Search Engines and Directories

• Search Engine's
• Directories
• Maps
• Employment
• Dictionaries, Encyclopeadias
• Reference & Resource: Museum, etc.
• Move and TV time tables
• Other types of Search Sites

Search Engines

Google

http://www.google.com/

FAST Search: All the Web, All the Time

300 million web pages searched in under one half second. http://www.alltheweb.com/

MetaCrawler

"MetaCrawler differs from other search services in that it does not maintain any local database. Rather, it relies on the databases of various Web-based sources. MetaCrawler sends your queries to several Web search engines, including Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, and Yahoo."  http://www.metacrawler.com/

Alta Vista

Web index that gathers URLs by itself - as opposed to one that depends on URL registration by Web page developers. Also has categorized lists. http://altavista.digital.com/

AOL Search

Internet search engine, reviewed and rated sites, Children only site lists. http://www.aol.com/netfind/

Hot Bot

Named #1 in PC Computing's Search Engine shoot-out. http://www.hotbot.com/

Info Space

Users can find maps and directions to any address, retrieve toll-free and fax numbers, find email addresses and websites, and retrieve local information such as weather reports and classifieds. http://www.infospace.com/

Search.com by c|net inc.

An interface to major search engines. Includes reviews of the sites in it's catalog. http://www.search.com/

Search Engine Watch by Danny Sullivan

Webmaster's Guide To Search Engines, Search Engine Facts and Fun, Search Engine Status Reports, Search Engine Resources. http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

WebCrawler

http://webcrawler.com/
Life & Culture � The African Diaspora http://webcrawler.com/select/life.african.html

Yahoo!

Internet Search Engine. Contains categorized lists. http://www.yahoo.com/

Directories

SuperPages.com a.k.a. BigBook.com

Over 11 million phone and address listings for nearly every company in the U.S. Includes maps. Can search by category or location.

BigYellow.com, BigBook.com, and SuperPages.com combined to form the new SuperPages.com. http://superpages.com

Switchboard

Over 90 million names and addresses. http://www.switchboard.com/

Yahoo! People Search

An Internet white page directory targeted to searching for address and telephone number information. The information is licensed from Database America. http://phone.yahoo.com/

Maps

MapQuest

MapQuest offers consumers the ability to interactively zoom and browse their way to over three million locations worldwide on an interactive atlas, obtain city-to-city and door-to-door driving directions, identify places of interest, and create and saved personalized maps. http://www.mapquest.com/

Yahoo! Maps

Get a map for a particular address. Point to Point Driving Directions. http://maps.yahoo.com/

Hagstrom Map Co.

http://www.hagstrommap.com/

Employment

Click, you�re hired. Or tracked...

The business of searching for jobs online has grown from a market niche to a multi-billion-dollar, rapidly consolidating industry that relies on the eager search activities � and employment dreams � of millions of job seekers. It has also proven to be the ultimate recession-proof Internet business. As other technology companies flounder, online job search sites remain key resources in the wake of layoffs and uncertain employment prospects.

However, job seekers who post their resumes online face considerable threats to their privacy. Resumes may be stored by online job sites for many years, and may be misused for data mining and even identity theft.

Additionally, corporations that encourage job seekers to send resumes directly to "the corporate website" often fail to tell job seekers that their resumes may also be posted to a third-party resume database for searching by other employers... http://www.privacyfoundation.org/privacywatch/monster.asp

ComputerJobs.com/

http://Computerjobs.com/

Techies.com

http://www.techies.com/

Dice.com

http://www.dice.com/

America's Job Bank

U.S. Dept. of Labor. Links the 2,000 state Employment Services offices. The 'nationwide' listings contain information on approximately 100,000 jobs. http://www.ajb.dni.us/

Career City

http://www.careercity.com/

Career Magazine

Lots of employment related articles and resources. Plus, Resume Bank, Career Forum, Immigration Issues, etc.   http://www.careermag.com/

Fast Company Magazine Career Center

Find Your Calling, Build Brand You, Search For a Job, Go Free Agent, Make a Choice, Move on... http://www.fastcompany.com/career/

Information Week Carrer Center

Career Research, Expert Advice, Salary Surveys, etc. http://www.informationweek.com/career/

JobHunt

A Meta-list of On-Line Job-Search Resources and Services. http://www.job-hunt.org/

