Trapping Topic-Based Information - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 107

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if you can't ind, or immediately think of, a category that's
relevant to your topic, search for a couple of topic keywords.
related directory categories will appear at the top of the
search results and might give you some hitherto-unconsidered
ideas of other directory pages to monitor.

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remember that quotes in phrases work in a directory as well,
as does the ability to exclude keywords.

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If you want to monitor for new sites in one of the more general catego-
ries, check to see if Yahoo has an RSS feed for that category. In the case of
the sub-sub-subcategories, they usually have a suiciently small number
of links in which you can use a page monitor to check them for changes
( Figure 7.1 ).

Figure 7.1 This page is small enough that you can monitor it for changes.