Search Tools

updated 2003-12-06.

This is a list of all the online information search tools I know about.

Contents:

1. Searching for Web Pages
2. Meta-Search Tools
3. Searching for people
4. gateway between the web and other things like "finger", pager networks, etc.
5. searching for electronic devices
6. usenet FAQs and RFC indexes
7. Searching for good prices
8. used items -- buy and sell -- especially computers
9. Searching for Patents
10. encyclopedia Searching for words and general information
11. articles searching for magazine articles
12. Other sources of information
13. unsorted links

See also

• Searching for software Web sites that have lots of useful freeware and shareware software
• periodical.html for a list of periodically-updated news sources I find interesting.
• Searching for places and maps 3d_design.html#maps cities, countries, driving instructions, ...
• searching for Bible verses tsv.html#web_bible
• the Jargon File creed.html#jargon (sort of a hacker's dictionary)
• Searching for movies
• Searching for Mailing Lists
• Periodic Table of the Elements learning.html#periodic tables
• Searching for places and maps 3d_design.html#maps cities, countries, driving instructions, ...
• OSU info local.html#osu
• anti-hoax and anti-chain-letter resources periodical.html#anti_chain_letter
• machine_vision.html#gps for prices and reviews of GPS receivers and GPS technical information.
• There are a few job search tools in local.html#job .
• "constructed languages" link_farm.html#translation
• serialportdocs.html#standards for Hayes AT command set and other serial-port related standards.
• arm.html
• searching for anagrams spin_dictionary.html#anagrams
• Bible reference tools tsv.html#tools
• every document has metadata html.html#metadata Metadata in general (as applied to source code and other documents, as well as HTML)
• book.html#ascii for online books.
• Searching for Books and Book Reviews

Searching for Web Pages

Web Search Engines Web pages that help you find other web pages.

• the Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/ /* was http://directory.mozilla.org/ */ Help build the largest human-edited directory of the Web - Become an Editor (can do phrase searches)
• Google http://www.google.com/advanced_search (can do phrase searches) /* was http://google.stanford.edu/ */
• Teoma http://teoma.com/ has a interesting ``refine'' technique, clustering web pages that use a particular word into ``communities'', then finding the ``community expert''.
• Northern Light http://northernlight.com/ our modest ambition, according to our CEO, David Seuss, is "to index and classify all human knowledge to a unified consistent standard and make it available to everyone in the world in a single integrated search." ... The Web is the ultimate expression of the problem of too much data and not enough information.
• /* offline ??? http://www.cosource.com/ ??? */
• http://search.allcommunity.com/ (connected to dmoz)
• Alexa http://www.alexa.com/
• "The Easiest Search Page on the Web" http://www.creativegood.com/search/index.html
• LookSmart http://www.LookSmart.com/ (has Web, People, Yellow Pages, Discussions, SmartShopper) [FIXME: copy under ``prices'' category ?]
• Family Filtered Search http://family.netshepherd.com/
• http://www.nlsearch.com/
• http://webcrawler.com/ (inc. phrase searches)
• http://www.altavista.com/?text=yes/ (inc. phrase searches) (without ad banners) /* was http://www.altavista.digital.com/?text=yes/ */
• http://www.lycos.com (no phrases) (has a very cool index; for example, http://dir.lycos.com/Recreation/Humor/Science/ ; http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
• http://www.lycos.com/customsearch.html/
• Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com , http://people.yahoo.com/
• http://www.yahoo.com/search.html (inc. phrase searches)
• Yahoo! People Search http://people.yahoo.com/
• http://www.goto.com/
• http://pinstripe.opentext.com/
• http://www.pacifier.com/ has a "looksmart" search engine.
• Fast Search & Transfer ASA http://www.fast.no/
• http://www.mecodex.com/ has a very large index of web pages, but I wish it had just a little more commentary.
• http://blazingcomet.hypermart.net/
• http://www.twurled-world.com/ seems to be a way of automatically organizing and rating lots of pages about a topic. ``Post-query processing''
• http://simpli.com/ ???
• http://GoHotline.com/ ???
• http://www.askjeeves.com/ | http://ask.com/
• About.com http://about.com/ | the Mining Co. http://home.miningco.com/ | http://miningco.com/ has lots of information written by ``About Guides'', real people who volunteer to write about the things they're interested in. (passionate about) ``online expert''. Asks people to volunteer (takes about a week before you're accepted ... training...)
• http://directhit.com/
• http://alltheweb.com/ searches for multimedia as well as text in web pages.
• ??? http://whquestion.com/
• Snap.com http://www.snap.com/ has apparently merged with Xoom.com.
• Open Text http://www.opentext.com/ "my favorite search engine" -- Michael Swaine

  Open Text Index

  Open Text powersearch

• http://www.albany.net/allinone/
• Excite use quotes to search for exact phrases
• HotBot (can search for *a* phrase)
• Infoseek http://infoseek.go.com/ /* was http://www.infoseek.com */ (inc. phrase searches)
• Infoseek Ultra
• Magellan
• http://webreview.com
• Thunderstone and "Webinator" http://dwarf.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch/
  http://www.thunderstone.com
• Time Warner's Pathfinder http://www.pathfinder.com/
• http://gigablast.com/
• "meta-search software" http://vivisimo.com/
• http://www.egosurf.com/ "EgoSurf asks some of the best search engines ... then scores their suggestions. If you supply your e-mail address, EgoSurf will remember you, so ... Tonight, all by itself, EgoSurf will ask more search engines, then mail you any new links."

Meta-Search Tools

web pages with lists of other search engines, sometimes with nifty "search all at once" features. [todo: seperate out mere passive lists of links like mine from those with actual active programs]

