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Use this page to navigate to specific information you need on the web. 

The tried and true:

• Google returns great results by analyzing a page's popularity. Be sure to check out the government search and the new image search
• Alta Vista offers efficient Web search; its no-frills text search loads very fast
• Yahoo: The old standby. Subject guide and free-text searching of the WWW
• Fast Search certainly lives up to its name
• Excite's concept searching -- highly effective
• Northern Light categorizes search results to help you stay focused...a difficult thing on the web these days
• Hotbot Lots and lots of hits
• search.com from CNet lists many obscure, topic-oriented search engines -- a web-searcher's heaven
• Ask Jeeves The web at your service.  Ask Jeeves a question and get a multitude of answers
• Ixquick searches multiple search engines and quickly returns filtered results. Nice
• ProFusion, SavvySearch, Dogpile and Metacrawler offer simultaneous searches of multiple Web search engines
• Magellan describes Web resources, rather than just listing them. Also visit Voyeur to spy on other searchers
• Looksmart searches a selection of sites chosen by humans
• About.com has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics
• Britannica adds human judgment to searching, and presents the results in an unusually effective way
• Searchmil.com searches for information in military (.mil) computers
• ForumOne One-stop guide to forum topics around the Web
• Achoo and The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences catalog health related sites
• Archieplex Search FTP archives around the Internet
• Liszt and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists
• Yack Guide to live events on the Web

Other popular Search Engines to try:

• Bigfoot
• C4.com
• d i s i n f o r m a t i o n - the subculture search engine
• The Electric Monk
• Infoseek
• Northern Light
• Re QUEST dot Net
• Scour
• Webring

The Reference Desk

• Research It all-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators, more
• LibrarySpot Extensive guide to online reference works
• YourDictionary.com and Onelook give access to hundreds of dictionaries, specialized and general 
• Encyclopaedia Britannica The one and only. (Now with a fee for full articles.)
• Roget's Internet Thesaurus
• Information Please Almanac Almanac, dictionary and the full Columbia Encyclopedia
• Biography.com offers brief, cross-referenced biographies of more than 25,000 notables.
• Travlang language-to-language translation dictionaries
• Babelfish basic (and sometimes amusing) translations of Web pages or text

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• The Elements of Style The 1918 version
• C.I.A. World Factbook
• Library of Congress, including Marvel and Locis
• The New York Public Library
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library
• National Library of Medicine and Medline
• Carl Uncover Free citations from 17,000 publications; charge for full articles
• The Merck Manual guide to diseases
• RxList: The Internet Drug Index Extensive information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs
• Nutrient database from the U.S.D.A.
• Law Guru gives access to hundreds of legal search engines and the Internet Law Library
• Lawoffice.com from West's Legal Directory and Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer Locator
• The U.S. Constitution
• U.S. Patents since 1971, from Delphion or the Patent and Trademark Office
• The Bible Browser
• I.R.S. information and publications. For more tax sites, try taxsites.com.
• Metroscope city, business, entertainment guides for major cities
• National Geographic's Map Machine
• Mapquest and Mapblast give street-level maps and directions for U.S. addresses
• Social Security death index
• Consumer World has consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
• Currency converter from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
• ConvertIt converts measurements, currencies, timezones and more
• Cost-of-living calculator and other useful tools
• How Far Is It? gives the distance between two cities
• U.S. Naval Observatory clock

Some other interesting areas:

