Yahoo now has its own blog (apparently not updated that frequently). It has a lot of behind the scenes information.


Yahoo! Search blog

Evisum is an educational search engine with homework help and lots of interesting resources for kids and adults. A "Vortal" is a vertical portal, in other words, a site that caters to just one subject.

Evisum.com The Educational Vortal

Info.com is a new meta search engine. It searches Google, Ask Jeeves, Open Directory, Yahoo, AltaVista, Teoma, Fast, Inktomi, Overture, and LookSmart. It has web searching, a shopping search, images, whiote and yellow pages. You can also set a family filter.


Info.com - Displays results from 14 search engines

GlobalSpec is an Engineering search engine. You can search by specification, comapny name, or product.

GlobalSpec: air compressors, electric motors, bearings, bar code scanners and other engineering products at GlobalSpec.com

This is a highly specialized search engine, just for animals.

AnimalSearch: A family-safe search engine for animal related web sites

Amfibi is a search engine, a directory, and a meta search engine (Google, Wisenut, Teoma, etc.). I saw a few dead links, but it has a lot of unique web sites.

Amfibi Web Search

Google can now be accessed on wireless phones that have SMS (short messaging systems).


Google introduces wireless service

Another use of search engines inidentifying a hit and run victim case from 11 years ago.


CNN.com - Google IDs 1993 hit-and-run victim - Oct 8, 2004

The Mudcat Cafe allows you to search for lyrics of songs.


The Mudcat Cafe

IntelSeek is a great search engine and directory. You can see the last 15 sites submitted, classified ads, and an intelligent directory.


Search Engines - intelSeek! A free major search engine

This site is both a encyclopedia of psychology and a directory of pyschology web sites, including organizations.


Encyclopedia of Psychology - Psychology Websites

A good resource for famous and women and their speeches. Started by a librarian.


Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World - Sweet Briar College

Here is a directory of gift web sites.



Gift Websites

Here is a new search engine called Ice Rocket. Ice Rocket shows you images of the web site results. It also allows you to find news on the subject, images, and products under the same keywords.


IceRocket Search

GoArticles is an article search engine from Jayde. You can search full tect articles by topic, and it is updated regularly.

Article Search Engine Directory: GoArticles.com

Please Retrieve is both a search engine and a directory. It also has a news feed, stock market results, and games. The front page is a bit crowded, but it is a good search tool.


Please Retrieve.com search engine

The best blog search engine yet! Check out the directory categories.

Blog Search Engine - Blog Directory, Blog Search, Blog Directories - Links Menu

Jim Martindale has put together an interesting reference collection, with a lot of science sources.

Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' - International Art, Business, Science & Technology

An online tutorial on how to use Google.

Google Guide: Google Guide Introduction

Google now has its own web log!

Google Weblog

Here are images from Life magazine for all the political conventions from 1948-1992.

Presidential Conventions

Here is where you can find laws in other countries, or at least links to them.


GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Nations of the World

For those of us who are never sure about the correct spelling of "color" or "colour."

American·British - British·American Dictionary

An acronym is a label formed from the beginnings or middle of words. Robot started as one, laser and IBM are others. You can search for their meanings here.


Acronym Server Simplified

A new, fast, meta seach engine.

WindSeek Meta Search Engine

This is the Lonely Planet web section that covers travel sites online.

Lonely Planet SubWWWay | Web links

Everything you ever wanted to know about the state of Georgia!

The New Georgia Encyclopedia

The U.S. Patent Office has news, and a way of checking on the status of an application.

United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page

Martindale-Hubbell is considered THE source for legal directories and information. You can find a lawyer here, read articles, and find out about becomin an attorney.
I think that FindLaw (see other entry) uses MH for its lawyer search database.


Martindale.com Homepage

A site where you can find and buy legal forms.

FindLegalForms.com - Power of Attorney Bill of Sale Auto and Vehicle Legal Forms - Home

LawyerTool allows you to do research in free legal databases, including one for sex offenders.


LawyerTool.com - Simple Free Legal Research Search Law Database

I feel legal today! FindLaw is an excellent legal site for both the public and legal professionals. You can search by state or practice area, read legal news, peruse state or federal law, check the dictionary, or use one of their tools. FindLaw even has its own toolbar.


FindLaw - Find a Lawyer, Attorney, or Law Firm - Free Lawyers Search

The title here kinda says it all. AllLaw also has legal news.

AllLaw - Legal Information, Links and Resources about state laws, federal laws and statutes, lawyers, attorneys and law firms

And here is the site about Google Mail. Actually, this makes a lot more sense than Mail.com's way of dumping ads on everyone.

Welcome to Gmail

MetaCrawler has a whole new look! This is a meta search engine covering Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves, About, LookSmart, Teoma, Iverture, and FindWhat. You can search for web sites, images, audio, multimedia, news, yellow pages and shopping. There is now an Advanced Search option, and you can set your preferences as well.

Web Search Home Page - MetaCrawler

Topix is a local news search engine. It can search by state, city, or zipcode, as well as topics. It also can search by industry or name.


Topix.net - News organized by topic and location

Recall is a new search engine at the Internet Archive that indexes the text of over 11 billion web pages, covering from 1996 to the present. It searches the text of the HTML pages.

Recall

A search engine for politics that includes news headlines, articles, and political sites. A good place to watch the presidential race.


Political Information (.com) -- A search engine for politics & policy

Here is an excellent source of free fonts. They have script, famous (Yahoo, Coca-Cola), holiday, dingbat, and others.


JFonts.com - Download over 100 Free Fonts!

