BookFinder -- http://www.bookfinder.com/ -- "BookFinder.com is a one-stop e-commerce search engine that searches over 150 million books for sale--new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks.  We save you time and money by searching every major catalog online, and letting you know which booksellers are offering the best prices and selection.  When you find a book you like, you can buy it directly from the original seller. . .We enjoy blogging about our work, and advocating for a strong, diverse, bookselling industry."  [BookFinder is an independent subsidiary of AbeBooks.  Check out BookFinder's blog about reading, buying, and selling books.]

CIA -- http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html -- no responsible website is complete unless it has a link to the Central Intelligence Agency.  We use its 2008 CIA World Factbook (updated with new material every two weeks, on a new website) as a source of information about the countries of the world.  

Copyscape -- http://www.copyscape.com/-- "Copyscape makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web.  Simply type in the address of your web page, and Copyscape. . .finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you."  Copyscape is a free service; premium services are available.

Dogpile -- http://www.dogpile.com/ -- "Dogpile puts the power all the leading search engines--Google, Yahoo, MSN Live Search, and Ask.com-- together in one search box to deliver the best combined results. The process is more efficient and yields more relevant results. . .Dogpile was named top consumer search engine by J.D. Power & Associates for 2007."

Embassies of the World -- http://www.embassyworld.com/ -- "EmbassyWorld is designed to provide a comprehensive list of contact resources for all of the world's diplomatic offices.  Our goal is to provide an easy-to-navigate directory that is clearly laid out and fully cross-indexed. Our database is searchable via a bi-lateral search-engine to search both host location and hosted embassy from dual query boxes.  It is our intention to make finding an embassy easy."

European Search Engines -- http://www.netmasters.co.uk/european_search_engines/ -- "[the directory} is the leading directory of European Search Engines and Directories on the Internet.  [It] was established in 1996 to promote European search resources...the site lists search resources that allow free registration...".

FirstGov -- [Renamed to USA.gov--see below]

Gigablast -- http://gigablast.com/ -- "Gigablast is one of the last, pure, Internet search engines.  Our #1 goal is to provide our users with high-quality, relevant search results.  Period."

iBoogie -- http://www.iboogie.com -- Don't we all?  Give it a whirl.  

India -- http://us.rediff.com/index.html--   portal, search engine, focuses on the world's Indian communities.

Internet Movie Database -- http://www.imdb.com -- "the biggest, best, most award-winning movie and TV site on the planet, visited by over 57 million movie and TV lovers each month."   More movies? - see rotten tomatoes below.  Both websites have one thing in common--a bit of garishness which mellows with use.

Ixquick -- http://ixquick.com/ -- Ixquick is a metasearch engine based in New York and the Netherlands.  When you search Ixquick, you are searching many popular search engines--anonymously--at the same time.  For your query, it finds the sites rated best by multiple engines.  Ixquick returns the top ten results from multiple search engines.  An Ixquick result is awarded one star ()for every search engine that chooses it as one of the ten best results for your search.  A five star ( ) result means that five search engines agreed on the result.  Ixquick does not record your IP address.  On July 14, 2008, Ixquick was awarded the first European Privacy Seal for its privacy practices.

JoeAnt -- http://www.joeant.com -- JoeAnt, launched in 2001 by former Go.com volunteer guides who "...find and add the best sites in their chosen topics...", provides an internet directory and search engine.  Give it a dig.

Middle East -- http://www.albawaba.com -- Al Bawaba is a directory and search engine for countries of the Middle East, from Algeria to Yemen.

Naver -- http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/04/business/naver.php -- This Jul 4, 2007, article in the online International Herald Tribune tells you why the South Korean search engine called Naver is pummeling Google and Yahoo.

Netherlands -- http://www.voelspriet.nl -- a Dutch search engine.

Newspapers -- http://www.newspapers.com -- Answers the question "What in the world is going on?" Search thousands of newspapers online, find newspapers within the U.S. or in other countries.

Kosmix -- http://www.kosmix.com ". . . is a guide to the Web.  [It] lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities, and links to related topics.  Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web."  Read reviews and press releases at http://www.kosmix.com/corp/about .

Omgili -- http://www.omgili.com/ -- Omgili is a crawler-based vertical search engine that focuses on user-generated content platforms, such as forums, discussion groups, mailing lists, answer boards--a way to find subjective information as opposed to traditional engines which search for sites and pages.

Pakistan -- http://www.pakavenue.com -- PakAvenue is "anything and everything Pakistani on the internet."

Pandia -- http://www.pandia.com/ -- owned, designed, written and edited by a couple from Norway, Per and Susanne Koch.   At Pandia you can learn how to search the Web more efficiently, read about search engines and sites devoted to searching, and gain easy access to all the best search resources on the Internet.  Pandia also offers its own search facilities, including a web directory and metasearch engine.  

Radio locator -- http://www.radio-locator.com/ -- "...the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet.  We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2,500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."

ResearchBuzz -- http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/ -- has been buzzing for years, covering the world of search engines, internet research, browser technology, web directories, databases, online information collections, whatever.  ResearchBuzz is written and edited by Tara Calishain, the author of "Web Search Garage," and co-author of New York Times bestseller "Google Hacks."  Buzz on over and take a look.

Rotten Tomatoes -- http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ -- So much to look at, so little time, with one of the busiest homepages in the biz.  It's not as daunting as it first appears.  If you enjoy the movies, you'll spend a lot of time here.  

