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Web Search Engines
(use for a focused topic or if you want to combine relevant terms):
- Google (Webmaster's pick)
- An uncluttered, easy to use interface designed to make it easy for users to enter search queries and interpret results. Users can also enter a query and click the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, which takes them directly to the website of the first search result.
- Google Suggest
- A new version of Google that offers suggestions as you type - COOL! (Requires a fairly recent version web browser.)
- Vivisimo Document Clustering
- Automatically clusters search results into categories that are intelligently selected from the words and phrases that are contained in the search relults themselves. Powerful!
- Alltheweb.com - FAST
- Simple, quick, and effective. Uncluttered like Google.
AltaVista
HotBot
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Web Directories
(use for browsing, or when you have only a general topic in mind):
- Digital Librarian
- Another quick loading and nicely organized list of links by topic for research or browsing -- by a librarian in Cortland, N.Y.
- Excite
- Another commercial web portal directory page.
- Lycos
- Hierarchical list index approach with search capablilty that will search
document titles and content.
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Martindale's -- The Reference Desk
- Monsterous list of topical links, graduate and undergraduate courses tutorials & databases, global time references
- My Virtual Reference Desk
- A one stop site for all things internet searching
- Tasha's List of Links
- Tasha is the director of the Green Lake (Wis.) Public Library, and
has compiled a comprehensive but quick loading and nicely organized list
of links for research or browsing.
- Yahoo
- Yahoo is a topical index to the Web. It includes search capability
to help you find things listed within it.
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Phone Directory Databases
- Find addresses and phone numbers of people or businesses - all reverse lookup capable...
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WhitePages.com - includes subject's age
Switchboard - nine digit ZIP codes
AnyWho - by AT&T
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Stocks/Financial:
- 164 Currency Converter
- You can view any exchange rates among the 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through today. The currency converter is updated daily at 8:00 PM EST.
- Google Finance (beta)
- Similar to Yahoo's Quotes pages. Looks pretty slick.
- SmartMoney.com
- Enter the symbol or name of a company or mutual fund to view the company's
current quote, chart, and data.
- Yahoo! Quotes
- Enter one or more ticker symbols, or you may look up the symbol by
company name. Returns latest quote, link to chart, and links to recent
related headlines.
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Map Resources:
- SkyVector.com Aeronautical Charts
- VFR Sectional, IFR Enroute - draggable, zoomable
- Google Local
- Powerful map/image interface combining map, satellite imagery, or hybrid
- Mapquest-Interactive Atlas
- Enter street address and city and get a map with location marked with
a star.
- MapPoint.msn.com
- U.S. city maps of your choice; enter a street address. Similar to Mapquest.
- Tiger Map Server
- Nice detailed (to your specification) U.S. city maps; but won't find a specific street address.
- TerraServer
- Did you ever wonder what your neighborhood looked like from space, or wished you could get an aerial shot of your favorite vacation spot? Here are United States Geological Survey (USGS) aerial photos that you can zoom and pan right down to your neighborhood.
- Winnebago County Property Information map creation web site
- Zoom and scroll through a map of Winnebago county. Toggle several layers of information on and off to create a custom view. Details lot lines, property dimensions, street names, contours. (Requires IE 5.x or NS 6.x or better.)
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Virus Hoaxes and "Urban Legends":
- F-Secure Corp. Hoax Warnings (virus hoaxes)
Symantic-Virus Hoaxes (virus hoaxes)
Hoaxbusters Home Page (virus and legend hoaxes)
Snopes.com (legend hoaxes)
TruthOrFiction.com (legend hoaxes)
- These pages list and explain the various hoax "E-mail Viruses", or "Urban Legends" that alarm or get passed on by gullible Internet newbies. Don't be fooled; be educated!
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Other Search Item Tools:
- AirNav: Airport Information
- Search by indentifier, name, or city.
- Britannica.com
- Looks like you can find out anything here; the whole Encyclopedia Britannica on line.
- College & University Directory
- Click by state; includes community colleges.
- Edmund's Auto Buyer's Guides
- New and used car and truck price guide information on-line, rebates and incentives, road tests.
- Interactive Units Converter
- Choose weight, volume, length, area, speed, pressure, temperature, circular measure, or time, and enter a value for one unit, and this JavaScript site converts your value to about all other units you've ever heard of.
- Internet Movie Database
- Enter a movie title and get data on year, plot, cast, characters, quotes,
goofs, trivia.
- Kelley Bluebook Car Pricing
- New and used car pricing information and more.
- Landings: Aviation Search Engines
- Search the F.A.A. database for certified pilots, aircraft N-numbers
(U.S.), F.A.A. regulations, airport information, and more.
- Merriam-Webster OnLine
- Powerful dictionary on-line.
- Shareware.com or Download.com
- Search for download-able software by key words.
- The World Radio Amateur Directory
- Look up amateur radio operators by callsign or by name search.
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Learn about patents, or search U.S. patent database by patent number, or key words in title, abstract, assignee name and more.
- Zip + 4 Code Look-up
- United States Postal Service. State abbreviations list, too.
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