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“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.” — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881

Type in what you want to search for, then click each search engine icon for results to appear in a new window.

More about Search Engines:

Ask Jeeves confirms your English question, then brings you to a site appropriate to your question. One of the top search sites.
• FindSounds
• Profusion - Editor's Choice.
• Sites using Open Directory
• Useful sites
• Alta Vista allows sophisticated keyword searches in several languages through news groups as well as web pages.
• Excite   recommends additional keywords related to your query (to usenet classifieds). Provides reviews of sites.
• HotBot   (from Wired) searches by date, country, media type (image, video, audio). Provides drop-down list box of choices. Their help page
• Infoseek
• Lycos   searches the Top 5%, books, pictures, stock symbols, UPS tracking numbers, and recipies, and multimedia files.
• Web Crawler now owned by AOL.
• Yahoo's extensive point-and-click search options include email addresses and web site names. Their search result pages can be bookmarked
• The Computing Dictionary on Instantweb

• Christian content Search Engines: Goshen, Cross-search, OurChurch.
• InfoSpace has a Reverse lookup by Phone Number. You could then click a button associated with each listing to get a map or driving directions.
• Use Forum One to search over 260,000 Web Forum Discussions
• AOL NetFind   Snap   and Netscape  
• ZenSearch only lists "quality" sites which add valued (worldly) content.
• scour.net lets looks for multi-media (pictures, movie scenes, music clips, concerts).
• WWW Worm is not GoTo, which auctions the sequencing of search results to the advertiser who pays the most money.
• Librarian's OCLC's InterCAT (Click Logon, but you don't need to enter a logon or password).
• Do It Yourself Projects

Subject Menu Trees:

These sites have trees of menus which lead you through more and more specific information:
• Dewey Decimal System and Library of Congress Classification System
• Readers' Digest's LookSmart uses 10 major subject categories.
• Infoseek searches news & companies as well as web and newsgroups. Powers CNet's Search.com
• Jayde Directory.
• Excite directory
• Webmaster Reference Library from Plum Interactive annotates Web sites and original articles.
• Martindale's Virtual Reference Desk and Stanford's WWW Virtual Library are geared toward professionals and academics.
• The Virtual Reference Desk and Encyberpedia educational reference site have convenient menus for ordinary humans.
• Yahoo's Guide to Business Web Sites is very thorough and current.
• The Internet Public Library Reference Center.
• Atlas of the WWW - What doesn't this place have?
• Starting Point has a list of keywords and a personalizable Powersearch feature which goes to several search engines for you.
• All Media Jumpstation
• Scott Yanoff's Internet Services List
• Search Beat
• Former About.com Guides cut loose in 2001 without warning to readers.

Organizations:

What does your phone number spell? translates letters to/from numbers on touch-tone keypads.

• Big Book "Yellow Pages" lets visitors add comments about each listing (which have associated maps).
• company name from an address or Zip+4 codes or from the US Zip Code Directory.
• The Thomas Register of American Manufacturers claims its 150,000 entries is world's largest online industrial buying source.
• Directory of Associations
• Religious Denominations and Churches
• AT&T's Toll Free 800 Directory (150,000 entries).
• Publicly Addressable Internet Mailing Lists
• USA Home and Switchboard offer a menu of government and Activism sites throughout the world, such as the Calif. Democratic and Republican Parties.
• The California Government Index has complete contact info to Constitutional Officers such as Governor Grey Davis and Legislative Officers
  • Email to US Senators Diane Feinstein District: (310) 914-7300 and Barbara Boxer District: (619) 239-3884.
  • Lookup your Congressional Representative by Zip Code. (Mine is 36th District Jane Harman)
  • Debra Bowen is Assemblywoman for Torrance (Calif. 53rd Assembly Dist.)

