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Useful links for research on the Internet with critical comments - recommended by experienced Internet users. Subjects include search engines, humanities, history, arts, literature, science, geography, media, law, politics, world facts and reference."

Websites Recommended by Users, to Help you find Anything and Everything on the Net

Last update: 22 March 2001. New and changed addresses are marked *
We only include sites that have been checked and recommended. If a site doesn't come up to scratch, please tell us so we can keep this list up to date. The page is designed so that you can easily make it your browser's homepage, or you can check our What's New page each month for the latest information. We also have an archive of changes made over the years.

  1. Favorite Searchers

  2. Lists, Groups and Experts

  3. Other Search Facilities - Directories & Guides, Search Engines, Search Facilities, Image/Non-Text, Multiple and People Searchers

  4. Subject Guides and Libraries & Children's Resources

  5. Arts/Humanities

  6. Award Providers

  7. General Texts

  8. Media Archives

  9. Movies

  10. News

  11. Ready Reference - Facts & Data, General, Literary & Publishing, and World

  12. Academia

  13. Law, Crime, Politics, Government

  14. Science, General Knowledge, Computer and Internet

  15. Writers Resources

  16. Rumors & Hoax Verification Sites *

  17. Free Web Language Translators

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  Favorite Searchers

  Lists, Groups and Experts

  Other Directories, Search Engines, Search Facilities, Image/Non-Text and 
     Multiple Searchers.

Directories

  • About.com - value-added directory by experts on all subjects

  • Clearinghouse - one of the original value-added directories, rates links for quality

  • DMOZ Open Directory - sites evaluated by volunteers (you too could sign up in your field of expertise)

  • Excite - gives ratings and can also search across numerous publications

  • Magellan - with selected reviews ("green light" sites)

  • WebRings - sites linked by topic for easy browsing

  • Search IQ - loads of links to directories, search engines, guides, etc with reviews. Confusingly laid out but worth persevering with if you have patience

  • Snap - searchable directory

  • Yanoff's list - venerable and wide-ranging

Search Engines

  • AllTheWeb *

  • ProFusion - Intelliseek Enterprise Search Server™ (ESS) provides a unified search interface to thousands of information sources and databases across the corporate Intranet, Extranet, subscription sources and the Internet.

  • SNAP - good, comprehensive and quite new search site.*

  • CNET - search the whole net or by subject

  • FindSame - worth investigating *

  • Google - simple, functional and fast, with "search within results" function to narrow down your search

  • HotBot - can search for pictures, sound, video, etc, now with Direct Hit rankings

  • Infoseek - One of the old standards

  • Lycos - Ditto

  • Open Text

  • StudyWeb - educational search engine, graded

  • Go - super-engine from Infoseek

  • WebCrawler

  • MultiMeta - bilingual simultaneous search in English/Deutsch/Español/Francais/Italiano*

  • Pointers Information Centre - UK Search Engine w/ Daily UK News Scroll*

Search Facilities

Rumor & Hoax Verification Sites*

Image and Other Non-Text Search Resources

  • Ditto - image searcher *

  • FindSounds.com - search engine for finding sound effects and sample sounds on the Web *

  • ImageFinder - searches for various kinds of pictures

  • Image Surfer - search for images by categories or keywords, the results are given in thumbnail image form

  • Scour - search for downloadable music and clips

  • Webshots - - impressive image search engine *

Multiple Searchers (with Multi- and Meta- Search Engines)

  • Aliweb: Search Form

  • All4one - allows simultaneous searching of four major search engines with a single click. Results are displayed in four frames side by side

  • All-in-One - provides every search engine immaginable all on one page. check this out, it's quite interesting.

  • Debriefing - efficient, removes duplicates, English and French

  • Dogpile - impressively fast, and you can set a maximum search time, eg: 20 seconds

  • Freeality - includes some less usual search sites

  • Internet Sleuth - masses of categories

  • IPL - grades the top search engines by their strengths and weaknesses

  • Langenberg - a vast multitude of categories, from government to finding people, maps to cooking, encyclopedia to translation

  • MetaCrawler - search across multiple engines at once

  • OnlineSpy - from general web searching to song lyrics, pictures, newsgroup postings and maps (not just USA!)

