The 2nd Edition of the Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook Is Now Available

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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  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" Direct Search invisible-web.net Complete Planet

Copyright United States Copyright Office Copyright Website Copyright and the Internet The UK Patent Office - CopyrightNew! Citing Internet Resources Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides Style Sheets for Citing Internet & Electronic Resources  Keeping Up-to-Date on Internet Resources and Tools The Resource Shelf Free Pint ResearchBuzz Internet Resources Newsletter The Scout Report     Back to The Extreme Searcher's Web Page

 
 
 

Chapter 2 General Web Directories and Portals General Web Directories Yahoo Open Directory  LookSmart Librarians' Internet Index

General Portals Yahoo Netscape Lycos Excite Voila! Resource Sites Search Engine Watch  Traffick:The Guide to Portals and Search Engines. Frequently Asked Questions about Portals

 
 
 

Chapter 3 -Specialized Directories and Portals Internet Public Library Reference Ready Reference  refdesk.com InfoMine BUBLLINK  Project Gutenberg  Library of Congress Z39.50 Gateway  Social Science Information Gateway TennesseeTech History Web Site Virtual Religion Index  ChemDex HealthFinder MEDLINEPlus Health Topics  EEVL: The Internet Guide To Engineering, Mathematics And Computing New York Times > Business Navigator (formerly NYT Cybertimes)  CEOExpress

Virtual Int'l Business & Economic Sources Resources for Economists on the Internet Internet Intelligence Index Governments on the WWW  Foreign Government Resources on the Web FirstGov  Directgov (formerly open.gov.uk)  Political Resources on the Net FindLaw Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Education World  Education Index  EducationAtlas.com New! Kidon Media-Link  Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

 
 
 

Chapter 4 - Search Engines   AllTheWeb AltaVista Google HotBot Lycos MSN Search  Teoma WiseNut Yahoo

Search Engine Resource Sites Search Engine Watch  Search Engine Showdown

 
 
 

Chapter 5- Mailing Lists and Newsgoups Google Groups  Yahoo Groups  Delphi Forums  ezboard  Topica L-Soft CataList, the Official Catalog of LISTSERV® lists The PubliclyAccessible Mailing Lists site is no longer available

 
 
 

Chapter 6- Web Reference Shelf Encyclopedias Encarta Wikipedia New! Voila Encyclopédie avec Hachette is no longer available. Instead, try the French version of Wikipedia: Wikipédia  New! Encyclopedia.com britannica.com How Stuff Works New!		Compilations of Reference Resources  / Almanacs Answers.comNew! Information Please
Dictionaries YourDictionary.com  dicionáriode língua portuguesa on-line diccionarios.com Dictionnaire Universel Francophone En Ligne is no longer available. Try the following instead: WordReference.comNew! LEO (German/English) WWWebster Dictionary International Law Dictionary & Directory .
Addresses/ Phone Numbers Wayp International White & Yellow Pages Yahoo People Search Lycos' WhoWhere Google	Quotations The Quotations Page Bartleby.com	Foreign  Exchange Yahoo Finance - FOREX
Weather, Maps, Gazetteer wunderground.com The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Global Gazetteer US Gazetteer maporama Google Earth New! (Requires download, but really worth it!)	ZIP Codes US Postal Service	Stock Quotes CNN- The Financial Network
Statistics Statistical Resources on the Web USA Statistics in Brief Statistical Abstract of the US  The Directory of Online Statistics Sources USA Statistics in Brief  FedStats OECD Factbook New!	Bookstores & Libraries Amazon Barnes & Noble abebooks.com Library of Congress British Library
Governments and Country Guides Government Resource Guides Governments on the WWW Foreign Gov't Resources on the Web International Documents open.gov.uk  Service-Public.fr US GPO Access THOMAS- Legislative Info... FirstGov Library of Congress- State & Local Gov'ts US Embassies and Other Diplomatic Missions Country Guides CIA World Factbook CountryWatch.com IMF Staff Country Reports in Full Text Library of Congress / Country Studies: Area Handbook Series CRS Reports: Congressman Shay is no longer including CRS reports on his site. To locate CRS Reports, try searching on "CRS report" and the topic, or check the following: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs [Selected]New! Open CRSNew! Library of Congress - Portals to the World Treaties & Other Instruments... ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law – Treaties Section United Nations Treaty Collection  Council of Europe – Treaty Office Official Document System of the United Nations  New! International Constitutional Law (ICL) - Country Index
Politics, etc. Political Resources on the Net Facts on International Relations and    Security Trends (FIRST) Country Indicators for Foreign Policy International Boundary News Database (The content of the IBND  site is perhaps now too dated to be of much help.)	Company Information Corporate Information InfoSpace SearchEngine Guide --  Regional  - Countries Search Engine Colossus  Whois (domain name search) US Hoovers D&B Small Business Solutions D&B Express Online ThomasNet (formerly Thomas Register) Switchboard Superpages InfoSpace	Full-text Books and Journals Online Project Gutenberg   Bartleby.com  University of Virginia Hypertext Collection Archiving Early America  Complete Works of  William Shakespeare  Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web  TheOnline Books Page  American Memory   EuroDocs:Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe A Chronology of US Historical Documents
Associations American Society of Association Executives Gateway to Associations Professional Directories AMA Physician Select - On-Line Doctor Finder Lawyers.com	Literature Databases Direct Search A grab bag of (mainly) free bibliographies and bibliographic databases on the Web ingenta Travel Reservations Travelocity Expedia.com Orbitz Travel Guides Fodor's Travel Online Lonely Planet Online	Colleges and Universities Peterson's College Search Film  Internet Movie Database

