Reva's Research Bookmarks

 

 

Search Engines

Google (www.google.com)

FAST (www.alltheweb.com)

Excite (www.excite.com)

Ask Jeeves (www.ask.com)

Northern Light (www.nlsearch.com)

 

Meta-Search Engines

Inference Find (www.infind.com)

Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)

 

Specialty Search Engines: Pointer Sites

The Invisible Web (www/invisibleweb.com)

Beaucoup (www.beaucoup.com)

 

Quick Reference

The Virtual Reference Desk (Purdue) (thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/)
My Virtual Reference Desk (www.refdesk.com)
Internet Public Library (www.ipl.org/ref/)
Yahoo! Reference Collection (dir.yahoo.com/Reference/)
Editors' and Writers' Toolkit - Convenient One-Stop Reference Page (writetools.com)

 

555-1212.com (Area Code and Reverse Look-Up) (www.555-1212.com)

CLEAR International Time Zones (www.clear.co.nz/resources/world-clock/)

WhoWhere? E-mail Addresses (www.whowhere.com)

WHOis (Domain name search) (www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois/)

Statistics Every Writer Should Know (nilesonline.com/stats/)

U.S. Gazetteer (www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?)

Today in History (The History Channel) (www.historychannel.com)

Metric Conversion Chart (dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/Humor/Funny-Metric-Chart.html)

 

Pointer or Guru Sites

Internet Links for the Typewriter Generation (www.typewritergeneration.com/Links.htm)

Librarians' Index to the Internet (www.lii.org)

CyberTimes Navigator (www.nytimes.com/navigator)

 

Search Engine News

Search Engine Watch (Danny Sullivan) (www.searchenginewatch.com)
Search Engine Showdown (Greg Notess) (www.notess.com/search/)

 

News

Newspapers Online (www.newspapers.com)
AJR NewsLink (ajr.newslink.org/)
Media Central (www.mediacentral.com)

 

Business

Companies Online (www.companiesonline.com)

Daily Stocks (www.dailystocks.com)

 

Medicine

CBS HealthWatch (cbs.medscape.com/)

MEDLINEplus (www.nlm.nih.gov/)

 

Government & Law

Fedworld (www.fedworld.gov)

Thomas (U.S. Congress) (thomas.loc.gov)

FindLaw (www.findlaw.com)

 

Viruses and Hoaxes

CIAC Internet Hoaxes (ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html)
Computer Virus Myths (kumite.com/myths/)
Korova Multimedia e-v-mail (www.korova.com/virus/)

 

Miscellaneous

List-Lingo.com, The Newbie's Guide to E-mail List Terminology (www.List-Lingo.com/)
NetLingo (www.netlingo.com)
 
Shareware.com
Download.com

 

Reva Basch (reva@well.com) is author of Researching Online for Dummies and executive editor of the Super Searchers book series from Information Today, Inc.

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