Minor updates on November 13, 2005.
This page provides hyper links to several search engines and other handy places
to find things.
These are just a few of the places where free e-mail accounts are available.
This seemed like a handy place to put hyperlinks to
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AAA Maps Non-members |
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For topographic information, try TopoZone.com
Check out Microsoft's Terraserver for
satellite photos and topo maps.
Or, see a satellite photo of your location in the
For a much more complete search
engine review than we could ever find the time for, check out
SearchEngineWatch.com
Many of the following are also advertiser supported web portals which can act as starting points for your web journey.
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This is the search engine provided by America Online to the general public. AOL also has a web portal. You do not need to be an AOL subscriber to access either of these sites. |
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At first glance, this appears to be just a people finder. It can also be used for reverse searches to find out who goes with a phone number and can direct a normal web search to several different search engines one at a time. |
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This search tool prioritizes hits in the order that it found people went to the most based on prior searches. |
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Almost always our first choice net search tool. Allows searches using Boolean expressions. |
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This search engine gives results much like what you may find in an encyclopedia. A good approach if you are looking to find out what something is. Try a search for something a bit unusual, like "haggis" and see the type of results you receive. |
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The new kid in town? Hyperlink to this site added on October 15, 2000 |
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This is the search engine provided by the folks at the Microsoft as part of the MSN web portal. |
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At first glance this looks a lot like Yahoo! I wonder if they are related. |
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A front end for several search engines and a good starting point for net surfing. Brought to you by the premier web browser company. |
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Extremely Cookie intensive. If you have your browser set to ask before accepting "cookies" this one is very cumbersome to use. |
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One of the new kids on the block. One of the few that you will see advertising for on television. |
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A really unusual site. You can search for people or businesses in
addition to searching the web for information. Once you find a person,
you can find businesses nearby, maps, and a plethora of other things very
smoothly. |
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This company appears to sell an SQL search tool for businesses. |
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One of the originals and our usual second choice. Also a great starting place for your net surfing. This is a web portal in addition to its search capabilities. |
Although these aren't "Search Engines" as such, these sites submitted by our vivitors are useful for looking up other things.
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The free online encyclopedia. |
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Look up the market price for stocks on just about any date in the last few
decades. For Market Averages use - |
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Need to know if that cool web address you'd like to have is already in use? This is the place to find out. You can also find out what business or individual has it registered. |
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This is the official web site of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. If you wish to download patents in Adobe Acrobat format, you need to do it at Delphion. An equivalent agency north of our border is the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. European patents can be found at the European Patent Office web site or this Worldwide patents web site. There is a fee for some of these services. |
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If you have any skeletons in your closet and have appeared in |
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This one should be self explanatory. Other useful web sites in the same genre include YourDictionary, AcronymFinder, the Acronym Database, Standard Industrial Classificatiolns Index, and another SIC lookup site. |
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The Federal Communications Commission's database is also online. You can search for any radio service licensee by several different criteria. There are a couple of additional web sites dedicated to searches for licensees in the Amateur Radio Service. Two of these are QRZ and Buckmaster's. For licensees in the General Mobile Radio Service you might try an Enhanced GMRS License Search or, for Hams, an Enhanced Amateur License Search on the FCC web site. Earlier version of FCC Licensee search. Advanced License Search. Look up an FCC ID number here. |
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These forums started life as the GMRS Web Magazine Bulletin Board. Over the years
it has grown into a place to learn and share your knowledge about any two-way
radio service available to those of us in the |
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Frequencies .xls Frequencies .htm |
.This is a work in progress that lists radio frequencies available to the general public around the world.. |
Now, back to the subject of search engines. These tools route your search to several traditional search engines simultaneously and bring the results of the searches together before presenting them to you. Great for those searches for obscure topics or if you want a broad assortment of search results.
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Ask this site a question and it will direct you to places where you can probably find the answer. It sends the request to multiple search engines and thus qualifies as a Meta Search tool as defined here. |
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Includes configuration options like: "Take your time. I'm going [to go] to the bathroom." Who says serious work can't be fun? |
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This returns categorized page titles from its searches. This bare bones approach allows the display of numerous results in minimal screen space. |
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Integrates the results from multiple search engines. What appears to be the same meta-search engine with a somewhat different look is Go2Net. |
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Quite user configurable. |
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Results from multiple search engines are integrated with one another before display. |
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This one is not actually a meta search site. It is a meta search tool that you can download for free that sends search requests to several conventional search engines for you. |
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GNT
Direct Has a list of 18 conventional search
engines. A few of them I have yet to try out. Once I have, they
will be added to the above tables.
Tek.Town This search tool is a
front end for several conventional search engines. It is referrenced by The Grand Junction which is sort of a
web portal.
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed has links to numerous search tools tailored to finding hidden information.
For more information on web searching
and many of these search engines
refer to the articles in PC Magazine's December 1, 1998 issue.
If you have other
favorite searching tools, tips on web searching, or comments about
the strong points of any of these web search tools, drop us a line.