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The most recent clean-up of the links on this page was finally finished January 2007.

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    mail and host sites
  1. scn.org and telnet://scn.org
  2. freeshell.org and telnet://sdf.lonestar.org
  3. freehostia.com and ftp://porridge.freehostia.com
  4. mail.yahoo.com

    search engines
    multiple searches | single searches | site search | people finders | how-to's

    multiple searches:
  5. ixquick.com/eng: metasearch that allows full boolean, wildcards and
    fields, and clusters results
  6. dogpile.com: google, yahoo, msn, and ask.com piled into one
  7. metacrawler.com/index_power.html:  9 at once, and still reasonably fast
  8. savvysearch.com:  a bunch at once, collated
  9. webplaces.com/multi.htm: a list of search sites
    single searches:
  10. ask.com: the old askJeeves, but faster and better
  11. google.com: the world's most popular search engine, and more
    site search:
  12. freefind.com
  13. sitelevel.whatuseek.com
  14. picosearch.com
  15. fusionbot.com/about.asp
  16. search.mnogo.ru
  17. bpath.whatuseek.com
  18. or < fubar site:someserver.some.com > will work in google, too.
    people finders:
  19. people.yahoo.com: the most thorough, or it was as fourspace.com
  20. infospace.com:  "The easy way to find businesses and people" with a nice interface
  21. find.intelius.com: good depth, but requires cash
  22. switchboard.com:  exhaustive
  23. search-it-all.com
    how-to's:
  24. searchengineshowdown.com:  "Search Engine Showdown"
  25. searchenginewatch.com:  has gone commercial, but still has scads of info
    including Who Powers Whom? Search Providers Chart
  26. botspot.com
  27. hakatai.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/webhound: "How to be a Web Hound" is current as of March 2002
  28. slu.edu/departments/english/research: "A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW"

    the deep web
    There are a number of reasons why websites may not be indexed by web search engines. Web sites may disallow the search engine robots; the sites may be dynamic and unsearchable; or most commonly, their html is generated from databases on the fly, using PHP from mySQL, for example. Web search engines may not be able to search those databases, but we can.
    info:
  29. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web
  30. computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005757
  31. internettutorials.net/deepweb.html
  32. lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
    directories and engines:
  33. completeplanet.com: "The Deep Web Directory" from brightplanet.com which has unfortunately gone commercial, but is still interesting to poke around in
  34. science.gov "is a gateway [that] enables you to search more than 50 million pages in real time"
  35. copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html, but to do what you want, it'll cost
  36. deepwebresearch.info: to be examined
  37. deepwebtech.comand their scienceresearch.com/search
  38. websearch.about.com/od/invisibleweb/a/invisibleweb.htm: Invisible Web Directory
  39. libraryspot.com/features/invisibleweb.htm
  40. freepint.com/gary/direct.htm
  41. dir.yahoo.com...Deep_Web
    two examples:
  42. xxx.lanl.gov: "Open access to 400,419 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics,..."
  43. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez: "PubMed ... includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE..."

    directories
    lists | directories | favorites | specialized

    lists:
  44. library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Default.htm, the "Best Information on the Net," is provided by The O'Keefe Library of St. Ambrose University, with an Alphabetical Index, Online Reference Resources, and Resources for Librarians
  45. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reference_tables: Wikipedia's very long List of Reference Tables
  46. ldolphin.org/URLres.shtml: largely Christian links, but worth exploring
  47. hakatai.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/links/cat.html: Hot Links from Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
    and their 451f
  48. hotsheet.com:just another list
  49. cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi: after you've read around in her stuff,
    look at her links Without Style or Grace
    directories:
  50. dmoz.org: "The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors." It's the one google uses.
  51. lii.org: "Librarian's Internet Index, websites you can trust"
  52. academicinfo.net: Academic Info, a great index to Web resources
  53. toptenlinks.com:  "Home To 600+ Top 10 Web Site Lists!"
  54. yahoo.com: the most popular site on the web
  55. about.com: used to be The Mining Company--"We mine the Net so you don't have to"--
    and the discussion of its approach at firstmonday.org
  56. beaucoup.com:
  57. scout.wisc.edu: the Internet Scout Project needs exploring
    favorites:
  58. fourmilab.ch: John Walker's beautifully annotated olio
  59. deoxy.org/links.htm:  mostly serious links from a weird site
  60. w4.lns.cornell.edu/~riehle/crank.html: "Crank Menagerie"
  61. sailfree.com: links and more!
  62. subgenius.com/bigfist/websites.html: weird links from Bob
    specialized:
  63. us.imdb.com: The first-rate Internet Movie DataBase and movie-list.com, movie trailers online
  64. thefreesite.com: "Home of the Web's Best Freebies"
  65. pnwt.com/links.html: real estate links at Pacific Northwest Title
  66. metalab.unc.edu/louvre: the Louvre at the WebMuseum network from Paris

