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Searching the Net? Here Are Places to Start
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Google is by far the best search engine on the web, gives highly
useful results by analyzing a page's popularity.
- Yahoo: Subject guide and
free-text searching of the World Wide Web
- Alta Vista, free-text
searching of the Web
- Excite's concept searching is
highly effective (Also visit their Magellan
guide.
- Northern Light categorizes
search results to help you focus
- Hotbot, from Hotwired and
Inktomi, scored high in a recent study of completeness
- search.com has the Infoseek
engine as well as more obscure topic-oriented choices
- Ask Jeeves searching with a
human touch
- Ultimate
Bulletin Board actual humans answering questions from each other
- Wired Cybrarian Selected
links, with descriptions, in two dozen categories
- ProFusion combines major
search engines and filters the results
- SavvySearch, Dogpile
and Metacrawler offer
simultaneous searches of multiple Web search engines
- Magellan
describes and rates Web resources. Also visit Voyeur
to spy on other searchers
- Looksmart searches a
selection of sites chosen by humans
- About.com, formerly the Mining
Co., has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
- Britannica adds human
judgment to searching
- Reference.com searches and
archives mailing lists, web forums and Usenet groups.
- ForumOne One-stop guide to
forum topics around the Web
- Deja.com (formerly Dejanews)
lets you search for Usenet postings or posters
- C|Net combines computer news,
reviews, software and services. Also see their news.com
and Snap! service
- Achoo and The
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences catalog health related
sites
- Archieplex: Search
FTP archives around the Internet
- Liszt and Tile.Net
will help you find Internet mailing lists
- Yack Guide to live events on the
Web
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Collections for Journalists
- FedWorld Information Services: Comprehensive
guide to Government databases
- Federal Government
Agencies, a clean, easy-to-use listing
- Federal
Web Locator allows searching
- Federal Information
Exchange
- Fedstats collects and
organizes statistics from 70 agencies
- National Archives and Records
Administration catalogs records held by Government agencies
- DefenseLink News and
live briefings from the U.S. Department of Defense
- Statesearch, state-level
information on a variety of topics
- The White House
- House of Representatives
- The Senate
- GPO Access searches
the Federal Register, U.S. Code, Congressional bills and other
Government publications
- Thomas, the Library of Congress
information service. Also try the experimental
Web catalog
- Census Bureau home page, 1990
Census tables and Ferret,
for recent population and income data
- National Criminal Justice Reference
Service
- Criminal justice links
assembled by Cecil Greek at the University of South Florida
- APB Online crime news and
information, including police scanners from major cities.
- United States Geological Survey,
current earthquake
information and Earthquake
Information Center
- National Hurricane Center
- United Nations and U.N.
Web locator
- The
European Journalism page
- Newsahead upcoming news
events around the globe
- FindLaw has an extensive
collection of legal links
- KnowX Free and low-cost
information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and other public
filings for businesses and individuals
- WebGator has
a variety of useful investigative links
- Federal Aviation
Administration databases of airline safety reports
- Landings Comprehensive
aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service
difficulty reports, pilot certifications
- UniSci gives updates on scientific
research at U.S. universities
- Top 200 Government
contractors from Government Executive
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of
the Press has links and information, including a
fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request. (This list of Federal
freedom of information officers may be useful, as well as
this New
York State FOI page)
- The Freedom Forum Journalism,
journalism education and first amendment issues
- Telecommunications
information resources: social, economic, political
- The Smoking Gun presents
(undigested) documents obtained from court files and through freedom of
information requests
- Business & Finance references are available from Business
Connections
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The Reference Desk
- Babel Fish
Translator Translates Plain Text or URL to or from: English,
German, French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese
- Research
It all-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators,
more
- Onelook has more than 400
dictionaries, specialized and general
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- Information Please Almanac Almanac,
dictionary and the full Columbia Encyclopedia
- Cambridge
Biographical Encyclopedia brief, cross-referenced biographies of
more than 15,000 notables.
- Travlang language-to-language
translation dictionaries
- Shark Talk:
Nolo's Law Dictionary
- The
Elements of Style The 1918 version
- C.I.A. World
Factbook
- Library of Congress, including
Marvel and Locis
- The New York Public Library
- The World Wide Web Virtual
Library
- National Library of Medicine and Medline
- Carl Uncover Free citations
from 17,000 publications; charge for full articles
- The Merck Manual guide to
diseases
- RxList: The Internet Drug Index Extensive
information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs
- Nutrient
database from the U.S.D.A.
- Law Guru gives access to
hundreds of legal search engines and the Internet Law Library
- West's Legal Directory and Martindale-Hubbell's
Lawyer Locator
- The
U.S. Constitution
- U.S. Patents since 1971,
from I.B.M.
- The
Bible Browser
- I.R.S. information
and publications. For more tax sites, try taxsites.com.
- Citynet guide to Net information
in and about major cities
- Metroscope city, business,
entertainment guides for major cities
- Mapquest gives a street-level
map for any U.S. address
- Social Security
death index
- Consumer World has
consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
- Currency converter
from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
- Cost-of-living
calculator and other useful tools
- How Far Is It? gives
the distance between two cities
- AnalogX free Computer Code,
programs, Internet page design, java, CGI lots of information. A 'must'
for anyone building their own web site
- U.S. Naval Observatory
clock
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Magazines & Features
Guides to Many Publications
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