Fast Information
Major Search Engines
Metasearch Engines
Minor Search Engines
Search Engine Roundup Sites
Search Engines for Children
Specialized Directories

Fast Information
Google Reference: http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/
Infoplease: www.infoplease.com
My Virtual Reference Desk: www.refdesk.com
Search.Langenberg.com: www.langenberg.com
Ready Reference (Internet Public Library): http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref00.00.00
Yahoo Reference: http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/

Specialized Directories & Search Englines (in alphabetical order)
Altavista Babelfish Translation: http://babelfish.altavista.com/
American Journalism Review (Index of News sites): www.newslink.org/news.html
Answers Yahoo: http://answers.yahoo.com
Bartleby.com Reference: http://www.bartleby.com/reference/
Catalist: The Official Catalog of Listservs: www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
Dictionary.com : www.dictionary.com
Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/
Find Articles: www.findarticles.com
Federal Citizen Information Center: www.pueblo.gsa.gov
FirstGov: http://www.firstgov.gov/
Gigablast Search: http://gigablast.com/
Gigablast Web Directory: http://dir.gigablast.com/
Google Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/
Google Directory: http://www.google.com/dirhp
Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/
Google Image Search: www.images.google.com
Google Language & Translation Tools: http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
Google News Search: http://news.google.com/
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
Healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Infomine: Visual & Performing Arts Index:
http://lib-www.ucr.edu/vpainfo.html
Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php
Internet Archive for Audio: http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Internet Archive for Moving Images: http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Internet Archive Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Internet Movie Database: http://us.imdb.com/
Internet Public Library: www.ipl.org
Internet Public Library Subject Collections: http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/
Librarians’ Index to the Internet: http://lii.org/
Library of Congress Catalogs: http://catalog.loc.gov/
Library of Congress' Minerva Internet Archives: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/html/minerva-home.html
Libraryspot: www.libraryspot.com
Library Servers Via WWW: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb
My Virtual Reference Desk: www.refdesk.com
National Geographic Maps: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
New York Times Movie Reviews: http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/
Online Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org/
Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
Roots Web Message Boards: http://boards.ancestry.com/
Scirus Science Search: http://www.scirus.com/
Translation: Altavista Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/
WWW Virtual Library: http://vlib.org/
Yahoo Answers: http://answers.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Directories: http://dir.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Maps: http://maps.yahoo.com/

Major Search Engines
AOL Search : http://search.aol.com/
Altavista: www.altavista.com
Ask.com: www.ask.com
Exalead One Websearch: http://www.exalead.com/search
Google: www.google.com
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org/
Windows Live Search (formerly MSN Search): http://www.live.com/
Yahoo: www.yahoo.com

Minor Search Engines
About.com: www.about.com
Founded in 1996 and originally named The Mining Company, About.com offers a searchable network of specialized sites created by over 500 Guides, who are experts in their chosen areas. About.com is now owned by the New York Times Company.
AlltheWeb: http://www.alltheweb.com/ (now powered by Yahoo!)
Exalead One Websearch: http://www.exalead.com/search
Excite: www.excite.com
Gigablast: http://gigablast.com/
Go.com: http://infoseek.go.com/  (formerly Infoseek, now powered by Yahoo! Search)
Lycos: www.lycos.com (now powered by Ask)

MetaSearch Engines
Clusty.com: http://clusty.com/ (Owned by Vivismo)
Dogpile: www.dogpile.com
FindIt!: www.iTools.com
Hotsheet: www.hotsheet.com
Ixquick: www.ixquick.com
Kartoo: www.kartoo.com
Mamma: www.mamma.com
Metacrawler: www.metacrawler.com
QueryServer for Web: http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm
QueryServer for News: http://www.queryserver.com/news.htm
QueryServer for Health: http://www.queryserver.com/health.htm
QueryServer for Government: http://www.queryserver.com/government.htm
Webcrawler: http://www.webcrawler.com

Search Directories (subject-oriented categories)
Google Directory: http://www.google.com/dirhp
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org/
Yahoo Directories: http://dir.yahoo.com/

