Search links

Favorite search engines

Google: great sorting for relevance, looks for references on entire web.:       http://www.google.com/, http://www.google.com/search?q=&num=100&sa=Google+Search
Wikipedia, a huge libre encyclopedia:  
• National statistics:   www.nationmaster.com  
• Find computer code: www.koders.com   www.google.com/codesearch  
• Find sounds: www.findsounds.com/ISAPI/search.dll  
• Vivísimo (clusters results): http://vivisimo.com/  
• Cite Seer: extremely useful for finding related technical articles: citeseer.ist.psu.edu  
• Movies: http://www.imdb.com/
• Jazz: www.jazzdisco.org  
• Maps: http://www.mapquest.com/
• Measure walkability of your neighborhood: walkscore.com  
• NYT Reference Links (good place to look for obscure information):   http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/cynavi.html

Other search engines

• Northernlight, similar to AltaVista:   http://www.northernlight.com/
• Teoma, sorts by relevance like google,: but only looks for references among matches. May work better than google on topics with many matches.   http://www.teoma.com/
• Links to go: an automatic version of Yahoo.:   http://www.l2g.com/
• Dogpile (collects results of other search engines):   http://www.dogpile.com/
• Mamma (collects results of other search engines, annoying indirection):   http://www.mamma.com/
• Ftp Search Lycos (same guys as alltheweb.com):   http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/
• HotBot:   http://www.hotbot.com/
• Infoseek:   http://www.infoseek.com/
• Lycos:   http://lycospro.lycos.com/   http://www.lycos.com/
• Excite:   http://www.excite.com/
• All the web (fastest, but poorly sorted):   http://www.alltheweb.com/
• WebCrawler Searching (been around longer than any of them):   http://webcrawler.com/
• search.com:   http://www.search.com/
• Looksmart:   http://www.looksmart.com/

People

• Search for people:   http://www.infospace.com/   Phone book :http://www.switchboard.com/   http://www.whowhere.com/
• Four11 Directory Services (SLED):   http://www.four11.com/

Etcetera

• Zip code lookup:   http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/
• Used books: www.abesbooks.com   http://www.powells.com/search/DTSearch/search.cgi
• Online books: http://tuxmobil.org/ebook.html   http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal   http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/MAO/ContentsPage.html   http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/  
• House prices:   http://fool.homepricecheck.com/   http://www.domania.com/
• Find political donors and recipients:   http://www.opensecrets.org/

Words

• Chinese characters:   Chinese links
• Latin Grammar Aid and Wordlist:   http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm
• Mediocre French/English dictionary:   http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
• French literature:   http://abu.cnam.fr/
• Anagrams:   http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/anagrams.html
• Phone anagrams:   http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/phoneagrams.html
• Even more anagrams:   http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/anagram.html