US People

• AllPages.com business directory.
• Americadex is a fee-based lookup service.
• Anywho - AT&T's people and business lookup. Also a reverse number lookup.
• Bigfoot has a large database of e-mail addresses as well as yellow pages.
• Crimetime Black Book Online - reverse phone lookup, bank records, state and federal records, skip trace.
• C|Net Search - look up just about everything.
• FindLaw has a reverse phone and address lookup facility.
• Freeality - reverse phone and address lookup facility.
• FoneFinder find what city a given phone number or area code is in (USA and Canada).
  Americom also offers reverse area code lookup.
• Google reverse phone number lookup - enter a phone number with dashes in the Google search prompt. Google will return the address and map with a phone icon next to the entry.
• ICQ.com interpersonal chat / instant messaging.
• InfoUSA includes reverse number lookup.
• Knowx.com provides instant access to comprehensive public record information at a low cost.
• Locateme.com: look up someone from public records with just a first name and age. This is a fee-based service. There has been at least one complaint about timeliness and refunding of service fees.
• Nonpub - get non-published phone information for a fee.
• Phone Bust - fee-based lookup of phone information, social security information, records check.
• Reverse Directory - reverse personal and business phone number lookup.
• Switchboard lets you search for businesses and people.
• US Search searches public information on people.
• WhoWhere (Lycos): Find someone's e-mail address, real address, or phone number.
• Yahoo people search (formerly '411'). Comprehensive search capability - lookup addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and home pages.
• www.555-1212.com is a fee-based home and business lookup service.
• PublicData.com is a fee-based research service.

US Business

• Verison SuperPages yellow pages.
• Find an Area Code with the AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder.
• Idealist - directory of non-profit organizations.
• InfoSpace has a comprehensive personal and business database, including international listings and reverse number lookup.
• Lookup USA offers comprehensive business and people searching.
  
• McLeod Yellow Pages, with maps to find your area.
  
• Myway.com lists businesses.
• Phonebooke is a business yellow pages.
• Reverse Directory - reverse personal and business phone number lookup.
• Switchboard lets you search for businesses, people and maps.
• Toll-free directory
• US West Yellow Pages national person and business lookup.

International

• AAA World Announce
• Canada 411
• FoneFinder find what city a given phone number or prefix is in.
• InfoSpace has a comprehensive personal and business database, including international listings and reverse number lookup.
• InterBis - international business directory.
• International Telephone Directories.
• Lookabout - fast Australian search site.

US Maps

• Census Bureau layered maps
• DeLorme
• Etak
• Lycos
• Maps On Us
• Mapquest
• Old Panoramic Maps from the US Library of Congress
• Vicinity business locator
• Yahoo

US Government

• CAPWEB The Internet Guide to Congress. Includes contact information and much more.
• www.congress.org find out who your Senator and Representatives are - just enter your zipcode.
• Congressional Email Addresses
• THOMAS U.S. Legislative Information on the Internet
• U.S. Library of Congress
• USA House Of Representatives members and how to contact them. Find out who your representative is and how to write them
• U.S. Senate and how to contact your Senators
• U.S. White House includes Federal Services directory and Citizens' Handbook and search engine. Send e-mail to the President and Vice-President. (e-mail addresses: president@whitehouse.gov and vice.president@whitehouse.gov).
• Zipcode lookup (U.S.).

State Government

• Political Sushi - find your state senators and representatives.

Search Engines

• Using search engines - how to formulate search engine queries.
• Other search engine tutorials

• Copernic - highly effective, eliminates duplicate responses.
• Debriefing - good, eliminates duplicates.
• Dogpile - a good basic multi-engine search tool, but does not eliminate duplicates.
• Fazzle.
• Highway 61 - provides good results.
• ixquick - comprehensive; eliminates duplicates and porn sites.
• iWon - great advanced search features, voted "best of the web".
• Mamma - average
• MetACrawler - excellent; use for searches of web page meta tags.
• Metahoo - meta search with no ads.
• ProFusion - average results, excellent search control.
• SavvySearch - provides good quality results, but is harder to control.
• Zapmeta.

• AllTheWeb - a fast engine
• AltaVista - highly rated. Also searches newsgroups. Good database; good for general searches but can return a long list of results.
• Business.com - business search engine.
• Galaxy - average.
• GoTo - simple, easy interface.
• Google - excellent at finding what you are looking for.
• Google Groups (formerly DejaNews) - excellent newsgroup search engine.
• Google Scholar - to find research articles, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
• Hotbot - narrows your search better than most engines. Excellent querying and filtering capabilities.
• JoeAnt - directory.
• Lycos - average, good for simple searches; great for MP3's.
• LookSmart - average.
• Mamma
• NewKnows - comprehensive "how-to" site.
• NewHoo - average.
• Reference.com - searches newsgroups and email discussion lists.
• Teoma
• Turbo10 - performs extensive searches.
• Web Crawler - average, good for simple searches.
• WorldLight - directory.
• Yahoo - highly rated, with an excellent catalog. Good for general queries.
• Zeal - owned by LookSmart.

• BudgetWeb.com lets you quickly search for everything - web pages, magazine articles, package tracking, politics, and more.
• The Brick
• World's best search engine list

• C|Net Search
• InvisibleWeb searches for targeted information.
• LookSmart search engine.
• Netscape's comprehensive collection of
• Search Engines and Search Sites Search Engines and their Internet Directory
• Starting Point search engine.
• University of Geneva search engine composite.

• Search Engine Report newsletter
• Search Engine Forums discussion

More Information

• Ask Jeeves is a very effective reference database that lets you submit queries in natural language.
• About.com is a network of sites led by expert guides.
• Call Forwarding Database.
• DNS Stuff - DNS lookup and more.
• EcoFuture environmental directories, information, and organizations.
• Fast Area Code Lookup, plus white yellow, and blue pages (government) lookup, and toll free directory.
• Forum One finds web discussion forums.
• Infospace - find people, places and things.
• Internet Address Finder by Doubleclick (the company that uses cookies to track your browsing and product preferences).
• In Search Of... quite comprehensive, including science links.
• KnowX - search public records, subscription required.
• Library of Congress list of Internet search tools.
• My Virtual Reference desk.
• Needle in a CyberStack - the Info Finder with many research links, directories, search engines and multi-search engines.
• OneLook Dictionaries database. Dozens of online dictionaries.
• Open Directory project provides a comprehensive directory of the web. See World Yellow Pages to find out more).
• Research-it - spelling, thesaurus, translation, shipping services, library, geographical, financial, internet.
• Search America - comprehensive, but fee-based.
• SoftCrawler searches for free software and shareware.
• The List lets you search for Internet Service Providers.
• U.S. national archives
• USA Cops index of law enforcement agencies.
• Virtual Reference Collection, Brown University is an extremely useful source for reference materials and information such as Dictionaries and Thesauri, Directories, Phonebooks, Encylopedias, Government Info., Grants, Statistics, and Travel.
• Virtual Sites (including links to webcams).
• What can you do on the World Wide Web an amazing collection of reference material.
• Weather Underground weather reports.
• Westminster has a U.S. and Canadian zipcode lookup facility.

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