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Research & reference tools
Current events
AP News
News Search Engines
BBC.com
MarketWatch NewsFinder
AP & Washington Post archives
Daypop
Nelson Search Engine
FindArticles.com
College Times
AltaVista news search
WorldNews.com
Yahoo! News Full Coverage
Google News Search
AllTheWeb News
Electric Library
NewsLinx
Lycos News
Northern Light's Current News
Moreover.com
NewsTrove.com
IntelliSearch
News Index
Newspaper archives
1UpInfo Encyclopedia and Reference Resource
Britannica Online
The Newsroom
Total News
NewsNow
A news search engine from across the pond, with an archive of 8,200 sources. A search button lets you enter one keyword, or you can browse through hundreds of categories. Site is updated every 5 minutes. Plus, a wonderful virtual news ticker. A fabulous service.
AP news wire search at washingtonpost.com.
Here's your portal to all the top news search engines, from searchenginewatch.com.
Timely updates from BBC.com.
A new search tool for financial and general news.
Search the archives of the Associated Press or Washington Post for the past two weeks.
Search 5,800 weblogs and news sites for current events and breaking news. It recrawls blogs daily.
A search engine, designed by the good folks at the Poynter Institute, that tailors searches to those sites most likely to be useful to journalists, including 200 news sites from around the world and 155 journalism-related organizations.
Search 300 magazines deeply and for free.
A new search engine that points to articles from the New York Times — and it's free. Search by subject category or keywords.
A pretty good news portal and search engine from AltaVista.
Another good news search engine with a good selection of foreign/foreign language content.
Links to top breaking news, plus search box at bottom.
In beta, with a search box at the top.
Another good news engine provides access to about 3,000 sources. No directory of top stories.
Searches magazines, news wires, books, maps and more.
A solid search tool that trolls scores of major news and business sites.
A good news filter covering news, technology, politics, business, culture, sports and health.
Content from 56 news wires. including the Associated Press and Business Wire, updated every minute. It's archived for two weeks and refreshed throughout the day. They also offer a free keyword e-mail alert service.
Top headlines and reports from hundreds of news organizations, corporations and other sources.
Type in a keyword or browse categories for news from a wide range of sources across the Web.
New service provides access to more than 1,600 high-impact business information sources including business journals, trade publications, news wires and newspapers for $29.95 per month.
A comprehensive news search engine.
U.S. newspapers' archives on the Web, availability and cost.
Browse articles in such topic areas as Earth & Environment, History, Literature & Arts, Health & Medicine, People, Philosophy & Religion, Places, Plants & Animals, Science & Technology, Social Science, Law, Sports and more. And it's free.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica online, now a subscription site.
Links to major news outlets and resources, but no search function.
Links to dozens of news sites.
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People, business finders, area and zip codes
Switchboard
The Ultimates
SuperPages
Whowhere People Finder
MESA MetaEmailSearchAgent
Yahoo People Search
Anywho Directories
AOL Yellow Pages
PeopleSearch
Area code finders
Bigfoot
Edgar Online
Postal Service zip code, addresses
Langenberg.com
• Google and Google images Quick
tips: —
To cut down on results and search only on
the page title, type: intitle:"Online
journalism" —
Find out who's linking to your web site or
blog, on Google here: link:jd.manilasites.com
or AlltheWeb here: link.all:jd.manilasites.com. —
Librarian Gary Price's Search
Tips From Professionals page has further advice to focus your
search.
• AlltheWeb
Google Groups
Topica
Tile.Net
LookSmart
Lycos Multimedia
New York Times Navigator
Wayback Machine
Internet populations
SamSpade.org
LII.org
My Virtual Reference Desk
Virtual Reference Desk
Research-It
Biographical Dictionary
Dead People Server
World Biographical Index
Biography
Infomine
Ask Jeeves
News Directory
Business 2.0 Web Guide
Internet Movie Database
All-Media Guide
Ultimate Band List
Bartleby.com
Collected Works of Shakespeare
Purdue University Virtual Reference Desk
Electric Library's Encyclopedia
Excite Travel Guide
South Asian Stylebook
Bible Search
• Froogle
FacsNet
GuestFinder
Women's eNews Sources
New York Times Book Review
National Press Club
Experts.com
Profnet
USC Experts Directory
Expert Pages
Mapquest
Yahoo! Maps
Mapblast
Virtual Reference Sites – Maps
The Slot
WWWebster Dictionary
Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus
iLoveLanguages
CNET Glossary
Search for a person, business, Web site or e-mail address
Great all-in-one search engine that combs Four 11, WhoWhere, IAF, InfoSpace, Bigfoot and ESP for e-mail addresses.
verizon's SuperPages has taken over BigBook and BigYellow. It includes listings for millions of US residents and businesses, searchable by name, city and state, complete with street maps. Also,
personalized address books and easy-to-read results.
Look up home addresses,
phone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
German site calls itself "the largest email address book worldwide."
Searches for phone numbers and e-mail addresses
Search for a business or use a reverse-directory.
Search for a business, or use AOL Anywhere to look up a person, Web site, newsgroup or e-mail address.