    webcasting
  67. bbc.co.uk/radio3: classical, jazz, new music, and world music 24/7
  68. atomfilms.com: Seattle's own 5-star broadband site
  69. youtube.com, of course
  70. guide.real.com: Senator Cantwell's old company
  71. liketelevision.com: thanks to Jim at liketelevision
  72. mediabay.com: Old Time Radio and more -- mostly paid, but some for free

    hosts
  73. geocities.yahoo.com: free with a banner
  74. freehostia.com/free_hosting.html
  75. awardspace.com/web_hosting.html:
    reviews:
  76. scn.org/help/isp/webhost.html: info about hosts from Seattle Community Network
  77. free-webhosts.com:
  78. freewebspace.net:
  79. thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space:

    web primers
  80. w3.org, the World Wide Web Consortium
  81. ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html: "A Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web"
  82. boutell.com/newfaq: World Wide Web FAQ
  83. mozilla.org and mozilla.com
  84. public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html: "where the web was born!"

    other 'net primers
  85. blogger.com/tour_pub.g: Publish your thoughts
  86. livinginternet.com: "An elegantly organized tour of the Internet" -- well, maybe
  87. matisse.net/files/glossary.html: Glossary of Internet Terms
  88. These next four are largely of historical interest:
    ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub: usenet RTFM archives at MIT
    faqs.org/#faqhtml: Usenet FAQ Archive
    irchelp.org/: Internet Relay Chat help
    lights.com/hytelnet: Hytelnet - Archive of Telnet Sites
  89. emailaddresses.com: all about (mostly free) e-mail
  90. cybergeography.org looks great, but seems to have frozen about 3 years ago
  91. caida.org, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, produces skitter, a tool that in its hyperbolic animation form might run you out of memory.
  92. Plus, for html, client-side scripting, and so forth, see my gluePot.

    online learning
  93. cwx.prenhall.com/dlguide: "The Distance Learner's Guide" from Prentice-Hall
  94. communication.ucsd.edu/dl: Digital Diploma Mills, by David Noble, is old but interesting
    one non-profit example:
  95. wgu.edu: "Western Governors University is a non-profit online university offering a convenient, flexible online education. WGU is the only accredited university in the U.S. offering competency-based, online degrees. Founded by the governors of 19 western states..."

    online shopping resources
  96. five price comparison sites:
    mysimon.com, pricegrabber.com, bizrate.com, pricewatch.com, and pricescan.com
  97. computershopper.com: with buying guides, how-to's, price comparison, etc.
  98. opt-out.cdt.org: get off those damn lists!
  99. autoguide.net "auto advice online"
  100. 4-digital-cameras.com: "Check out our cool digital camera search engine....its Free"
  101. Oh, plus ebay.com and amazon.com
  102. and craigslist.org

    social, legal, and privacy issues
  103. firstmonday.dk/subjects: "Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet"
  104. junkbusters.com
  105. cookiecentral.com
  106. cyber.law.harvard.edu: The Berkman Center for Internet & Society
  107. templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html: "10 Big Myths about copyright explained"
    firewalls:
  108. zonelabs.com: ZoneAlarm
  109. firewallguide.com/software.htm: Personal Firewall Reviews
  110. pcmag.com/category2/0,1738,4722,00.asp: comparisons at PC Magazine
  111. vicomsoft.com/knowledge/reference/firewalls1.html: KnowledgeShare - Firewall Q&A

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