• http://MySearchEngines.com/ lets you make a custom list of search engines, and search all of them simultaneously. You can use your custom search page from any computer.
• http://www.dogpile.com/ (search all at once program)
• http://www.consumersearch.com/www/computers/search_engines/ reviews various search engines (you can't actually search from here).
• Straight Dope Message Board : reference sites http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=6086e4e6b136aa561811a29fb1799001&threadid=149223 lists many of the same references I list here.
• Internet Search Tools & Techniques http://www.ouc.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm lists some meta search engines and some specialized search engines. An introduction to search engines and how to use them.
• http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/ | http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Integrated_Search_Pages/ [FIXME: does this make my list of search engines obsolete ?]
• http://www.aribo.net/
• Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and More About Search Engines http://www.SearchEngineWatch.com/ includes "Webmaster's Guide To Search Engines", "Overview of the major search engines", "information on specialty search services", ...
• http://www.lookoff.com/ ``Lookoff.com - an entire site devoted to helping you to navigate the Internet using advanced tools and techniques that experts use.'' Helps you find *which* search engine is most likely to give you relevant results on a specific topic. Including prices. Includes ``a brief summary of major search engines that you should consider and become familiar with.'' http://www.lookoff.com/tactics/reviews.php3
• What search engines like to see in your web pages http://www.searchengines.com/searchEnginesRankings.html ... a descriptive title ...
• http://www.wordsinarow.com/ tells how to register your website by hand with many search engines and directories.
• http://tcs.org/search.htm lists a bunch of links to search engines
• http://www.c4.com/
• http://www.cyber411.com/ (early version of c4 ?)
• http://www.worldlinker.net/ seems to link to lots of
• http://www.mamma.com/
• http://www.abconnect.com/search/search.html a long list of search engines
• http://dag.life.be/websearch/ searches over 100 different search engines
• http://simplify.net/ (searches over 12 different search engines)
• http://37.com/ searches 37 search engines "simultaneously".
• http://www.all4one.com
• Inter-Links is an Internet navigator, resource locator, and tutorial. http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/ Reference Shelf (dictionaries, phone directories, calendars, maps, ...) Discussion resources (electronic mailing lists, ...), Tutorials (Guides to the Internet, the Web, and Unix), ...
• "Search Engine Showdown": Reviews, search features, statistics, & comparisons between search engines. http://notess.com/
• FINDSPOT http://www.findspot.com/
• Debriefing http://www.debriefing.com/advanced.htm is a meta search engine.
• http://www.cnet.com/Content/Reviews/Compare/Search2/index.html
• Don Lancaster recommends these search engines http://www.tinaja.com/webwb01.html
• Yet another list of search engines http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2396/things.htm
• The MetaSpy http://www.metaspy.com/spy/filtered_b.html is a strange little page that lets you see what *other* people type in to a search engine.
• http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/bpl/ref/srctools.html
• Are these 2 the same ?:
  http://www.einet.net/galaxy.html
  http://galaxy.einet.net
• http://www.highway61.com
• Hytelnet (massive index of telnet sites)
• LookUP! (finds e-mail addresses)
• Point (site reviews)
• SavvySearch http://www.savvysearch.com/ (meta search engine) "Over 150 search engines, guides, auctions, storefronts, usenet archives, news archives, shareware libraries, and yet more web resources are uniquely integrated in a single easy to use interface." /* was http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000/form */
• http://www.thecodex.com/search.html A large list of search engines -- newspaper searches, file searches, patent searches, etc.
• another list of search engines
• http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/net2.htm has a long list of Internet search engines.
• Most seach engines allow you to add your page to their index. free URL submission to some search engines http://www.worldmachine.com/freesubmit/
• Cynbe's Humongous Hotlist http://www5.biostr.washington.edu/~jsp/hotlist.html
• http://tcs.org/search.htm
• Hot Sheet web reference http://www.hotsheet.com/ links to ~ 100 search engines, news sources, reference tools, humor, sites.
• (long list of search engines) http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3949b4e87a51.htm
• ixquick http://ixquick.com/ meta search engine ``Ixquick knows which search engines can handle phrases, boolean logic, wildcards and more, and IxQuick(TM) will ... translate and then forward your search [only] to engines that can accommodate your search's complexity.'' The ``related:'' modifier looks interesting... The ``url:'' modifier finds pages with that text anywhere within the url. The ``link:'' modifier can be used to look for backlinks.

Searching for people

• http://www.babynames.com/
• The 200 Most Popular Baby Names of 2002 http://first-name-meanings.com/popular.html
• http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/babynames/ has a long list of pointers to baby name web sites.
• http://www.babynameworld.com/ names from all over the world ... you can choose "Hebrew", "Celtic", .... or "Unique".
• Jerry Hill presents Names http://anzwers.org/free/jhpn/ points to several other baby name sites; lots of information on various name categories, names for people and things.
• http://www.babycenter.com/babyname you can choose "Hebrew", "Celtic", .... or "Unique".
• http://baby-names-etc.com/
• http://www.americanbaby.com/ab/babynames/
• http://www.homepagers.com/names/
• http://www.baby-parenting.com/baby/baby_name_meaning.html | mirror http://www.baby-parenting.co.uk/baby/baby_name_meaning.html
• http://www.ebusinessrevolution.com/babynames/ "The baby names directory can be used under the GNU Public license."
• http://www.homesteaddesigns.com/name_meaning_search.htm accepts a name and gives you the meaning and an associated Bible verse (How did they pick the verses ? Some of them seem pretty irrelevant.)
• http://www.babycenter.com/babyname not only has definitions of names, but lists the top 10 most popular names each decade since 1880. [FIXME: move "name definitions" to #name ]
• Netscape People Finder http://www.netscape.com/netcenter/whitepages.html
• http://www.classmates.com/
• http://www.switchboard.com/ "The people and business directory"
• Internet Address Finder (IAF), good for finding people's email address. http://www.iaf.net/
• http://webcrawler.com/ (has nice people search link)

gateway

fax gateways to_program.html#fax_gateway

Tech:web-page-to-wristwatch gateway. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JoeEkaitis/fantasy.htm

Finger Gateway http://www.earth.com/finger/stud.cs.uit.no/frodef

Bindu Wavell and his amazing pager http://csel.cs.colorado.edu/~wavell/ links to other web-to-pager gateways

http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/finger/gateway Are there any other finger-to-WWW gateways ?

Finger Gateway http://www.mit.edu:8001/finger?d.cary@sparkingwire.com

[FIXME: some gateways stuck in machine_vision]

• finger gateway http://www.brutal.com/finger/ "a celebration of finger", and Finger Gateway Source Code

searching for electronic devices

see robot_links.html for a lot of links.

• DAV: Consider donating old computers. See http://oddwiki.taoriver.net/wiki.pl/ComputerComponent/HomePage for a list of computer recycling programs. http://www.nitrozac.org/home.html
• http://www.freetradezone.com/
• Mouser http://www.mouser.com/ distributes lots of electronic components
• Digi-Key http://www.digikey.com/ distributes lots of electronic components
• http://www.web-ee.com/ has schematics for some high-voltage stuff ... [FIXME: point to schematic.html...]
• http://www.questlink.com/
• http://www.findchips.com/
• Fry's Electronics http://frys.com/ ??? (no online mail order catalog, so delete from my list)
• IEEE Bibliographies On-Line http://www.biblio.ieee.org/ bibliographies and abstracts of all IEEE periodicals.
• the famous ChipDir, mirrored around the world.
  • http://www.amc.com/chipdir/chipdir.html
  • http://www.chipdir.com/chipdir/
  • http://www.mitronet.com/chipdir/chipdir.htm
  • http://www.twinight.org/chipdir/chipdir.htm
  • http://www.hitex.com/chipdir/
  • http://rolex.randomc.com/chipdir/
  • http://www.ba-karlsruhe.de/chipdir/chipdir.html
  • http://www.acl.co.uk/chipdir/home.html
  • http://www.vol.it/mirror/chipdir/chipdir.htm
  • http://www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/chipdir/chipdir.html
  Includes lots of information about all kinds of chips and CPUs including the MC68HC11 and MC68CH12 http://www.twinight.org/chipdir/fam/6812/index.htm . as well as tons of mailing lists http://www.twinight.org/chipdir/ext/mail.htm about embedded engineering, specific CPUs, PCI, etc.
• Electronic Engineers Master (EEM) http://eemonline.com/ a online search engine for "the world's largest catalog of electronic components, equipment and services."
• Richard Steven Walz's Almost Gigantic Electronics FTP Resource Site http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/ Lots of content ! "The GIICM Chip File" "Phone Interfacing and DTMF" "InfraRed controls, codes, and detection" "PIC Programming and Info" "Circuits: ASCII-Schematics"
• the Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ http://www.repairfaq.org/ has tons of content -- how to connect stuff to various ports of a PC; how to build and fix various kinds of lasers; high-voltage stuff; LCD interfacing; MIDI interfacing; CRC for uCs data_compression.html#ecc ; magnetic card reader; low-power FM broadcasting; GIICM (TTL IC pinouts); IR remote control protocols; etc.

