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Google Search,
mail, maps and more. It includes a search
of Usenet discussions , a government
search, an image search,
maps,local
listings and Google Scholar for
scholarly literature.
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Yahoo! Search,
news, e-mail, shopping, and many other services
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Vivisimo searches
and categorizes results helpfully
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A9, from
Amazon, adds some interesting twists to Web search.
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Alta
Vista now from Overture, includes audio and video search.
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The Open
Directory Project aims to become the largest Web directory edited
by (volunteer) humans
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All
the Web, from Fast Search, is quick and simple
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Ask.com has
Web search and several other useful
search features.
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Ixquick,
Excite,
Dogpile,
CNet
Search.com and Metacrawler simultaneously
search different combinations of multiple Web search engines
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Reporter's
Desktop conveniently consolidates many ways to find people and things.
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Librarians' Index
to the Internet Useful sites organized and annotated by librarians
in California and Washington
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About.com has
humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
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Searchmil.com searches
for information in military (.mil) computers
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The
Hardin Meta Directory catalogs health-related sites
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Topica
and Tile.Net will help you find Internet
mailing lists
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For an introduction to blogs try Blogs
101.
Government
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The
White House
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The House
of Representatives
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The Senate
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Thomas, the
Library of Congress information service. Also see its Portals
to the World for country-by-country information
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The
Supreme Court
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Federal
District and Appeals Courts
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GovEngine.com organizes
federal, state and local government links cleanly and well.
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FirstGov The
government's official portal gives organized access to a variety of government
web sites and services.
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FedWorld
Information Services: Comprehensive guide to Government databases
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Federal
Government Agencies, a clean, easy-to-use listing
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Federal
Web Locator allows searching
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GPO
Access searches the Federal Register, U.S. Code, Congressional bills
and other Government publications
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Fedstats collects
and organizes statistics from 70 agencies
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National
Archives and Records Administration catalogs records held by Government
agencies
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DefenseLink News
and live briefings from the U.S. Department of Defense
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Census
Bureau home page, 1990
Census tables and Ferret, for
recent population and income data. Also see Social Explorer, in Non-Government,
below.
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Bureau of
Labor Statistics A wealth of economic information
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Centers for
Disease Control
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National
Hurricane Center
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United
States Geological Survey,current
earthquake information and Earthquake
Information Center
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Federal
Aviation Administration databases of airline safety reports
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State
and local government websites from Piper Resources
Non-Government
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National
Criminal Justice Reference Service
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Criminal
justice links assembled by Cecil Greek at Florida State University
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Terraserver
USA Topographic maps and aerial views of the United States
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United Nations and
U.N. Web locator
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Newsahead upcoming
scheduled news events around the globe
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FindLaw has
an extensive collection of legal links
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KnowX Free
and low-cost information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and other
public filings for businesses and individuals
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Virtual
Gumshoe has a variety of useful investigative links
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Landings Comprehensive
aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty
reports, pilot certifications
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Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press has links and information, including
a fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request. (This list offederal
freedom of information officers may be useful, as well as thisNew
York State FOI page and these links to state
FOI laws)
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Center
for Public Integrity tracks various aspects of public life and has
useful research tools
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Social
Explorer, from Queens College, helps you visualize United States
demographic information with maps.
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The
Freedom Forum Journalism, journalism education and first amendment
issues
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The
Smoking Gun presents (undigested) documents obtained from court
files and through freedom of information requests
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John
Makulowich's Awesome list of web resources, alphabetically, but
not updated for a while.
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Power
Reporting is Bill Dedman's well-organized list of resources for
journalists.
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The Wayback
Machine archives many Web pages back to 1996.
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Business & Finance references are available
from Business
Navigator
The Reference Desk
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Research
It all-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators, more
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LibrarySpot Extensive
guide to online reference works
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YourDictionary.com
and
Onelook give access to hundreds
of dictionaries, specialized and general
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Encyclopaedia
Britannica The one and only. (Now with a fee for full articles.)
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Refdesk leads
you to a world of reference materials.
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Answers.com gives
them to you, on an array of topics
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Wikipedia is
the Web's increasingly popular (but not uniformly accurate) user-maintained
encyclopedia.
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Trademark
Checklist from the International Trademark Association helps stop
brand abuse
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Roget's
Internet Thesaurus
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Information
Please Almanac Almanac, dictionary and the full Columbia Encyclopedia
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Biography.com offers
brief, cross-referenced biographies of more than 25,000 notables.
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Travlang language-to-language
translation dictionaries
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Babel
Fish and FreeTranslation give
basic (and sometimes amusing) translations of Web pages or text. (The latter
offers human translation at a price.)
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The
Elements of Style The 1918 version
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C.I.A.