Meta-search engine that combs up to four search engines at a time for e-mail addresses.
Choose a city or state and it tells
you the area code, or vice-versa. Or try 555-1212 Area Code Lookup instead, or search for a person or business.
White pages and e-mail search
Search through SEC filings for a U.S. company.
Research information about an area, all from the zip code. Find zip code cross-references, US Census bureau information, area codes derived from a zip code, et al.
Search engines and directories
• Wisenut
• ProFusion from Intelliseek
• iLOR
• Ixquick searches multiple search engines and quickly returns filtered results.
• Nelson Search Engine tailors searches for journalists.
• InvisibleWeb.com, a search engine of search engines.
• AltaVista and its
Image Search
• Excite
• Yahoo
• Hotbot
• Go
• 800go
• Webcrawler
• Metacrawler
• All 4 One
Twenty years' worth of Usenet postings here.
A master list of mailing lists on the Web.
A resource for discussion and mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups.
Explore 18,000 subjects: entertainment, media, travel, food, etc.
Searches for images, audio and video files on the Web.
Reference tools
An incredible resource — used by reporters in the New York Times newsroom.
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine archives thousands of Web pages, dating to 1996, that are no longer active.
Internet.com provides a country by country breakdown of Internet users around the globe.
An all-round cool research tool.
Librarians' Index to the Internet, a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 8,600 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians.
Links to various resources: encyclopedias, news organizations, grammar, biography — and it's Colin Powell's favorite site. Also see its Facts Subject Index.
Links to dictionaries, maps, government documents and other resources.
Dictionary, thesaurus, foreign-language translator, zip codes,
currency converter, etc.
Entries on more than 28,000 notable living and deceased people, searchable by name, birth year, death year, position held, profession, works, etc.
Search for authoritative answers to the question, "Is this person still alive?" A directory of interesting celebrities who have died.
Site is based on the seventh CD-ROM edition of the World Biographical Index, containing about 2.8 million short biographical entries for "eminent individuals."
A searchable database of 25,000 famous people, from the folks behind the TV show "Biography."
Search 20,000 resources selected by academics and researchers.
Automated responses to thousands of common questions, sometimes
offbase, sometimes dead on.
Search for a publication by name, or by state, region, country.
Search 13,000 business-related topics organized into 50,000 Web pages.
Wonderful resource for everything related to movies and
TV shows.
Search for music by artist, album, style; search for movies, too.
Search for bands by name or genre.
Search fiction, non-fiction, verse and reference works. Also, familiar quotations from Shakespeare and other famous folks: Robert Frost, Emily
Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D.H. Lawrence, presidents' inaugural addresses, etc.
The complete works of Shakespeare; searchable.
Links to area codes, government documents, science data.
Browse by letter on 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.
Travel info for more than 5,000 places worldwide.
Stylebook related to Indian subcontinent.
Enter a few key words and find a verse from the Bible.
Comparison shopping sites/ecommerce sites
• Epinions
• BizRate
• PriceGrabber
• PriceScan
• DealTime
• My Simon
• ConsumerSearch
• SalesCircular
• ShoppingList
• Consumer Review
• Price.com
PCs, electronics, Apple computers and office supplies
• AddAll
Searches 40 or so vendors of books
• Alibris
Cut-rate book reseller
• AllDirect
Discounted book, music and movie titles
Experts and sources
A source of contacts and sources, reporting tools and background information, from the Foundation for American Communications, plus the "Reporter's Cardfile," a list of think tanks, advocacy groups and special-interest organizations.
An online directory of experts, authors, spokespersons and others available for media interviews. You'll find hundreds of guests plus
photos, backgrounds and direct contact
info. Developed by an author who is a former journalist.
A database of women experts on topics of concern to women, from the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund.
A great starting point for checking authors and experts on a subject, the Book Review lets you search a database of more than 50,000 reviews back to 1980.
News sources and contacts available through the National Press Club.
A directory of experts, consultants and spokespersons used by attorneys, researchers and journalists.
A link to 6,000 PR and information officers at universities, corporations, think tanks, national labs, medical centers, non-profits and PR agencies. You can also search a database of more than 2,000 experts. Participating organizations pay to subscribe; the service is free to journalists. You e-mail a description of what you're looking for, and they forward it to subscribers, who then contact you with suggestions for experts to interview. For instructions, e-mail profnet@profnet.com.
University of Southern California scientists, scholars, administrators and physicians
available for comment on events in the news, searchable by topics of interest
to journalists and others.
A directory of expert witnesses and consultants often used by attorneys.
Map services
The undisputed leader in online map services. Also draws driving routes for you in North America and Europe.
Maps and driving directions.
Draws map of almost any area.
Scores of map resources.
Language, Net terms
Grammar and style mecca from the former copy chief of the
Washington Times, now a copy editor at the Washington Post.
Searchable Merriam Webster Dictionary
The only integrated
English Dictionary and Thesaurus in electronic form.
Catalog of more than 2,000 handpicked language-related resources on Net.
CNET's cool collection of Internet terms and definitions
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