People Finder, Desktop, News and Reference Links
People Finder Links
- bigfoot.com
Search on e-mail. and residential addresses simultaneously. Entries are updated monthly.
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people.yahoo.com
Search for e-mail. addresses and phone numbers. Using a mouse-click, you can send an e-mail., place a call using Net2Phone, or get a map of the area surrounding the person's address. You can locate the nearest business of your choice. Phone data is updated quarterly.
www.whowhere.com
Retrieves e-mail listings from AT&T's WorldNEt domain. Get maps or driving directions. Wild-card search option for uncertain spelling. If you can't find someone, you can register on the site to keep looking and contact you when a match is made.
www.infospace.com
You can find names and addresses when you have only phone or fax numbers, and names and numbers when you have only a street address.
www.switchboard.com
Site gets its data from infoUSA, but it is quicker about retrieving results.
users.aol.com/navyspies/tips.htm
Free tips on how to sleuth your way to a missing person, such as checking previous employers, voter registration records, or the last school attended. Links to specialized searches, such as adoption and military records, but not all of them are free.
Desktop Reference Links
www.eb.com
Britannica online, best encyclopedia on the Internet. Fee-based resource. 72,000 articles, with numerous hyperlinks to related information.
www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
Online version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
www.infoplease.com
Based on Information Please series of almanacs, this one-stop resource will provide everything from sports records to first-aid lessons.
www.thesaurus.com
Roget's thesaurus online is easier to use than the print version. After you select a search term, it provides the categories in which you can look.
www.pcwebopaedia.com
Dictionary of computer-related words and phrases.
www.mtnds.com/af
Acronym Finder is a database of 65,000 acronyms.
calc.entisoft.com/scripts/unitscgi.exe
All types of obscure measurements to help your prepare recipes or conducts business around the world. Measurement conversion calculator.
www.umr.edu/~wrader/slang.html
Online slang dictionary
www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk
Elements of Style online version.
www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations on-line.
www.metacrawler.com
Metasearch sites send your query simultaneously to a number of directories and search engines and then display the combined results. Easy to use, it translates your queries into a form that each search engine can understand. After the search, it removes duplicate pages and examines the scores that the queried search engines might have provided to indicate the likelihood of each document's relevance.
www.profusion.com
Form to customize your search, with options such as selecting which of the nine supported search engines and directories to query. Form has strong support for complex Boolean searches.
www.dogpile.com
Supports Boolean searches and automatically translates queries into the proper syntax for each search engine.
www.askjeeves.com
Answers your questions with more questions. Home page prompts you to pose your query in natural language. It doesn't cull duplicates or rank the results.
News and Reference Links
www.washingtonpost.com
www.consumersdigest.com
www.internationaltimes.com
www.csmonitor.com
Christian Science Monitor online.
www.word.com
E-zine features include Toozeday Komix and Work.
www.news.com
CNET's tech-news includes Personal Technology and E-Commerce, and Y2K section.
For those of you who occasionally want to look up a paper in journals that are not indexed in MEDLINE you will be glad to hear that AMED, the British Library's alt. med. database, is now searchable FREE of charge at www.globalhealth2000.com. (Registration is required.) Even more importantly, it can be combined with 4 other NIH databases and searched simultaneously. |
