Search engines, with help

1. Metacrawler at GO2NET. One of the oldest metasearch engines.
2. Google! An experimental search engine at Stanford (which I now use first).
3. Mamma "The Mother of All Search Engines." A metasearch site.
4. Inference Find! "The intelligent and fast parallel search" uses the six engines in parallel. merges results, removes dupes, clusters the results into "neat understandable groupings".
5. Ed's Search Tools Multiple search engine page. Just under 50 infotools.
6. Jef's Search Tools Multiple search engine page. Over 100 infotools.
7. The Mining Co. Professional expert guidance from hundreds of Guides for thousands of topics.
8. UC Berkeley Library Web-Search Strategies A guide for the perplexed.
9. When all else fails ... Ask Jeeves of course. Natural language queries .... with advertising while you wait.
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   News and comment, US

10. The Newsroom Multiple news site page. Rich resources. Real journalism.
11. CNN Interactive CNN - the cable news network.
12. Nando Times A newspaper that's only on the web. Pioneer in online publishing.
13. The New York Times A newspaper from the other side of the country.
14. The New York Times Archive Services The NYT 365-day archive. + the EB.
15. Reuters World News through Yahoo.
16. Pathfinder Time Warner's news site.
17. Time the magazine.
18. ABC News
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    News and comment, Northwest

19. The Seattle Times Seattle news
20. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle news
21. Puget Sound Business Journal Seattle news
22. DJC Online Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
23. TIDEPOOL "News for the Rain Forest Coast" (Pacific Northwest)
24. High Country News "..for people who care about the West"
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    Information Technology and business news

25. Red Herring magazine. "The Business of Technology"
26. @BRINT Business, Technology & Knowledge Management.
27. California Technology Stock Letter from Michael Murphy.
28. CNNFN CNN financial Network.
29. CNET NEWS.COM "tech news first" - Technology news.
30. CMP TechWeb News of Digital Technology from the publishers of Network Computing.
31. WSJ Wall Street Journal
32. Fortune Magazine "Capitalist Tool"
33. SiliconValley.com San Jose Mercury's tech news page.
34. The Register "Biting the hand that feeds IT" - News and opinion.
35. Wired magazine. User's view of IT.
36. Edupage IT news for educators. Click: "Visit without joining"; "Read messages". Each message is an issue. Click one. Get weekly email delivery by joining.
37. whatis.com IT jargon - An encyclopedia of information technology.
38. The Computer Museum The history of information technology from WWII to present.
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    Stock Exchanges and Online Trading Sites

39. NYSE New York Stock Exchange.
40. Nasdaq Exchange.
41. Ameritrade Stock reports and trading.
42. Datek Stock reports and trading.
43. Discover Stock reports and trading.
44. DLJdirect Stock reports and trading.
45. E*trade Stock reports and trading.
46. Fidelity Stock reports and trading.
47. Jack White Stock reports and trading.
48. Schwab Stock reports and trading.
49. The Street Stock reports, trading, and banking.
50. Waterhouse Stock reports and trading.
51. Wit Capital Stock reports and trading. Links to other tools.
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    Business Reference and Market Reports

52. AAII American Association of Individual Investors
53. Bigcharts Interactive stock charts and other reports.
54. Briefing Financial news site. "Live market analysis."
55. Currency Site Currency news, tables, rates, and a currency converter (calculator).
56. EDGAR database The Securities Exchange Commission's public database on corporations.
57. Hoover's Online Business news and data. Popular reference site for corporate information.
58. Morningstar Portfolio management. Search tools for funds and stocks.
59. Motley Fool Stock reports and money management advice.
60. NAIC National Association of Investors Corporation.
61. Quote.com Stock reports and streaming charts.
62. Raging Bull Stock reports and gossip threads sorted by stock.
63. Silicon Investor "Financial discussion site".
64. Zack's Stock reports.
65. Thomas Register The supercatalog of industrial services, supplies, and equipment.
66. Public Information Network "Research and technical assistance to communities working to hold corporations and governments accountable and building socially just and ecologically sustainable societies."
67. The Rght to Know Network Free access to databases etc. on factories and their environmental effects, banks' investments in their communities, etc.
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    General Reference

