Here is an e-mail address search engine. It also has zipcodes, a toll free directory, and "celebrity" e-mail.

White Pages | Yellow Pages | Email Addresses - SEARCH FREE

Want to know all about Chanukah? Or what we do on Christmas? (Other than go to the movies.) Here is an excellent site all about Judaism.

Judaism 101

A great site for looking up information like zip codes, area codes, campaign contributions, addresses, phone numbers, place names, and marketing tips.

Free Online Lookups

A list of Vietnam links for veterans and POWs.

Vietnam Web Sites

The World Factbook is a handy guide to country information. Since it is in public domain (published by the Central Intelligence Agency), the information can be freely downloaded and used.

CIA - The World Factbook 2002

EatonWeb is a search engine and directory for blogs.
eatonweb portal :: the original weblog directory

The official source for IRS tax rulings.

TaxLinks.Com - Find Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Revenue Rulings, Federal Tax, State Tax, & Legal Information For the Tax Practitioner

This supposedly "global" meta search engine only searches AltaVista and AlltheWeb.

ez2www.com >> Global Meta Search Engine

This begins a series on meta search engines. 1Blink searches AltaVista, Thunderstone, Wisenut, Yahoo, Lycos/AlltheWeb, and Looksmart.


1Blink.com : The World's Fastest All In One Meta Search Engine!

This site is from the Population Reference Bureau and says that it is the "one-stop source for U.S. population data." It covers the 2000 census and breaks it down into usable demographics.

Ameristat

This site allows you to do book searches and price comparison on over 40 book sites.

AddALL book search and price comparison

This site claims to be the only news only search engine.

News Index Delivered - News Monitoring and Clipping service

This source covers newspapers on the web. The table gives the state, city, paper title (and link), if there is a search function, dates of the archive, and the cost.
Newspaper Archives A-D

This site allows you to donate food to rescued animals. As a pet owner, I applaud them.
The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need

Here is a new search engine, still in beta. It appears to be out of Taiwan, but will search in different languages including English.

Openfind - GAIS30 Project, Test SITE

IxQuick is an excellent meta search engine. It covers AOL, MSN, and many other search engines.

Ixquick Metasearch

Here is an 800 number directory. It also includes 866, 877, and 888. The directory is also available in Spanish.

Internet 800 Directory - Directory of free toll free, 800,866,877 and 888 listings of businesses by company, number and type of industry

InfoTrieve is a fee-based full service document delivery service.

Inforieve

This site has search boxes for a lot of different search engines. It covers yellow pages, white pages, email directories, and travel.
The Ultimates

Aneki is an online world almanac.

aneki.com - Country Information, Regional & World Rankings

Another kids' information spot.

Fact Monster: Online Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help

It is summer, the kids are at home and driving you nuts! Here is a site and search engine for them.

ZeekSearch

FirstGov has recently been redesigned and is much easier to use. This site is a gateway to the U.S. government and their assorted agencies.

FirstGov -- Your First Click to the US Government

A snack food review site> Go down the page a bit to find the text.

Potato Chips and Snacking: Taquitos.net (with donuts, fast food and recipes)

Ways to say someone is "stupid".


Mike's "Not the Sharpest Tool" List of One Liners

I like SplatSearch. It has both a directory and a search box. It has tools, news, and a great logo.

SplatSearch.com: We do all the searching for you.

Femina is a search engine for sites "for, by and about women."

Femina Web Search for Women

Southwest Airlines announced today that overweight people will now be asked to buy 2 seats!! The spokesman claimed that if you needed a seatbelt extender, then you had to pay for 2 seats. When I called the airline to make sure I heard it correctly, I was told that if you have to raise the seat arm to be comfortable, then you had to pay, but nothing about seat belt extenders.

The stupidity of this is that while my husband fits in the seat and needs a belt extender, my hips are wide enough that I often raise the arm.

BOYCOTT SOUTHWEST!!! This is blatant discrimination!

A really hard way to go under a bridge!!

towboat

The Internet Traffic Report tells you what countries are currently online, and where the better connections are.

Internet Traffic Report

A very interesting dictionary. "A critical survey of questionable therapies, eccentric beliefs, amusing deceptions and dangerous delusions."

The Skeptic's Dictionary

A great search engine for those of us interested in the aspects of death (funerals, cemeteries, haunted houses, etc.).


The PostMortem Search Engine

A dictionary of British slang. I found it to be very helpful in translating an insult I heard on a talk show the other night. A lawyer called the host a "flannelmouth", and I found the definition on this site!

ILor was once touted as being the search engine that "goes beyond Google" (New York Times, 5/17/01). Now, it is powered by Teoma, and seems to have a lot of "Partner" results (i.e. paid for).

iLOR Search - The most user friendly search engine in the world

Vivisimo is a new type of search engine, in that is organizes the results in clusters.

Vivísimo - Organized Search Results with Document Clustering

Look out, people! I have discovered the wonders of Blogger's FTP, BlogThis, and can now add web pages at will. So, there will be a lot more entries in this blog.

Here it is! Well, apparently InQuira is an enterprise software program that is selling itself for corporate use.

Inquira-The Power of Natural Interaction

InQuira is a new natural language search engine. What I find interesting is that none of the articles I have seen so far give the URL of the site.

