• Searching the Internet - An Overview
• Online Sites with Information about Research -- Some useful sites online that provide further guidance about searching.
• BARE BONES 101: A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial
• Comparing Search Engines
• CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research
• Internet Search Tool Details (Digital Library SunSITE)
• Yahoo - Comparing_Search_Engines/
• Desktop Search Utilities --
  • Off-line search utilities to search your computer or your network.
    • 5 Desktop Search Apps That Make Finding Files Simple -- Desktop Search -- InformationWeek - 2008-02-21
    • Copernic: Software to search, find, and manage information - $00
    • Google Desktop - $00
    • ISYS Search Software :: Enterprise search software for desktop search, intranet search and more - >$1000
    • Windows Vista Indexed Search - Free with Windows Vista
    • X1 - Unified, Actionable Search - $50/yr
    • Locate32 - $00
  • Off-line search utilities help to speed up Internet searches by querying multiple search engines simultaneously. 
    • NetFerret
    • WebSeeker
    • X1
• Google
• Guide to Computer Training
  • Search Engines - Great Tutorials on How to Use the Internet
• Search Engine Watch  -  Advice on getting noticed by search engines
• SearchIQ:  Directory of Speciality Engines and Independent Reviews
   

• Internet Directories = Category Indices = Browsing Indices = Browsing Trees -- These hierarchical search systems help you look for information about a broad topic, rather than very specific information. You can search through the subcategories or you can search for a word or phrase within a category.  Yahoo! Canada , Yahoo! USA , The WWW Virtual Library , WebCrawler
• Search Engines = Key-word Indices = Robots = Spiders -- The search engine finds and indexes information found on Web pages throughout the Internet. You can search for specific words and phrases found on a Web page. AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, GO.com, Lycos, WebCrawler
• Both (Directory & Search Engine): Most modern search tools include both a Search Engine (with an area where you can type in your search) and an Index (with lots of categories for you to select from).

• About.com
• AllTheWeb  (Pictures, Video, MP3, etc.)
• Alta Vista
• AltavistaCanada.com
• Ask Jeeves - Ask.com
• Bing - (= Windows Live Search)
• Business.com - A special portal just for businesses. Need info on a company or an industry?Get free research on Work.com. Looking for business-to-business productsor services? Check the extensive directory, organized by industry. You'll also find industry news, travel resources, and just about anything else your business needs. Take a look!
• Canada.com - Canadian news, entertainment, television, newspapers, free email and more
• C|net's Shareware.com (Search for files)
• DMOZ - ODP - Open Directory Project
• Excite!
• FindWhat.com - Performance Driven Marketing
• Galaxy: Serious Searches. Relevant Results.
• GO
• Google
  • Search within a specific website (site:)
    Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.
  • Google Custom Search Engine - Site search and more
    • What is Google AdSense?
  • How can I add a Google search box to my Web site?
  • NSIT: Google Search
  • How can I embed “Google Search” box in my web-site?
  • Google - http://www.google.com/custom?q=site:domainname.com term1 term2 term3 etc.
• HotBot
• LookSmart
• Lycos
• ScienceDaily Magazine: Your Source For The Latest Research News
• WebCrawler
• whatis.com
• wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions
• Wolfram Research: Mathematica, Technical and Scientific Software
• Yahoo! , All-in-One Search , People Search
• Yahoo! Canada

• A Meta search tool sends your request to a bunch of individual search engines, which work on it simultaneously. The meta search tool collects the results and presents them to you, sometimes eliminating duplcate hits and reordering hits according to their evaluation of relevance.
• All-in-One Search Pages -- Run multiple searches at one time on different search engines. 
• Multi-search Engines - a comparison.

