| AltaVista | Ask.com | Britannica Internet Guide |
| Simple question and multimedia searching (i.e. pictures) | Type in a question in plain English and click "Ask"! | Has "web's best sites" list |
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| Buscar | Netscape Netcenter |
Yahoo |
| Un mecanísmo de busqueda en el internet y world wide web en español |
The search engine of Netscape | The largest categorized search engine on the WWW |
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| Go.com | Google |
Google Directory |
| From Disney, filters for adult content | Easy to use engine to find sites that contain ALL of your search
terms | Search using a subject directory |
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| Dogpile | Hotbot |
Librarian’s Internet Index
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| Searches multiple search engines for your query, a "metasearch" | Another popular engine with special search features | The most useful sites, arranged by subject; compiled by librarians |
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| Microsoft Network | Lycos |
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| The search engine of Microsoft | Find graphics, music files, and other specialized content | |
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| Virtual Reference Desk | | |
| Refdesk.com | Thor |
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| - one stop for links to a huge variety of reference resources | - links to a large assortment of reference materials, from Purdue University Libraries | |
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| Almanacs | | |
CIA World Factbook | CNN Daily Almanac |
Information Please Almanacs |
| provides detailed country information | what's happening, what happened | several topical almanacs |
| Old Farmer's Almanac |
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| Dictionaries | | |
| English/Spanish Spanish/English | Information Please Dictionary | Funk
& Wagnalls |
| | | assorted core reference books |
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| Merriam-Webster Dictionary | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus | |
| fast and easy to use | word synonyms | |
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| Everybody's Legal Dictionary | Medical Dictionary | One-Look Dictionaries |
| defines legal terms | defines hundreds of medical terms | searches more than 959 dictionaries simultaneously |
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| Phrase Finder | Rhyme Zone | Thesaurus |
| find phrases related to a word | type in words to find rhymes and synonyms | |
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| Webopedia | Encarta Online | Encyclopedia.com |
| defines computer and Internet terms Encyclopedias | abridged version of encyclopedia software | - A free encyclopedia |
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| Information Please Encyclopedia | How Stuff Works | InternetOracle |
| and dictionary | | links to many online encyclopedias |
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| Medline Plus |
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| medical encyclopedia | | |
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| Finding People |
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| Anywho | Switchboard |
Toll Free |
| find phone numbers,reverse look-ups, and maps | find e-mail addresses, address, and phone numbers | find toll free numbers |
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| Worldwide Telephone Directory |
Perpetual Calendar |
Time & Date |
| - The most complete index of online phonebooks, from over 170 countries around the world Time and date | enter any date, past
or future, and see the calendar | time zones worldwide; calendars from 1-3999 AD; phases of the moon; number of days, hours, minutes and seconds between two dates |
| Today's Date & Time |
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| all things relating to calendars, dates, holidays, and time | | |