usenet FAQs and RFC indexes

• The Internet FAQ Consortium http://www.faqs.org/
• RFCs (Request for Comments) http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/08/1252224.shtml
• http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/information/rfc.html
• ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
• ftp://nic.ddn.mil/rfc
• http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc-index.html
• http://ds.internic.net/ds/rfc-index.html "gives access to all published RFC's."
• RFC Hypertext Archive @ SunSITE Denmark http://sunsite.auc.dk/RFC/
• favorite RFCs http://www.rfc-editor.org/voterfc.html
• RFC Editor http://www.rfc-editor.org/ A tribute to Jon Postel, who was the RFC Editor. Also mirrors the RFCs and points to other mirrors around the world, some with search tools.
• http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/ pretty formatted RFCs, and a search tool.
• USENET FAQs http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html with keyword search. (*.answers archive) "If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archives by mail server as well. Send an E-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "help" and "index" in the body on separate lines for more information."

• FAQ and RFC info (!)(!)(DAV's mini FAQ FAQ)
  
  [DAV: find this RFC]
  
  
  The software that does this conversion is not fool-proof and performs better
  if the FAQ conforms to the digest format (see RFC 1153).
  
  We will be trying to enhance this software to handle the conversions
  more robustly, but we can make no guarantee that all posted FAQs will get
  converted.
  
  If the FAQ index page
          http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html
  or
          http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html
  does not list the latest FAQs that you are interested in, please use the
  FAQ search (on the same page).  The search will turn up all of the FAQs,
  both old and new.
  
  Thanks again for your input.
  
  Other WWW FAQ archives include
  http://www.landfield.com/faqs/
  http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais
  http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/
  
  
  
  Many FAQs are crossposted to news.answers.  Well-run netnews sites will have
  the latest versions available in that newsgroup.
  
  The latest versions of news.answers postings are archived at rtfm.mit.edu.
  For example, you can get more info about the FAQ archive via
  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/news-answers/introduction
  
  You can get FAQs via email.
  send email to
  	mailto:mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
  containing the line
  	send usenet/news.answers/news-answers/introduction
  (If you don't get a reply, the server may be misreading your return address;
  add a line such as "path myname@mysite" to specify your correct e-mail
  address to reply to.)
  
  

searching for good prices and product reviews

see also search_tools.html#used for prices on used/refurbished computers.

Price Comparisons:

• http://www.consumersearch.com/www/ helps find reviews on just about every kind of product.
• Consumer Reports http://www.ConsumerReports.org/ has very good review of product. Very thorough, unbiased, knowledgeable. not only reviews products, but also has ConsumerReports.org e-Ratings: rating web sites (e-commerce) where you can buy categories of products.

  Consumers Union: Nonprofit Publisher of Consumer Reports http://www.ConsumersUnion.org/ [what's the difference between these 2 sites ?] ... laptops, PDAs, ...

• "electronic gear sites" http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=161115&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=735&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=333133&bmUID=1125542383346
• http://MacReviewZone.com/ and also http://www.machome.com/ lots of reviews of hardware even tangentially connected to the Mac. [FIXME: to read]
• http://www.techbargains.com/ ??? tells what *other* sites have the cheapest computers, digital cameras, computer parts ... unbiased ...
• http://www.pricegrabber.com/ has price comparisons for laptop computers [laptop.html]
• http://extremetech.com/ reviews digital cameras, scanners, computer motherboards, hard drives, reviews of various Linux distributions and Windows versions, [FIXME: periodical ?]
• http://www.dealtime.com/ ???
• http://www.epinions.com/ opinions by real (?) people on just about every kind of product. Gives price comparisons and directly links to places you can buy the product you just read about.
• Airplane ticket comparisons: http://www.Cheaptickets.com/
• http://www.streetprices.com/ compares prices on computers, PDAs, camcorders, projectors. Has interesting ``alert: email me when the price on this item falls below $___'' feature. Doesn't actually sell anything; just helps you pick an item and compare how much related items cost and find who sells them at the lowest price. Rather than sorting on the so-called ``price'' like some other sites, I like the way streetprices sorts on your total out-of-pocket cost -- including shipping and handling.
• http://www.NexTag.com/ compares prices of software, computers, electronics, books, office supplies. I like the way NexTag compares products by total price (including tax and shipping). (Quite often I find that it costs me less money to buy the product with the higher ``list price'', when I can get it from somewhere that has much lower shipping).
• http://www.cnet.com/ | AKA http://home.cnet.com/ technology news and reviews (surprisingly large amount of stuff on Linux). Reviews and compares prices of lots of electronic hardware (PDA acessories, digital cameras, laptops, desktops, GPS ...) Has interesting ``alert: email me when the price on this item falls below $___'' feature.
• http://www.half.com/
• ??? http://AberBid.com/ seems to have low prices on computer components (CPUs, RAM, hard drives, etc.), desktops, rack-mount servers ...
• PriceSCAN http://www.pricescan.com/ has interesting ``functional comparisons'' to help search for the lowest price. Books, electronics, office equipment, wrist watches, jewelry, toys and hobbies, home improvement tools, etc.
• Computer Shopper Magazine http://www.cshopper.com/ has good product reviews.
• Price Pimp.com http://www.electronsoup.com/pimp/
• http://www.anewshop.com/ has price comparisons on flowers, gifts, electronics, computer hardware and software, etc.
• http://www.pricewatch.com/ computer hardware, Consumer Electronics.
• egghead http://www.egghead.com/store/ent/eggs_portal.browse ???
• Real World Technologies http://www.realworldtech.com/ "The Professional's News and Information Source for Computer Hardware"
• CNET Shopper.com http://www.shopper.com/
• http://www.buy.com/ sells books, computer hardware, computer software, .... claims to have ``lowest prices on earth(tm)''. (Although DAV has bought several things from buy.com, I never start here -- I check out cnet or some other review site to review various models, then use cnet or pricewatch to see who has that at the best shipping+price total cost).
• Computer ESP http://www.uvision.com/
• The Universal Currency Converter(tm) http://www.xe.net/currency/
• CompareNet http://www.compare.net/
• MySimon http://www.MySimon.com/
• WebMarket http://www.WebMarket.com/
• http://www.strom.com/awards/130.html ???
• Computer Geeks Discount Outlet http://www.compgeeks.com/ ???
• http://www.killerapp.com prices ???
• http://www.pricescan.com prices ???
• http://www.zdnet.com/reviews/ reviews and price checks for: laptops, desktops, handheld PDAs, scanners, etc.
• http://www.jandr.com/ sells all kinds of stuff, including laptops from Apple and Toshiba and Compaq and HP.
• http://www.home.earthlink.net/~rrothsprint/shopping.htm
• http://froogle.google.com/ ????
• Dan's Data - PC hardware reviews and tutorials http://www.dansdata.com/

used items -- buy and sell -- especially computers

used items -- buy and sell -- especially computers. Refurbished computers (refurbs). surplus electronics.

