How to find manufacturer information/pages on the WEB

The example below is for finding information on ASUS motherboards.

I used this technique to locate most of the URL's on my manufacturer's page especially the motherboard mfg's.

• Go to DEC's AltaVista search engine page for advanced searches.
• Click on WEB on the Search the.... line of the search page.
• In the input dialog box type the following

ASUS & motherboard & specification & home

• Click on the SUBMIT query button. ( ENTER won't do it on the advanced search page.)
• You will see up to 10 URL's displayed on the screen.
• Peruse these 10 URL's for a www.companyname.com URL reference.

If you see www.companyname.com then you've generally found their home page.

• If none, then click on one of the numbers at the bottom of the page to read the next 10 hits on the search criteria.
• Keep looking for the companyname.com URL for a home page hit.
• If no home page hit then look for a likely page that would have some manufacturer related information.

Want to find out how many sites are linked to your site????

• In the Altavista dialog box type the following:

Link:http://www.xxxx.com/yyy/ where xxx is your domain name and yyy is your directory name.

Mine would be link:http://www.randomc.com/~dperr/

• Altavista will return the number of pages in it's index that have a link to your page and display the URL's for those pages.