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Search Engines & Directories | Free Email
Email en español | General

 

SEARCH ENGINES AND DIRECTORIES

Alta Vista
<http://www.altavista.com>
Powerful search engine with separate advanced search function.

Excite
<http://www.excite.com>
Has conceptual searching feature and includes web page reviews. Use to search for "kid safe" web sites.

Facts Subject Index
<http://www.refdesk.comfacts.html>

Subject links to people, places, and lots of things.

Go.com
<http://infoseek.go.com>
Has particularly effective relevance ranking.

Google
<http://www.google.com>

Quick Response and many relevant hits. Probably the best search engine on the Internet today.

Hotbot
<http://www.hotbot.com>

Quick response. Large database. Can limit by media type.

Lycos
<http://www.lycos.com>
Use to search the top 5% of the best sites on the web. This engine also searches for pictures and sounds.

Northern Light
<http://www.northernlight.com>

Use to search for articles. Includes both free and for pay sources. Pay by credit card.

WebCrawler
<http://www.webcrawler.com>

Supports both natural language searching and Boolean operators.

Yahoo!
<http://www.yahoo.com>

Particularly strong subject listing of web pages. Has special kids section called Yahooligans!.

FREE E-MAIL

Yahoo! Mail
<http://mail.yahoo.com/>

Send and receive e-mail via the World Wide Web. A free e-mail service from Yahoo!, supported by advertisements.

Hotmail
<http://www.hotmail.com>

Another popular free e-mail service. Hotmail asks for a bit more demographic information than Yahoo! Mail.

mail2web.com
<http://www.mail2web.com>

A free e-mail service that lets you pick up your email from almost any computer, anywhere in the world.

Langoo.com
<http://www.langoo.com>

A free e-mail service which allows you to compose and receive messages in 34 languages.

Free Web-based Email Services
<http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_web.html>
Links to other web-based e-mail services.

A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
<http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html>

A guide to help people to write better e-mail focusing on content rather than on the mechanics of sending e-mail.

E-MAIL En Español

LatinMail
<http://www.latinmail.com/>

General

Switchboard.com
<http://www.switchboard.com>
Look up telephone numbers anywhere in the US. E-mail listing is not complete.

Yahoo People Search
<http://people.yahoo.com>
Look up telephone numbers anywhere in the US. E-mail listing is not complete.


The Internet 800 Number Directory

<http://inter800.com/search.htm>
Look up 800 and 888 numbers for businesses anywhere in the US.


YellowPages.com

<http://www.yellowpages.com>

Look up telephone numbers for businesses anywhere in the US. Can display a map of the business location.

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