RSSMicro -- http://www.rssmicro.com/ -- "...search 5.7 million RSS feeds -- the most comprehensive RSS feed search on the web."

Science-specific --  http://www.scirus.com -- "...the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the internet...searches more than 450 million science-specific Web pages."

Search Engine Colossus -- http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/ --  Since 1998, "...the national directory of international search engines...explore 311 countries and territories" around the world.

Search Engine Guide -- http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html -- "Internet search engines are categorized by topic in our searchable directory of general and specialty search engines.  Also listed are resources and tools for exploring the deep web, performing advanced research, and for learning about using search engine tools and technology."  Search engine news from around the Internet is posted each day.

Search Engine Watch -- http://searchenginewatch.com/ -- Search Engine Watch covers it all:  engines, news, headlines, reviews, tools, blogs, forums, listings, ratings, stats, resources, newsletters, reports. [etc.]

South Africa -- http://www.searchza.com/ -- "The ultimate South Africa search engine."

Trulia -- http://www.trulia.com/ -- "We are a real estate search engine that helps you find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level to help you make better decisions in the process."  (Today, in the current real estate slump, buyers and sellers need all the help they can get.)  [See also Zillow, below]

U.K. -- http://www.searchuk.com/-- a search engine and directory specializing in the United Kingdom market.

U.S. Government related -- 

   THOMAS -- http://thomas.loc.gov/ -- search legislative bills by bill number, text, word/phrase, browse bills by sponsor.  Source of federal legislative information from the Library of Congress.

   USAGov -- http://www.USA.gov/ -- the U.S. Government's official web portal; has a search engine for U.S. Government and State Government.  Its tag line is Government Made Easy.  (Surely you jest--previously known as FirstGov.gov)

   U. S. Congress votes data base -- http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/about/ -- maintained by the Washington Post is a deep database of every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991).  It lets you browse votes in a variety of ways--both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress.  Provides links to Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U. S. Senate, other sources.

   U. S. Congress -- http://www.govtrack.us/about.xpd, a civic project to track Congress, "is an independent tool to help the public research and track the activities in the U.S. Congress, promoting government transparency and civic education through novel uses of technology."

   U. S. Library of Congress -- http://www.loc.gov/index.html -- research guides and data bases -- resources and information in the world's largest library.

   Open Congress -- http://www.opencongress.org/ "brings together official government data with news coverage, blog posts, comments, and more to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress."

Wayback Machine -- http://www.archive.org/web/web.php -- "The Internet Archive Wayback Machine."  "Browse through an archive of 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. Thanks to a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, Internet Archive completed a 2 billion page web crawl in 2007. This is the largest web crawl attempted by Internet Archive. The project was designed to take a global snapshot of the Web."

Weather -- http://www.weatherbase.com/ -- historical weather or records and averages for over 16,000 cities worldwide, "...the most...comprehensive source on the internet."

Webopedia -- http://www.webopedia.com/ -- "an online free dictionary for words, phrases, and abbreviations that are related to computer and Internet technology.  Webopedia provides easy-to-understand definitions in plain language, avoiding the use of heavy jargon when possible so that the site [benefits] users with a wide range of computer knowledge.  

Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  -- a web-based free content encyclopedia with millions of entries in about 260 languages.  Its goal is to create a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.  Wikipedia is one of the most popular (and sometimes controversial) reference sites on the internet. [Said to be the 7th most popular website in the world.]

Wolfram Alpha launched its "computational knowledge engine" on May 15, 2009, to mixed raves and rants:  "takes the web by storm, but what is it?", "computes answers to factual questions," "really impressive and significant," "breaking ground in a new kind of uselessness," "too technical for a lay audience," "The Geek's search engine?"  A Google News search on May 20 shows thousands of Wolfram articles for search junkies.  Take your pick.  An answer engine with a sense of humor?  Join in.  [posted 5/20/09]

World Digital Library -- http://www.wdl.org/en/ -- The World Digital Library makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.  Developmental costs were financed by private donors, including Google.  [Apr 21, 2009]

Read the article "U.N. Launches Library of World's Knowledge" by Edward Cody, Washington Post Foreign Service, at this link:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042001324.html?hpid=sec-world

Yahoo BOSS -- http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/ -- "BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform.  The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry.  Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index.  BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure."

Yauba (beta) -- http://www.yauba.com/-- "We offer our users the highest privacy protection of any major search engine in the world.  We are the only major search engine company that allows users to both search and browse third party websites safely and anonymously, without passing on any of their private, personally identifiable information."

No record is kept of your search terms, browsing habits, or any other personal data.  Every piece of such data is continuously deleted from Yauba's servers.  You can visit almost every internet site on a completely anonymous basis (except for certain file types).  For more information, click on "About Yauba" and "Your Privacy." [Apr 20, 2009]

Zapmeta -- http://www.zapmeta.com/ -- ZapMeta is a meta-search engine that simultaneously searches multiple search engines under one interface.

Zillow -- http://www.zillow.com/ -- a free, no-registration real estate service for some 80 million houses in the U.S.  Enter an address and Zillow provides its approximate market value of the house, comparables, and other data (culled primarily from public records), overlaid on a satellite map.

ZoomInfo -- http://www.zoominfo.com/ -- "...the premier business information search engine, with profiles on more than 40 million people and 4 million companies...delivers fresh and organized information on industries, companies, people, products, services and jobs."

Zuula -- http://zuula.com/  -- "Zuula's customizable metasearch is a quick and easy way to get results from all the top engines."  Catchy name.  Privately held, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

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