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[ConiX]

This may help you if you are lazy in google or you want to view something of "the invisible web". So here we go (note: some of the links are may broken, I checked few of them and they work fine.):

Internet History Resources

A Brief History of the Internet, version 3.1
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history

Internet History and Growth
http://www.isoc.org/..._and_Growth.ppt

Hobbes’ Internet Timeline
http://www.zakon.org...ternet/timeline

Evaluating quality ofinformation found on the Internet

The Virtual Chase: Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
http://www.virtualchase.com/quality

Evaluating the Quality of World Wide Web Resources
http://www.valpo.edu...evaluation.html

Locating earlier pages and their content
Wayback Machine—Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org

Directories of Invisible Web sites

Direct Search
http://www.freepint....gary/direct.htm

invisible-web.net
http://www.invisible-web.net

CompletePlanet
http://completeplanet.com

More information on copyright and the Internet
United States Copyright Office
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

Copyright Web Site
http://www.benedict.com

Copyright and the Internet
http://mason.gmu.edu...ht-internet.htm

Sites that provide links to popular style guides online

Karla’s Guide to Citation Style Guides
http://bailiwick.lib...alism/cite.html

Style Sheets for Citing Internet & Electronic Resources
http://www.lib.berke...rnet/Style.html





Sites that provide free e-mail alerting services and also provide archives of past content

The Resource Shelf
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com

FreePint
http://www.freepint.com

ResearchBuzz
http://www.researchbuzz.com

Internet Resources Newsletter
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn

The Scout Report
http://scout.wisc.edu

Web Directories

Yahoo!
http://yahoo.com

Open Directory
http://dmoz.org

LookSmart
http://looksmart.com

Librarians’ Index to the Internet
http://lii.org

Search Engine Colossus
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com

Web portals

Excite
http://excite.com

Lycos
http://lycos.com

AOL
http://www.aol.com

MSN
http://msn.com

Netscape
http://netscape.com


FAQ about portals
http://www.traffick.....asp?aID=9#what

Finding Specialized Directories

Teoma seach engine
http://teoma.com

Finding Specialized Directories in Professional Publications
http://freepint.com

Collections of specialized directories

The WWW Virtual Library
http://www.vlib.org

Search Engine Guide
http://www.searchengineguide.com

Sites that provide an extensive collection of links toreference tools such as encyclopedias,dictionaries, and so forth

Internet Public Library Reference Ready Reference
http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR

refdesk.com
http://refdesk.com

InfoMine
http://infomine.ucr.edu

BUBL LINK
http://bubl.ac.uk/link

Project Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg

Library of Congress Gateway to Library Catalogs
http://lcweb.loc.gov...50/gateway.html

Social Sciences and Humanities

Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk

Tennessee Tech History Web Site
http://www2.tntech.edu/history

Virtual Religion Index
http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri

Physical and Life Sciences

ChemDex
http://www.chemdex.org

HealthFinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov

MEDLINE Plus Health Topics
http://www.nlm.nih.g...althtopics.html

Engineering

EEVL:The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing
http://www.eevl.ac.uk

Business and Economics

New York Times Cybertimes—A Selective Guide to Internet Business, Financial, and Investing Resources
http://www.nytimes.c...ce/busconn.html

CEOExpress
http://ceoexpress.com

Virtual International Business and Economic Sources
http://libweb.uncc.e...us/vibehome.htm

Resources for Economists on the Internet
http://rfe.wustl.edu

WebEc
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc

I3—Internet Intelligence Index
http://www.fuld.com/i3

Government and Governments

Governments on the WWW
http://www.gksoft.com/govt

Foreign Government Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich...cs/foreign.html

FirstGov
http://firstgov.gov

UK Online
http://www.open.gov.uk

Political Resources on the Net
http://www.politicalresources.net

Legal

FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com

Education

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
http://school.discov...om/schrockguide

Education World
http://education-world.com

Education Index
http://www.educationindex.com

News

Kidon Media-Link
http://www.kidon.com/media-link

Genealogy

Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
http://www.cyndislist.com

Most popular search engines:

ALLTHEWEB
http://alltheweb.com

Title searching: title: someword
URL Searching: url: someword
Link Searching: link: someword
NOT: someword –someword
OR: someword (someotherword somequiteothereword)
CONVERT: convert: 27miles

ALTAVISTA
http://www.altavista.com

Title searching: title: someword
Url searching:“windows xp” url: microsoft.com
Domain: domain: net
Link searching: link: microsoft.com
Like: like:somewordsimulartotheword
Text: text:sometext
Near: oneword NEAR anotherword
Wildcart: “metal*” will return: metals, metalic and so on. – can be used with prefixes. Ex: title: russia*

