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| Search Engines: Mainstream and off the beaten path |
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http://searchpdf.adobe.com/
ADOBE PDF ONLINE. Put in "photoshop tips". |
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http://www.alltheweb.com
ALL THE WEB, ALL THE TIME. Just another choice. |
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http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
AMERICAN MEMORY. Search this great collection. |
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http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
CLICHE FINDER. A unique search engine. |
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http://www.completeplanet.com
COMPLETE PLANET. Search engines and databases. |
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http://www.daypop.com
DAYPOP. Search news sites and weblogs for current events. |
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http://www.femina.com/
FEMINA. Search women's websites. |
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http://www.firstgov.gov
FIRST GOV. Search U.S. government websites. |
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http://www.galaxy.com/
GALAXY. "Serious searches", also has vertical search engines. |
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http://www.glossarist.com/
GLOSSARIST. Search glossaries and topical dictionaries. |
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http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/deja_announcement.html
(GOOGLE formerly Deja). Search Usenet archives. |
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http://www.ilor.com
ILOR. Research search engine. When you have your mouse on the link, it comes up with options on how to store the link you want to keep. |
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http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/col/
INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY. Search reference materials, newspaper articles, authors, literary criticism, and more. |
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http://www.invisibleweb.com
INVISIBLE WEB. The 'search engine of search engines'. |
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http://lii.org/
LIBRARIANS' INDEX TO THE INTERNET: SURFING THE INTERNET. Fun collection of Web Sites and search engine. |
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http://www.macinstein.com
MACINSTEIN. The Mac only search engine. |
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http://magportal.com
MAGAZINE PORTAL. Search engine for articles.
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http://www.mpl.org/files/great/great.cfm
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY'S REFERENCE RESOURCES. And search engine. |
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http://www.refdesk.com/quick1.html
MY VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK-QUICK REFERENCE. Search quotes, thesaurus, virtual encyclopedias, dictionaries. |
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http://www.cr.nps.gov:8765/
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Search their site or the web. |
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http://www.dmoz.org
OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT. Another resource for finding stuff. |
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http://www.paho.org/search/dbsearch.asp?LNG=ENG
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION-QUICK SEARCH. Search by country, or resource type (books, periodicals, more). |
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http://www.siteowner.com/dgdefault.cfm
SITEOWNER'S DIRECTORY GUIDE. Search engines that accept web site submissions. |
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http://scienceservice.si.edu/search.htm
SMITHSONIAN'S SEARCH ENGINE. Search the Science server. |
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http://www.thinkquest.org/library/search.html
THINKQUEST LIBRARY. "a global network of students, teachers, parents and technologists dedicated to exploring youth-centered learning on the Net". |
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http://list.realestate.yahoo.com/re/neighborhood/main.html
FIND NEIGHBORHOOD INFO. Demographics, cost of living, housing, 'quality of life'.
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http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-6.html#faq
RLG DIGINEWS FAQ ON SEARCHING. For images on the Web.
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http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
STRUNK'S STYLE. Search The Elements of Style. Can also search other great books and subjects: the Bible, Shakespeare, Bartlett's Quotations, and more.
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http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/
BLOGDEX. Most recent blogged links. Search by urls.
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http://www.purportal.com/
PURPORTAL. Urban legends, hoaxes, viruses.
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http://www.archives.ca/02/0201_e.html
ARCHIVIANET. Search Canada's archives.
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http://www.horrorfind.com/
HORRORFIND. The Horror search engine. |
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http://www.w3.org/Help/siteindex
W3C SITE INDEX. Search the W3C. |
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PEOPLE INFO |
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http://www.anywho.com/rl.html
ANYWHO. Reverse phone number look-up. |
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http://www.findagrave.com/
FIND A GRAVE. Search by name, location, date, claim to fame. |
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http://www.infospace.com
INFO SPACE. White pages: phone and address search. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pow/powquery.html
POW/MIA DATABASE. Vietnam Era POW/MIAs, casualty list. |
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http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?MG=
SWITCHBOARD. Find a person. |
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http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/genealogy/www/namesearch.html
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU-SEARCH NAMES FILES. |
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http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/phone.html
WHOWHERE. Phone numbers and addresses. |
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http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/
Phone_Numbers_and_Addresses/Email_Addresses/Individuals/
YAHOO'S EMAIL ADDRESS SEARCH. |
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| Stuff: Handy Details |
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http://www.driverzone.com/
DRIVERZONE. The places to find device drivers.
