WWW Resources

The Pulse of the Internet

• ClickZ Stats (formerly CyberAtlas) Internet statistics and market research for web marketers
• Slashdot News for Nerds
• Wired News

Good Starting Points

• The Living Internet, the Internet's most comprehensive reference about the Internet.
• Active UF WWW Servers
• Google Directory
• ListFish, the directory of email newsletters and discussion lists
• Yahoo

General Search Sites

Help with searches:
    How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
    Power Searching for Anyone
   

Current recommendations:
    Google
    Scirus for scientific information
    Ask.com
    AlltheWeb
    Northern Light
    The Librarians' Index to the Internet

• A9.com - Search Technologies
• All-In-One Search Page
• Dogpile metasearch plus web catalog
• Eureka! Internet Search a sort-of search engine for search engines
• FAST Search at All The Web
• FileZ searches FTP sites
• Google determines quality of each link based upon the quality of the other sites that link into that site
• Google Image Search works like any other search engine, only instead of Web pages it displays images from other Web pages
• HotBot - perhaps the best all-purpose search site on the Web
• ixquick Metasearch - search 12 engines simultaneously with advanced syntax and in a dozen different languages
• The Librarians' Index to the Internet searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,100 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries
• Mamma.com: The Mother of All Search Engines
• Northern Light - valuable for the way it organizes search hits; good for very specific queries
• PubMed for medical information
• Scirus for scientific information
• Teoma
• refdesk.com "the single best source for facts on the net"
• Web Interface to Whois
• Web Search Cheat Sheet
• Windows Live Search
• Yahoo! Search

Searching for People

• AnyWho enter a street name to see all of the residents of that street along with their addresses and phone numbers!
• Switchboard.com the people and business directory
• Internet address finder

E-mail (both free and not free)

• Google Mail
• Hotmail
• Lycos Mail
• Mail.com
• Yahoo Mail

Free Web Access to Pop E-mail

• Mail2Web

Storage Space free and not free)

• Foldershare
• X:Drive

Other Useful Sites

• Bell Lab's Text-to-Speech System create sound files in a variety of voice styles from typed in text
• FreeTranslation.Com allows users to translate text written in English to Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese, and to translate text written in Spanish, French, or German to English.
• The Internet FAQ Archive Provides useful organization of all the USENET FAQs
• How Far Is It? find the straight-line distance between 2 cities or coordinates
• www.timeanddate.com find the current time in cities around the world
• ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information

Popular Topics

• Bartleby.com includes a number of reference books as well as books of verse, and other works of fiction and non-fiction
• How Stuff Works
• Movie Reviews
• Singing Fish the best way to find audiovisual files...
• The Weather Channel 10-day forecast for Gainesville, FL
• Travel.com
• yourDictionary.com A Web of On-line Dictionaries

A Little Fun

Anagram Servers on the Internet Dancing Baby The Weekly Foolish Link

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Last edited 24 October 2006