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Internet
Finding Tools
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Search Engines
- All
theWeb, All the Time
- Search the web,
news, pictures, videos, MP3 files and FTP files.
- AltaVista
- A large search
engine featuring advanced Boolean searching and
date ranging.
- Ask
Jeeves
- Enter a question
in plain English and Ask Jeeves returns a list of
similar questions. After users select the closest
match, Ask Jeeves takes them to a site that answers
the question.
- Daypop
- A current events
search engine. Indexes news sites and weblogs.
- Excite
- Search web sites,
directories, news and photos.
- FirstGov
- Official gateway
to federal government websites, services and online
transactions. Find information from U.S. local,
state and federal government agency websites.
- Google
- Search the web,
images, Usenet groups or the directory feature.
Includes advanced search, preferences and language
tools.
- HotBot
- Searches the full
text of documents in its large database. Ranks retrieval
by relevance. Can refine search, limiting retrieval
by date, language, media type, technology or domain.
Advanced search feature allows Boolean searching.
- Lycos
- Search the web
or specific portions of it.
- Teoma
- Results consider
authority as well as relevancy. Offers suggestions
on refining your search, and includes a resource
section that refers to websites created by enthusiasts
and experts.
- WebCrawler
- Search the web,
news or photos. The zoom in feature refines your
query by producing a list of related terms.
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Multi-Engine
Sites: sites listing many search engines
- Beaucoup!
- Links to
more than 2500 search engines, directories and indices.
Arranged by category.
- EZ-Find
- Enter keywords
and submit them in turn to any one of twelve search
engines.
- Findspot
- Includes search
engines and directories.
- Search
Engine Colossus
- Provides links
to search engines from 196 countries.
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Meta-Search Engines:
search several search engines simultaneously
- Dogpile
- Searches the web,
images, audio/MP3, FTP and news wires. Offers
custom search options, allowing you to query any
or all of the search engines supported.
- ixquick
- Limit your search
to the web, news, MP3 or pictures.
- Mamma:
The Mother of all Search Engines
- Search the web,
news, images, video and audio.
- MetaCrawler
- Searches major
engines and organizes results by relevance to the
search term.
- ProFusion
- Metasearch over
1000 search sites, including engines, web directories,
discussion groups, news sources, online publications
and archives.
- Search.com
- Metasearch over
800 specialized engines.
- Vivisimo
- Enter a search
query and receive the combined output of several
search engines in organized, clustered groups.
- Zworks
- Searches 15 search
engines simultaneously, removing duplicates and
ranking results.
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Subject Directories
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Provides topical guides to rated Internet resources.
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Intended for faculty, students, and research staff
at the university level. Contains highly useful
Internet resources including databases, electronic
journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs,
online library card catalogs, articles and directories
of researchers.
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A directory of annotated Internet resources arranged
by subject. The index is browsable or searchable
by keyword in subject, title or description.
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Explore the web using a list of broad subjects that
allow you to zero in on more specific topics, finally
generating a list of web sites for you. Also
has a search feature that allows you to input terms.
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A web directory edited by people, it is arranged
by subject.
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The oldest catalog of the web, it is a respected
subject guide to the Internet.
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A browsable subject guide to the web. Yahoo also
allows keyword searching.
Invisible Web
- Direct
Search
- A searchable compilation
of links to search interfaces of resources that
contain data not easily or entirely searchable or
accessible from general search engines.
- Invisibleweb.com
- A directory of
over 10,000 databases, archives, and search engines
that contain information that traditional search
engines have been unable to access.
- CompletePlanet
- A compilation
of searchable databases and specialty search engines.
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Discussion List and News Group Locators
- CataList
- A continuously
updated, searchable catalog of public listservs.
- Google
Groups
- Search Usenet
newsgroups by keyword, or browse by topic.
- Tile.net
- A reference to
all public listserv discussion groups on the Internet,
as well as Usenet newsgroups and FTP sites.
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Maps
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Calculates the distance between two places using
latitude and longitude data from the U.S. Census
and a supplementary list of international cities.
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Retrieve a map using address, area code and exchange,
domain name, latitude and longitude, or airport
codes. Other options include driving directions
and favorite destinations. Requires registration.
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A consumer travel site. Provides maps, driving directions,
trip planning aids and more.
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Web site of the John R. Borchert Map Library at
the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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Create maps or plan a route using an address.
Search yellow pages by name or business type and
retrieve businesses within a selected distance from
a selected location.
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Online mapping resource for topographic maps and
charts for land, sea and air.
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National Geographic's site includes country maps,
facts, flags and profiles, as well as political
and physical maps.
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Find subway routes in various cities around the
world. Arranged by country.
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Enter an address to generate a map of the area.
Then offers driving directions or locate businesses
feature.
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Use to find the proper ZIP code for an address,
or to find city/state ZIP code associations.
New Jersey State Government Directories
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Telephone Directories
and People Finders
- AMA
Physician Select
- Provides information
on licensed physicians in the United States.
- AnyWho
- U.S. white page
listings for people and businesses. Also provides
business category, telephone number lookup, and
toll free number search options. Includes
international links for white and yellow pages.
- InfoSpace
- Includes a variety
of yellow page and white page search options, as
well as classified, business and city guides.
- infoUSA
- Search U.S. or
Canadian white pages by name or telephone number,
and yellow pages by business name, category or phone
number.
- Internet
Address Finder
- Search for Internet
addresses by personal name, or by e-mail address.
- Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer Locator
- Provides access
to the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
Search by lawyer name, law firm, location and area
of practice, and corporate name. Can also
locate government lawyers and law faculty.
- RingThem.com
- A comprehensive
listing of world telephone directories online.
- Search
Systems
- Links to public
records databases.
- SuperPages.com
- U.S. businesses
are searchable by name and type of business. Includes
a distance search feature which locates similar
businesses within a selected distance, and a detailed
search mode. Includes SuperPage links for
Canada and Puerto Rico, as well as a link for Spanish.
- Switchboard
- Find people, businesses,
products and maps & directions.
- Telephone
Directories on the Web
- Index of international
telephone directories. Choices differ from country
to country, but generally include white and yellow
pages.
- The
Ultimate White Pages
- Provides a common
interface to search six different phone number directories:
Yahoo, WhoWhere, Switchboard, AnyWho, InfoSpace
and Whitepages.com. Can also search by phone
number and for maps.
- West
Legal Directory
- Locate a lawyer
or a law firm. Search options include: government,
corporate, location, area of practice, international,
law firm and lawyer name.
- WhitePages.com
- Find a person,
area code, zip code, email address, toll free number,
web site, international telephone directory or make
a map. Can also search by phone number or
address.
- WhoWhere
- Search for e-mail
addresses, residential phone numbers, business listings,
celebrities, home pages and ancestors.
- Yahoo!
People Search
- Searchable white
pages and e-mail directories.
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Toll-Free Directories
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