• FedWorld Information Services: Comprehensive guide to Government databases
• Federal Government Agencies, a clean, easy-to-use listing
• Federal Web Locator allows searching
• Fedstats collects and organizes statistics from 70 agencies
• National Archives and Records Administration catalogs records held by Government agencies
• DefenseLink News and live briefings from the U.S. Department of Defense
• The White House
• The House of Representatives
• The Senate
• The Supreme Court
• State and local government websites from Piper Resources
• Statesearch, state-level information on a variety of topics
• GPO Access searches the Federal Register, U.S. Code, Congressional bills and other Government publications
• Thomas, the Library of Congress information service. Also try the experimental Web catalog
• Census Bureau home page, 1990 Census tables and Ferret, for recent population and income data
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Criminal justice links assembled by Cecil Greek at Florida State University
• APBNews.com crime news and information, including police scanners from major cities.
• United States Geological Survey, current earthquake information and Earthquake Information Center
• National Hurricane Center
• United Nations and U.N. Web locator
• The European Journalism page
• Newsahead upcoming news events around the globe
• FindLaw has an extensive collection of legal links
• KnowX Free and low-cost information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and other public filings for businesses and individuals
• WebGator has a variety of useful investigative links
• Federal Aviation Administration databases of airline safety reports
• Landings Comprehensive aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports, pilot certifications
• UniSci gives updates on scientific research at U.S. universities
• Top 200 Government contractors from Government Executive
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has links and information, including a fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request. (This list of Federal freedom of information officers may be useful, as well as this New York State FOI page)
• The Freedom Forum Journalism, journalism education and first amendment issues
• Telecommunications information resources: social, economic, political
• The Smoking Gun presents (undigested) documents obtained from court files and through freedom of information requests
• John Makulowich's list of web resources
• Business & Finance references are available from Business Connections

Telephone & E-mail Directories

• Anywho from AT&T has fast, clear directory service, and a reverse directory
• Switchboard nationwide telephone and address directory
• InfoSpace personal, business and goverment phone, fax and e-mail
• Zip2 Yellow Pages lets you search businesses by name, category, or distance from your home
• Directory of toll free numbers from Infospace
• Superpages.com (was Big Yellow) National business yellow pages and residential listings from Verizon
• 555-1212.com National and international phone and e-mail directories (no longer free)
• Thomas Register of Manufacturers
• WhoWhere, Internet Address Finder and Yahoo People Finder can help find e-mail addresses
• Network Solutions domain name database
• Zip Code and Zip+4 Finder Simple and efficient, but sometimes busy. Also try the Postal Service.

Publications on the Net

• ABC News offers top news, including the current ABC radio report, and (large) video clips.
• Agence France-Presse world report from Yahoo Asia
• BBC News British Broadcasting Corporation
• CNN Interactive and CNNfn
• Fox News Clean, simple search of AP and Reuters wires
• MSNBC, from Microsoft and NBC News
• NPR Online from National Public Radio

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• Boston.com, from The Boston Globe
• CNet combines technology news, reviews, software and services. Tech news is at news.com
• The Electronic Telegraph from The Daily Telegraph of London
• The Gate, from the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
• Los Angeles Times
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• San Jose Mercury News
• The Times of London
• USA Today
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Post

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• Inside News and gossip from the worlds of media and entertainment
• Media Central, from Cowles New Media, stays on top of media and marketing
• MediaNews Jim Romenesko offers media news from everywhere
• NewsHub culls technology business headlines from major Web sites
• News Index and TotalNews search for breaking news on the Web
• 1stHeadlines offers headlines from 50-some news organizations.
• Newspaper archives on the Web from the Special Libraries Association
• Wired News and Newsbot

Magazines & Features

• The Atlantic
• Careerbuilder Classified ad service from many newspapers
• The Drudge Report
• Law.com has merged several sources of legal news into a single site
• Mr. Showbiz, entertainment news and gossip
• National Enquirer The supermarket tabloid comes to the Web
• The New Yorker More and less than the venerable magazine
• The Onion and Modern Humorist Comic relief
• Rolling Stone
• Slate and Salon Two flavors of cyber-literary-trend publications
• Thrive Health and fitness features and information
• United Media, a collection of comics
• U.S. News

Guides to Many Publications

• Newslink, a guide to newspapers, magazines and broadcast organizations.
• Ecola's 24 hour newsstand, quick and easy access to web sites of more than 900 publications
• Electric Book Newspapers, magazines, e-zines and books online
• Editor & Publisher's MediaInfo Links also read Steve Outing's Stop the Presses column here.)
• Newspaper Association of America
• Project Gutenberg puts out-of-copyright literary works online
• AdCritic.com TV commercials in Quicktime format

Politics

• Project Vote Smart, a guide to candidates and issues
• All Politics from CNN with Time magazine
• The Empire Page links to major news headlines on politics each day, emphasizing New York
• Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions
• Federal Election Commission data in a more useful format, compiled by two former F.E.C. employees
• Politics Navigator, also from The Times on the Web, has more political links

