GENERAL REFERENCES & SEARCHERS

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GENERAL WEB SEARCHERS

Search engine guru Gary Price's FAQs

Starting Points for Internet Exploration

Yahoo - A Guide to WWW
Yunkun Information Portal--new type of web directory with an aggregator
Google, perhaps the best, evaluates site popularity by checking number of referrals.  Using its advanced search page one can perform date-based searches.  Also try out Google's Image Search,  its Open Directory format  (that also orders websites by PageRank), and its Language Tools for quick translations.  For help with the growing number of options (including music and movie searches, street maps and web page translations) there's the Google Help Center.  From the Google labs are prototypes of
Google Scholar search the content of academic literature, including peer-reviewed articles, books, and dissertations
Google Print search the contents of books
Google Blog Search
Google Video search recent television programs online
Google Maps
Google Viewer search results are displayed as a continuous scrolling slide show
Google WebQuotes results of Google searches are annotated with comments from other websites
Google Glossary
Google Sets
Google Keyboard Shortcuts
Cybertimes Navigator  the New York Times News Navigator
AlltheWeb perform a search using five major search options (Web pages, Pictures, Videos, MP3 or FTP files) and a sidebar reveals results in other categories. Made the claim in June 2002 that it searches more pages than Google
ungoogle "when Google can't find it"
A9.com from Amazon
OneLook Reverse Dictionary describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept
singingfish "search for any audio or video file-anywhere on the Web"
MooterSearch--from Australia, groups information together into logical clusters
Turbo10--"search the deep web," those dynamic pages inaccessible to crawler-based search engines
Information about Search Online, which is downloadable here
Vivisimo with document clustering
WiseNut
Hotbot
Ixquick "the world's most powerful metasearch engine"
Teoma Technologies
Raging Search-- from AltaVista with no ads
qbSearch.com
Open Directory Project--goal is to become the "largest human-edited directory of the web"
Suite 101 Table of Contents
AltaVista: Main Page
37dotcom--harness the power of 37 search engines
Mamma--"the mother of all search engines"
ProFusion.com--a metasearch site from Intelliseek
CompletePlanet--"the complete source for search engines and databases"
Starting Point
Welcome to the Web -- The Index of Pointers to the Web's Essential Links
Excite Precision Search
Infoseek
JumpCity!
SilverPlatter Information--"navigate knowledge" (and with database of the month)
IPL The Internet Public Library
About.com has an impressive listing of nearly 4000 topical search engines, portals and directories
Internets--"the largest filtered collection of useful search engines and newswires"
Beaucoup!
Ditto.com another image search engine
Engine-Search--"Find search engines and tourist information for every country in the world"
FinderSeeker--"the search engine for search engines"
Search Engine Colossus--"links to search engines from 148 countries"

Think that you need a specialized search engine? Click here.  For an all-purpose look-up site check out Free Online Lookups from MelissaData for not only addresses and phone numbers but demographics and labor statistics by ZIP, information on Nonprofits, and Standard Industrial Classifications.

WEBLOG LOCATORS

Fast Blog Finder 2.50

E-MAIL ADDRESS LOCATORS

Internet Address Finder
WhoWhere? PeopleSearch
LookUP!--Name to E-mail matching

USENET SEARCHERS

Usenet archives back to 1981 with Google Groups
The Newshare(SM) Common: Topics Page

LISTSERVER SEARCHERS

W3C mailing-list search service
The LISTSERV list reference

TELEPHONE SEARCHERS

Reverse-lookup tool from AnyWho.com
Switchboard: phone #s for 90 million people, 10 million businesses
AnyWho Toll Free 800 Directory
AT&T Toll-Free Internet Directory

SNAIL-MAIL: ZIPs, etc.

How far is it? (plus ZIPs for cities)
USPS Address Quality & ZIP Code Lookup

DICTIONARIES

The Electric Eclectic's Listing of Dictionaries--not many more complete than this
Glossarist--a searchable directory of over 6,000 glossaries and topical dictionaries
Can't think of the word you want? Try OneLook Dictionary Search's reverse look-up dictionary
AskOxford.com
YourDictionary.com--another megasite, use the Webster's 1828 Dictionary or translate those emoticons the kids are using
Online Etymology Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
WordNet 1.5 on the Web
Acronym and abbreviation list
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Garth Kemerling's Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
Dictionary of Notable Citizens of Planet Earth
List of foreign language dictionaries

ALMANACS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Statistical Abstract of the United States
1995-2000 Statistical Abstracts of the United States
Information Please Almanac Home Page
Old Farmer's Almanac

MONITORING THE ECONOMIC ORDER

FreeLunch.com--"free economic, demographic and financial data"

MONITORING REPORTS FROM GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES, NGOs, THINK TANKS

ResourceShelf's DocuTicker

Policy Archive--brings together the products of American think tanks and public policy institutions

LIBRARIES

Librarian Web Resources
Bentham Publisher's Open Access with over 200 peer-reviewed journals
Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Librarian Web Resources


 

REFERENCES

Bartleby.com--combining "the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web"
The Harvard Classics
Gary Price's Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools
InformationPlease Home Page--"All the knowledge you need."
The Internet Public Library (University of Michigan)
BerkeleyDigital Library Site Index
ReferenceLibrarySpot--rated "Best of the Web" 2005 by Forbes.com
EssentialLinks
The Harvard Classics (1909-1917)

NEWS TRACKERS

Excite's Newstracker (search web-based publications, incl. newspapers, magazines)
Welcometo Hummingbird NewsWatch
ATI--searchingthe "invisible web"

QUOTATIONS

Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
Quotations Home Page
Famous Quotes
Ambrose Bierce, Forked Tongue, (GGW#5).  Bierce's Devil's Dictionary is also available here.
michael moncur's quotations page
Quotations

CURRENCY CONVERTERS

Research-It! Translator, currency exchanges, etc.etc.
Xenon Labs: The Universal Currency Converter

PHILATELIST CORNER

National Postal Museum
The Postal Bulletin-- "the official source of updates to Postal Service policies and procedures"
Their Stamp on History--"exploring the lives of important historical people through their pictures on postage stamps"
Theme Birds on Stamps
Ask Phil Resource Library

HELPFUL ODDS AND ENDS

Reporter's Desktop-- Duff Wilson's collection of tools reporters use for finding information on the Web
Jim Eccleston's The Electric Eclectic--collected references to associations, dates, dictionaries, philosophies, playwrights, scripts and more
Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information
Britannica Online
Carl UnCover--Search magazine articles
Savetz's Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index
Statistical Abstract
Who born on this day?
Today in History
thesaurus/index
How far is it? (plus ZIPs for cities)
USPS Address Quality & ZIP Code Lookup

 


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