Web Tools, Search Engines, Etc.
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AltaVista Advanced Search (non-graphics)
Web and Usenet searches, date restrictions, url, host, title, link keywords,
full boolean search with grouping, ands, and ors
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Ask Jeeves
This combines a metasearch of several of the top search
engines with data obtained from its own structured sources,
presenting the choices on one screen with a series of
pull-down menus.
Unless you have unlimited time to surf the web, this
is likely the best place to start your search.
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Australian News Network
Search 2-3 months of stories from about a dozen Australian newspapers.
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Cincinnati Post
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Deja News
Usenet only.
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Findstein
Enter an area code, area code and prefix, or zip code, and
Know-Where's Findstein will tell you the associated city.
Select one of the nearby "Weasel" locations to a map of the area.
Sorry, Caribbean area codes not included.
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Geektools whois
Use this to find the registered owner of a domain.
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Google
Aside from having a unique ranking methodology, Google makes it possible
to access most pages even if they've been removed, because it keeps
a cache of the contents of most pages in its index.
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HandiLinks
Yahoo Competitor!
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Infoseek
Web, Usenet, Companies, and General News, allows pseudo-natural language
search, then refine to narrow down the results
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ixquick
metasearch with highlighting
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Librarian's Index to the Internet
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Mamma
The Mother of All Search Engines searches the Web, Usenet,
or other sources with Alta Vista,Deja News,Excite,Infoseek,
Lycos, WebCrawler, and Yahoo
to produce a single integrated result set.
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Media Central
Search the media, marketing, and publishing periodicals
of Cowles Communications.
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Northern Lights
Search the web plus Northern Lights proprietary sources.
Groups results by site or site category.
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PR Newswire
Latest 100 stories
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Q and A Cafe
Ask a reference librarian your question.
Service is available from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. PT Monday through Friday.
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Re-Quest.Net Reference sources
Dictionaries, acronyms, statistics, etc.
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TracerLock
Let this service search the web and/or usenet automatically for you
every day, looking for updated information on topics that you specify,
and get the results in your email.
Terrific time saver!
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Virtual Reference Desk
Search engines, dictionaries, phone directories, news,
stock quotes...
one place to go to find them all.
- Yahoo
BellSouth Yahoo
GNN Yahoo
MSN Yahoo
Pac Bell Yahoo
SF Bay Yahoo
Hierarchical view of the Web
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USPS Zip+4 Lookup
Comments to mantel@hotmail.com
Updated July 23, 2001