• AllTheWeb  (Pictures, Video, MP3, etc.)
• C|net Search Page
• Dogpile    (Dogpile searches 25 individual search engines)
• Freeality Internet Search (MSIE only)
• Google
• Info.com - Displays results from 12 search engines
• Ixquick Metasearch
• Langenberg.Com
• Mamma.com - The Mother of All Search Engines   (Mamma searches 7 individual search engines)
• Metacrawler (Metacrawler searches AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Yahoo!, Webcrawler)
• Meta Search Engine Page -- Search All Your Favorites Search Engines
• Query Server General Search (OpenText)
• Search.com
• Search IQ - Hot List - Directory of the Best Search Engines and Directories

• 411.com - Find Phone Numbers, People, Places
• A9.com
• AltaVista
• Area Code Search  -  555-1212
• Bell's "Name That Number" Service @$0.50 per usage 1-514-555-1313 -  Put a name to that number
• Bigfoot - Tools For The Internet
• Canada 411 - White Directory People Pages
  • Canada411
• Canada TollFree
• WhitePages - CA
  • WhitePages - US
• Finger -- Finger is a utility to allow you to list users on a computer system based on the user's e-mail address. Other information is sometimes available. --  finger  userid @ computername

The Finger program contacts a server on a remote machine to obtain information about a specific user or all users on that machine.  To find out about all users on a given computer, omit the userid portion.  Very often access is denied.
• MIT Finger
• Eudora Mail allows you to Finger an individual or a machine.  From the Tools menu, select Directory Services.  Put the computername in the Server textbox and put the userid in the Command textbox.  If you want to see all the users, put only a single space in the Command textbox.
• Four11 (E-mail, Telephone, Yellow Pages, NetPhone, etc.)
• Free People Finder Index at Free PRF.com
  • Free Public Records Finder
• ICQ
• Infobel World - Telephone Directories
• InfoSpace
• Reverse Lookup - InfoSpace
• Search: Canadian Reverse Lookup - InfoSpace Canada
• People Finder - canada.com
• Internet @ddress.finder
• MetaSearchAt! and SearchAt! Directory
• MOBeDic -- Montreal's Online Business E-mail Directory
• PeopleFinders.com | Internet People Search & Public Records
• PeopleLookup.com - People Search - White Pages – People Search Name – People Find
• Publicrecordfinder.com - Public Records - State Records – County Records - Find People
• Reverse Phone Directory - Reverse Telephone Number Lookups
  • addresses.com
  • AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance; Yellow Pages, White Pages, Toll-Free Numbers, Maps and Directions
  • InfoSpace- Reverse Phone Lookup (USA only)
  • Reverse Phone Directory
  • Switchboard.Reverse Phone Search (USA only)
  • WhitePages.com - Reverse Phone Number Lookup
  • Yellow.ca - Canadian Yellow Business Directory Pages
• Switchboard - Individuals, Businesses
• TechWeb Finance Quotes & Data - Info on technology companies (www.techcompanies.com)
• TollFree
• Ultimate Email Directory
• Whois...
• WhoWhere
• Wink | Find People
• WhitePages - CA
  • WhitePages - US
• World Email Directory (WED)
• Yahoo - Phone Numbers, Area Codes, Individuals, Businesses
•  Yahoo! People Search
• Yellow Pages:- BigBook
• Yellow Business Directory Pages - Yellow.ca

• Specialty Search Engines -- Search.com , Deja News (= http://groups.google.com/)
  • Wolfram Research: Mathematica, Technical and Scientific Software
• Review Indices -- By reviewing WWW sites and describing and ranking the content found on the sites, these systems help steer you towards the best sites for your search.  Excite , Lycos , WebCrawler
• Subject Guides  = Topical Indices = Virtual Libraries -- These are sources that focus on a particular topic.
• AllTheWeb  (Pictures, Video, MP3, etc.)
• InfoMine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
• Yahoo!, Yahoo! Canada
• The Canadian Psychological Association
• American Journalism Review's NewsLink
• Canadian Authors' Association
• Canadian Newspaper Association
• City Guides & Geographic/Regional Search Engines -- These sites help to locate information about particular countries, cities, towns, and other geographic locations.
• Alta Vista International, Canada
• Excite
• Italy
• Lycos:  France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
• Maps
• MontrealPlus.ca
• Travel Topics...
• Virtual Tourist
• Yahoo! Canada, France, Germany, U.K./Ireland, USA
• Fee-based Databases
• Dow Jones Plublications Library
• Electric Library
• Britannica Online

