Other Useful Web Sites

INTERNET QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

Search Engines

Google

google.com

Yahoo (500,000 Sites Indexed by humans)

www.yahoo.com

HotBot (Index of 56 million web sties and newsgroups)

www.hotbot.com

Lycos (70 million sites, search for images, pictures, and sound files)

www.lycos.com

Magellan (Search huge categories and directories of sites that have been rated and reviewed)

www.mckinley.com

Webcrawler (2.5 million sites and numerous site reviews)

www.webcrawler.com

MetaCrawler (You can search several other engines simultaneously)

www.metacrawler.com

 

GENERAL RESEARCH

Roget's online thesaurus - www.thesaurus.com

Government documents - www.usa.gov

Postal rate information - www.usps.gov

Reference Desk, 10,000 links and 270 engines - www.refdesk.com

Thomas Register - www.thomasregister.com

Calendar & holidays - www.timeanddate.com/calendar

 

STATISTICAL RESEARCH

AT&T Business Networks - www.business.att.com/

Bureau of Economic Analysis - www.bea.gov/

Census Bureau - www.census.gov

Market Research Center - www.asiresearch.com/

Princeton University Survey - http://www.princeton.edu/~psrc/

Simba Net, Focuses Examines and analyzes developments - www.simbanet.com/

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - www.bls.gov/

 

RESEARCHING PATENTS & TRADEMARKS

US Patent & Trademark Office - www.uspto.gov

MicroPatent - www.micropat.com/static/index.htm

Thomson & Thomson - www.thomson-thomson.com

 

ASSOCIATION RESEARCH

American Society of Association Executive - www.asaenet.org/

 

TRADE SHOWS

Expo Guide - www.expo-guide.com/

Expo Web - www.expoweb.com/

 

LIBRARY

Electric Library - www.elibrary.com/

Internet Public Library - www.ipl.org

Library of Congress - www.loc.gov/

St. Joseph Public Library Database - sjcpl.lib.in.us/

WWW Virtual Library - http://vlib.org/

 

ONLINE NEWSPAPERS

Atlanta Journal Constitution - www.ajc.com/

Boston Globe - www.globe.com/

Chicago Sun-Times - www.suntimes.com/

Chicago Tribune - www.chicagotribune.com

Financial Times - www.ft.com/

Houston Chronicle - www.chron.com//

London Times - www.the-times.co.uk/

Los Angeles Times - www.latimes.com

Miami Herald - www.herald.com/

New York Times - www.nytimes.com

St. Louis Post Dispatch - www.stltoday.com/

USA Today - www.usatoday.com/

Washington Post - www.washingtonpost.com

Washington Times - www.WashTimes-weekly.com/

Numerous Listing Of Newspapers - www.newspapers.com/

 

INDEXES

CNet - www.cnet.com/Content/Reviews/Compare/ISP

Master list of domain names - www.netnames.com

Master search engine list - www.search.com

 

WEATHER

National Weather Service - www.weather.gov

AccuWeather - www.accuweather.com

The Weather Channel - www.weather.com

 

MAPS

CitySearch - www.citysearch.com

MapQuest - www.mapquest.com

Mapblast - www.mapblast.com

Google Maps - www.maps.google.com

 

TRAVEL

Biztravel.com - www.biztravel.com

Travelocity - www.travelocity.com

World Travel Guide - www.worldtravelguide.net/

 

REGISTERING WEB DOMAIN

Internic - www.internic.net

Go Daddy - www.godaddy.com

Register.com - www.register.com

Dotster.com - www.dotster.com/

 

FREE WEB PAGE SOFTWARE

ToolBox - www.toolbox.com

Tripod - www.tripod.com

 

ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

VirusScan - www.mcafee.com

Norton - www.symantec.com

IBM AntiVirus - www.av.ibm.com/current/FrontPage

 

COMPANY DATABASE ONLINE

Dunn & Bradstreet, 60,000 U.S. companies online - www.dnb.com

Hoover's Online, 10,000 companies - www.hoovers.com/

Yahoo business online - //biz.yahoo.com/

Security & Exchange Commission, information on publicly traded companies - www.sec.gov/

Edgar Online - www.edgar-online.com/

 

Company & Industry PR News Releases

PR Newswire - www.prnewswire.com/services/

Business Wire - www.businesswire.com/

Canada NewsWire-www.newswire.ca/

 

Business News (All Types)

MSNBC - www.msnbc.com

Business Journals - www.bizjournals.com

Crain's New York Business - www.crainsny.com/

 

Business Magazines

Business Week - www.businessweek.com

Worth - www.worth.com/

Investor Business Daily - www.investors.com/

Kiplinger Online - www.kiplinger.com

Inc. Online - www.inc.com

Forbes - www.forbes.com