see also Used computer stores in Tulsa OK . (The computer stuff on this list will soon move to http://communitywiki.org/odd/ComputerComponent/UsedComputer -- please use that location for updates. Thank you. )

Elsewhere:

• used or refurbished notebooks http://www.edgeworld.com/notebook/lused.htm
• New and Used Macs ... and Buyer's Guides http://macspeedzone.com/html/hubs/central/
• http://www.usedcomputer.com/nonprof.html ``a list of non-profit organizations which accept computer equipment donations.''
• Places to Buy: Online sites where you can buy notebooks and accessories http://www.edgeworld.com/notebook/lbuy.htm [FIXME: don't I already have these places listed here ?] [Some of these are new only, other include used laptops]
• Fair Radio Military & Industrial Surplus Electronics http://www.fairradio.com/
• http://www.usanotebook.com/ used notebooks; several different manufacturers.
• http://www.usedlaptopstore.com/ many under- $500 laptops; some under- $200 laptops.
• [surplus electronics and computer] http://www.alltronics.com/
• [electronic parts and surplus] http://www.candhsales.com/
• [computer, electronic, medical, surplus] http://www.recycledgoods.com/
• [electronic new and surplus] http://www.jameco.com/
• http://www.surplus-pc.com/ ``Surplus-PC.com is a large reseller of new and refurbished surplus name brand equipment. ... laptops, notebooks, desktop PCs, servers and monitors ... We carry Dell, IBM and Compaq computers''
• http://www.partstock.com/ ``PartStock buys used computers and sells refurbished computers, used laptops, and customized computers''
• Used Laptops Computers & Notebooks http://www.usedlaptopcomputers.com/
• http://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/
• recycle: recycling old computers: "Share The Technology", "Geeks Into the Streets", etc. http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/14/0041246.shtml mentions

  Equiping the Saints ... collects used/broken/ancient compuers, fixes them up, and then ships them out to missionaries and churches. They ship stuff in and out by the semi load. They gladly take any donations or, if your in the area, help fixing puters. ... If you're ever in the area, swing by and check the place out, its amazing.

  Equipping The Saints
  1254 Keezletown Road
  Weyers Cave, VA 24486
  540-234-6222
  540-234-6262 FAX
  <ets at rica.net>
  Keith Jones Executive Director
  

  PEP National Directory of Computer Recycling Programs http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Recycle/recycle_index.html

  Little World Schoolhouse http://www.worldschoolhouse.org/ ships used computers to Jamaica.

  Geeks Into The Streets http://linux.umbc.edu/gits/

• [prices ?] http://www.testequipmentconnection.com/ buys and sells refurbished electronic test equipment. Also repairs and calibrates ... and rents equipment.
• Cyber Exchange http://www.exchangehq.com/ "New and Used Software and Hardware Exchange"
• http://www.re-compute.com/ sells internet-ready (previously-used) computers (485 and Pentium) for under $599 (including monitor) (1999)
• According to http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1192.html it appears that "Comp-Recycle.com(TM)" http://www.comp-recycle.com/ is not someone you want to do business with. (No phone number ? No address ? What ?)

Searching for Patents

• "Delphion Research intellectual property network - international and US patent search database" http://www.delphion.com/
• STO's Internet Patent Search System http://metalab.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html full text searching of the patent text database
• some books on patents http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/BOOKSHOP.HTM#Patents
• I've heard that Abraham Lincoln owned some patents. What were they ?
• John D. Trudel http://www.trudelgroup.com/ wrote lots of interesting magazine columns, mostly pro-patent.
• http://amasci.com/amasci.html#pat | mirror http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amasci.html#pat [FIXME: to read]
• http://www.delphion.com/ /* was http://www.patents.ibm.com/ */
• IBM Patent Server http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/
• US Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov/ includes a full text database http://www.uspto.gov/patft/ [FIXME: is this just another synonym ? http://patents.uspto.gov/access/search-adv.html ]
• http://library.okstate.edu/dept/patents/patents.htm
• http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/chem/patent/srs136.html
• http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/maths/software-patents/software_patent_links.html ??? lots and lots of information and links related to on software patents
• "Ronald J. Riley's Inventor Resource Internet Pages: Information about inventing, inventors, obtaining a patent, and enforcement of patent rights." http://www.rjriley.com/icmm/mcneely.html

DAV finds these patents particularly interesting:

• 5058833
• In 1985, Sperry Corporation was granted a patent (4,558,302) for the Welch invention and implementation of the LZW data compression algorithm. ftp://ftp.std.com/obi/USPatents/lzw-patent.Z ftp://ftp.uu.net/doc/literary/obi/USPatents/lzw-patent.Z ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/.8/misc/lzw-patent.Z
• Carl E. Whitcomb, retired horticulture profesor, received plant patent 6 383 Crepe Myrtle while at OSU.
• Jerzy Krasinski electrical and computer engineering professor at OSU 5 400 418
• Richard Lowery mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at OSU 5 657 92
• Richard Eberle and Darla Black veterinary medicine professors at OSU 5 487 969
• Donald Allen traffic judge with OSU University Counseling Services patent 5 486 058 for a continuous touch keyboard (DAV built a partial implementation of this keyboard for his senior design project)
• Ranga Komanduri mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at OSU 4 797 138
• Kenneth Edmund Fischer - Inventor of Stealth Shapes - U.S. Pat. 5,488,372
• anti-gravity "described in the patents of general electric engineer, h/w wallace patents 3606625 and 3606626. very interesting reading" -- recc. R.J.KITA <gravity137 at delphi.com>
• "a patent by K Shoulders that uses electron plasmas of a very high charge density. The plasmas can supposedly extract energy from the vacuum. ... speed 0.1c ... For those who want the complete patent(>76 pages!), most state librarys have copies of US patents and of course the Patent Office itself. ... ... 1kv in and 2kv out?" -- <rat at CURIE.UALR.EDU> (Robert A. Tiller) [Date: 15 Jun 92][alt.sci.physics.new-theories] 1. Energy conversion using high charge density. K.R. Shoulders Patent number 5,018,180 dated 21 May 1991 2. Collective effect in an electron plasma system catalyzed by a localized electromagnetic wave. R.W. Ziolkowski and M.K. Tippett Physical Review A, Vol 43 Number 6, 15 March 1991 page 3066
• "FLEXIBLE LARGE SCREEN DISPLAY.." US Patent Number 5,469,020 issued Nov, 21 1995. | view
• "Power feed for Ethernet telephones via Ethernet link" United States Patent 6115468 http://freepatentsonline.com/6115468.html

Other sources of information

Stuff that probably should be merged into one of the above categories.

• I've heard these other search engines and indexes exist, but I haven't been able to find a link to them.

  Help me out here: Are any of these any good ? What is the URL of the good ones ?

  WAIS,

  glimpse, Harvest, Excerpt, Topic, Excite, BC Internet, BizCardz Business Directory, BizWeb, InfoSpace, Jayde Online Directory, JumpCity, JumpLink, Linkcentre Directory, LinkMonster, Manufacturers Information Network, Net Happenings, Net Mall, Net-Announce, , New Riders WWW Yellow Pages, One World Plaza, Open Text Web Index, PageHost A-Z, PeekABoo, Project Cool, Scrub The Web, Seven Wonders, Sserv, Starting Point, The Galactic Galaxy, The Weekly Bookmark, True North,TurnPike, Unlock:The Information Exchange, Web 100, Web Crawler, Web Walker, Web World Internet Directory, WebVenture Hotlist, What's New, WhatUSeek, Where2Go, World Wide Business Yellow Pages, Wow! Web Wonders!, WWW Worm, YelloWWWeb, Your WebScout New Page List

editable encyclopedia

Searching for information and ideas contributed by the online community.

