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Search Engines and Directories

Directories

General Directories: Yahoo; Open Directory; Brint Business Research Portal; RefDesk; About.com (collection of specialized directories); Directory of 800+ Directories and Search Engines; Infospace; Metaplus Super Directory of Directories and Search Engines; 100 Hot Web Sites; TopTenLinks.com;
Specialized Directories: Legal/Medical/Realty/Sports Link; Findlaw (directory & search engine); ZDnet Software; Business and Economics Resources; Ivillage (for women); yourportal.com; LincOn;
People and Business Finders: RefDesk Address/Phone/Email Lookup; SuperPages; AT&T's Anywho (people; business; reverse lookup; 800 numbers; web sites); AnyWho; Switchboard; 800 Directory; PeopleSearch.net; BigBook; Switchboard; Whowhere; World Pages; Yahoo! People; 555-1212.com; Telephone Directories on the Web; bigYellow (over 16 million business listings); Cedar Person Search; U.S. Search (find anyone for a price); 1800ussearch (find anyone for a price); Original Yellow Page National Directory (business addresses, phone, fax, toll free numbers, and email and web addresses)

General Reference and Expert Information

General Reference: Virtual Reference Desk (Grammar; Thesaurus); OneLook (search over 4 million words in 700 online dictionaries); Dictionary.com; Merriam-Webster Online; One Look Dictionary (2,108,543 words in 454 dictionaries); Dictionaries; WhatIs.com (turns tech jargon into definitions that even your grandmother would understand); Encyclopedia; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Biographical Dictionary; Dictionary of Computer Terms; Translating Dictionaries; Britannica online; Online Calendar; The CIA Fact Book (facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities);
Area and Zip Codes: InfoSeek Area Code Finder; Cedar (9 digit zip codes; postal bar code; address correction); U.S. Postal Service (Zip Code Finder; Zip Code Finder for business); Area Code Finder; Int'l Dialing Codes;
Package Tracking: FedEx package tracking; United Parcel package tracking;
Online Experts: Ask an Expert; Allexperts.com Directory (2500 experts); Ask An Expert Page; iVillage's List of Experts; Captive.com (insurance and risk management); The Yearbook of Experts (searchable database of experts and spokespersons);
Private Investigations: Private Investigator Resource Center ("over one thousand links to sites relating to private investigation"); Crime Time Publishing Co (contains the "Black Book Online" a superb investigative research tool);
Quotes: Refresher Words and Wisdom;
Other: LiveManuals (a respository of manuals, diagrams and support info for all types of gadgets and products);

Search Engines

Top Search Engines: Google; Ask Jeeves; NorthernLight (excellent for searching business subjects!); SearchEngineShowdown (current info on which search engines to use and how); AllTheWeb (Fast); Altavista; Wisenut; Hotbot; Look Smart; Netscape; Excite; Infoseek; Magellan; Webcrawler; Lycos; Snap; Cnet; MyWay (by the founders of Iwon);
Search Press Releases: Meta-Search (news releases); BusinessWire; PRNewswire; Dogpile Business News; Electric Library (press releases and articles); Infoseek - News; Lycos (news and Reuters); HotBot (news); (news search engine and free news pages for your site); A good List of News Search Engines; Dogpile Newscrawler; NewsHub (good place for topical news releases);
Search Multiple Search Engines at Once: Mamma; Dogpile; MetaCrawler; InterfenceFind; SavvySearch; Meta-Search; Cyber411 (16 engines); PointCast Entrypoint; Metafind; AllSearchEngines.com (hundreds of specialty search engines); Multicrawl;
Intelligent Search Engines: The Google Search Engine (by link popularity); AskJeeves (AI search engine); Direct Hit (popularity engine); Inference Find (search results by category);
Specialty Search Engines: Kartoo (graphic non-text search results); Antarti (like Kartoo); ForbesFinder (business search engine); Super-Seek (configurable specialty searches); GoTo.com (listing priority based on advertising fees); Usenet and Maillist Search Engines; Electric Library (search millions of articles fast); eNow (searchs chat rooms); Scirus (a science-specific search engine);
Audio and Image Engines: Audiofind; Lycos MP3 Search Engine; AltaVista Photo Search Engine; Arriba Ditto (images);
Directories of Search Engines: 200+ Search Engines; iSleuth (3000 specialty databases); SearchEngineWatch (list of specialty search engines); Easy Searcher (ready to use configuration of specialized search engines); GoGettem (custom multiengine searches plus a directory of 2600 specialty directories and search engines); A Very Good set of links and search engine listings;
NewsGroups and Mailing List Directories and Search Engines: Liszt (mailing lists, newsgroups, irc chat channels); Usenet and Maillist Search Engines; Tile.net (mailing lists, newsgroups); Deja.com (now Google Groups): IFLAI's Internet Mailing List Info; ICQ Health and Medicine;
Research Tools: NoodleTools (examples of proper citation form for writers for any type of citation); The Spire Project (research on how to search the net);

