• Web Indexing and Search Tools
• Mailing List and Newsgroup Archive Search Tools
• Weblogs (Blogs) Search Tools
• E-Mail List and Listserv Directories
• Locating People and Businesses

Web Indexing and Search Tools

• Search Only
  • Ask.com
  • Exalead
  • GigaBlast
  • Google
  • Live Search
• Meta-Search Engines (Search various combinations of the other search engines listed above and below simultaneously.)
  • Ixquick
  • Metacrawler
  • Search.com
• Subject Collections/Directories with Search Capabilities
  • Academic Info
    Resources selected for an academic audience.
  • AllinOineSearch.com
  • DMOZ: Open Directory Project
  • Galaxy
  • InfoMine (Virtual Library at UC Riverside)
  • InfoSpace
  • Intute
  • Librarians' Index to the Internet
  • MSN.com
  • Yahoo!
• Subject Collection/Directories Only
  • WWW Virtual Library
• Collections of Search Engines
  • Search Engine Colossus
    Links to a vast collection of search engines of many types from many nations.
• Guides to Search Engines
  • InFoPeople Search Tools
    Includes a guide with a good summary of the main features of some of the search engines abpve.
  • Search Engine Showdown: The User's Guide to Web Searching
    This site, by Greg R. Notess, reviews in detail (features, size, capabiilities) most of the major search engines. Highly recommended!
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Mailing List and Newsgroup Archive Search Tools

• Google Groups
  Search the archives of newsgroups; incorporates the former Deja.com archives.
• Tile.net Newsgroups
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Weblogs (Blogs) Search Tools

• BLOG Search.com
  Search or browse by subject groups.
• Blog Search Engine
• BlogHop
  Allows browsing for blogs by "tagsurfing" through the "clouds" of meta tags assigned to blogs by their creators.
• Technorati
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E-Mail List and Listserv Directories

• CataList
• Tile.net Lists
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Locating People and Businesses
E-mail, home pages, phone numbers, etc.

• AnyWho -- the AT&T Phone Directory
  Covers business, personal and tollfree numbers in the United States, with links to international sources.
• Infobel.com
  Extensive collection of Web telephone directories from around the world.
• InfoSpace White Pages
• SuperPages.com
  By Verizon, formerly BigBook.com. Business telephone numbers; includes maps showing where the business is located. People searching by name, phone number or address.
• Switchboard
  Provides business or personal addresses and phone numbers.
• US Postal Service Zip Code Lookup and Address Information
• WhoWhere
  Provides e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
• Yahoo! People Search (formerly: Four-11: The Internet White Pages)
  Provides e-mail addresses.
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Updated: 03/01/08 02:08:51