See #fixed_encyclopedia for fixed, static collections of information.

These sites make it so easy for you to let others know some of the thoughts and ideas in your mind. James Newton http://massmind.org/techref/idea/websites.htm makes the point that if you don't share those thoughts (through posting to one of these sites, or through other more difficult ways such as writing and publishing a book), sooner or later (when you die) those thoughts and ideas will be lost forever.

These thoughts and ideas can only be put to good use by people who know about them -- and these sites are one of the best ways I know of to connect people who have ideas to the people who are looking for those ideas.

• http://faqts.com/ has discussion groups for an incredibly broad range of subjects.
• http://piclist.org/techref/idea/website/dict.htm has links to dictionaries that you, the user, can add more words to, or comment on words already there.
• http://internet-encyclopedia.org/
• Nupedia http://www.nupedia.com/ "the world's largest international, peer-reviewed encyclopedia." (Richard Stallman has some early thoughts at GNUPedia - The free universal encyclopedia and learning resource http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/ | http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/free-encyclopedia.html which has merged with Nupedia )
• http://wiki.org/
• http://oneword.invisibleland.tv/ ???
• http://massmind.org/ maintained by James Newton is the first place I look for assembly language programming information.
• http://www.halfbakery.com/ allows you to post (partial) *ideas* and let other people flesh out the details. Some of them are pretty interesting... ``million dollar idea site'' ... randomly generated ideas: http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi
• Principia Cybernetica Web http://pcp.lanl.gov/ "Principia Cybernetica tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies."
  • Why is there something rather than nothing?
  • Why is the world the way it is?
  • Who are we?
  • Where are we going ?
  • What is the purpose of it all?
  • Is there a God?
  • What is knowledge?

  which lets you add comments.

  I'm more interested in those little questions that could be answered by a dedicated high-schooler for a science project than in these Big Unanswerable Questions.

• Homo Excelsior -- Memetic Scientific and Technical Encyclopedia http://www.homoexcelsior.com/ (AKA the Omega Database Ωdb) is the first place I look for brief definitions of terms used in megascale engineering. and nanotechnology.
• the KMWorld Knowledge Community http://organik.kmworld.com/ ??? seems to be free ... have to register to get a name and password to add new questions and answers. Everyone can read the questions and answers. Sponsored by _Knowledge Management World_ magazine.
• WikiPedia http://www.wikipedia.com/ "The idea here is to write a complete encyclopedia from scratch, collaboratively."
• UseModWiki http://www.usemod.com/ Meatball discusses ``how people online come together naturally in groups. Along with that, some of us also like to talk about building our own communities. That even includes this one, eating [editing?] its own tail.'' Also user interface design, computing history and nostalgia, security and communities.
• http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MetaWiki ???
• http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/HandheldsWiki ``This wiki is a place for anyone and everyone to contribute to information about alternative operating systems on handheld computers.'' [FIXME: crosslink wearables.html]
• The WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org/ ``started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. ... it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers'' [allows you to suggest a site to add to the index ... but not as real-time as a Wiki]
• http://www.xmlpatterns.com/ seems to have a lot of information about the XML language. [FIXME: language] [FIXME: is this really a wiki ?]
• TWiki - A Web Based Collaboration Tool http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WelcomeGuest | http://twiki.org/ | http://sourceforge.net/projects/twiki/ looks like a good tool with which to build encyclopedias. GPLed.
• [FIXME: better distinguish between sites that have *software* that let you set up a wiki on your own machine, sites that let you set up a wiki on their machine, vs. sites that already have a lot of content and let you edit it. ]
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones lists various Wiki-like items -- wiki-like sites (some of them free); various kinds of software that you can install to make a wiki-like site;
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiLikeThings
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChoosingaWiki discusses choosing a wiki platform (software and/or services).
  • WikiLearn http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn ``a wiki-based site dedicated to collaborative learning of Linux and free and open source software.''
  • XP Tracker Plugin: This is a TWiki plugin for tracking eXtreme Programming projects. http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/XpTrackerPlugin
• The "Everything" http://www.everything2.com/ is a encyclopedia to which *you* can contribute. Looks kinda cool. "Everything--your favorite collaboratively filtered database". Souce code can be downloaded from the site. /* was http://everything.blockstackers.com/ */
• The Free Encyclopedia Project http://encyclopedia.freehive.org/
• Project Galactic Guide http://megadodo.com/ A attempt to make a real _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_, as described by Douglas Adams. (a strange mix of truth and fiction). [FIXME: offline ?]
• h2g2, the Earth Edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.h2g2.com | mirror http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/ ``unconventional guide to Life, The Universe and Everything which is written by thousands of people.''
• PlanetMath http://PlanetMath.org/ is like a Wiki that lets me use LaTex markup. Can I write raw EPS as well ? Todo: draw a few pretty fractals in EPS; upload here. ... http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/ [FIXME: add link from my "unknowns" to the "unproven" page here: http://planetmath.org/?op=unproven ]
• the Portland Pattern Repository which is an online journal for patterns about programs and the de facto home of the extreme programming discipline. http://c2.com/ (a Wiki)

  The Wiki at C2 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors | http://c2.com/ppr/wiki/RecentChanges/WikiWikiWeb.html ( the Portland Pattern Repository ) has lots of programmers rambling on about life and programming. Has lots of useful information on topics related to ``Extreme Programming'' (XP).

  ``Extreme Programming FAQ'' by John Brewer http://www.jera.com/techinfo/xpfaq.html Xprogramming http://www.xprogramming.com/

• http://wikiworld.com/ ???

encyclopedia

and dictionaries.

Searching for words and authoritative articles. And who said that quotation.

See #encyclopedia for encyclopedias that allow you to add to their knowledge base.

Many of have a contact page to let you submit ideas and questions to the editor.

• CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ is the first place I look for information about a country. Maps, population, demographics, current leader, etc.

  See Searching for places and maps 3d_design.html#maps for more maps and map information. mirror: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

  [FIXME: what about the Bureau of the Census http://www.census.gov/apsd/wepeople/we-3.pdf ?]

• The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites
• Hoppa - Everything in the World http://hoppa.com/
• HowStuffWorks by Marshall Brain http://www.HowStuffWorks.com/ | http://howstuffworks.lycoszone.com/ This has very nice introductions to artifacts at elementary-school level. More in-depth than most encyclopedias.
• ``How things work'' http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/ by Louis A. Bloomfield, Professor of Physics, The University of Virginia (check out Microwave Ovens http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/microwave_ovens.html -- he actually *recommends* leaving a metal spoon in your soup !