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• Reference Topics ...
• Ask Jeeves!   Ask Jeeves!
• Best Sites on the Web
• BotSpot
• Canada Post Corporation Home Page
• Law/Legal Searches
• LawRunner: A Legal Research Tool
• FindLaw for Legal Professionals
• Maps
• PING Program
• US Securities & Exchange Commision - Edgar Database
• WebCrawler
• whatis.com
• wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions

Maps

• Maps...

• Gopher -- Gopher is an information retrieval system developed to permit easier access to local university information. It is the text-oriented url-driven predecessor of the WWW.  (Binoculars = Search; Folder = Another url; Page = Document)
  A menu-oriented tool used to locate online resources developed at the University of Minnesota.
  The information is presented in plain text format, with no graphical images included.
  Gopher protocol - Wikipedia

• Veronica search of GopherSpace
• Veronica FAQ (Part 1 of 2)
• Mothergopher at University of Minnesota (deceased)
  • UMM Computing Services Newsletter - http://www.mrs.umn.edu/cs/Newsletters/spring01/gopher.shtml
  • Gopher, Archie and veronica

• FTP -- FTP is built into your WWW browser so that it is now quite easy to transfer files down to your computer. Anonymous FTP allows you to use "anonymous" as the userid and your own e-mail address as your password. Once you have downloaded a file, you will probably need to uncompress or uncombine the file (using a File Compression utility:  WinZip, 7-zip, etc.). File Transfer Protocol can also be used to upload files from your client machine to the FTP server machine.
• Although FTP (see ftp.htm) is still very useful and popular (for uploading and downloading files), FTP search engines (Archie) are almost never used any more.
• See also ftp.htm

• Archie: a User-index of anonymous FTP
• Archie by using Telnet:  Login as "archie" and don't enter anything for a password.  Try the Archie commands "?" "Help" "prog searchstring" "find" "whatis searchstring". Archie.McGill.ca
• Archie.Rutgers.edu

• Deja News & Google - The Premier Usenet Newsgroup Search Utility
• Google Groups
• GRC Discussions Online
• MSN Groups
• News.CIS.DFN.DE / News.FU-Berlin.DE
• Stardock Corporation - Innovation on demand
• news://news.stardock.com/
• Usenet and Newsgroup Access: Uncensored, Anonymous, Secure!  $$
• Usenet Info Center Launch Pad - Usenet Info Center Launch Pad - Usenet Info Center Launch Pad

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• EasyNews - US$120/year

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• Binary Boy - Newsgroup Downloader
• NewsBin Usenet News Robot

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• HTML for News / Usenet
• <a href="news:alt.comp.virus">
• Note that it is not news://

• Telnet -- Telnet allows you to run a program (such as an electronic library catalogue or pay-per-use database service) on another computer. Passwords are often required.
• You must make sure that a Telnet application has been set up in your Browser. You may be able to find Telnet, Trumptel, or WinTel already installed on your computer.  If not, then you will have to download it and install it.
• Telnet is a protocol used to logon as a terminal to a remote system, such as Pegasus or LUIS. URLs (web addresses) that begin telnet:// or tn3270://  will try and start your telnet or tn3270 helper application.

• TELNET - Wikipedia
• CARL = Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (VT00 Terminal) - telnet://database.carl.org
• LOCIS (Library of Congress Information System) - telnet://locis.loc.gov
• telnet://rsl.ox.ac.uk
• SJCPL's Public Library - telnet://stjos.sjcpl.lib.in.us
• What do I do if someone has sent me (by e-mail) a large attachment?

• WAIS (an abbreviation for Wide Area Information System) supports retrieval of documents from databases via full-text search.
• Boolean Searching in WAIS Databases
• freeWAIS-sf Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] with answers