labourstart.org/donate.shtml

Finally, I'd like to wish our readers in Canada and the U.S. a very
happy Labor/Labour Day!

Eric Lee

https://www.solicomm.net/about.html

.: About SoliComm :.

The Solidarity Community Network (SoliComm.net) is a communications system designed especially for the labour movement.

SoliComm provides a powerful World Wide Web search engine which searches only union and union-related sites. It also provides free email for unionists, web-page hosting for labour organizations in developing countries, and computer conferencing facilities for online meetings and labour education.

The goal of the SoliComm project is ambitious but achievable: to make available all the information on the world's union-related web sites searchable from one site and then begin to categorize that information so that it is useful for union researchers, educators, leaders and members plus the general public. We currently have 300 of the world's largest labour web sites in the SoliComm search engine and more will be added. If you want to suggest a site for inclusion in SoliComm searches please send an email with the name of the site and its web address.

SoliComm is part of the open source, free software movement. Its programming code is based on the ZOPE progamming environment and released under the GNU/GPL license.

SoliComm is a project of the Workers' Activities Programme (ACTRAV) of the International Labour Organization (the ILO). The head of the SoliComm project is Marc Bélanger. The project's free software specialist is Stefano Barale. Analourdes Herrera is SoliComm's administrative support person.