People Finding and Other Miscellaneous Searchers

  • Anywho - reverse phone lookup

  • All-In-One/People - a number of people-searchers on one page

  • Ancestry.com - good for genealogical research and looking up details on dead Americans

  • Bigfoot - look up email addresses, but by no means all-embracing

  • Infospace - reverse telephone lookup, address and email

  • InfoUSA - reverse phone lookup

  • Langenberg - find a person by a variety of email search sites

  • PeopleSearch - mostly fee-paid services but also some good free multi-search facilities to use

  • Vservers Domain Check - domain names, what's taken and who's behind them

Arts/Humanities

  Award Providers: These sites search for new sites, rate them, and provide "Best" (or sometimes "Worst") type listings, in all subjects:

  General Subject Guides

General Guides & Almanac

  • Information Please Almanac - Almanacs, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Atlas. From the print reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes an Almanac,  Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and an Atlas.

  • Almanac of Politics and Government - includes a wealth of information about U.S. and world politics.

  • CIA World Factbook

  • Daily Almanacs - who was born and what happened on any given day?

  • Farmers' Almanac - includes weather forecasts, gardening and fishing calendars, household tips, best days, and recipes. You'll find wisdom and old-timey advice at The Old Farmer's Almanac. Learn the significance of red-letter days, and read next month's weather predictions.

  • Living Almanac of Disasters - with categories for fires, earthquakes, and transportation.

  • Old Farmer's Almanac - fun and practical information for everyday life, including moon calendars, planting charts, recipes, weather predictions and more.

  • OneLook - OneLook is the metasearcher of the dictionary world. Type in any word, and instead of searching just a single volume OneLook will probe its huge list of specialized and general dictionaries to give you the most comprehensive group of definitions


Subject Guides

  • 101 Information Hub - An impressively large number of free books and tutorials on-line on all kinds of subjects from entertainment and cookery to home and finance.

  • BBC Web Guide - BBC Education's searchable guide to Internet sites on key subjects, with useful reviews of each site

  • Beaucoup - search pages on a multitude of subjects

  • Electric Library - publications, TV and radio transcripts, dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, pictures and classic works. Note: monthly/annual subscription with free trial

  • ELib - subject-based review lists - still limited in scope

  • Encyclopedia Brittanica - The encyclopedia. Monthly/annual subscription with free trial

  • Encyclopedia.Com - Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

  • Escotet - links to sites in every category - humanities, social sciences, economics, etc, but takes time to find your way around

  • Etour.com - random tours of web sites to fit your personal interests

  • Infobahn Librarian - searchable www and library-related resources

  • Internet Public Library - online books, magazines and newspapers from all over the world

  • Information Research FAQ - how to find information fast, online and off

  • Library Resources on the Internet (searchable)

  • LibWeb: libraries worldwide

  • MiningCo - a wide-ranging subject-based resource: "500 expert guides mining the net on thousands of topics."

  • OLIG - Oxford Libraries Internet Gateway - Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities

  • Financenter ClickCalcs - Along with standard tools, like aids for calculating mortgages, you'll find slick exchange rate gadgets for evaluating your foreign stocks. Mais, oui!

Children's Resources

  • BBC Education - just as classy as you'd imagine with the BBC brand name

  • The Children's Literature Web Guide- includes info on movies/TV based on children's books

  • Encarta Online - concise level searches free, full encyclopedia payable

  • Homework Heaven - a massive online academic directory designed for student use, from junior to college and beyond

  • Internet For Schools - easily navigated educational resources, linked to UK National Curriculum, school sites and chat rooms

  • National Geographic - searchable for all ages, but also has special area for kids

  • Topmarks - good searchable directory for kids (age range and subject can be specified)

  • Yahooligans - The big Yahoo directory for little terrors

  General Texts

  Media Archives

  Movies

  News

  Ready Reference - Facts & Data, General, Literary & Publishing, and World

Reference: Facts & Data

Reference: General

Reference: Literary & Publishing

Reference: World

  Academia

  Law & Crime, Politics & Government

Law & Crime

Politics & Government

  Science, General Knowledge, Computer & Internet

Science and General Knowledge

Computer and Internet

  Writers Resources

General Writing Resources

Writing: Screenwriting and On-Line Scripts

Free Web Language Translators

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