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The following is a list of web-based resources in various areas of interest, divided into two sections: SEARCH ENGINES & DIRECTORIES and SUBJECT SPECIFIC SEARCHES.

 

SEARCH ENGINES & DIRECTORIES

 

 

POPULAR

META-SEARCH

OTHER

ENGINE COMPARISONS

 POPULAR SEARCH ENGINES:
  AlltheWeb

http://alltheweb.com
  Alta Vista

http://www.altavista.com
  Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com
 

Google

http://www.google.com

 

HotBot

http://www.hotbot.com
  LookSmart http://search.looksmart.com
  Lycos

http://www.lycos.com
  Overture

http://www.content.overture.com
  Teoma

http://www.teoma.com
  Vivisimo

http://vivisimo.com
  WiseNut

http://www.wisenut.com
  Yahoo

http://www.yahoo.com

BACK TO SEARCH ENGINES & DIRECTORIES

 META-SEARCH ENGINES:
  Beaucoup http://www.beaucoup.com
  Big Hub http://www.thebighub.com
  Dogpile http://dogpile.com
  Ixquick Metasearch http://www.ixquick.com
  Metacrawler http://www.metacrawler.com
  Search Engine Guide http://www.searchengineguide.com

BACK TO SEARCH ENGINES & DIRECTORIES

 OTHER SEARCH ENGINES:
  Beaucoup http://www.beaucoup.com
  Langenberg http://search.langenberg.com  
  Searchability http://www.searchability.com
  Search.com http://www.search.com
  SearchEngines.com http://www.searchengines.com
  Search.internet.com http://search.internet.com
  Web 100 http://www.web100.com
  Webplaces.com http://webplaces.com

BACK TO SEARCH ENGINES & DIRECTORIES

 SEARCH ENGINE COMPARISONS:
  Search Engine Showdown http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
  Searchenginewatch http://searchenginewatch.com

BACK TO SEARCH ENGINES & DIRECTORIES

SUBJECT SPECIFIC SEARCHES                                                               

 
 

ALMANACS

AWARDS

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL

CALENDARS

CONSUMER INFORMATION

COPYRIGHT & PATENTS

COUNTRIES

DICTIONARIES

DOMAIN SEARCHING

EDUCATION

E-MAIL SERVICES

EMPLOYMENT & SALARIES

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

ENTERTAINMENT

FACTS

FINANCIAL

GOVERNMENT

GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

IMAGE SEARCHING

INVISIBLE WEB

LEGAL

MEDICAL

NEW JERSEY

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

NEWSGROUPS & MAILING LISTS

PEOPLE

QUOTATIONS & SPEECHES

REFERENCE

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

SOFTWARE

SPORTS

TRAVEL

WEATHER

 

BACK TO TOP

 ALMANACS:
  Guinness World Records http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com
  Infoplease http://www.infoplease.com
  The Old Farmer’s Almanac   http://www.almanac.com

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

 AWARDS:
  Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (Academy Awards) http://www.oscars.org
  ALA : Awards and Scholarships (Children’s Book Awards) http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/awardsscholarships.htm
  American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards http://www.tonyawards.com
  Baldridge National Quality Program http://www.quality.nist.gov/Award_Recipients.htm
  Bookwire (Book Awards) http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire
 otherbooks/Book-Awards.html
  National Book Awards http://www.nationalbook.org/nba.html
  Nobel Prize Internet Archive http://www.nobelprizes.com
  Pulitzer Prizes http://www.pulitzer.org/Archive/archive.html

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL:
  Daily Stocks http://www.dailystocks.com
  Europages http://www.europages.net
  Hoover's Online http://www.hoovers.com/free
  IndustryLink http://www.industrylink.com
  Industry Research Desk http://www.virtualpet.com/industry
  ThomasNet http://www.thomasnet.com

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

 CALENDARS:
  MSN Calendar http://calendar.msn.com
  ScheduleOnline http://www.scheduleonline.com
  Personal Calendars:  
  American Secular Holidays Calendar http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ushols.html
  Chambers's Book of Days
(digitized by Univ. Wisconsin-Madison Library)		 http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/BookofDays
  InfoPlease Calendar & Holidays http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001832.html
  Perpetual Calendar http://www.wiskit.com/calendar.html
  Scope Systems (historic events and births) http://www.scopesys.com/today