World Factbook
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Library of
Congress, including Marvel and Locis
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The New
York Public Library
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The
World Wide Web Virtual Library
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National
Library of Medicine and Medline
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Ingenta (formerly
Carl Uncover) provides free citations from 26,000 publications; charge
for full articles
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The
Merck Manual guide to diseases
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RxList:
The Internet Drug Index Extensive information on prescription and
over-the-counter drugs
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Bioterrorism
resources from the National Academies
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Nutrient
database from the U.S.D.A.
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Law Guru gives
access to hundreds of legal search engines and the Internet Law Library
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Lawoffice.com
from West's Legal Directory and Martindale-Hubbell's
Lawyer Locator
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The
U.S. Constitution
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U.S.
Patents since 1971, from the Patent and Trademark Office
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The
Bible Gateway lets you search the Bible, in many editions and languages.
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I.R.S. information
and publications. For more tax sites, try taxsites.com.
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National
Geographic's Map Machine
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Google
maps, Mapquest,
Yahoo!
Maps and MSN Maps give street-level
maps, directions and in some cases satellite images for U.S. addresses
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Social
Security death index
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Consumer
World has consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
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Currency
converter from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency
to another
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ConvertIt converts
measurements, currencies, timezones and more
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Cost-of-living
calculator and other useful tools
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How
Far Is It? gives the distance between two cities
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U.S.
Naval Observatory and National Institutes
of Standards and Technology What time is it, exactly?
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Weather
Underground The weather everywhere
Telephone & E-mail
Directories
Breaking News & Daily
Publications
Magazines & Features
Collections of Many Publications
Politics
The New York Region
Commerce
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AddALL no-frills
book price comparison service; AMusicArea for
CD's; AMovieArea for DVD's
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Amazon The
online megastore. Books, music, videos, games, electronics, food, sporting
goods -- and ever growing
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Bankrate.com
and E-loan can help find the best
interest rates for a mortgage, auto, credit card or other loan
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Bizrate lets
you see how fellow consumers rate online merchants and compares prices
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BizWeb: Internet
commercial sites by category
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Buy.com good
prices and service on electronics, books, music and video.
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Buyer's
Index searches 19,000 Web sites and catalogs for the product you
seek.
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Consumer
Search Reviews of products from a variety of publications
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DeepDiscount.com has
consistently low CD and DVD prices
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Ebay The
online auction house and storefront
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Epinions has
consumer reviews of many products, and price comparisons (now part of Shopping.com)
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PriceGrabber,PriceScan
and Shopping.com let
compare prices for computer hardware and software, electronics, movies,
books and other goods.
Travel
Reservations
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Travelocity,Expedia,Orbitz
and CheapTickets have airline
tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information
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ITA
Software Clear, well-organized listings of flights and fares, domestic
and international, with booking codes.
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Kayak and
Sidestep search
for travel fares and prices across multiple sites
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Hotels.com Hotels,
vacation rentals, packages
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Quikbook Good
rates for selected hotels in major destinations (mostly in the United States)
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Hotwire can
help you find travel bargains if you're flexible
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Priceline lets
you name your own price for travel (and mortgages), and see if anyone will
bite.
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Site 59 Big
discounts on last-minute travel packages
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Travelzoo collects
special travel offers from many sites
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SeatGuru will
help you figure out where (and where not) sit on your next flight.
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Hertz,Avis,National
and Budget will rent
you a car
Guides
Entertainment/Culture/Pastimes
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The Internet
Movie Database Everything you want to know about films
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Rotten
Tomatoes is popular for its collections of movie reviews, previews
and information.
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Metacritic gathers
reviews of movies and DVDs, music, books and more.
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Movie Review
Query Engine Find reviews from all over for the movie of your choice
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Reel.com helps
you find movies it thinks you'll like
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Moviefone,MovieTickets.com
and Fandango have theater times
and advance ticket purchases
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Ticketmaster has
information and tickets for music, theater and sporting events
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YouTube,
Veoh,
Vimeo,
Atom
Films and ifilm offer short films,
animations and other video
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TV Guide Now
includes an extensive movie database
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Zap2it provides
customized TV listings (Gist is gone)
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PBS Online
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The
Discovery Channel Online
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National
Endowment for the Arts
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The
Museum of Online Museums can guide you to some of the Web's best
museum sites.
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World Wide
Arts Resources
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NWHQ: Independent
artists on the Web
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The Louvre More
fun to visit in person, but you can see many exhibits without leaving home.
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Art on the
Net, an exhibit by 80 artists, and links to other art sites
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mp3.com makes
a wide variety of music available in its eponymous Internet format
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Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame
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Internet
Underground Music Archives
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Classical
Music Archive An extensive collection of classical music to hear
and download
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Epicurious,
the Food Network, Allrecipes.com
and RecipeSource will help
you answer the question, "What's for dinner?"
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Wine
Spectator has ratings and reviews of thousands of wines
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Wine
Lovers' Page is full of wine ratings, questions and answers, information
(and enthusiasm)
Sports & Recreation
Miscellany
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