Internet

Email, News Groups, Chat, ICQ

eMail: HotMail; Net@address; WhoWhere; Iname; 500 free email providers; Everything E-Mail (award winning web site with 400 organnized links of e-mail resources);
Fax by email: Efax.com (send and receive faxes via email for free); Jfax (send and receive faxes and voice mail via email);
Newgroups & Mail Lists: DejaNews (newsgroups); Virtual Listservs Search Engine Liszt (mailing lists); Mirabilis ICQChat; ICQChat;
Privacy: ; Anonymizer (surf the web anonymously);

On-Line News

Top News Sites: ABC News; CNN; The Drudge Report; Bloomberg Financial News; NY Times; ESPN; Eonline (entertainment news); MSNBC; Internet & Technology News; Wired; InternetNews.com; WorldNetDaily; Newsindex.com (news search engine and free news pages for your site); Infogate (free downloadable personalized news and information delivery service for your bowser)

Miscellaneous

Internet Communities: Geocities; Net Taxi; Xoom; The Globe;
Online Web Offices: SmartOnline; OfficeTool (internet collaberation); xDrive (online internet hard drive storage);
Online Web Booking Services: Blink; ClickMarks; HotLinks; BookMark; backflip (bookmarking);
Community Action: ThePetitionSite.com (set up an online petition for people to sign); AdviceBox (send an anonymous email);

Travel

Travel Arrangements

General Travel: CheapTickets; Travelocity; Microsoft Expedia; Travel.Com; Preview Travel; Yahoo Travel; Travel Search Engines; Internet Travel Network; TravelNow (airfare, hotels, rental cars, cruises, rail passes, vacations);
Frequent Travelers: BizTravel.com; OnTheRoad.com; WebFlyer ("the Web's Frequent Flyer Authority" from inside flyer magazine); The Trip.com ("everything for the traveler except the stress"); OAG;
Car Rental: Breezenet's Guide to Airport Rental Cars (compare prices by airport location); Avis; Budget; Dollar; Hertz; National; Thrifty;
Hotels: Hotels and Travel on the Net; Marriott; Hyatt; Hilton; All the Hotels on the Web; Hotel Guide; Hotel Reservations Network; Inntopia (Online Reservations) (search and book fine inns, lodges, hotels and resorts worldwide);
Airline Sites: Airline Links; 1-800 numbers for all airlines (maintained by Princeton University); America West; American Airlines; Continental Airlines; Delta Airlines; Lufthansa; Northwest Airlines; Southwest Airlines; TWA; United Airlines; US Airways; US Department of Transportation On-Time Statistics;
Shopping For Travel Bargains: TravelScape (lowest hotel rates); LowestFare.com; Smarter Living (special travel deals mail list); Priceline; Discount Airfares Home Page; Internet Airfares (a quick check of airfares for 40 major U.S. and Canadian cities); Preview Travel; Cheap Tickets Inc.; Best Fares; 1Travel.com (travel bargains); economytravel.com ("lowest international airfares on the web");
Problems: American Express; Mastercard Concierge Service; Federal Trade Commission;
Cheap Airline Tickets: CheapTickets (airline overflow tickets); Travelocity; Priceline; Orbitz; Also see Vacations and Adventure below.

Vacations and Adventure

Guides: Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door; Web Travel Review;
Prepackaged Vacations: LowestFare (vacation packages); Uniglobe (cruises); Carnival Cruise Lines; Norwegian Cruise Lines; Clubmed Site; 100+ Dude Ranches;
Roll Your Own: Bed & Breakfast Inns ONLINE; Bed & Breakfast Channel; Travelweb; Complete Traveler; Internet Travel Network; Great Outdoor Recreation Pages;
Vacations: Grand Canyon Tours (by airplane, helicopter, or bus); Secrets To An Affordable Walt Disney World® Vacation (a downloadable book); Green Travel Network (ideas and trip planning for adventures of a lifetime); Renaissance Cruises; Cruise Guide (cruise tips); CruiseMates; CruiseOpinion; Expeida; TravelZoo (a traveler's Yahoo)
Fun Stuff: Fighter Combat.com; EAA Airventure;