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

 CONSUMER INFORMATION:
  Better Business Bureau http://www.bbb.org
  BizRate http://www.bizrate.com
  Buyer's Index http://www.buyersindex.com
  CARS: Vehicle and Equipment Information (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars
  Consumer Reports http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm
  Consumer World http://www.consumerworld.org
  Edmund's Car Buying Guide (car prices) http://www.edmunds.com
  Epinions.com http://www.epinions.com
  Froogle http://froogle.google.com
  Gateway to Government Food Safety Information http://www.foodsafety.gov
  Hometime http://www.hometime.com
  The Kelley Blue Book (car prices) http://www.kbb.com
  Online Conversion http://www.onlineconversion.com
  MSN Calendar http://calendar.msn.com
  Consumer Shopping:
  Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com
  Barnes & Noble  http://www.barnesandnoble.com
  CDNOW http://www.cdnow.com
  DealTime http://www.dealtime.com
  eBay http://www.ebay.com
  Priceline (quote your price) http://www.priceline.com
  Shopping.com http://www.shopping.com
  Scope Systems (historic events and births) http://www.scopesys.com/today

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

 COPYRIGHT AND PATENTS:
  Copyright Clearance Center http://www.copyright.com
  European Patent Office http://www.european-patent-office.org/index.en.php
  Patent Law Links http://www.patentlawlinks.com
  U.S. Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov
  U.S. Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

 COUNTRIES:
  Background Notes (U.S. State Department) http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes
  CIA - The World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
  Flags of the World http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/
  Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
  A Guide to American Flags http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/flags
  U.S. Gazetteer  http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

 DICTIONARIES:
  Bartlett’s Quotations http://www.bartleby.com/99
  Brewer's Phrase and Fable http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable
  Dictionary of Difficult Words http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords
  Merriam Webster OnLine Dictionary http://www.m-w.com
  OneLook Dictionary Search http://www.onelook.com
  Thesaurus.com http://www.thesaurus.com
  yourDictionary.com http://www.yourdictionary.com

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

 DIRECTORIES:
  AnyWho http://www.anywho.com
  BigBook http://www.bigbook.com
  Bigfoot http://bigfoot.com
  Big Yellow http://www.bigyellow.com
  Classmates.com http://www.classmates.com
  Europages http://www.europages.com
  Excite http://www.excite.com
  FCIC National Contact Center (federal toll-free numbers) http://www.info.gov/toll-free.htm
  411.com http://www.411.com
  Free Zip Code & Address Information http://www.melissadata.com/keywordsearch/zipcode.htm
  individual.com http://individual.com
  Infobel World http://www.infobel.com/teldir
  InfoSpace http://www.infospace.com
  Internet Address Finder http://www.iaf.net
  International White and Yellow Pages http://www.wayp.com
  Lycos People Search http://www.whowhere.com
  Martindale.com (lawyers) http://www.martindale.com
  Reverse Phone Directory http://www.reversephonedirectory.com
  Reverse Telephone Lookup http://in-128.infospace.com
  Switchboard http://www.switchboard.com
  United States Postal Service http://www.usps.com
  WhitePages.com http://www.whitepages.com
  Yahoo! People Search http://people.yahoo.com
  Yellow Pages http://www.yellow.com
  ZIP Code Lookup (USPS) http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp
  ZipExpress http://www.getzips.com

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

 DOMAIN SEARCHING:
  Checkdomain.com http://www.checkdomain.com
  Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com

BACK TO SUBJECT SEARCHES

 EDUCATION:
  College Board http://www.collegeboard.com
  Educational Testing Service http://www.ets.org
  ERIC Database http://www.valenj.org
  INFOMINE http://infomine.ucr.edu
  Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/learning
  Learning Web http://www.usgs.gov/education
  National Center for Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/index.asp
  Peterson's http://www.petersons.com
  The Princeton Review http://www.princetonreview.com/home.asp