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Search engines
Google is currently the best.
Excite was the first to register my page.
Alta-Vista was the best when Digital was still around, and it again has a nice clean style.
People and Businesses Finders
- Bigfoot Whitepages (people search).
- Anywho (free reverse phone lookup)
- Switchboard
- WhoWhere
- BigBook
- [OnVillage Yellow Pages]
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
seems to have all its entries, plus more, on the web.
Dictionary.com: competent ad-supported dictionary (and thesaurus).
Etymology Dictionary Online.
Bartleby.com has quotation databases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and writing style guides (note to self: put link on writing links page) as well as some fiction and nonfiction books.
Specialized
Symbols.com, an encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms, “contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.” It is awesome the way this works to identify any symbol you may have seen and want identified.
National Library for the Environment
Registry Whois provides to whom domain names are registered (often the registrar company) and the nameserver, which may tell you who serves the site. Then go to the Whois server listed, or going directly to TuCows Whois may be easiest.
Search the government
THOMAS - U.S. Congress on the Internet
U.S. code, search it.
Government Printing Office documents include the Federal Register and Public Laws.
Library of Congress Catalog; Library of Congress homepage
Fed stats, the main portal for finding government statistics.
US Census Bureau gives you access to all Census data, whether about people, businesses, trade, and much more. Census sites include:
- Quick Facts provides a wide variety of information about population characteristics at the state or county level.
- Economic Census, compiled every five years, gives detailed information on business activity.
- State Data Centers, with links to individual state statistics.
- County Business Patterns: information about businesses down to zip-code level.
Library Catalogs
UMass Amherst Library Catalog.
University at Albany Libraries
Search Engines
- Northernlight
- Dogpile
- Atomica
- AltaVista
- Excite
- WebCrawler
- Lycos
- Hotbot
- Go.com
- ???
- Ask Jeeves
- Mamma.com
Special Interest
- Pricewatch.com lists the lowest prices for computer parts.
- Acronym Finder 1
- Acronym Finder 2
- Babelfish
- Jennifer's Language Page
Find schools and educational postings
Web66 (large database of K-12 schools)
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