GOOGLE
http://www.google.com

title searching: intitle: someword allintitle: someword
In URL: inurl:somesite allinurl: somesite site: somesite
Link searching: link: somesite
File types: filetype: somefiletype
Related pages: related: somesite
Cache: cache: somesite
Info: info: somesite

HOTBOT
http://www.hotbot.com

Title searhing: title: someword

TEOMA
http://teoma.com

Title searching: intitle: someword
URL searching: inurl: somesite
Site search: site: somesite
Language searching: lang: somelanguage
Geographical location: geoloc: somelocation

Other general search engines:

Lycos
http://lycos.com

WiseNut
http://www.wisenut.com

MSN Search
http://search.msn.com

Be updated with the latest search engines on those sites:

Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com

Resources for Locating and Using Groups:

• Google’s Groups Search. For searching Usenet groups and postings
• Google’s Web Search. For locating some non-Usenet groups
• Yahoo! Groups. Only for groups on the Yahoo! site, but there are hundreds
of thousands of them
• Delphi Forums. Over 100,000 active forums on the Delphi Forums site
(http://www.delphiforums.com)
• Ezboard. Can be found at http://www.ezboard.com


Web sites for location mailing lists:

Topica.com
Topica.com

L-Soft CataList, the Official Catalog of LISTSERV_ Lists
http://www.lsoft.com...ts/listref.html

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia.com
http://encyclopedia.com

Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com

Voila Encyclopédie avec Hachette
http://encyclo.voila.fr

Encyclopedia Britannica
http://britannica.com

Dictonaries

YourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com

Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com

Dictionnaire Universel Francophone En Ligne
http://www.francopho...chette-livre.fr

diccionarios.com
http://www.diccionarios.com

LEO—Link Everything Online
http://dict.leo.org

Almanacs

InfoPlease
http://www.infoplease.com

Addresses and Phone Numbers

Wayp International White and Yellow Pages
http://www.wayp.com

Yahoo! People Search
http://people.yahoo.com


AnyWho
http://www.anywho.com

Quotations

Quote Links
http://www.quotationspage.com


Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com

Foreign Exchange Rates/Currency Converter

Yahoo! Finance—Currency Conversion
http://finance.yahoo.com/m3?u

Weather

Weather Underground
http://wunderground.com

Maps

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps

Gazetteer

Global Gazetteer
http://www.world-gazetteer.com

ZIP Codes

U.S. Postal Service
http://www.usps.com/zip4

STOCK QUOTES

CNNMoney
http://money.cnn.com

STATISTICS

Statistical Resources on the Web—Comprehensive Subjects
http://www.lib.umich...ocs/stcomp.html

Statistics.com
http://www.statistics.com

The Directory of Online Statistics Sources
http://www.berinstei...h.com/stats.htm

U.S. Statistics
USA Statistics in Brief
http://www.census.go.../www/brief.html

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov

BOOKS

Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com

Barnes & Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Finding Information About Books—Bibliographic Databases

Library of Congress
http://catalog.loc.gov

British Library
http://blpc.bl.uk

Full-Text Books Online

The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books

Project Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg

Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs

A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist

University of Virginia Hypertext Collection
http://xroads.virgin...R/hypertex.html

GOVERNMENTS AND COUNTRY GUIDES

Governments on the WWW
http://www.gksoft.com/govt

Foreign Government Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich...cs/foreign.html

CIA World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/...ations/factbook


CountryWatch.com
http://www.countrywatch.com

U.S. GOVERNMENT


FirstGov
http://firstgov.gov

GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov

U.S. STATE INFORMATION

Library of Congress—State and Local Governments
http://lcweb.loc.gov...e/stategov.html

U.K. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

UK Online
http://www.open.gov.uk

BASIC RESOURCES FOR COMPANY INFORMATION

CorporateInformation
http://www.corporateinformation.com

Hoovers
http://www.hoovers.com

D&B Small Business Solutions
http://sbs.dnb.com

Thomas Register
http://www2.thomasregister.com

ASSOCIATIONS

American Society of Association Executives Gateway to Associations
http://info.asaenet....AssocSlist.html

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORIES

AMA Physician Select—Online Doctor Finder
http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm

Lawyers.com
http://lawyers.com

LITERATURE DATABASES


Direct Search
http://www.freepint....gary/direct.htm

A grab bag of (mainly) free bibliographies and bibliographic databases on the Web
http://www.leidenuni...iv/freebase.htm