Travel Related Information

On-line Customized Maps & Directions: MapQuest; Maps On Us; Maps&Routes; National Geographic's Map Machine;
Weather: The Weather Channel; The National Weather Service; Earth Watch (3-D weather visualization images); Weather Underground (Find the Weather for any City; State or Zipcode; or Country Language); CNN's weather page; Washington Post News & Weather; USA Today weather; RefDesk News&Weather;
Amtrak: Official Amtrak Site;
International Travel Info: Landseer OnLine (dedicated to the international business traveler); Eurotrip; Worldtraveler; South Asia Information; Travelasianet; AsiaTravel; Translating Dictionaries; US State Department Travel Warnings; The CIA Fact Book (facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities); Air Security; Travel Warnings;

Personal Business

Investing

Personal Investing: Quicken; Smartmoney; Morningstar.com (mutual fund data and market news); Motley Fool; ABC Market Watch; CBS MarketWatch; MSN MoneyCentral; Yahoo! Finance; CNNfn; CNNfn Stock Quotes; Bloomberg; Financial and Stock Search Engines; Marketguide; Investorlinks (links directory for investors):
Technology Investmenting: Techstocks.com (a popular personal investment web site frequented by high tech CEOs); the ISDEX Internet Stock Index; Silicon Investor;
International Investmenting: Globeinvestor.com; Nikkei.net;
Insight: Millennium Wave; The Street.com; The Daily Reckoning; The Motley Fool; The Street;
Online Trading: Charles Schwab; E*Trade; Ameritrade; Discover Brokerage; Morgan Stanley Dean Witter; Merrill Lynch; Paine Webber;
Online Banking: Netbank (high interest rates); Telebank.com; E*Trade;
IPOs:Wit Capital; W.R. Hambrecht's OpenIPO; E-Offering IPOs; IPOCentral (listings of upcoming IPOs and the performance of past ones);
Mutual Funds: Morningstar; Mutual Fund Investor's Center; Scudder Kemper Investments; Smart Money; Strong Funds; Fidelity Investments; The Vanguard Group;
U.S. Savings Bonds: Compute redemption value of U.S. Savings Bonds;
Children: Visabuxx Card (a charge card for children that is really a stored value card);

Jobs and Careers

Online Job Searches: Job-o-Magic (master list of all job search sites); CareerMosaic; CareerPath.com; HeadHunter.net; JobDirect; Monster.com; Net-Temps.com; NationJob Database; CareerBuilder Search Engine (searches Monster, HotJobs, HeadHunter and CareerPath);
Speciality Job Sites: ShowBizJobs.Com; TVJobs; Resources for Health Professionals and Executives; Academic Employment Network; College Grad; Adguide's College Recruiter Employment Site; Summer Jobs; LawJobs; LawMatch; EmpLawyernet.com; lawyersweeklyjobs;
Career Planning: Career Resource Center; BadReferences.com (sting your exboss);
Employee Stock Options: MyStockOptions;
Online Adult Education; CenQuest (associated with Univ of Texas and NYU's Stern School of Business); Unext (associated with Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Columbia);

Loans, Mortgages, Miscellaneous

Real Estate: HomeGain.com (home valuations); www.vladi-private-islands.de (private islands);
Mortgage and Loan Info: Bank Rate Monitor; HSH Consumer Mortgage and Loan Info;
Credit Cards: Ram Research's Card Web (compare credit cards);
Personal Insurance: esurance; Insuremarket; InsWeb; QuickQuote; Geico (auto insurance); Progressive (auto insurance); Progressive Auto Insurance;
IRS: The Official IRS Web Site (including all forms);
Moving: A List of Prequalifed Moving Companies; Ryder; U-Haul Moving; Allied Van Lines;
Divorce (Women): DivorceSupport.com; DivorceSource.com; Divorce War (with a focus for women); Tao of Divorce - A Woman's Guide to Winning;
Divorce (Men): Children's Rights Council; The Fathers' Rights and Equality Exchange; Families Need Fathers (a UK-based self-help society); American Coalition for Fathers & Children; American Father's Coalition; The Vixie Men's Issues Page;
Scholarships:
Find Unclaimed Money Held by the State: Unclaimed.org (national directory); Missingmoney (subscribed to by a large number of states);
Life Insurance: Insweb.com; NetQuote.com; Quicken.com; Quotesmith.com; Youdecide.com; Term4sale.com (to get the best deal, the consumer advocates recommended going to Term4Sale and two or three other sites to compare prices)