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| Internet Search Engines & Site Lists |
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 General Purpose Robotic Search Engines |
| DuckDuckGo | A privacy oriented competitor to Google. Here is a comparative review.
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| Ask.com |
Another minor competitor to Google
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| Yahoo |
Minor competitor for Google |
| Web Directories |
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| CEOexpress |
Excellent business-oriented directory list |
| Infoplease |
"Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records" |
| RefDesk | Designed to be a one-stop reference guide to the Internet |
| Wolfram Alpha | Not exactly a serach engine, but it is a useful site - think of it as a "computational engine for factual knowledge" - see a Flash intro by Stephen Wolfram himself! |
| Parallel (Meta) Search Engines |
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| Infospace |
Acts a front end to DogPile and WebCrawler |
| ixquick |
"Ixquick submits your search to the major search engines and finds sites that are universally ranked in the top ten!" |
| search.com |
Use multiple engines easily |
| Guides to using Search Engines |
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| Search Engine Watch |
Includes SEO (search engine optimization techniques),PPC (Pay-per-click advertising),Analytics (tools for measuring and monitoring website performance)
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| Google Guide | Tutorial on how to use Google. |
| Internet Scout | Guides to the major search engines and other directories |
| Phone Numbers/Addresses |
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| AT&T's AnyWho |
"Integrates traditional business and consumer white and yellow pages telephone listings with enhanced, Internet-based contact information such as E-mail Addresses and Web Site URLs. Toll Free and FAX numbers can also be listed." |
| WhitePages | People finder, multiple search engines, includes reverse search |
| Telephone Directories on the Web |
Links to online telephone, fax and business directories from around the world |
| US Postal Service |
Zip codes, postal rates, much more |
E-mail Automated Postcards |
| 123greetings.com |
Free email greeting cards using Flash animation |
| Ecards from Hallmark |
Free email greeting card site featuring amny different styles |
| regards.com | Offers two levels of customization |
| Search for Software |
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| Software and files search has been moved to the Internet Resources Software page |
| Homebuyers |
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| Move.com | "Our mission is to give you the information you need to keep more of your own money when you buy a home, sell a home, or relocate" |
| MSN Real Estate Advisor |
Find and compare homes for sale, compare mortgage rates, financing options, closing, inspection - loaded with info for the new or experienced home buyer - from Microsoft |
| Dictionaries |
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| Merriam-Webster's Dictionary/Thesaurus |
"Search more than 160,000 entries in the Web's most up-to-date dictionary." Lots of other neat word-related stuff. |
| Dictionary.com | |
| OneLook Dictionaries | 18,955,870 words in 1061 dictionaries indexed |
| Oxford Dictionaries | "Oxforddictionaries.com began with English and Spanish language sites, offering definitions and translations, thesauruses, grammar guides and help, and much more.
As part of the Oxford Global Languages (OGL) programme we regularly launch new resources in other languages. OGL aims to build dictionaries and lexical resources for 100 languages, many of which are under-represented in the digital landscape. For the first time, large quantities of quality lexical information for these languages will be created, collected, and made available to speakers, learners, and digital developers.
We currently have OGL sites in isiZulu, Northern Sotho, Malay, Urdu, Setswana, Indonesian, Romanian, Latvian, Swahili, and Hindi." |
| YourDictionary | "The Web's most comprehensive index of on-line dictionaries with over 1,000 dictionaries in more than 200 different languages. This conveniently organized index includes glossaries of specialized terminology, synonyms, homonyms, and abbreviations. It is linked to an index of on-line grammars and several pages of linguistic fun." |
| Online Etymology Dictionary | " This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries." |
| Symbols.com | "World's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols...contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti." - fascinating! |
| FreeTranslation.com | "Free automatic computer translation in 8 language directions...FROM English to French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese...TO English from French, German and Spanish. Each translation can be of a web page of or up to 4 or 5 pages of text. FreeTranslation.com is very fast and completely free." |
| Free Online Translator | Translate text and web pages online for free! |
| On-line Encyclopedias |
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| Encyclopedia.com | "Encyclopedia.com has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations." |
| infoplease.com | "Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records" |
| Wikipedia | "Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate free content encyclopedia." |
| Great Books Online (bartleby.com) | "Literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge" |
| CIA World Factbook | Essential facts, geography, population, etc., on all the countries of the world |
| Nationmaster.com | A data source and comparison tool for national statistics...you can generate maps and graphs easily. |
| ENCYBERPEDIA | Virtually every encyclopedia that's on the Web |
| iTools.com | Everything from anagrams & language translations to UPS rates |
| The North Carolina Encyclopedia | An overview of the people, the government, the history, and the resources of North Carolina. |
| Internet Resource Lists |
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| The Info Service | Interesting collection of links |
| John December's Resource List | Very comprehensive, annotated |
| The Scout Report |
Internet resources & network tools geared toward researchers & educators |
| The Internet Archive |
"The Internet Archive, working with Alexa Internet, has created the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive." |
| FAQs |
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| Internet FAQ Archives |
Search newsgroup FAQs By Category | By Newsgroup |
| FAQ Finder |
Over 1800 links to FAQs on almost 300 subjects |
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General Purpose Search Engines