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Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook - Second Edition

by
Ran Hock
Online Strategies

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Chapter1
Basics for the Extreme Searcher
Chapter 6
Groups, Newsgroups, Forums, and their Relatives
(Cover) The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook

Chapter 2
General Web Directories and Portals

Chapter 7 
An Internet Reference Shelf

Chapter 3
Specialized Directories

Chapter 8
Sights and Sounds: Finding Images, Audio, and Video

Chapter 4
Web Search Engines - The Basics

Chapter 9
News Resources

Chapter 5
Web Search Engines - The Specifics

Chapter 10 
Finding Products Online
Chapter 11
Becoming Part of the Internet: Publishing

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Chapter 1 - Basics for the Extreme Searcher

History of the Internet

A Brief History of the Internet, version 3.1
Internet History and Growth
Hobbes' Internet Timeline 

Web 2.0
Web 2.0: A User's GuideNew!

Assessing Quality of Content 

The Virtual Chase: Evaluating The Quality Of Information On The Internet
Evaluating the Quality of World Wide Web Resources

Retrospective Coverage of Content

Wayback Machine - Internet Archive

Content- The"Invisible Web"

Complete Planet

Copyright

United States Copyright Office
The UK Patent Office - Copyright
Copyright Website
Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web

Citing Internet Resources

Journalism Resources' Guide to Citation Style Guides
Citing Your Sources (formerly: Style Sheets for Citing Resources (Print & Electronic)

Keeping Up-to-Date on Internet Resources and Tools

The Resource Shelf
Free Pint
ResearchBuzz
Internet Resources Newsletter
The Scout Report

 

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Chapter 2

General Web Directories and Portals

General Web Directories

Yahoo! Directory
Yahoo! Kids - formerly  Yahooligans

Open Directory 
Librarians' Internet Index
Internet Public Library

General Portals
Yahoo!
My Yahoo!
Excite
Lycos
AOL
MSN
Netscape


Resource Sites

Search Engine Watch 
Traffick: Frequently Asked Questions about Portals

 

Chapter 3 -Specialized Directories

The WWW Virtual Library
Search Engine Guide - Search Engines Directory
refdesk.com
Internet Public Library Reference Ready Reference 
InfoMine
BUBLLINK 
Intute (Resource Discovery Network)
Project Gutenberg 
Library of Congress Z39.50 Gateway 
intute - Social Sciences (formerly Social Science Information Gateway)
TennesseeTech History Web Site
Best of History Web Sites
Virtual Religion Index 
ChemDex
HealthFinder
MEDLINEPlus 
intute: science, engineering& technology (formerly EEVL: The Internet
Guide To Engineering, Mathematics And Computing

 

New York Times > Business Navigator (formerly NYT Cybertimes) 
CEOExpress
("Virtual Int'l Business & Economic Sources" is no longer available.Instead, see GlobalEDGE)
GlobalEDGE New!
Resources for Economists on the Internet
I3 - Internet Intelligence Index
Governments on the WWW 
Foreign Government Resources on the Web
USA.gov (formerly FirstGov )
Directgov 
Political Resources on the Net
FindLaw
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Education World 
Education Index 
EducationAtlas.com
Kidon Media-Link 
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

Chapter 4 - Search Engines - the Basics

Search Engine Shortcuts
Google Maps Mania
Yahoo! Maps Applications Gallery
Search Engine Watch 

Chapter 5 - Search Engines - The Specifics
 

Google
Yahoo
MSN Search
Windows Live
Ask.com
Exalead
HotBot

Chart of Major Search Engine Features
(Printable and Corresponding to Table 5.1)

Lycos
AllTheWeb
AltaVista
[WiseNut is no longer available.]

Visualization
KartOO
Grokker
TouchGraph
Quintura New!

Comparison Search
Zuula New!

 
 

Chapter 6- Mailing Lists and Newsgoups

Google Groups 
Yahoo Groups 
Omgili New!
BoardReader New!
Delphi Forums 
ezboard 
Big Boards
Topica
L-Soft CataList, the Official Catalog of LISTSERV® lists

 

Chapter 7- Web Reference Shelf

Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia.com
Encarta

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Wikipedia
How Stuff Works

Dictionaries
YourDictionary.com 
Merriam-Webster Online
diccionarios.com
LEO (German/English)

Combined Reference Tools & Almanacs
Answers.com
InfoPlease
A9

Addresses/ Phone Numbers
Infobel
Wayp International White & Yellow Pages
Yahoo People Search
WhitePages.com
AnyWho
Superpages.com

Searching for People New!
Pipl
LinkedIn
MySpace
FaceBook

Quotations
The Quotations Page
Bartleby.com

Foreign  Exchange
Yahoo Finance - FOREX

Weather, Maps, Gazetteer
wunderground.com
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Global Gazetteer
World Gazetteer

ZIP Codes
U.S. Postal Service ZIP Code Lookup

Stock Quotes
CNNMoney

Statistics
Statistical Resources on the Web
intute- Statistics and Data
USA Statistics in Brief
FedStats

