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Main Search Engines

Google best keyword search
incl. Usenet, govn't stuff, images.

Yahoo best category search
About.com mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
AllTheWeb fast keyword search
Ask Jeeves with "human touch"
Hotbot
Ixquick ProFusion Excite Dogpile CNet Search.com Metacrawler searches many search engines
Britannica human judgment, effective searching
Searchmil.com search for military info (.mil)
Achoo Medical Hardin Medical
Scirus Science Search
Topica & Tile.Net for mailing lists Mailing Liszt Setup List archives
Yack Live events on the Web
 Sound
Argus Seach for Hubs
More Specialty Engines List Major Engines
Understanding Search Engines
How Engines Gather (graphic) Engines Explained (text) Noodletools SearchEngine Watchm Submission Tips Web Searching Tips Search Engine Resources Search Engine Report
NYT's List for Journalists

Virtual Gumshoe investigative links
Thomas, Library of Congress info service.
Portals to the World for country-by-country info
Census Bureau, 1990 Census tables and Ferret, recent population & income data
Nat. Criminal Justice Ref Service Criminal justice
United States Geological Survey earthquake info
Earthquake Info Center
National Hurricane Center United Nations
U.N. Web locator
European Journalism
News-ahead upcoming news events around the globe
FindLaw legal links
KnowX lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. & other public filings
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Freedom Forum journalism education & first amend
Telecommunications info: social, economic, political
The Smoking Gun docs from court files & FOIA
John Makulowich's web resource
Power Reporting well-organized resources for journalists.
Wayback Machine archives Web pages to 1996.
Business Connections
FedWorld Information Services: govt databases
FirstGov govt web sites and services
Federal Government Agencies,easy-to-use listing
Federal Web Locator with search engine
Fedstats statistics from 70 agencies
National Archives & Records Administration
DefenseLink News and live briefings from DoD
White House
House of Representatives
Senate
Piper: Supreme Court, State & local government
Statesearch, state-level info
GPO Access: Federal Register, U.S. Code, Cong. bills and govt publications
Federal Aviation Administration databases of airline safety reports
Landings Comprehensive aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports, pilot certifications
Top 200 Government contractors from Government Executive

Business Materials

AddALL no-frills book price comparison service;
AddANY for CD's.
Amazon The online megastore. Books, music, videos, games, electronics, auctions -- and growing
Bankrate.com and
E-loan can help find the best interest rates for a mortgage, auto, credit card or other loan
Bizrate lets you see how fellow consumers rate online merchants and compares prices
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.
Cheap Tickets and Hotwire help you find bargains on travel if you're flexible
Consumer Search Reviews of products from a variety of publications
DeepDiscountDVD has consistently low DVD prices, and now has a
DeepDiscountCD service.
Ebay The online auction house and storefront
Epinions has consumer reviews of many products, and price comparisons
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.
PriceGrabber and PriceScan compare prices for computer hardware and software, electronics, movies and books.
Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia, Trip.com and Orbitz have airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information
Travelzoo collects special travel offers from many sites


Google:

Reference Hubs
NYT Navigator
CEO Express
Reference Desk

Research-it Librarian Res'rce  Ibiblio Public's Library Internet Public Library Websavy LibrarySpot Newspaper Assoc links Webopedia of Internet Tech Encarta: Microsoft's online encycl Project Gutenberg's online books
Niche Search Engines
Asiaco Asian internet
Ask ERIC by Dept of Ed
Biography Resource
eBizSearch
Philosophy
Find Articles in 300 sources
GPO Access to govt stats, pubs
HighWire Medline journals
IncyWincy
JSTOR academic journals (log thru school)
Mergent business databases
NatureServe bio-eco info

Encycl of Integer Sequences www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences Enter number series to learn sequence logic. Even got right answer on "8 5 4 9 1 7 6 3 2 0" (digits in alph order).
PublicLibraries.com www.publiclibraries.com
Find your public, state, university, presidential, or national library online.

PubMed www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /entrez/query.fcgi
This service of the National Library of Medicine provides access to over 12 million Medline citations, going back to the mid-1960s.

O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf http://safari.oreilly.com
Electronic versions of hundreds of technical books from the venerable IT publisher, covering more than 20 categories, from Business Reference to XML.

S&P Netadvantage www.netadvantage.com
A great place to seek out information on investment trends, markets, and companies in play. But you'll need a log-on just to access the site.

SearcheBooks.com www.searchebooks.com
A full-text index of e-books. Enter "For this relief much thanks" and you're instantly given a link citing Hamlet, Act I scene 1.
SearchEdu.com www.searchedu.com
Search the .edu domain.

Search Engine Colossus www.searchenginecolossus.com
Search for search engines worldwide in the language of your choice.

SearchGov.com www.searchgov.com
Search the .gov domain.

SearchMil.com www.searchmil.com
Search the .mil domain.

SpeechBot http://speechbot .research.compaq.com
An HP Invent search-bot site that indexes 15,590 hours of broadcasts over the Web, both audio and transcripts.

10K Wizard www.tenkwizard.com
Search the SEC's EDGAR for real-time SEC filings.

VolunteerMatch www.volunteermatch.org
"Get out. Do good." The logo says it all. You can search by area, interest, and schedule.

World News Connection http://wnc.fedworld.gov
A for-pay foreign-news aggregation service maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Want the latest on Ugandan cattle rustling? This is the place.

Yahooligans! www.yahooligans.com
One of the best kids-oriented search sites and a swell portal for youngsters as well.


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