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:
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
- 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
Publications on the Net
Breaking News & Daily Publications
- 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
- 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
- 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
Guides to Many Publications
Politics
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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