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http://www.ala.org/rusa/mars/best2001.html
BEST FREE REFERENCE WEB SITES. As chosen by the RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS).
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http://wwwapps.ups.com/etracking/tracking.cgi
UPS PACKAGE TRACKING. Que handy for tracking all those packages you ordered from Amazon.
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http://edmunds.com
EDMUND'S AUTOMOBILE BUYER'S GUIDE. Very handy when looking for used cars. I did a Lemon Check on Rhonda, my Jeep, and she came up clean. The free lemon check is a bit misleading. Will tell you if there's info on the car, but you have to pay to get the specifics.
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http://www.womanmotorist.com/MAINTENANCE/index-repair-shop.shtml
THE WOMAN MOTORIST: CHOOSING A GOOD AUTO REPAIR SHOP. Has good selection of articles. Any woman who has dealt with mechanics will want to read these.
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http://consumeraffairs.com
CONSUMER AFFAIRS. Stay informed. Also, check out their Resources for Consumers list. And, here's their Tires by Wire.
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http://www.charityfocus.org/
CHARITY FOCUS. Volunteering your time to help non-profits build websites. |
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http://thelefthand.com/
THE LEFT HAND. All kinds of left-handed products. |
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| Stuff: September 11th |
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http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/09/12
SCRIPTING NEWS: SEPTEMBER 11TH LINKS. From Dave the day after. |
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http://nydailynews.com/manual/news/Attack/gallery1.asp
NEW YORK TIMES: THE IMAGES. |
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http://www.poynter.org/Terrorism/gallery/Wednesday1.htm
POYNTER.ORG: WEDNESDAY EDITIONS. Front page covers. |
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http://150.156.112.3/main.plx
WEB ARCHIVE: SEPTEMBER 11TH. Help build the site. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/damage.map.html
CNN: IN-DEPTH SPECIAL. 3-d map of the damage done in NYC. |
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http://www.freepint.com/gary/91101.html
RESEARCH AND REFERENCE RESOURCES. Relating to September 11th. |
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http://www.outtacontext.com/dichotomy/intro.php
DICHOTOMY. Jeff's new site. Read the stories of witnesses and survivors. |
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http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/biggart01.htm
DIGITAL JOURNALIST. The final pictures of Bill Biggart |
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| Subversion: Power to the People |
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http://www.webstandards.org
WEBSTANDARDS PROJECT. These crazy WebHeads actually think the browser companies should follow W3C standards.
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http://independentsday.org
INDEPENDENTS DAY. 'Celebrating independent content and design on the web'. Now, that's real subversion.
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http://jenett.org/ageless/
THE AGELESS PROJECT. Joe actually thinks that personal websites are ageless.
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http://www.altpress.org/links_a.htm
ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINTS ON THE INTERNET. Oooo, so subversive.
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http://www.mattl.com
MATTL. Read about his good fight with Mattel.
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www.digitaldivas.com/gol/
DIGITAL DIVAS SEEK TO STOP MICROSOFT'S TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT. A real David and Goliath story. And David wins.
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http://www.cluetrain.com/
THE CLUETRAIN MANIFESTO. Read their 95 Theses and why businesses should remember that their "users" are people. Yes, you can buy the book too. And what's a subversive site without it's parody.
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http://www.noamazon.com/
NO AMAZON.COM 2/00 - Amazon wants to patent their one-click option. Here's the campaign to boycott them. Check their progress and get a list of other online bookstores.
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http://www.blowthedotoutyourass.com/
BLOW-THE-DOT-OUT-YOUR-ASS. For those tired of the 'dot com' hype.
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http://www.ifas.org/activist/index1.html
ELECTRONIC ACTIVIST. Find your congressperson. Here's how to write your congressperson.
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http://www.eff.org/
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION. Support freedom of expression on the Web. Originators of the Blue Ribbon Campaign.
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http://www.vestige.org/nielsen/
AUGUST BOURRŽE'S WEBSITE. Parody of Jakob Nielsen's useit.com site.
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