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- Search Engines When you want to find it yourself.
- Reference Works Dictionaries and other reference resources can be found on the Internet.
Search Engines
- Alta Vista
- http://altavista.digital.com/
Very powerful and very popular search engine. - HotBot
- http://www.hotbot.com/
Another popular and powerful search engine. - Yahoo
- http://yahoo.com/
One of the most popular catalogue-style indexes. - All-in-One Search Page
- http://www.allonesearch.com
- Access to more search engines than you have ever seen. A comprehensive search site.
- DejaNews
- http://www.deja.com/
A premier source for Newsgroup searches. - Northern Light Search
- http://www.northernlight.com/
- Currently reported to have the largest number of pages indexed of any search engine on the net.
- Infoseek Home Page
- http://www.infoseek.com/
One of the popular Web search engines. - Lycos Home Page
- http://www.lycos.com/
One of the popular Web search engines. - The Internet Sleuth
- http://www.isleuth.com/
The Internet Sleuth™ is a collection of over 900 searchable databases on the Internet on a wide variety of subjects. - NlightN Home Page!
- http://www.nlightn.com/
A search engine with a more than the internet in its database. Finds hits in proprietary data bases where the search is free but you must pay to retrieve full text and abstracts. - Search Magellan
- http://www.mckinley.com/
Nice search engine. It rates sites, including for adult content. - PSI Net Gopher Index (veronica)
- gopher://veronica.psi.net:2347/7
Access to Veronica searches in gopherspace. - Excite! Netsearch
- http://www.excite.com/
Large data base, good speed and access to the Web and UseNet. - WebCrawler Searching
- http://webcrawler.com/
America Online's search engine. - Netscape Destinations: Net Search Page
- http://home.netscape.com/home/internet-search.html
Netscape has collected search engines on one page. Provides access to several engines in one place. - Netscape Destinations: People Page
- http://home.netscape.com/escapes/index.html
Netscape has collected many "people search" tools one page. This site provides access to Bigfoot, Four11, WhoWhere?, Switchboard and IAF all in one place, so you can look up addresses and e-mail addresses online. - The Law Engine
- http://www.fastsearch.com/law/index.html
Search engine and search page with legal focus. - FindLaw - LawCrawler
- http://www.lawcrawler.com/
The LawCrawler uses intelligent agents combined with the AltaVista(tm) search engine and database and other legal code and case law databases to retrieve information geared towards the specific needs of legal professionals. - Lawguru.com - Legal Questions, Answers and Research
- http://www.lawguru.com/
Access to 250+ legal search engines and tools from the Legal Research Meta Search Page
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Reference Works
Dictionaries
One Look Dictionaries features a search engine style interface indexing 479848 words in 81 dictionaries.
A Web of On-line Dictionaries includes an index of online dictionaries, mutilingual dictionaries and a host of other impressive reference offerings.
Merriam-Webster's WWWebster's Dictionary allows you to type in words and receive definitions. It also features a word of the day feature and a book store.
ARTFL Project: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition is based on a public domain version of the dictionary being developed at the University of Chicago. It has a type in the word interface.
Dictionary.com provides access to a variety of online word resources, including dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus and Bartlett's Quotations.
Net Lingo is "the dictionary of Internet terms."
The West Legal Dictionary contains definitions of legal terms.
Thesaurus, Quotations and Glossaries
Roget's Internet Thesaurus provides access to an online thesaurus.
ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus is a University of Chicago project based on a public domain version of the famous thesaurus.
The Internet Literacy Consultants Glossary of Internet Terms can help when you do not understand Internet terminology.
Style Books
The Curmudgeon's Style Book "is not intended as a replacement for AP's stylebook, the traditional newsroom bible, but as a supplement."
Translation and Language Identification
A simple language identifier to use if you do not know what language a text is written in.
Morse Code Translator when you need to translate Morse Code to text or text to Morse Code.
Miscellaneous Reference Materials
The Universal Currency Converter is updated weekly and is easy to use.
Banned Books Online lists banned books with an explanation of the circumstances, and provides links to other banned books resources, such as the Most Frequently Banned Books of the 1990's.
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue provides links to online resources in many different categories.
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