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Search Engines 
allmyfaves.com Visual logo directory that specializes in the top 10 faves of each category
Stumbleupon.com Discover new sites
Factbites.com What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia?
Swarm the dot com Shows you what websites people are visiting right now
Snap.com A different, new search engine
Teoma.com Might be the best search site of all
Google Perhaps the fastest engine on the Web.
Google Blog Search Find blogs on your favorite topics
Accoona.com A search engine with interactive tools
Feedster.com Search news, blogs, podcasts and more
Bloglines A server-based aggregation system
Dogpile All the best search engines rolled into one
A9.com Still one of the most useful engines around
Technorati It's like Google for blogs
Open Directory A true powerhouse in web-searching
Zworks Meta Search Top quality meta engine
Vivisimo Cool meta search engine
AltaVista A comprehensive search engine
Search.com Metasearch engine
Go2Net Uses the "MetaCrawler" search protocol
Mamma.com The mother of all search engines
AlltheWeb Offers a variety of specialized search tools
Search Engine Showdown User's guide to websearching
Ask Jeeves Searches several engines simultaneously.
Beaucoup! 2000 search engines and directories
Metasearch The original way to search, since 1995
Yahoo! Yahoo! for the SF Bay Area
HotBot Web search is powered by Inktomi
Webcrawler Several search engines spun together
  
Directories 
Phone number geolocator Phone prefix location lookup tool
Switchboard Internet yellow and white pages
WhitePages Directory and people search
WorldPages.com Find a business and more
Zip2 Business directories and portal services
Superpages.com Yellow and white pages
GLBTPI.com Offers free gay and lesbian events searching
Anywho A great online phone book and people-finder sponsored by AT&T
411.com Find a person or business
Infobel Telephone directories on the web
Top10Links Find the web's top sites
InfoSpace Yellow and white pages
Whowhere? Several different ways to look up anybody
Cool Site of the Day Internet guide, looking for the best web sites
  
Reference 
Thesaurus.com A list of synonyms and antonyms
Merriam-Webster Online dictionary
Encyclopedia.com Because knowledge is cool
OneLook Dictionary A search engine for words and phrases
iTools Search, research, reference, look up or translate
Urban Dictionary Focuses on slang words and offbeat definitions
Internet Public Library Before there was Google, there was the Internet Public Library
The Straight DopeNo matter how strange the question, Cecil Adams can answer it
Google Earth Part tool, part toy
Internet Archive Use the WayBack Machine and catch a glimpse of the Web that was
Wikipedia A great resource, even if some entries are out of date or incomplete
Google Groups Formerly "DejaNews"
Weather.com Enter your Zip Code and see weather predictions
RefDesk.com Reference, facts and news
GuideStar Provides information on nearly all major charitable organizations
InfoPlease An almanac, atlas, dictionary, & encyclopedia, all rolled into one
Translation Translations online
SoYouWanna.com All the things nobody taught you in school.
Library Spot Another large, informative site.
BUBL Link An Internet-based information service from the UK
lii.org Search and browse Librarians' Index for the best of the web
AllExperts.com Questions and answers
WORLDTIME Interactive world atlas, tons of info
Info Service A very good web reference source
Start Here Search engines, white pages, yellow pages, databases, directories
Excite Search engine and news
Reference.Com A very good reference site
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