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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