Sports & Recreation

• ESPN SportsZone
• Sportsline from CBS
• CNN/SI from CNN and Sports Illustrated
• The Sports Network gives up to the minute news and results
• Allsports has news, scores, odds, audio feeds and more
• Total Sports well organized sports news, plus Head to Head Baseball, which lets you compete online with others using real players' stats.
• NFL.com from the N.F.L.
• majorleaguebaseball.com from Major League Baseball
• GORP, the Great Outdoor Recreation Pages, has extensive information on parks and outdoor activities of all sorts
• The WWW Bicycle Lane A bit dated, but still a good collection of links
• The Tennis Server and Tennis Country have news, schedules, rules and more
• GolfWeb, GolfDigest.com and Golf.com cover the golf world

Commerce

• Amazon.com The online megastore. Books, music, videos, games, electronics, auctions -- and growing
• Barnesandnoble.com and Borders also have books, music, videos and dvds to enjoy off line.
• Bizrate compares prices and lets you see how fellow consumers rate online merchants
• BizWeb: Internet commercial sites by category
• Buy.com good prices and service on electronics, books, music and video
• Buyer's Index searches 19,000 Web sites and catalogs for the product you seek
• CD Now Playcentric and Alphacraze Discounts for music, videos and dvds
• Ebay The online auction house and storefront
• Internet Fashion Mall
• NetMarket has discounts on brand name goods
• PriceLine lets you name your own price for travel, cars or mortgages, and see if anyone will bite
• PriceScan and PriceGrabber compare prices for computer hardware and software, electronics, movies and books
• Travelocity, Biztravel, Expedia, Trip.com and Orbitz have airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information
• Travelzoo collects special travel offers from many sites

Entertainment/Culture/Pastimes

• The Internet Movie Database
• Movielink from 777-FILM has theater times and advance ticket purchases in major cities
• Ticketmaster has information and tickets for music, theater and sporting events
• Film.com News from the movie industry, as well as links to film resources and studios around the Web
• Reel surveys your movie tastes and recommends ones it thinks you'll like
• Atom Films offers short films and animations on the Web

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• TV Guide Now includes an extensive movie database
• Ultimate Television Network, a guide to everything TV-related on the Web
• Gist provides customized TV listings
• PBS Online
• The Discovery Channel Online

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• Culturefinder has schedules for the performing arts around the U.S.
• National Endowment for the Arts
• World Wide Arts Resources
• NWHQ:Independent artists on the Web
• The Louvre More fun to visit in person, but you can see many exhibits without leaving home.
• Art on the Net, an exhibit by 80 artists, and links to other art sites

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• Yahoo events (formerly Broadcast.com) Audio and video of all sorts, from all over
• mp3.com makes a wide variety of music available in its eponymous Internet format
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Internet Underground Music Archives
• Classical Music Archive Thousands of classical music samples in midi format
• Epicurious, the Food Network, Recipes from the Net and Gemini and Leo's recipe links will help you answer the question, "What's for dinner?"
• Wine Spectator and WineToday.com have ratings and reviews of thousands of wines

Demonstrations and Miscellany

• Cool Site of the Day
• Useless Pages Useless, maybe, but fun
• Ghost Sites of the Web will guide you to some of the rusting hulks along the information superhighway
• QuickBrowse lets you combine and fetch Web pages you frequently read into one long page
• The F.B.I.'s Most Wanted A picture is worth a thousand words...and maybe some reward money
• eHow.com teaches you how to do useful everyday things
• How Stuff Works tells you just that
• Dead People Server might answer the question, "What ever happened to . . ."
• Sites for parents and children from the American Library Association
• Internet virus myths and Virus hoax information Check here before you pass along that grave warning
• Sodaconstructor lets you make models of masses and springs -- and makes your time disappear
• Tarot Card Reader, I Ching and more
• Riddler will help keep you from your work
• Elvis Presley's Graceland, the official home page, and the unofficial Elvis home page
• iVillage and women.com concentrate on the women's interests
• Earthcam and Jasbits Netcams have links to live cameras all over the Net

The primary purpose of this page is to give people with a wide range of needs a solid starting point without forcing them to spend time wandering blindly looking for a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose is to show people that the web is fun as well as useful.

The list is by its nature highly selective and constantly changing. Suggestions are always welcome.