Rapaire -

The hits you found are all ones likely to be "second hand" links from posts in open forums. The MIT hacks thing is widely known because of the books (3 of them recently) on Amazon, which is one of the "commercial" sources where links may have been picked up.

Most universities, libraries, and museums seem to have closed systems, requiring memberships or other credentials for access. It probably wouldn't do much good for the search engines to give you links to places you can't go, so their policies are mostly understandable. Most also have a few "public pages" that may show up in searches if someone talked about them elsewhere. The point is that, if you're searching for information the search engines aren't really that inclusive. If what you want is "news" they're excellent.

There are a number of .org sites, like mudcat, that are "open to all" and that, like mudcat, don't often come up in the searches. You have to find them by other means - or just remember where they are when you get that random hit.

Add to your list of engines (if you have any interest) Art Cyclopedia, a .com that does pull up a lot of .orgs, in a somewhat narrow search category.

Smaller engines like it would be of some interest, maybe, to some 'catters; and I'm sure some 'catters have others I don't know about.

John (cursing fumblefingers softly)