General Purpose Search Engines

• Google and more google
• Amazon's A9 search service. Based on Google
• kartoo - graphical view of relevant results
• iLOR - based on google
• teoma - also based on google
• wisenut
• CURE (didn't work with mozilla 0.9.3)
• vivisimo
• hubat
• Inquirus
• google images
• Northernlight - indexes more of the web than most engines (07/07/1999)
• allthewebClaims to index 200 million pages (8/3/1999), and intends to index the entire web eventually.
• Alta Vista (host:sun.com +nuclear +aircraft +injury +death)
• Dejanews or Dejanews Power Search
• dogpile - reportedly as of July 2000, the usenet search checks dejanews-current, dejanews-old and altavista
• Metacrawler
• InfoSeek Home Page
• eBLAST - "approved" stuff
• 9 search engines
• more search engines...
• Document Search Engine
• Bob's
• Veronica queries
• Gopher server - aurora.latech.edu
• Sourcebank

References in general

web history

• The Internet Archive (wayback machine)

DNS info

• whois
• search ripe's whois
• IP whois
• samspade - ip whois and more

dictionaries

• onelook - indexes a bunch of dictionaries
• dict
• Wordnet
• m-w
• Planet Earth (big list of links)
• allwords.com (with audio pronunciations)

Finding program sources

• freshmeat
• appwatch
• ArchiePlexForm
• ftpsearch
• Linux Archie Search

BugTraq

• geek-girl
• netspace
• MCoogan's

encyclopedias

• Britannica
• nupedia

Acronyms

• Vera (Germany)
• Vera (faster link from the US)
• babel
• Planet Earth (big list of links)
• techweb's offering
• James Marshal's
• netlingo.com

AnyWho reverse telephone search

RFC info

• FTP'able RFC's
• WAIS searchable RFC's
• Nexor's RFC search and the RFC-writing RFC and the Guide for internet standards writers
• Getting an IETF draft made into an RFC

usgovsearch Federal Government information. Might be free, might not.

Finding people by name

• Banyan Switchboard
• AnyWho

FAQs

• rtfm
• uunet

Location-based search

• google/location

Maps

• maps.yahoo.com
• lasoo
• Maps!
• mapquest
• mapsonus
• Map of california

Tons of links

• LEO (link everything online)

Area code changes

freevote.com

Wotsit: file formats

natural language translation

• gpltrans
• systransoft
• babelfish (altavista)
• translate.google.com

Temporary e-mail address (for foiling spammers)

• mail expire

ASP's

• workspot

unit conversion

• Granite Rock's

timezone conversion

• timezoneconverter (with a banner ad that flashes so horribly I'm not sure I want to go back to this page again)