People Search:

Input information for the person you are looking for once in GTE's 555-1212, then look in the three major data sources found in internet directories (Database America, Metromail, and ProCD).
PhoneNumbers.Net offers a menu of sites. Seekhelp explains the differences between Bigfoot, 411 (Metromail), Internet Address Finder, Switchboard (Database America), and WhoWhere.
• A&E Biography has 20,000+ of the greatest names, past and present —who they were, what they did, and why.
• Missing Children and FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugutives and Terrorists
• PlanetSearch and Populus and PhoneNumbers
• Find the address and phone number for your favorite celebrities.
• American Presidents

Libraries
and
Book Stores:

• bookpool and Books Online claim to have low prices.
• Microsoft books used to develope tests are discounted 50% at Provantage and at www.hardcoremcse.com/amazon/amazon.htm associated with Amazon is colorful and well-maintained.
• Computer Books at Borders
• Roswell Computer Books carries all publishers.
• Barnes & Noble
• Electric Library - a for-fee (but 30 days free trial) digital archive of thousands of magazines, journals, newspapers, pictures, books, maps, and newswires.
• Internet Help Desk, CyberGate(TM) Inc. Internet Connections
• CISTI provides a searchable catalog of titles for all major publications (serials, books, conference proceedings, reports) in the field of science, technology, engineering, and medicine worldwide.
• Library of Congress should know about every book ever published.
• Libraries on the Web provides search and access mechanisms to worldwide libraries.
• Library Resources Virtual Library.
• Links to almost "all" online public access catalogs with Web access.
• The Ruth T. Hooker Library at the US Naval Research Laboratories has great links.
• The Internet Scout Project Search Tools
• Internic Subject Catalogs and Directory of Directories and Specialized Directory Search.
• Alex Catalog of 1,800 works thru 1995 readable on the Internet.

Business and
Other News:

Read Infinite Ink's advice on Finding News Groups from the Usenet Info Center Launch Pad, or tile.net, Deja News (which allows you to search who has contributed -- kinda scary).

Newsindex is a search engine for news. Newshub updates their page every 15 minutes with news from major sources. Among the web sites for Local News, newspapers in the US and business magazines, throughout the world:
• International Herald Tribune, BBC —untainted by Americanism.
• CNN (Cable News Network)
• Newspapers on the Internet
• University of Minnesota-Duluth's index of business resources includes media sites.
• Newspapers Online points to sites such as USA Today (if you want fancy but slow graphics) and Reuters (if you don't.
• US Newspapers
• Time Warner publishes Fortune and Inc. on line.
• Fast Company magazine provides articles from Dee Hocking on Management and Organizations.
• ASQ's Quality Progress and Quality Digest magazine has back issues on the web.

Dictionaries:

Wordsmyth returns Dictionary and Thesaurus entries with a single search, but One Look searches several general and specialized English Dictionaries with a single request.
• Whatis.com
• pcWebopaedia.com
• Netlingo.com
• yourdictionary.com
• Merriam-Webster claim to have the most up-to-date dictionary on the web. Use their Pronunciation Guide to sound out words like "phonetic."
• Webster's Thesaurus, or Roget's Thesaurus and Acronymns
• Specialized Glossaries: American Slang;   Medical terms;   New medical terms;   Military Terms;   Hand Tools;   Food, Cooking, and Eating.   Theological Words.
• Use the Translating Dictionary,   English for Travellers Tutorial,   or Key Phrases for Travelers   for the many languages spoken.
• For trivia buffs: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.   Old English Origins of words.   Mythology, folklore, and legends,   Facts about Numbers,   Politics,   Why Is The Sky Blue? and other  
• Find a quote or a joke or a word that rhymes.
• esi.es dictionary.

Reference Documents:

• Find out who owns an URL from DomainWatch.com (which tells you more than Internic).
• DomainGames.com notifies you of dropped domains and new domains.
• ISO Country Codes

• Bible Gateway provides several complete versions of the Bible in different languages.
• Hear the KJV Bible narrations via Real Audio
• Biola On-line presents several versions side by side.
• Blue Letter Bible links commentaries from Chuck Smith, Mathew Henry, David Guzik, and others to specific verses, plus word-for-word interlinear Greek and Hebrew.
• Goshen search in Nave's Topical Bible and Matthew Henry's Commentary.
• The On-line King James Bible site let you quickly click your way to specific books, chapters, and verses.
• The Septuagint

• Statistical Abstract of the United States and Statistics from the federal government.
• Text of Bills and Committee Reports from the US Congress
• Search Histerical Documents such as the Declaration of Independence,US Constitution, etc.

• Clemson University houses articles by Demingand his disciples.
• University of Minnesota-Duluth has an index of business resources.
• University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Qualty and Productivity Improvement offers reports for purchase.