The Ultimate Search Database

First of all this is my first post after long period of time becouse i was busy with my exam and other schedule. Mean while i had won two tech quizes of state level here in india.

Secondly, i am not sure where to put this list so i am putting it over here. If MOD's feels to move please do it.

Lastly, I would also acknowledge the soure of this article which was originally posted in forums of governmentsecurity.org by Conix.

Here it goes.....

Internet History Resources

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

Internet History and Growth
www.isoc.org/internet/history/2002_..._and_Growth.ppt
Hobbes’ Internet Timeline
www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline
Evaluating quality ofinformation found on the Internet

The Virtual Chase: Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
www.virtualchase.com/quality
Evaluating the Quality of World Wide Web Resources
www.valpo.edu/library/evaluation.html
Locating earlier pages and their content
Wayback Machine—Internet Archive
www.archive.org
Directories of Invisible Web sites

Direct Search
www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm
invisible-web.net
www.invisible-web.net
CompletePlanet
completeplanet.com
More information on copyright and the Internet
United States Copyright Office
lcweb.loc.gov/copyright
Copyright Web Site
www.benedict.com
Copyright and the Internet
mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/copyright-internet.htm
Sites that provide links to popular style guides online

Karla’s Guide to Citation Style Guides
bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html
Style Sheets for Citing Internet & Electronic Resources
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Gu...rnet/Style.html




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

The Resource Shelf
resourceshelf.blogspot.com
FreePint
www.freepint.com
ResearchBuzz
www.researchbuzz.com
Internet Resources Newsletter
www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn
The Scout Report
scout.wisc.edu
Web Directories

Yahoo!
yahoo.com
Open Directory
dmoz.org
LookSmart
looksmart.com
Librarians’ Index to the Internet
lii.org
Search Engine Colossus
www.searchenginecolossus.com
Web portals

Excite
excite.com
Lycos
lycos.com
AOL
www.aol.com
MSN
msn.com
Netscape
netscape.com

FAQ about portals
www.traffick.com/article.asp?aID=9#what
Finding Specialized Directories

Teoma seach engine
teoma.com
Finding Specialized Directories in Professional Publications
freepint.com
Collections of specialized directories

The WWW Virtual Library
www.vlib.org
Search Engine Guide
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
www.ipl.org/ref/RR
refdesk.com
refdesk.com
InfoMine
infomine.ucr.edu
BUBL LINK
bubl.ac.uk/link
Project Gutenberg
www.promo.net/pg
Library of Congress Gateway to Library Catalogs
lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html
Social Sciences and Humanities

Social Science Information Gateway
sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk
Tennessee Tech History Web Site
www2.tntech.edu/history
Virtual Religion Index
religion.rutgers.edu/vri
Physical and Life Sciences

ChemDex
www.chemdex.org
HealthFinder
www.healthfinder.gov
MEDLINE Plus Health Topics
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html
Engineering

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

New York Times Cybertimes—A Selective Guide to Internet Business, Financial, and Investing Resources
www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/reference/busconn.html
CEOExpress
ceoexpress.com
Virtual International Business and Economic Sources
libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus/vibehome.htm
Resources for Economists on the Internet
rfe.wustl.edu
WebEc
www.helsinki.fi/WebEc
I3—Internet Intelligence Index
www.fuld.com/i3
Government and Governments

Governments on the WWW
www.gksoft.com/govt
Foreign Government Resources on the Web
www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html
FirstGov
firstgov.gov
UK Online
www.open.gov.uk
Political Resources on the Net
www.politicalresources.net
Legal

FindLaw
www.findlaw.com
Education

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
school.discovery.com/schrockguide
Education World
education-world.com
Education Index
www.educationindex.com
News

Kidon Media-Link
www.kidon.com/media-link
Genealogy

Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
www.cyndislist.com
Most popular search engines:

ALLTHEWEB
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
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
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
www.hotbot.com
Title searhing: title: someword

TEOMA
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
lycos.com
WiseNut
www.wisenut.com
MSN Search
search.msn.com
Be updated with the latest search engines on those sites:

Search Engine Watch
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
( www.delphiforums.com )
• Ezboard. Can be found at www.ezboard.com


Web sites for location mailing lists:

Topica.com
Topica.com

L-Soft CataList, the Official Catalog of LISTSERV_ Lists
www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia.com
encyclopedia.com
Encarta
encarta.msn.com
Voila Encyclopédie avec Hachette
encyclo.voila.fr
Encyclopedia Britannica
britannica.com
Dictonaries

YourDictionary.com
www.yourdictionary.com
Merriam-Webster Online
www.m-w.com
Dictionnaire Universel Francophone En Ligne
www.francophonie.hachette-livre.fr
diccionarios.com
www.diccionarios.com
LEO—Link Everything Online
dict.leo.org
Almanacs

InfoPlease
www.infoplease.com
Addresses and Phone Numbers

Wayp International White and Yellow Pages
www.wayp.com
Yahoo! People Search
people.yahoo.com

AnyWho
www.anywho.com
Quotations

Quote Links
www.quotationspage.com

Bartleby
www.bartleby.com
Foreign Exchange Rates/Currency Converter

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

Weather Underground
wunderground.com
Maps

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

Global Gazetteer
www.world-gazetteer.com
ZIP Codes

U.S. Postal Service
www.usps.com/zip4
STOCK QUOTES

CNNMoney
money.cnn.com
STATISTICS

Statistical Resources on the Web—Comprehensive Subjects
www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stcomp.html
Statistics.com
www.statistics.com
The Directory of Online Statistics Sources
www.berinsteinresearch.com/stats.htm
U.S. Statistics
USA Statistics in Brief
www.census.gov/statab/www/brief.html
FedStats
www.fedstats.gov
BOOKS