Bookstores & Libraries
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Library of Congress
British Library
Google Book Search

 Full-text Books and Journals Online
The Online Books Page
Project Gutenberg  
Bartleby.com 
EuroDocs:Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
A Chronology of US Historical Documents
University of Virginia Hypertext Collection
Google Books

Governments and Country Guides
Governments on the WWW
Foreign Gov't Resources on the Web
CIA World Factbook
UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office-Country Profiles
USA.gov (formerly FirstGov )
GPO Access
THOMAS- Legislative Info...
Open CRS
Library of Congress- State & Local Gov'ts
Directgov

Company Information
Corporate Information
SEC EDGAR - Filings
Hoovers
ThomasNet
Kompass
Kellysearch

Associations
American Society of Association Executives Gateway to Associations

Professional Directories
AMA Doctor Finder
Lawyers.com

Literature Databases
Direct Search

IngentaConnect
HighBeam Research New!
BNET Research Center (formerly FindArticles)
Google Scholar
Yahoo! Subscriptions Search

["Free Bibliographies and Bibliographic Databases on the Web" no longer available]

Colleges and Universities
Peterson's
College Search
Educations.com

Travel
Fodor's
Lonely Planet
Travelocity
Expedia.com
Orbitz
The Traveler's Web

Film 
Internet Movie Database

   

 

 

Chapter 8- Sights and Sounds: Finding Images, Audio, and Video 

Directories of Image Resources on the Internet

Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web: Images BUBLLINK: Image Collections
(Finding Images Online: Directory Of Web Image Sites no longer available)

Search Engine Image Collections

Yahoo!
Google

Other Searchable Collections 

Picsearch
AllTheWeb
AltaVista 

Getting Images You Can Use 
Corbis
Fotos Search Stock Photos
Creative Commons
Stock.XCHNG

Exemplary Individual Collections

American Memory Project
WebMuseum,Paris 

Storing and Sharing Your Own Photos
Flickr

Clipart
Free Graphics
Barry's Clipart
Yahoo Directory > Graphics >Clipart

Audio

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio
Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web - Audio
AltaVista -Audio Search
AlltheWeb- Audio Search
Yahoo! Audio Search (including podcasts)
Singingfish
FindSounds
Internet Archive- Audio Archive
Radio-Locator
Yahoo! LAUNCHcast Radio
MSN Radio - Windows Media Player
Podcastdirectory.com
PodSpider
Podscope
The History Channel: Speeches & Video
The Movie Sounds Page
Apple: iPod & iTunes
Yahoo! Music

Video

BUBLLINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources: Video
Yahoo! Video Search
Google Video Search
Blinkx.tv -  tv video search
ShadowTV
TVEyes
Television News Archive
YouTube New!

For a more extensive list of audio and video resources, 
see Ran's Multimedia page.

 

Chapter 9- News Resources

Resource Guides 

Kidon Medialink
ABYZ News Links
Metagrid
Newslink
NewsWealth

News in Pictures
Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index

Major News Networks and Newswires

BBC
CNN
MSNBC
Reuters
Aljazeera

Newspapers - Front Pages

Today's Front Pages
PressDisplay.com

Radio and TV

Radio-Locator
RadioStationWorld (TVRadioWorld)
NPR

 

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Aggregation Sites

Google News
Yahoo! News
Topix.net
NewsNow
RocketNews
World News Network
Silobreaker New!

[Feedster and Findory are no longer available]

Weblogs

Bloglines
Technorati
Blog Search
Bloogz
IceRocket

RSS

Bloglines
(Rocketinfo is no longer a newsreader, now just a  collection of pre-selected feeds)
My Yahoo!

Alerting Services

Google  Alerts 
Yahoo News Alerts

For a more extensive list of news resources, 
see Ran's News on the Internet page. New!

 
 
 

Chapter 10 - Finding Products Online

ShoppingSpot
ThomasNet
Kompass
Kellysearch
Amazon
Overstock.com
Open Directory: Consumer Information - Price Comparisons
Become.com New!
Yahoo! Shopping
mySimon
PriceGrabber.com
Shopping.com
Shopzilla
Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
eBay
Epinions
BizRate
ConsumerReports.org
ConsumerREVIEW.com
ConsumerSearch
safeshopping.org
(Federal Trade Commission's site for E-Commerce no longer available)
eConsumer.gov

Chapter 11 - Becoming Part of the Internet: Publishing

Web Style Guide
Blogger
WordPress.com
Moveable Type
LiveJournal
MySpace
Yahoo! 360°

Podcasts
["Yahoo! Podcasts - Publish a Podcast" is no longer available]

Websites
000Domains.com
Open Directory > Computers > Internet > Web Design & Development > Hosting > Directories
Upperhost
GeoCities
Tripod
Angelfire
(Google Page Creator closing) Replaced by Google Sites
Webmonkey
Reallybig.com: The Complete Resource for All Web Builders
About.com -Web Design

 

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