  /* was http://landau1.phys.virginia.edu/Education/Teaching/HowThingsWork/ */ (superheated water boiling)

• HowToDoThings.com http://www.HowToDoThings.com/ has a page on Huffman compression and other programming topics; a few very general sections ... you can add articles ? ...
• http://www.dictionary.com/ has some nice writing resource -- grammar tips (some of them pretty funny), punctuation tips, Roget's Thesaurus, crossword puzzles, rhyming dictionaries, as well as a dictionary. Also has a long list of pointers to dictionaries (on other sites) for foreign languages, legal jargon, etc.
• Eric's Treasure Troves of Science http://www.treasure-troves.com/ The CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ by Eric W. Weisstein /* was http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/TreasureTroves.html */ This is the first place DAV turns to when I see an unfamiliar term in math, geometry, or cellular automata. It's at roughly the college senior level -- Weisstein is not afraid to use calculus, vectors, etc. He actively asks for help extending the encyclopedia.
• "The Catholic Encyclopedia" http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/ /* was http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/ */ very thorough. Surprisingly relevant for a 1913 document. This is the first source DAV turns to for definitions of theological terms (and I'm not even Catholic, at least by most definitions).
• Bill Beaty http://www.amasci.com/ has lots of information on physics and electricity and weird science.
• Roget's Thesaurus http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html (supports full UNIX regular expressions) "volunteers are needed"
• http://whatis.techtarget.com/ dictionary including *lots* of detailed network and computer definitions (with links to internet sites talking about this). (lots of technical computer/networking term definitions) /* was http://www.whatis.com/ */ Also has some online discussion forums.
• the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing http://www.foldoc.org/
• http://www.xrefer.com/ `` xrefer includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations''
• the Surfable books project http://surfablebooks.com/

  "Surf the World Book General Encyclopedia" http://surfablebooks.com/worldbookgeneral/

• a Technical-Slang-to-English translation dictionary known as "The Jargon file" by Eric S. Raymond
• DICTIONARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS FOR AEROSPACE USE http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/~dglover/dictionary/ by Dr. Daniel R. Glover (and links to other dictionaries) /* was http://sulu.lerc.nasa.gov/dglover/ */
• AccessScience@McGraw-Hill, the online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology http://www.accessscience.com/
• OneLook Dictionaries http://www.onelook.com/ a meta-dictionary -- looks up a word or acronym in *other* online dictionaries and glossaries.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online http://www.eb.com/
• http://Encarta.com/
• Resources: Language and Linguistics http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/lang.htm includes pointers to dictionaries, Fun with words, and other Linguistics Resources.

• Bartleby.com
  Quotations:

  Bartleby.com
  Reference:

  nice search tool to help you find "who said that ?". http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/ /* was http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/ */ includes _Familiar Quotations_ book by John Bartlett 1901.

• Encyclopedia of Conspiracies http://gate.cruzio.com/~blackops/ (I had no idea there were so many !)
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html "more than 800 dictionaries in 160 different languages"
• Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com/
• Hypertext Webster Gateway http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster dictionary (points to other online dictionaries)
• Electric Library http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• ``The Skeptic's Dictionary -- A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions'' by Robert T. Carroll http://www.skepdic.com/ (interesting the way it links back to the Catholic Encyclopedia).
• The Encyclopedia Mythica http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/ An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend. ``I welcome contributions''
• Voltayre's Encyclopedia Xenobiologica(tm) http://www.infinicorp.com/VEX/ about the fictional universe surrounding Babylon 5. (offline ?) http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue43/site.html
• Center for Nonverbal Studies home of The Nonverbal Dictionary(c) http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/ is very interesting.
• Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com/ "Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help"
• Encyclopaedia of Integer Sequences http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/
• Any relationship ?
  • http://www.webopedia.com/
  • http://www.zdwebopedia.com/
  • http://www.pcwebopedia.com/ ``online dictionary and search engine ... for computer and Internet technology.''
• [math] Math Reference Project http://www.mathreference.com/ ``an electronic archive of mathematical information. Topics range from high school geometry up to graduate level topology'' nice search tools
• [math] The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/ Maintained by N. J. A. Sloane [FIXME: Huh ? What is http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/WebCam.html ? ] [FIXME: check out ``List of things that need to be done for the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, in case anyone wants to help!'', ``Single-Deletion-Correcting Codes'', sphere packing, http://www.research.att.com/~njas/ ]
• [FIXME: special ``math'' section, or just stick it under ``encyclopedia'' ? link to 1d]
• Mathematical Atlas: A gateway to Mathematics http://www.math-atlas.org/ maintained by Dave Rusin http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/
• LEO English/German Dictionary http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/index.html ???
• http://dict.leo.org/
• German <-> English Dictionary http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
• http://Sparknotes.com/ book summaries ... discussion board subject topics ...
• The Digital Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce http://www.digitalpeirce.org/ ??? artificial intellegence "symbols"

articles

searching for magazine articles.

If you know the magazine that published the article you're looking for, it's best just to go directly to that magazine's web site and use thier search tool -- see periodical.html for some magazines.

see also book.html for (online) bookstores and book recommendations.

See faq for FAQs.

see encyclopedia for articles collected into encyclopedias.

• http://www.FindArticles.com/ ``archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles ... from more than 300 magazines and journals.''

whois

• Web Interface to Whois http://www.internic.net/whois.html can tell you if that clever domain name you thought up has already been taken, and by who.
• Whois Database Search http://www.arin.net/whois ... for example, http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=68.0.120.240
• http://domaindirect.com/

unsorted links

IBM HypeAlert Website http://www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert authoritative reference ... dismisses the "E-mail virus threat" as a myth. INFOMINE