68. Henry Madden Library, CSU Fresno Reference Sources. A bigger infotools selection than I have.
69. iTools! - Full-Serve Internet Tools Your internet librarian.
70. Internet Public Library Run by librarians. Just like a public library.
71. Martindale's 'The Reference Desk: Calculators On-Line' 7500 specialised calculators of all kinds.
72. World Factbook Public domain library of the CIA.
73. The World Bank Group World economic reports.
74. Information Please Combo reference search page.
75. WebCrawler: Reference Reference page of one of the oldest major search engines.
76. Liszt, the mailing list directory A graduate seminar in anything you want. Over 90,000 listservs.
77. The Why Files Science education.
78. Current Internet Hoaxes Urban Legends and Folklore De-bunking for that alarming email we get.
79. History Channel If you're not news, you're ....
80. Old Farmer's Almanac North America's oldest continuously published periodical. Since 1792.
81. Time Service Department U.S. Naval Observatory Time.
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    Language Reference

82. Hypertext Webster Gateway All words are hyperlinked. Searches multiple dictionaries on the web.
83. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and thesaurus.
84. Roget's Internet Thesaurus "of English words and phrases."
85. Bartlett's quotations Who said what.
86. Acronym lookup What does "IMHO" mean? Find definitions for those obscure acronyms.
87. AltaVista: Translations Bidirectional - English and - German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese.
88. Translators and Dictionaries for 128 languages. Many translation resources and services. Presented by Rivendell International Communications
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    Maps

89. MapQuest Where are we going? Give an address; get a map. Good maps.
90. Xerox PARC Map Viewer Point at the globe and zoom in. Cool interface of course (from the originator of the desktop), but detail gets sparse at closer views.
91. PCL Map Collection A massive global collection of maps, large and small, plus nautical charts, aeronautical, and historical maps, from the Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas. Card catalog style lookup, but better detail.
92. Color Landform Atlas US Maps: shaded relief color maps, satellite false color images, historical maps, PostScript (printable) maps. US only.
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    Weather and traffic conditions - real-time maps

93. Intellicast Worldwide weather. Plus specialty forecasting for sailing, skiing, golf, ...
94. The Weather Channel - Weather Maps Their current weather database. Their maps are slow to load.
95. SAN FRANCISCO WEATHER - NWS Local weather for SFBA; marine forecasts, animated radar maps, the works. Includes some Northern Calif and Southern Calif views.
96. Seattle Traffic Map - Horizontal System What delays should I expect? Real time traffic map.
97. Real Time Traffic Maps for San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Atlanta, and Chicago, so far.
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    Travel and Cuisine and Films

98. Official Airline Guide The OAG airline schedules online.
99. The Ultimates Trip planner, White & Yellow Pages, Email directory.
100. newyork.sidewalk What's happening in NYC.
101. What's Going On Eclectic calendar. Nationwide.
102. A San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Calendar What are they doing now?
103. Craig's list (SFBA) Eclectic postings (free) of jobs, apartments, stuff for sale, etc. ...It's an SFBA online flea market.
104. Zagat Restaurant Survey: Seattle
105. Zagat Restaurant Survey: San Francisco
106. Culinary Network Home of ChefNet
107. The Internet Movie Database A database of more than 180,000 titles.
108. Sundance Channel Festival 99: Film Guide
109. Firefly (SFBA) Music and movies recommendation system. A cultural preference database with algorithms similar to Amazon, but focused on Movies, Music, Restaurants, Night Clubs, and Issues. Build your personal preferences database by rating the movie lists it presents; it tells you what you'd like to see that you haven't seen. Also chat stuff. Membership is free, but a little complicated.
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     Directories, phone and postal - with street address, map, and email address. - "people finders".

110. Switchboard Home Page Phone number directory, maps of addresses, and email lookups. The original.
111. 555-1212.com White and yellow pages for all area codes.
112. Anywho.com People and business finder.
113. BigBook Yellow Pages.
114. Four11 Directory Services Phone number directory assistance from Yahoo!
115. InfoUSA directory Assistance Phone number directory and maps of addresses.
116. Lycos: Who Where People Finder Email address lookup. ...and more.
117. WORLDPAGES Find Anything. Anyone. Anywhere.
118. Area Code finder Give an area code, get a city; or vice versa.
119. Zip Code Lookup and Address Information U.S. Postal Service
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     Books

120. Internet Public Library Run by librarians. Just like a public library. (Remember them?)
121. On-Line Books Carnegie, the father of public libraries, now brings them to the net. Full text of 8000+ books.
122. Shakespeare's complete works at the Internet Public Library
123. Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
124. bookzen.com Index of small book publishers and self-publishing authors.
125. Amazon.com The original on-line bookstore with an associative database that shows you what else the buyers of this book are reading. More fun than a thesaurus.
126. Barnes and Noble online.
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