Search Engine Roundup Sites
Langenberg.com Search Page: www.langenberg.com
Looking for a site that provides a directory of specialized search engines? Then, look no further: Link to www.langenberg.com, where you'll discover over 20 subject areas ranging from Area Codes to Zip Codes, but also emcompassing Cooking, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Government, Maps, and more!
iTools: http://www.itools.com/ (formerly Research-It)

Search Engines for Children
Ask for Kids: http://www.askforkids.com/
Yahoo! Kids (formerly Yahooligans): http://kids.yahoo.com/

Specialized Search Engines
Audio & Music
Altavista Audio Search: http://www.altavista.com/audio/default
Internet Archive for Audio: http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Yahoo Movies: http://movies.yahoo.com/

Addresses, Email & Telephone Numbers
Infospace: http://www.infospace.com/
Superpages: http://www.superpages.com/
Switchboard: http://www.switchboard.com/
Yahoo People Search: http://email.people.yahoo.com/
Yellow Pages: http://www.yellowpages.com/
Zoom Info: http://www.zoominfo.com/

Business & Industry
CEO Express: http://www.ceo-express.com/default.asp
Looking for a one-page list of some of the best news and business information links on the Web? Look no further - you've found it here at CEO Express, which places a world of information at your fingertips.
Corporate Information: www.corporateinformation.com
The good news is that this site no longer requires registration. But, the bad news is that full company reports are no longer available without a paid subscription. Free Snapshot Reports are, as the name implies, available for free. Now owned by Wright Investors' Service, corporateinformation.com was begun in 1996 by George Regnery.
Edgar - SEC Filings & Forms: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Google Finance: http://finance.google.com/finance
Hoovers Online: http://www.hoovers.com
Hoovers Online provides free company "snapshots" on over 43,000 public, non-public, US, and non-US companies.   Also, more in-depth reports are available for an annual---or monthly---fee. Many public libraries provide free access to Hoover's paid subscription database to their patrons.
Wall Street Journal's Research & Tools Section: http://online.wsj.com/public/page/0_0800.html?mod=topnav_0_0012
Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Finance Help & Directory: http://help.yahoo.com/help/fin/

Dictionaries
Dictionary.com : www.dictionary.com
The Free Dictionary: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Electronic Books - Books Online - Copyright Free
Bartleby Books Online: http://www.bartleby.com/
Bibliomania.com: http://www.bibliomania.com
Electronic Text Center: http://etext.virginia.edu/
Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/
Knowledgerush Book Directory: http://knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/directory.jsp
Online Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Online Medieval & Classical Library: http://omacl.org/
Page by Page Books: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
The English Server: http://eserver.org/
The Free Library: http://thefreelibrary.com/

Encyclopedias
Encarta Encyclopedia (from MSN): http://encarta.msn.com/
Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Now owned by Highbeam, Encyclopedia.com trawls over 57,000 updated articles/items from the Columbia Encyclopedia's Sixth Edition.
Encyclopedia Britannica : http://www.britannica.com/
Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Films - Movies
Internet Archive for Moving Images: http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Internet Movie Database: http://us.imdb.com/
Movies Yahoo: http://movies.yahoo.com/
New York Times Movie Reviews: http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/

Forums & Groups
Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/
Roots Web Message Boards: http://boards.ancestry.com/
Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/

Genealogy
Census Finder: http://www.censusfinder.com/
Cyndi's List: http://www.cyndislist.com/
Ellis Island Arrivals: http://ellisislandrecords.org/
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: http://immigrantships.net/
National Archives for Genealogists: http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/
Roots Web: http://www.rootsweb.com/
Roots Web Message Boards: http://boards.ancestry.com/
USGen Web Project: http://www.usgenweb.com/

Government
Federal Consumer Information Center: www.pueblo.gsa.gov
FirstGov: http://www.firstgov.gov/
Launched in September 2000, Firstgov.gov bills itself as "the official U.S. gateway to all government information."
FirstGov en Español: http://www.firstgov.gov/Espanol/index.shtml
Internal Revenue Service: http://www.irs.gov/
Library of Congress Catalogs: http://catalog.loc.gov/
U.S. House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov/
U.S. Senate: http://www.senate.gov/
U.S. Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Health & Medicine
Healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.com
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Image (Photographs & Graphics)
AltaVista Image Search: http://www.altavista.com/image/default
Ditto Visual Search Engine: http://ditto.com/
Google Image Search: www.images.google.com
Landscape-Architecture Image Resource: http://www.lair.umd.edu/default.htm
Moving Images Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/movies

International News & History
All Africa: http://allafrica.com/
Ananzi, the South African Search Page: www.ananzi.co.za
BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Council on World Affairs: http://www.cfr.org/
Euroseek: www.euroseek.com
Russia on the Net: www.ru

Language Translations
Altavista Babelfish Translation: http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Google Language & Translation Tools: http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

Library Information, Library Science & Online Libraries
Internet Public Library: www.ipl.org
Librarians’ Index to the Internet: http://lii.org/
Library of Congress Catalogs: http://catalog.loc.gov/
Libraryspot: www.libraryspot.com
LibWeb: http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/
LibWeb provides a searchable database to over 7500 pages from libraries in over 135 countries.
LISwiki: http://liswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

Magazines & Journals
Find Articles: www.findarticles.com
A service of LookSmart, Findarticles.com provides a free, searchable database of over 10 million articles from more than 900 magazines and journals. Don't forget to view the list of searchable publications.
Library of Congress' List of News & Periodical Resources on the Web:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/lists.html
Making of America Magazine Archives - Cornell University: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html
Making of America Magazine Archives - University of Michigan: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Newspaper Archive: http://newspaperarchive.com
The Internet Library of Early Journals: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

Maps & Directions
Ask Maps: http://www.ask.com/#subject:map|pg:1
Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/
Google Maps: http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&tab=wl&q=
Mapquest: http://www.mapquest.com/
National Geographic Maps: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
Rand McNally: http://www.randmcnally.com/
Yahoo Maps: http://maps.yahoo.com/

News
AltaVista News: http://news.altavista.com/
American Journalism Review (Index of News sites): www.newslink.org/news.html
Ask News: http://news.ask.com/news?qsrc=&o=0&l=dir
Associated Press: http://customwire.ap.org/specials/bluepage.html#pa
BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Find Articles: www.findarticles.com
Google News: http://news.google.com/
Google News searches over 4,000 "continuously updated news sources."
Hometown News: http://www.hometownnews.com/
The Hometown News site provides a state-by-state listing of over 2,600 daily and weekly newspaper sites.
Lycos News: http://news.lycos.com/
QueryServer for News: http://www.queryserver.com/news.htm

Science & Technology
Catalist: The Official Catalog of Listservs: www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
CNET: www.cnet.com
Search Jupiter Media Online : http://search.internet.com/
Scirus Science Search: http://www.scirus.com/

Sports
Librarians' Index to the Internet - Sports: http://www.lii.org/pub/topic/sports
Open Directory - Sports: http://dmoz.org/Sports/
Yahoo Sports Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/

Usenet
Google Groups (previously Dejanews): http://groups.google.com/
Read/search the Internet's message boards. The search engine Google recently purchased the Usenet's archives. To learn more about Usenet and how to use it, link here.

Weather
Ask Weather: http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/site_features.shtml#weather
Weather Channel: http://www.weather.com/

Web Archives
Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php
Internet Archive Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Library of Congress' Minerva Internet Archives: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/html/minerva-home.html

Web Search Information & Updates
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial - From UC Berkeley Library:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/index.htmSearch Engine Showdown: http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
Search Engine Watch: www.searchenginewatch.com
Search Engine Sizes: http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/sizes.html (outdated info)
Search Engine Land: http://www.searchengineland.com (Danny Sullivan's new site.)

Websearch on About.com: http://websearch.about.com
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