• search engine for best price on a book, games, cameras, computer hardware, etc. http://www.jango.com/
• CataList http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html, the official catalog of LISTSERV(R) lists, is a database of the 19,479 (as of 1998-10) public LISTSERV lists on the Internet.
• http://outer-net.com/kacee/links/edulink.htm
• Consumer Information Catalog http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
• USENET FAQs http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html
• "the Ultimate Navigation System for the Swiss WWW - User !" http://www.ch/ Switzerland (???) (in German)
• Local information: go to "http://local.yahoo.com/local/us/*****", where ***** is your zip code. (for example, Stillwater 74075). has local resource page including weather, sports, and Internet Services available.
• a list of search engines and online news, much like this page http://www.mcs.net/~grossman/ Content: "Reflections of a ModemJunkie"
• http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/MetaIndex.html ???
• Currency Converter http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic convert Deutsch Marks to US Dollars and many other currencies ... and info about the "euro".
• http://www.thomasregister.com/
• Electronic Library http://www.elibrary.com/
• http://www.faqs.org/
• http://www.hto.net/search.htm yet another long list of search engines.
• eBLAST : Encyclopædia Britannica's Internet Guide http://www.eblast.com/ has a interesting "bookmarks of the smart & famous" http://www.eblast.com/bookmarks/bookmarks.html section.
• www.surplusdirect.com ???
• ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers many FAQs are archived here.
• devhead http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/ news articles of interest to web developers
• http://www.odyssee.net/~fnord/internet.html yet another list of search tools.
• http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/ Internet guides, Unix tutorial, News and Weather, Library resources, Reference shelf, etc.
• eg3.com http://www.cera2.com/ mirror: http://www.eg3.com/ "the largest online resource in electronics" "net resources & companies in DSP, embedded systems, realtime (rtos), board-level computing, and software development for electronics."
• http://www.gower.net/Explore/Explore.html ???
• http://www.intbc.com/sleuth/ ???
• http://riceinfo.rice.edu/Internet/ ???
• http://www.search.com ???
• http://www.he.net/~kamus/useen.htm ???
• http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Searching_the_Net/ ???
• [*]FAQ's and Technical Reports--Finding Them -- http://www.cera2.com/faqs.htm ???
• eg3.com : search : usenet search resources http://www.cera2.com/search/usenet.htm
• eg3.com : search : www search sites http://www.cera2.com/search/srcwww.htm
• eg3.com : search : ftp search resources http://www.cera2.com/search/srcftp.htm
• eg3.com : search : mailing list internet resources http://www.cera2.com/search/mail.htm
• http://www.cera2.com/ee/engineer.htm http://www.cera2.com/ee/engineer.htm
• eg3.com : search : ee hunter - best ee search sites http://www.cera2.com/search/hunter.htm electronic design
• eg3.com : search : book internet resources http://www.cera2.com/search/books.htm and "FREE Info From Chip Co's".
• http://www.cera2.com/embe/index.htm embedded microprocessors & microcontrollers ... internet resources, resources for each major chip architecture -- x86, 68k, mips, 8051, powerpc, pic, coldfire etc.
• eg3.com http://www.cera2.com/ "the largest online resource in electronics"
• eg3.com : news : new conferences http://www.cera2.com/new/newxconf.htm
• ee publications: publications, other publications, other meta-resources, competitors to eg3.com http://www.cera2.com/search/compete.htm
• eg3.com : search : miscellaneous search resources http://www.cera2.com/search/srcmerit.htm
• http://www.cera2.com/micr/index.htm embedded mcu/mpu net resources
• Electronics Search FAQ Electronics Search FAQ ???
• Embedded Systems Free Internet Resources http://www.cera.com/
• http://www.discovery.com/
• http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2180973,00.html ???
• http://www.durability.com/sites.htm short list of sites -- copy this here.
• Reference Materials and Texts http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/library.html used by Anders Sandberg
• 555-1212.com, Inc. http://www.555-1212.com/ searches for residential phone numbers (white pages), business phone numbers (yellow pages), email addresses (white pages), web sites in your geographical area, and other search tools.
• http://worldpages.com/ searches for business phone numbers (yellow pages)
• http://www.switchboard.com/ searches for residential phone numbers (white pages), business phone numbers (yellow pages), phone number (reverse lookup), email addresses (white pages), web sites in your geographical area, and other search tools.
• http://www.whowhere.com/ people finder
• International Reunion Network http://www.reunion.com/ (Missing Persons Magazine)
• Canadian Thesaurus of Construction Science and Technology http://www.nrc.ca/irc/thesaurus/ try searching for "earth crust".
• http://www1.shore.net/~rodc/statement.html
• USENET FAQs a list of all USENET FAQs found in news.answers.
  • http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html
  • http://www.faqs.org/
• The Informant http://informant.dartmouth.edu/ "is a FREE! service that will save your favorite search engine queries and web sites, check them periodically, and send you email whenever there are new or updated web pages."
• http://www.netguide.com/
• http://www.metacrawler.com/
• http://smartpages.com/ ???
• GOSHEN Christian Search Engine and Directory http://goshen.net/
• http://sklarnet.com/LN/search.shtml yet another list of search tools
• http://www.calendarz.com/ ???
• Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) http://medusa.prod.oclc.org:3050/ ???
• http://search123.com/
• yet another list of search engines http://samplers.com/searchin.htm
• http://www.library.ehc.edu/inweb/info/ ???
• http://www.feedme.org/ ???
• http://www.accufind.com/
• On Line Consulting (OLC) http://www.cc.iastate.edu/olc/ "a system which enables users to get on-line help from full and part-time consultants. A database of stock answers is provided for answers to common questions."
• Engineering Links http://www.englinks.com/ and lots of them. Reasonably well organized. /* was http://www.fdgroup.co.uk/neo/fsi/englinks.htm */
• Consumer Information Center of the U.S. General Services Administration. http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/ "We have full text versions of hundreds of the best federal consumer publications available. View them for FREE"
• http://www.handilinks.com/ ???
• the Positive Press http://www.positivepress.com/ "Good News Every Day"
• MatWeb: the Free Online Materials Property Database http://secure.matls.com/
• http://superpages.gte.net/
• http://www.bigfoot.com/
• http://bigbook.com/
• http://www.pathfinder.com/money/plus/index.oft ???
• http://www.techweb.com/
• http://www.internetsourcebook.com/ ???
• http://www.EducationIndex.com/
• The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) http://www.iuma.com/
• http://www.tvguide.com/
• Scripting News http://www.scripting.com/ (?)
• http://www.rent.net/ rental and relocation guide
• http://www.555-1212.com/area_codes.html look up area codes by city
• http://www.cdnow.com/
• Internet Shopping Network http://www.internet.net/
• http://www.weather.com/
• http://www.ibm.com/Help/ ???
• People Helping One Another Know Stuff (PHOAKS) "Together, we know it all." http://www.phoaks.com/ a collaborative filtering site
• high-tech dictionary http://www.currents.net/resources/dictionary/noframes/
• The Integrator http://www.integrals.com/ Type in any equation, and it looks up the integral.
• Cybernetics & Human Knowing - Thesaurus pilot project Edited by M&T Thellefsen http://www.musik.auc.dk/~martin/personligt/thesaurus/thesaurus/ontogeny.htm
• http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/dirlisting/index.html meta-search engine
• http://whatis.com/latestdi.htm interesting web site added each week.
• http://www.allexperts.com/ 3 500 volunteer experts on all kinds of topics: Arts, Gems, pets, education, love, travel, repair, business, careers, etc.
• http://www.experts-exchange.com/ information on programming, macintosh, Linux, graphics, etc.
• !!!!!!!!!! citation formats !!!!!!!!!!! book.html#citation
• Adults Seeking Knowledge (ASK) http://www.azstarnet.com/~ask/
• http://www.federalist.com/linksmedia.asp lots of links to print media and ezines
• A Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves [FIXME: perhaps make "geometry" or "math" section] http://www.best.com/~xah/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/specialPlaneCurves.html
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Dictionaries/ | http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Science/Dictionaries/ has lots of dictionaries (Satellite terms, Microbiology, telescope making, Algorithms and Data Structures, Unit Conversion, etc.
• Visual Computer Dictionary http://kcs.kana.k12.wv.us/technology/vcd/
• the Internet Mail Consortium http://www.imc.org/ has lots of RFCs regarding email (including internationalization)
