Getting ready to equip our student computers for the coming start of term, I heard a lot of people raving about a "aggregator" called Copernic. http://www.copernic.com/ There are lots of such programs around nowadays (including one called Sherlock on the MacOS). Copernic happened to have a Science gateway, and I ran a few simple chemistry searches through it. The science search engines used by Copernic included National Geographic, NASA, Newswise, Discovery Channel and SciCentral. The results by and large are pretty thin on the ground for Chemistry. Of course, we know that chemistry has had its own highly specialised search engines for many years now, but given that at least several million "pages" loosely relevant to the subject are now around, I am intrigued by how "ignored" the subject is. Probably "too difficult" Still, with organisations like ACS, RSC, ChemWeb around, I wonder why finding chemistry is still relatively so difficult . Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)