 

Chapter 7- Sights and Sounds: Finding Images, Audio, and Video  Directories of Image Resources on the Internet Finding Images Online: Directory Of Web Image Sites Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web: Images BUBLLINK: Image Collections Search Engine Image Collections AllTheWeb AltaVista  Google Yahoo (Over 1.5 billion images) New! Commercial Collections  Corbis Fotos Search Stock Photos New!

Exemplary Individual Collections American Memory Project WebMuseum,Paris  Discover the Louvre New! Clipart Barry's Clipart Yahoo Directory > Graphics >Clipart Audio and Video Yahoo! Video Search New! Blinkx.tv -  tv video search New! Directory of Audio Resources on the Internet World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio Radio-Locator The History Channel: Speeches The Movie Sounds Page BUBLLINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources: Video For a more extensive list of audio and video resources,  see Ran's Multimedia page. New!

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Chapter 8- News Resources Resource Guides  ABYZ News Links Kidon Medialink Newslink Metagrid Major News Networks and Newswires BBC* See note below regarding search functionality for BBC CNN MSNBC Reuters Radio and TV Radio-Locator NPR   . *  BBC Search Functions: (1) BBC no longer supports truncation (the asterisk, *) but now automatically stems words. (2) NEARnn, e.g., dollar NEAR5 euro, will retrieve items where either of the words is within nn words of the other word.  (3) DNEARnn does the same as NEARnn, except that it specifies the order, i.e., which word has to come first. (4) BEFORE placed between two search terms specifies that the first term has to precede the second, e.g., President BEFORE Chirac (5) AFTER does the reverse of BEFORE.

Aggregation Sites World News.com Moreover.com Newsnow.co.uk Aggregation Sites - Major Web Search Engines AllTheWeb News Search AltaVista News Search Google News Search Yahoo News Search Weblogs Open Directory: Computers: Internet: On the Web: Weblogs Alerting Services Google  Alerts  Yahoo News Alerts NewsAlert.com is unfortunately no longer available. For a more extensive list of news resources,  see Ran's News on the Internet page. New!

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Chapter 10 - Becoming Part of the Internet: Publishing Open Directory>Computers > Internet > Web Design and Development > Hosting >Directories GeoCities Tripod Angelfire Webmonkey Reallybig.com:The Complete Resource for All Web Builders About.com:Web Design Blogger

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