A new search engine for blogs (i.e. web logs). The categories are a bit limited, and there are a lot of sex blogs listed under lifestyle, but it appears to be a good start.


Blogarama

An interesting guide to misspellings (in English).

yourDictionary.com ? 100 Most Often Misspelled Words

An interesting twist to search engines.
musicplasma : the music visual search engine

Everything you ever wanted to know about tropical fish.


Tropical Fish Internet Directory

How about an international catalog of superheros?

International Superheroes

A directory of political web sites online with links to parties, organizations, governments, and more.


Political Resources on the Net

A directory of government web sites by country.

Official Government Web Pages by Country

A great resource for finding embassies and consulates around the world.


Absolutely All Of The Worlds Embassies & Consulates In A Searchable Database

A good reference guide for dealing with electrical appliances in different countries.

World Electric Power Guide

Over 600 Aesop's fables.


Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656 fables -

An herbal reference source.

Henriette's Herbal Homepage

Here is a searchable index of holdings in universities, libraries, record offices, and museums in Wales. Currently there are only about 500 records, but the official launch is scheduled for 2005 with 4,000 records.

Archives Network Wales

This may seem like a basic service, but it is not under "thesaurus.com". Thesaurus is paired with Dictionary.com, which is also quite useful.


Thesaurus.com

This is a guide to free e-mail services, fee-based e-mail, ISPs, and other free services such as web hosting.


Free Email Address Directory : Your guide to free email and much, much more!

An encyclopedia of finance. Just the ticket for all those odd questions at tax time!

Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Finance

A quick and "dirty" guide to state and county information. The entries are far from complete, however.

STATEGUIDE.com : Destination Research Made Simple - VACATION - RELOCATION - RETIREMENT

Everything you ever wanted to know about European soccer stadiums!

EuroStadiums.com - European Football Stadiums Page

An excellent encyclopedia of the Jewish religion.

JewishEncyclopedia.com

This site is a compilation of "lost words", words that appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, but are no longer used (much).


Compendium of Lost Words

Here is a new meta search engine. The YW stands for Your Web. It allows you to search in a lot of the smaller search engines, as well as several of the news sites (like Daypop), many directories, countries (France, Australia, and Canada), and even an MP3 search.


yw metasearch engine

This site tries to answer the question of "Whatever happened to...?" for show biz stars child stars, sports, politics, music, and pop culture.


whatever happened to...

Here is a great site to help you identify fonts from samples.


Identifont - identify fonts and typefaces

This is STILL one of the best business portals around. Scroll all the way down for a remarkable number and variety of links.


CEOExpress: Business portal for executives created by a CEO

This is a great page for learning about and deciphering smileys!

  The UnOfficial Smiley FAQ(tm) by Don Z'Boray - updated: 11 May 2001 -- NewbieNET!  

This is an excellent site for small businesses and other entrepreneurs.



Resources for Entrepreneurs and Business Planners

An excellent site for free tutorials on web development and the Internet.

FindTutorials - Tutorials

A site for international business resources and statistics.


globalEDGE (TM) | international business resource desk

An excellent resource for legal information.


AllLaw - Legal Information, Links and Resources about state laws, federal laws and statutes, lawyers, attorneys and law firms

Everything you've ever wanted to know about New York City.


Forgotten NY

An interesting web site (if you are into baseball history). This site gives the past, current and future histories of baseball ballparks/stadiums/fields.


Ballparks of Baseball-The Fields of Major League Baseball

This site is a meta search index for white and yellow pages, trip planners, and email directories.

The Ultimates

The US Government Blue Pages directory is now online. Here you can find any US government phone number.


U.S. Blue Pages - Home

The LII is considered one of the most linked to web resources in the field of law. Here you can find court cases, opinions, directories, law codes, and the Institute's publications list.

Welcome to the Legal Information Institute

Here is AnyWho's Reverse Lookup Directory. Instead of looking up a name and finding the phone number, you can put in the phone number and get the name of the person.

I find this useful when I am trying to decode an area code.


AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance; Yellow Pages, White Pages, Toll-Free Numbers, Maps and Directions

Here is Andy Beal's blog about Search Engines and news.



Search Engine Lowdown - search engine news and SEO blog

An entire database devoted to the history of the Fourth of July celebration!

Fourth of July Celebrations Database

Here is a site for all those questions about fireworks. They have a directory of state laws as well.

American Pyrotechnics Association

Here is an excellent site for finding addresses of people when all you have is a phone number. In my librarian days, the source for all of these types of lookups was the Cole's Directory, and the publishers were very strict about its use.

Reverse Phone Lookup for Locating People - Reverse Telephone Directory

Web World Index is a directory of sites. I find it useful for business sites.

Web World Index Search Directory

Another excellent car directory!

123CarLinks.com - Street racing, videos, exotic cars and more!

Everything you wanted to find online about cars!


Free Online Auto Information on New and Used Cars by Carjunky.com

HealthGrades allows you to compare doctors and find out about their training. This site starts you off by allowing you to search by zip code, state/city, or name.


Welcome

This site shows the leaflets that are currently being dropped over Iraq.

CENTCOM Leaflet Gallery

Portal Wisconsin is a gateway to the cultural life in Wisconsin.

portalwisconsin.org

Here is LSU's annual list of banished and over used words.


Banished Words List: Lake Superior State University

Here is an excellent reference on finding out what first names mean. You may have to click through a number of cross references.


Behind the Name - the Etymology and History of First Names

This is an excellent page on measurements and conversions.

A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions

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