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ALTAVISTA
Powerful, comprehensive, spiders entire sites. Searches titles, keywords, text of all pages on the web or Usenet. Many results returned. Many search options. Focus on USA. --Help--Advanced--Images--
GOOGLE

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Google searches more sites more quickly because it works on networked PCs with a unique PageRank(TM) search algorithm , a system for ranking web pages. Very commercial. --Help--Advanced--Google Scholar--image search--
EXCITE
Concept-based. Spiders entire sites. Searches titles, keywords, text of all pages on the web +news, newsgoups, usergroups, ads. Many results returned. Very USA/Canadian --Help--
MICROSOFT
Spiders entire sites. Searches titles, keywords, text of all pages. Meaningful results. --Help--Advanced-
YAHOO!
List-based. Searches subject, titles, links, comments. Vast. Importance judged by people. --Help--
WIKIPEDIA
The world's free encyclopedia. Large. wikipedia.org
WIKTIONARY
The free Wiki dictionary of English. main page
WIKIQUOTE
Wiki quotations dictionary. main page.
THESAURUS
Roget's Thesaurus of the English Language. website
Note that the search results may be shown on a new copy/window of your browser! Also look at the following:

Ask.com --- Searches multiple engines and presents results in a simple way.
Dogpile -- A meta search engine, sends your query to a number of search engines at once.
Search.com -- A meta search engine for web content, music, videos, images, downloads and more.
AllTheWeb/FAST -- The world's largest multimedia search: Web, News, FTP, MP3, Sound, Video and more.

Wikipedia(English) -- A large and free internet based encyclopedia with over 1 million articles.
SourceWatch -- an extensive directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda
ResearchIndex -- A literature digital library, improving the dissemination and feedback of scientific computer literature
NY Times Book Reviews -- all the book reviews book news, author interviews in the New York Times since 1980.
Toxicology database -- National Toxicology Program of the National Institute of Health, USA.
FedWorld -- Offers a central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring US government information
IMDb -- Internet movie database of 150,000 movies and detailed information.

Argus Clearinghouse -- is a directory of guides to Internet resources, each specific to a subject and reviewed for quality.
Res-Links -- Read everything about search engines, how they index and how they search.
Hackers' Jargon -- A browsable list of computer hacker's jargon. Finally you kno what they're on about!
Tree of Life -- A browsable tree of what will contain all organisms on Earth! Select the Express Page.
Beaucoup -- A listing of over 1000 search engines.
Webtaxi -- A huge listing of search engines and directories.
Amnesi -- Search for thet URL you've forgotten about.
Education World -- A world for educators and children.

Bartleby - publishes a great variety of reference works with free access and a good search engine. Columbia Encyclopedia, World Factbook, American Heritage Dictionary, Rogett's Thesaurus, Bartlett's & Columbia & Simpson's Quotations, English use of language, King James Bible and much more.
Encyclopedia Britannica - one of the best informed resources. Articles and dictionary and more.(subscription required)
World Book - a practical, well-informed resource placing emphasis on industry and physics. (subscription required)
Merriam-Webster dictionary - free access to the Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
World Fact Book - The CIA's fact file about all nations in the world. With maps, flags and statistics. (free)
World patents - IBM's database of patents. Searchable. Interesting. Amazing. (US$75/mo, some free bits)
Journalists Toolbox - hundreds of useful links for writers and journalists. Behind the news information.
QuoteDB - database of famous quotes

Universal Currency Converter -  convert up to 164 currencies to your selected currency. Updated daily.
Time zones and sun clock: from worldtimezones.com, real-time sun clock and time zones with current times.
 
 
 

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