• _Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia_ edited by Brent Baccala http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/ mirrors all the RFCs, plus some material patiently explaining the introductory concepts.
• Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS PUBS) http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/
• Dr. Dobb's Journal http://www.ddj.com/ has lots of source code online
• lots of Usenet FAQs. ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers
• fatbrain (???)
• http://www.consumer.gov/ ???
• "Best Linux Links on the Web" http://www.linuxcare.com/news_columns/suppt_pit/1999/12-22-99.epl "a list of our favorite Linux sites for Hardware Help, Networking, Linux Community News, Linux Documentation and even Humor."
• the open textbook project http://otp.inlimine.org/ The mission of the open textbook project is to develop openly copyrighted (copylefted) textbooks using the free software development model. The books, developed collaboratively, would be freely available to download, modify, print and distribute.
• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1485/ links to links to good stuff.
• the Shadow Gnome ... Writing and Style Guides http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1485/writing.html includes Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/R3283/
• Taygeta Scientific FTP Archive Search http://www.taygeta.com/misc/ftpsearch.html has lots of stuff on embedded systems, digital filters, robots [FIXME], FORTH, some scientific C++ class source code, some Palm Pilot stuff. computer_architecture.html#forth
• DNA search tools http://www.esquilax.com/nifty/ [fixme: move to #dna ?]
• Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pedro/rt_all.html
• The FAQ Finder http://ps.superb.net/FAQ/ [this was offline when I first checked it]
• MathSearch -- search a collection of mathematical Web material http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/MathSearch.html
• http://www.ibiblio.org/ ``Welcome to ibiblio.org - the Public's Library - home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet. ibiblio is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ''
• http://oingo.com/
• http://www.mathtools.net/ looks very cool. [FIXME: tosurf]
• http://www.bigwhat.com/ ???
• http://www.blazemonger.com/netresearch/index.html ???
• Usenet news http://groups.google.com/ /* was http://www.deja.com/ */ [FIXME: old email here ?]
• http://www.thereference.com/
• http://www.teamslack.net/ ???
• http://www.infoplease.com/ almanacs, encyclopedia, ... ???
• http://www.vrml3d.com/ ???
• http://directory.google.com/Top/ [hm ... top-down directories vs. flat search tools ?]
• [searching for software programs] Linux DaveCentral, Linux Software Archive http://linux.davecentral.com/index/ shareware and freeware and open-source
• [searching for software programs] http://www.davecentral.com/ shareware and freeware and open-source
• [periodical ?] OSDN: Open Source Development Network http://www.osdn.com/
• The Skeptic's Dictionary http://skepdic.com/
• Totally Absurd Inventions http://www.totallyabsurd.com/ featuring actual USA patented products
• Plants For A Future - Database Search http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/D_search.html ???
• MathSearch http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/MathSearch.html ``search a collection of over 200,000 documents on English-language mathematics and statistics servers across the Web''
• Online Books/Dictionaries - Virtual Computer Library http://www.utexas.edu/computer/vcl/books.html
• [general programming] Algorithms and Data Structures Research & Reference Material http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeAlgDS/ an encyclopedia describing "suffix trees", "Graph algorithms", "recursion", and other programming stuff.
• http://www.dogpile.com/ ??? any good prices or reviews here ?
• http://www.researchindex.com/ ??? has freely available source code ...
• THE WRITERS' WELL http://hellskitchen.com/well.htm has a list of online dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, e-zines, etc.
• http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LOCAL/everyday.html Meta News ?
• [search tools]
• http://www.koan.com/search.html
• http://www.brainyquote.com/ helpful searching for quotes on a topic, or looking up ``who said that ?''
• Pathfinder: How Things Work http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/howwork.html (very good introduction to some useful internet resources ...) [FIXME: explore nearby places on this site]
• http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howthingswork/ ???
• http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ searches for how many citations a paper has ???
• Geometry.Net - The Online Learning Center http://www.7s.com/ Math, Artists, Composers, Philosophers ?
• http://help.com/
• Scientific American: Ask the Experts http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm [FIXME: where to categorize this site ? science.html ? unknowns.html ? search_tools.html ?] has a place to send in your own questions; Questions By Subject: Astronomy Biology Chemistry Computers Environment Geology Mathematics Medicine Physics.
• Online libraries and reference sites http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/#Public%20Libraries Biographies
• Web Sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12 http://www.deweybrowse.org/ ... [FIXME: check out the architecture links at http://www.deweybrowse.org/Dewey_Browse_700.html ] [FIXME: check out the book reviews, online texts, and English tools at http://www.deweybrowse.org/Dewey_Browse_800.html ] [FIXME: check out the biographies at http://www.deweybrowse.org/biography.html ] [FIXME: check out the #translation tools, dictionaries, grammar, baby names at http://www.deweybrowse.org/Dewey_Browse_400.html ] [FIXME: check out the science links (math, DNA, periodic tables, whales ) at http://www.deweybrowse.org/Dewey_Browse_500.html ] [FIXME: check out the machines (bridges, kites, spacecraft ) at http://www.deweybrowse.org/Dewey_Browse_600.html ]
• United Nations Population Information Network http://www.un.org/popin/ ???
• http://www.search.sify.com/
• http://www.home.earthlink.net/~rrothsprint/links/links7.htm (do I already have all these reference works listed ?)
• http://www.searchspell.com/ ???
• "CrossSearch aims to provide quick, easy access to all manner of Christian resources and information on the Web. The CrossSearch directory can be browsed by category or explored via keyword searches." http://www.crosssearch.com/
• http://members.cox.net/roeckelein_aaip/computin.htm ???
• Useless Information: Stuff you never needed to know but your life would be incomplete without http://members.tripod.com/~earthdude1/ amazing stories ... some of them urban legends, most of them true, usually with links to more information.
• The Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://spamassassin.org/tag/ | mirror http://www.archive.org ???
• UsefulThingsOnTheWeb http://www.poorbuthappy.com/ethnography/ Wiki Ethnography and usability, information architecture [FIXME: usability ? wiki list ? metadata ?]
• http://www.linuxguruz.org/
• http://unixpower.org/ ???
• RBSE Spider http://rbse.jsc.nasa.gov/eichmann/urlsearch.html yet another web-crawler search tool, with links to other spiders.
• [search tools] http://www.goto.com/
• [search tools] http://www.nexor.com/public/cusi/ a meta-search tool, calling on lots of web crawlers and other search tools.
• the SpamAssassin FAQ http://spamassassin.taint.org/faq/index.cgi appears to be a Wiki. [FIXME: copy link to both #spam and #wikis]
• calculators on-line center http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators3A.html reference calculators: Mathematics, Statistics. Chemistry, Physics & Astrophysics, Engineering, Electrical & Computer contains over "17,210" Calculators created
• [search tools ?] http://www.motionnet.com
• http://askthebrain.com/
• http://glo.com/search.html has a long list of search engines, and example "embedded" search engines.
• http://glo.com/ask.html If you've tried the search engines and can't find the answer you need, this page has a list of web sites that "Get personalized answers to your questions by real persons."
• "document clustering engine" http://vivisimo.com/
• [dictionary] http://www.urbandictionary.com/
• http://computerslane.com/ has some under-$300 desktop PCs
• QuickBasic Wiki http://faq.qbasicnews.com/
• "I want to ..." http://philb.com/iwantto.htm - Share my photographs with other people - Edit photographs online - Create and Share an online calendar - Collaborate on/share documents via the web - Create an online, sharable spreadsheet - Add podcasting services to my site/blog - Set up 'to do' lists, alarms, time management - Watch particular pages for changes - Shorten URLs to make them manageable - Annotate webpages - Use a disposable email address - Check to see if a domain has been registered - Translate text into other languages - See what events are on when - Do stuff with wishlists - Create a wiki - How do I glue this to that?
• The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/

Started 1997 Dec 2.

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