JobWeb

National Associate of Colleges and Employers. http://www.jobweb.org

New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services

DCAS is the behind the scenes entity that supports all City agencies which provide services to the public. Although DCAS's primary responsibility is to provide support services to other City agencies, we also provide opportunities for private citizens and businesses to benefit from our many resources. http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dcas/

New York State Department of Labor

http://www.labor.state.ny.us/

ProvenResumes.com

40 free online resume and job search workshops. http://www.provenresumes.com/

Texas A&M University Department of Agricultural Engineering Job links

Organizations with in-house job listings (Texas, Colleges and universities, Other organizations), Comprehensive employment servers, Collected vacancy listings, Recruiters, Employment-related information and services. http://www.agen.tamu.edu/links/jobs.html

District Counsel 37

The largest public employee union in New York City. DC37 is part of AFSCME - the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. http://www.dc37.net/

DC 37, Local 2627 NYC Electronic Data Processing Personnel

We are: Assistant Systems Analysts, Computer Aides, Computer Associates, Computer Programmers, Computer Service Technicians, Computer Specialists, Information Systems Aides, Information Systems Specialists, Information Systems Associates, Information Systems Assistants, Telecommunication Specialists and Telecommunications Associates. http://www.local2627.org/

DCAS: NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services

Civil Service Exam Application Schedules. http://nyc.gov/html/dcas/home.html

Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

PC Webop�dia

Contains descriptions of more than 2,000 computer terms, plus links to thousands of other Web pages where you can find additional information. http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/

Dictionary.com

http://www.dictionary.com/

Encyclopaedia Britannica

http://www.britannica.com/

Free Online Dictionary of Computing

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/

The Internet Language Dictionary

http://www.netlingo.com/

The List of Dictionaries

Pointers to many foreign language and technical dictionaries. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/HTML/Dictionaries_noframes.html

The Online Dictionaries

Pointers to over 60 foreign language dictionaries, including Urdu, Chechen, Tibetan, and Russian sign language. http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html

Roget's Thesaurus at The University of Chicago

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

Webster's Dictionary at Carnegie Mellon

http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster

Hypertext Webster Gateway

http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster

The WWLIA Legal Dictionary

http://www.islandnet.com/~wwlia/diction.htm

Reference and Resource

Evaluating Internet Research Sources

There is an extremely wide variety of material on the Internet, ranging in its accuracy, reliability, and value. Unlike most traditional information media (books, magazines, organizational documents), no one has to approve the content before it is made public. It's your job as a searcher, then, to evaluate what you locate, in order to determine whether it suits your needs.

Information is everywhere on the Internet, existing in large quantities and continuously being created and revised. This information exists in a large variety of kinds (facts, opinions, stories, interpretations, statistics)and is created for many purposes (to inform, to persuade, to sell, to present a viewpoint, and to create or change an attitude or belief). For each of these various kinds and purposes, information exists on many levels of quality or reliability. It ranges from very good to very bad and includes every shade in between. http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

Evaluation of information sources

Pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. It is intended to be particularly useful to librarians and others who are selecting sites to include in an information resource guide, or informing users as to the qualities they should use in evaluating Internet information. http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm

iWORLD

Internet news and resources. List of Internet Service Providers. http://www.iworld.com

KWANZAA Information Center

http://melanet.com/kwanzaa/

Library of Congress, The

http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

Michael C. Carlos Museum

http://www.cc.emory.edu/CARLOS/carlos.html

The Nine Planets

An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
Interplanetary spacecraft have revolutionized planetary science. Very little of this document would have been possible without the space program. http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/

NetNoir

http://www.netnoir.com

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html

WWW Virtual Library

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html

Movie and TV time tables

MovieLink

http://www.movielink.com/

Yahoo! - Entertainment:Movies and Films

http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Films/

GIST TV

http://www.TV1.com/

TV Guide Entertainment Network

http://www.tvgen.com/

Other types of Search Sites

Virtual Tourist:

A geographic directory of all the WWW servers in the world. This service does not contain information about countries, states, and regions (i.e. tourist info); this information is contained in The Virtual Tourist II. http://www.vtourist.com/webmap/

Virtual Tourist II:

A map-based interface to City.Net, the Web's most extensive library of local and regional information. http://www.vtourist.com/vt/