Computer & Web

Links to the top 20+ Search Engines and Indexes

AltaVista

Ask Jeeves

Direct Hit

Excite

FAST Search

Go / Infoseek

Google

HotBot

Inktomi

LookSmart

Lycos

MSN Search

Northern Light

Open Directory

RealNames

Snap

WebCrawler

Yahoo

Reference

(also writer’s Tools for many additional links)

• 10,000 Years Calendar
• 411.com
• Acronym Finder
• AnyWho.com
• Babelfish Multilingual Translator
• BehindTheName.Com
  (etymology / name history)
• Best Places to Live 2000
• Cambridge International Dictionaries
• CIA World Fact Book – 99
• Convert it! – Use the conversion tables here to convert just about anything to anything! Acceleration, area, energy/work, power, length, mass, metrology, pressure, temperature, US fluid or liquid, velocity, and volume/capacity equivalents
• DidYouKnow.Com
• Domain Name Whois
• Facts About the 50 U.S. States
• FreeTranslation.com
• Inflation Calculator
• InfoSpace.com
• Internet Movie Database
• Langenberg Translation – Submits to multiple free online translation sites.
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Networksolutions.com – Check availability of domain names
• Old Farmer’s Almanac
• One World Global Calendar 
• Origin of Phrases
• PhoNETic – Converts phone numbers into words

• Networksolutions.com – Check availability of domain names
• Notorious Confusables (Webster)
• Phrase Finder
• Quotations Page
• Quotations – About.com
• Quotations – Yahoo.com
• Research-It! 
• RegistrationVillage.com
  (product safety site)
• Reverse Address Search
• ReversePhoneDirectory.com
• Reverse Phone – 411
• Rhyming Dictionary
• Roget’s Thesaurus
• Social Security Death Index (Search for the deceased by Name
  or SSN)
• Switchboard.Com
  (National Phone Directory)
• Tang’s Translation Dictionaries
• Telephone Area Code Lookup
• Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Today in History
• Trademark Search (US)
• UrbanLegonds.com
• US Post Office (Zip-Codes/Rates)
• Visio.com – Online Contact Manager
• Whatis.com
• WorldPages.com 
• World Wide Word Origins

Translation

• FreeTranslation.com
  (Several Languages, translates text and websites.)
• Langenberg
  Translation – Submits to multiple free online translation
  sites.

• AmazingMail.com
  – Send 4-color Postcards from PC to US Mail
• Buy.com/comp
• Pagoo
  Call Catcher
• Callwave.com
• Efax.com
  – Free Fax
• Eletter.com
  (time saver & fair price)
• Eudora
  4.3 (Free Download)
• HP
  Online Shopping Village
  • HP
    Closeouts

• AnyDay.com
  (free online day planner)

• Price
  Watch
• Evite.com
  (free online event planner)
• seeUthere.com
  (free online event planner)
• Cnet
  – Shopper.com
• Stamps.com
  (Time saver not value …)
• StreetPrices.com
• One
  Look Best Price Search

Free Voice Mail
& Fax

• CookSpeak.com
• EchoBuzz.com
• Efax.com
• Fax4Free.com
• GetMessage

• MessageClick.com
• MyTalk.com
• NotusNow.com
• OneBox.com
• Ureach.com
• TelBot.com

News Links

(See
News Directories also)

• AP – Top Stories
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• BBC Online
• Better Home and Gardens
• Bibliomania
  (free books online)
• Bookazine.com
• The Boston Globe
• Business Traveler International
• Business Week
• Business Wire
• Cartoonbank
• Charlotte Observer
• Chicago Tribune
• Dallas Morning News
• Drudge Report
• The Economist
• Eonline.com
• The FAM Connection
• Forbes
• George
• The Hollywood Reporter
• Home Arts
• Hospitality-1St.com
• Internet Public Library (10,000 searchable online titles)
• Knight Ridder
• Ladies Home Journal
• Life Magazine

• Los Angeles Magazine
• Los Angeles Times
• Miami Herald
• MSNBC.com
• National Inquirer
• National Geographic
• National Geographic Traveler
• News Day (LI NY)
• Newsbytes
• News Directory
• Newsweek
• New York Post
• New York Times
• People
• Readers Digest
• Redbook
• Reuters
• Saint Lewis Post-Dispatch
• San Jose Mercury Times
• Sydney Morning Herald
• Scientific American
• Sunset Magazine
• Time Magazine
• USA Today
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post
• Wired

Directories

• All Media Jumpstation
  

  – Links to to more than 3,000 magazines, professional journals, trade, consumer publications categorized by type.

• Columbia Journalism Review Newspaper Finder – Searchable database of names, links, and contact info for more than 11,000 U.S. and Canadian newspapers.

• NewsPapers.com – Well indexed and maintained links to newspapers with websites throughout the world.

• E-mail Media – E-mail addresses for newspapers, magazines, journals, associations, and other media-related organizations worldwide

• Newspaper Assn. of America Hotlinks to Newspapers Online – Pointers to dailies, weeklies, international papers, college papers, and alternative press publications.

• MediaFinder – Subscription info and mailing addresses for more than 95,000 print media publications and catalogs, links to more than 100 publications’ online media kits, and a trade show database

• News Directory – World-Wide directory of newspapers and magazines.

• M.I.T.’s Directory of Radio Stations on the Net.

Music Online

• ToLook4
• AltaVista MP3
• Audio Galaxy
• Lycos MP3

• MP3.com
• Music Seek
• Oth Net
• Play Dude
• Simon1