Panorama de l'information géologique armoricaine sur l'internet : méthodologie de recherche d'information, outils de veille automatisée

Searching for information on the internet... so easy isn't it ? All the informations we are searching for obviously exist on the net, and web tools are so intelligent and so fast ! But we all know that it is not so simple : at midoctober 2004, 6640 web pages contain both the words such as " massif " and " armoricain "... ; for " geologie " and " bretagne ", it will be nearly 17600 resultas that we should analyze, evaluate, sort and so on ! The main purpose of this article is to propose a methodogy for searching information on the net, and to present the typology (the most important characteristics) of the internet tools for searching for these informations (directory, search engine, metacrawler, database, software agent such as Copernic, etc.) ; even to present some tools like WebSite-Watcher that allow to monitor selected websites for updates and changes. The keywords taken to illustrate our search examples concern the geology of the armorican massif. At the end of the article, we propose a link to a standard presentation of websites (a representative but not exhaustive list) relating to the geology of the armorican massif : parts of websites, websites dedicated to this topic, databases, etc., concerning institutional, academic, society or personnal websites.