Amazon.com
www.amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
www.barnesandnoble.com
Finding Information About Books—Bibliographic Databases

Library of Congress
catalog.loc.gov
British Library
blpc.bl.uk
Full-Text Books Online

The Online Books Page
digital.library.upenn.edu/books
Project Gutenberg
www.promo.net/pg
Bartleby.com
www.bartleby.com
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs
A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
www.law.ou.edu/hist
University of Virginia Hypertext Collection
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
GOVERNMENTS AND COUNTRY GUIDES

Governments on the WWW
www.gksoft.com/govt
Foreign Government Resources on the Web
www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html
CIA World Factbook
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook

CountryWatch.com
www.countrywatch.com
U.S. GOVERNMENT


FirstGov
firstgov.gov
GPO Access
www.gpoaccess.gov
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
thomas.loc.gov
U.S. STATE INFORMATION

Library of Congress—State and Local Governments
lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html
U.K. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

UK Online
www.open.gov.uk
BASIC RESOURCES FOR COMPANY INFORMATION

CorporateInformation
www.corporateinformation.com
Hoovers
www.hoovers.com
D&B Small Business Solutions
sbs.dnb.com
Thomas Register
www2.thomasregister.com
ASSOCIATIONS

American Society of Association Executives Gateway to Associations
info.asaenet.org/gateway/OnlineAssocSlist.html
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORIES

AMA Physician Select—Online Doctor Finder
www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm
Lawyers.com
lawyers.com
LITERATURE DATABASES


Direct Search
www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm
A grab bag of (mainly) free bibliographies and bibliographic databases on the Web
www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/freebase.htm
Ingenta
www.ingenta.com
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Peterson’s
petersons.com
College Search
www.collegeboard.com/csearch
TRAVEL

Fodors.com
www.fodors.com
Lonely Planet Online
www.lonelyplanet.com
Reservation Sites

Travelocity
travelocity.com
Expedia
expedia.com
Orbitz
orbitz.com
FILM

Internet Movie Database
www.imdb.com
Directories of Image Resources on the Internet

Finding Images Online: Directory of Web Image Sites
www.berinsteinresearch.com/fiolinks.htm
Digital Librarian: A Librarian’s Choice of the Best of the Web: Images
www.digital-librarian.com/images.html
BUBL LINK: Image Collections
bubl.ac.uk/link/types/images.htm
Search Engine Image Collections

Google’s Images Search
google.com
AltaVista
altavista.com
AllTheWeb
alltheweb.com
Commercial Collections

Corbis
corbis.com
Exemplary Individual Collections

American Memory Project
memory.loc.gov
WebMuseum, Paris
ibiblio.org/wm
ClipArt

Barry’s Clipart
barrysclipart.com
Yahoo Directory > Graphics > Clipart
dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Interne...aphics/Clip_Art
Audio

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio
archive.museophile.sbu.ac.uk/audio
Audio Resources: Radio Stations

Radio-Locator (formerly The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet)
www.radio-locator.com
Other Audio Resources

The History Channel: Speeches
www.historychannel.com/speeches
The Movie Sounds Page
www.moviesounds.com
Directory of Video Resources on the Internet

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

Kidon Media-Link
www.kidon.com/media-link
NewsLink
newslink.org
Metagrid
www.metagrid.com
MAJOR NEWS NETWORKS AND NEWSWIRES

BBC
news.bbc.co.uk
CNN
www.cnn.com
MSNBC
www.msnbc.com
Reuters
reuters.com
RADIO AND TV

Radio-Locator (formerly The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet)
www.radio-locator.com
NPR
www.npr.org
AGGREGATION SITES

World News Network
www.wn.com
Moreover.com
moreover.com
Newsnow.co.uk
newsnow.co.uk
Aggregation Sites—Major Web Search Engines

AllTheWeb News Search
alltheweb.com
AltaVista News Search
altavista.com
Google News Search
news.google.com
Weblogs


Open Directory: Computers: Internet: On the Web:Weblogs
dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs
ALERTING SERVICES

NewsAlert
www.newsalert.com

Google News Alerts
www.google.com/newsalerts
Online Shopping Resource Guide

ShoppingSpot
shoppingspot.com
COMPANY CATALOGS

ThomasRegister
www.thomasregister.com
SHOPPING MALLS

Yahoo! Shopping
shopping.yahoo.com
Amazon.com
amazon.com
eBay
ebay.com
Froogle
froogle.com
Directory of Price Comparison Sites

Open Directory: Consumer Information: Price Comparisons
dmoz.org/Home/Consumer_Information/Price_Comparisons
MySimon
www.mysimon.com
PRODUCT AND MERCHANT EVALUATIONS

Epinions
epinions.com
BizRate.com
bizrate.com
Consumer Reports
consumerreports.org ConsumerReview.com
consumerreview.com
Consumer Search
consumersearch.com
SITES TO HELP YOU BUILD YOUR WEB SITES

Webmonkey
hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey
Reallybig.com: The Complete Resource for All Web Builders
Reallybig.com
About.com:Web Design
webdesign.about.com
ALTERNATIVES TO YOUR OWN WEB SITE

Blogger
Blogger.com

Thanks for giving it a read.

Cheers..:d

~Pranav

Very good and complete post
Cheers ping and welcome back!

that is one comprehensive list, i have gone through most of it by now, and have made of copy of it as well for future reference.
welcome back ping