Ingenta
http://www.ingenta.com

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Peterson’s
http://petersons.com

College Search
http://www.collegeboard.com/csearch

TRAVEL

Fodors.com
http://www.fodors.com

Lonely Planet Online
http://www.lonelyplanet.com

Reservation Sites

Travelocity
http://travelocity.com

Expedia
http://expedia.com

Orbitz
http://orbitz.com

FILM

Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com

Directories of Image Resources on the Internet

Finding Images Online: Directory of Web Image Sites
http://www.berinstei...om/fiolinks.htm

Digital Librarian: A Librarian’s Choice of the Best of the Web: Images
http://www.digital-l...com/images.html

BUBL LINK: Image Collections
http://bubl.ac.uk/li...ypes/images.htm

Search Engine Image Collections

Google’s Images Search
http://google.com

AltaVista
http://altavista.com

AllTheWeb
http://alltheweb.com

Commercial Collections

Corbis
http://corbis.com

Exemplary Individual Collections

American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov

WebMuseum, Paris
http://ibiblio.org/wm

ClipArt

Barry’s Clipart
http://barrysclipart.com

Yahoo Directory > Graphics > Clipart
http://dir.yahoo.com...aphics/Clip_Art

Audio

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio
http://archive.museo...sbu.ac.uk/audio

Audio Resources: Radio Stations

Radio-Locator (formerly The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet)
http://www.radio-locator.com

Other Audio Resources

The History Channel: Speeches
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches

The Movie Sounds Page
http://www.moviesounds.com

Directory of Video Resources on the Internet

BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources: Video
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/v/video.htm

NEWS RESOURCE GUIDES

Kidon Media-Link
http://www.kidon.com/media-link

NewsLink
http://newslink.org

Metagrid
http://www.metagrid.com

MAJOR NEWS NETWORKS AND NEWSWIRES

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk

CNN
http://www.cnn.com

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com

Reuters
http://reuters.com

RADIO AND TV

Radio-Locator (formerly The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet)
http://www.radio-locator.com

NPR
http://www.npr.org

AGGREGATION SITES

World News Network
http://www.wn.com

Moreover.com
http://moreover.com

Newsnow.co.uk
http://newsnow.co.uk

Aggregation Sites—Major Web Search Engines

AllTheWeb News Search
http://alltheweb.com

AltaVista News Search
http://altavista.com

Google News Search
http://news.google.com

Weblogs


Open Directory: Computers: Internet: On the Web:Weblogs
http://dmoz.org/Comp...the_Web/Weblogs

ALERTING SERVICES

NewsAlert
http://www.newsalert.com


Google News Alerts
http://www.google.com/newsalerts

Online Shopping Resource Guide

ShoppingSpot
http://shoppingspot.com

COMPANY CATALOGS

ThomasRegister
http://www.thomasregister.com

SHOPPING MALLS

Yahoo! Shopping
http://shopping.yahoo.com

Amazon.com
http://amazon.com

eBay
http://ebay.com

Froogle
http://froogle.com

Directory of Price Comparison Sites

Open Directory: Consumer Information: Price Comparisons
http://dmoz.org/Home...ice_Comparisons

MySimon
http://www.mysimon.com

PRODUCT AND MERCHANT EVALUATIONS

Epinions
http://epinions.com

BizRate.com
http://bizrate.com

Consumer Reports
http://consumerreports.org
ConsumerReview.com
http://consumerreview.com

Consumer Search
http://consumersearch.com

SITES TO HELP YOU BUILD YOUR WEB SITES

Webmonkey
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey

Reallybig.com: The Complete Resource for All Web Builders
http://Reallybig.com

About.com:Web Design
http://webdesign.about.com

ALTERNATIVES TO YOUR OWN WEB SITE

Blogger
http://Blogger.com

[MasterTsunami]

Wow great collection! Some of these I have never seen but seem really useful.

[Kenny]

excellent collection ConiX

thanks

and upgraded to full member

"Pinned as a sticky"

[stillbirth]

0ops.very thx dear

[Brabbit]

i bookmarked them all...hehe

[Spookie]

For a visual meta search engine here are two links for you. I'm sure theres others but I prefer these 2.

http://www.pagebull.com/

http://www.kartoo.com/ ( My favorite).

Another one thats pretty fair but unlike the top 2 above would be http://www.zonecut.net/dns/

[Colonel]

I look this ^^

Thanks !!

[illwill]

maybe u should try the english for beginers colonel

[EricaRowlet]

This is a very useful collection...Thank you

Erica Rowlet