Start-up wants you to just ask - Tech News - CNET.com

This is a fun site. I took the test and it said I was 24!

What's Your Mental Age?

Wondir is an open source search engine that is somewhat different. They will be combining resources from FAQs, the invisible web, deep web searches, and online experts, to find answers.

Welcome To Wondir

digitElle services An excellent person for PR and media strategy.

Well, I'm back from Baja California Sur, and have finally finished wading through all my e-mail.

A new visual search engine has appeared on the scene, Kartoo. Too cool for words. This search engine shows links to and from sites with keywords.

How Much Is Your Search Engine Marketing Budget?

Now I find this article to be extremely interesting! Search Engine Marketing is yet another term for Search Engine Optimization. I reject the term because I am not marketing search engines.

The article talks about making room in a budget for doing SEO work, because it is as important as direct mail and other marketing techniques.

Observations on Spring InternetWorld 2002:

Yes, it was rather disappointing as a tradeshow. Where were all the biggies, all those companies that want us to be loyal to them, but can't bother being loyal to us enough to even show up? Microsoft, Oracle, and others didn't show. L-Soft (developer of LISTSERV) wasn't there, nor was Earthlink.

AOL was there and very loud. According to a speaker I talked to, InternetWorld Chicago has already been cancelled (was in June). What Penton Media needs to do is scale down to web services, i.e. search engines, submission services, e-mail services and marketing.

I went to the Intenet Luncheons ($45 for a lousy lunch), and the person running the roundtable didn't even bother to show up. I did meet some very interesting people in usability design who had no idea how much sociology plays into their area.

I've noticed after reading a great many articles on blogs and blogging that people tend to use their blog to pontificate on current events and great matters.

Sorry, this isn't one of THOSE blogs. I prefer to talk about search engines and my work. Although, you never know...

I finished my ebook on specialized search engines! The problem now is marketing it.

My first ebook was easy, because I targeted archaeologists and others interested in the field. This one is targeted at people who use the Internet for research.

Specialized Search Engines

Strange items found in bubble gum machines: small plastic figurines called "Buddha Babies." In a Big!Lots store (formerly Pic' and Save) in Mira Mesa, there is a machine with these "toys" in it. For 50 cents, you can get these solemn baby figures in a variety of meditation poses.

Does anyone remember the POV series on public television? Does anyone remember public television for that matter?

One's point of view does change as one gets older. I found myself explaining how to network to a newbie, and laughed, remembering when I started out, back in 1998. Now, I am such a networker, that people come to me! :)

I got sooooooo tired of those damn phone solicitors/telemarketers that I went out and bought one of those TeleZappers. Supposedly it sends out a signal to their phone machine that tells their computer that our line is disconnected. This doesn't work for those that dial our number directly.

The idea is that, over time, fewer and fewer telemarketers will call. We will see.

A sure sign of big business corrupting politics are those people who stand outside of stores and try to get you to sign petitions. Most of them are PAID!

My husband asked one yesterday if he was paid, and he said yes, and then tried to defend himself by saying that "everyone does it." That is not an excuse. If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you also?

If someone doesn't feel strongly enough about a petition to stand outside and get signatures from the public, then that petition doesn't deserve to be on the ballot!

My web site must be showing up in the search engines, due to the amount of spam it is generating. Someone from India just e-mailed me looking for a job in SEO work!

I am still working on my search engine submission expose. Hint: if a company claims to submit your site to over 20,000 search engines, don't do it. There aren't 20,000 or even 5,000 such sites out there. They are probably submitting to 1) FFA sites which are a waste of time, or 2) submitting to geo-specific search engines that will reject your site out of hand.

The search engine HotBot is gone. Terra Lycos that owns it says it will return in summer, but it is unknown if it will still allow free URL submission. It will probably not, and will be included as part of Lycos' paid inclusion program.

I never realized that you can make a political statement with a search engine site. I have been examining several Middle East directories and search engines, and they ALL leave out Israel as a country. Two or three have Palestine, but not even a wave of the hand to Israel. Amazing!

Middle East Directory
Arab Sites

Looksmart has just bought Wisenut to the tune of $9.25 million. Pretty good for a search engine that just started out last August.

I am seeing a rather nasty trend here. Looks like some search engines are trying to monopolize the web.

Right after 9/11, people around San Diego were driving badly as though they were completely distracted (which they probably were. Getting on the freeways was hell because no one saw you.

As the country started to unite, flags flying, driving conditions got better. People were polite to each other on the road, and obeyed the basic laws. There were still those who couldn't figure out that a red light meant stop, but they will always be with us.

Now, six months after the event, I have noticed that road rage is increasing. Horns are honked for no reason at all and constantly, people are cutting off each other, trucks merge without looking. Perhaps it is the state of the economy? Or something else?

Well, I'm back from my adventures in the Southeast. Visited all the military and Spanish Colonial sites between Mobile and Orlando (and even wandered into Georgia as well!), and ended by 4 days at DisneyWorld.

While I was gone, Northern Light closed its free search engine and was bought by Divine.com. The Special Collections section is now with Yahoo! under a Premier Search function (i.e. you have to pay for it!). Euroseek is still down and FAST still hasn't implemented their pay for URL registration.

Finally, Google is thinking of dropping its AdWords campaign, and going to an alternate PPC service (in addition to the free service).