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about_the_mall The CityStar® website contains more than 3,100 Web site links and business listings. When you use CityStar's search pages, you are searching within that data set. The content contained in the Mall reflects the fact that CityStar® is based in Colorado Springs. Most of the resources that you will find here are oriented toward Southern Colorado. If you want to find other sites or national/global information, you may click on the select_different_city button, or you may use CityStar's web_search page, which also contains links to major search engines. home_page On the CityStar® website home page, you can search by category or search by keyword. By default, you will be searching all sites and listings in the Mall, which consists mostly of Colorado Springs resources. If you are looking for something in another city, click on the select_different_city button. You may also select the maximum number of results to be displayed per page. By default, a maximum of ten results will be displayed per page. If more than one page of results is found by your search, there will be a "next_page" button displayed at the bottom of each results page. When you select a category, the "go!" button will automatically be pressed for you. When you enter a keyword, you will need to click on the the "go!" button to start your search. If you wish to search within a category for specific keywords, you should type the keyword first, then select the category, and once again the "go!" button will be automatically pressed for you. select_city The select_different_city page allows you to select a city from a drop-down menu. When you select a city from this menu, the "go!" button will automatically be pressed for you, and all of CityStar's indexed sites and listings related to the selected city will be found. There are special buttons for Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado, which will take you to pages for those cities that allow you to define your search further. The select_different_city page was engineered this way because the majority of sites and listings in CityStar® website are about Southern Colorado. web_search The web_search page is powered by Overture and Inktomi®. This page allows you to search the entire World Wide Web, not just the 3,100 resources contained in the CityStar® website database. The web_search page also contains links to other major search engines, including Google, the world's leading search engine. site_map The site_map page is designed to help you find other resources contained in CityStar® website, and Internet services offered by CityStar® Group Inc. The category links on the site_map page enable other search engines to index the contents of the CityStar® website. search_by_url The search_by_url page allows you to find all of CityStar's links to a particular Web site. This search form searches the URL (uniform resource location) field in CityStar's mall database. This page is most useful to CityStar® website advertisers and other Web site owners. When you use the search_by_url page, type a domain name, i.e. "mycompanyname.com" (without the quotes) into the search field and click on the "go!" button. search_results All search results are ranked by class (i.e. Featured Listing, simple link, public service link), and within each class, alphabetical order by business or organization name. Results are displayed in the following order:
The exception to these rules is seen in the New Links category, where all results are displayed from newest to oldest. *The Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau |
