Internet: Search Engines

• Ask Jeeves: ask a question, get links with answers, plus multi-search
• Deja News (search newsgroup messages)
• Dogpile: Search up to 40 engines at once, serially
• E-mail addresses from Usenet messages (searchable)
• Excite!
• Gigablast search
• Google
• Hotbot (search 54 million pages)
• Images search by Google
• Internet Searching for People, Places, and Things (long list)
• LookSmart (categorized listings)
• Lycos
• MetaCrawler Multi-index search at one time
• MetaEureka: meta search of multiple search engines at once.
• Open Directory Project: Yahoo-like directory by volunteer editors
• People Search (Pipl.com): metasearch of many resources
• QuickFound: lists specialized search engines by topic
• Search.com (useful/unusual category searches)
• Search for Usenet Newsgroups
• Start Page: formerly Isquick search
• Teoma: search engine with experts' picks
• Vivisimo: multi-search engine returns results, categories, previews
• Yahoo Search
• Zuula: One-stop search for Google, Yahoo, blogs, news, etc.

Internet: Wonders and Powerhouses

• Automatic Speech Writer
• Birthday lookup (enter a name, find out their age/birthday)
• Books Online: 20,000+ books and textbooks readable on the Internet
• BotSpot: use or talk to an Internet robot
• CraigsList: classified ads for major cities, free
• Ellis Island Records of immigrants to the US, searchable database
• FedWorld (linking 100+ federal government bulletin boards)
• GIF World (best free animated GIF files)
• Greeting cards online personalized with your voice (WeGotCards.com)
• Movie Reviews searchable database from leading publications
• The Onion (satirical politically incorrect weekly e-zine)
• Real Media Player
• Time Inc.
• Translator online: enter text or webpage for foreign language translation
• Web Auto Pilot (loads a random homepage every 12 seconds)
• The White House (and federal government links)
• The Yuckiest Site on the Internet (fun science site for kids)

Internet: References

• Free Internet Service Providers Worldwide
• Internet Access Providers List of Lists
• Internet Archive: find old homepages from sites since 1996
• Internet service providers (ISPs) around the country by TheList
• Internic domain name lookup (whois services)
• IRT.org: FAQs on web design
• Jump City (reviews of Internet sites)
• My Virtual Reference Desk (lotsa links)
• Spamhaus: database of the worst spammers
• Spamotomy: removal tools and spam news
• Speedtest.net: one of the best Internet download/upload testers
• Speed test for your Internet connection (testmy.net)
• Test upload and download speed
• TUCOWS: the best Internet applications by type
• Yahoo Internet Directory

Internet: Computer References