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Searching for accurate numbers numbers about the numbers deaths and injured in the Iraq war? Here are two reliable objective sources:

The soldiers: 

The civilians: 

Hot News:

A Visual Dictionary Online

A Special kind of world clock

Best Free Reference Web Sites

cRANKy is the first age-relevant search engine designed for those over 50

BibDesk 1.3 is a graphical bibliography manager

How Internet Search Engines Work

Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible and Comprehensive Resources

Google launches literacy portal

A new search tool for the visually impaired

Handy Find 2.0.3 is a super great new search engine

Yotophoto is a search engine for free-to-use photos

Check out S2590 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:S.2590:
for the coming single source for all federal awards over $25,000.

Intute is a free online service to access the best web resources for education and research.

Google: News Archive Search

Clusty - New interesting search engine - combines results from searching other major engines

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Shakespeare Searched -- great search engine for the bard's works

Google just posted the largest and most comprehensive site re: William Shakespeare 

Google and the Government:
Google has added a new feature to its ever-expanding universe of search options: Google U.S. Government Search. The new site indexes press releases from the government, information from government Web sites, and news from The Washington Post and other news outlets. It even prominently lists the weather in Washington. The new site is part of Google’s drive to digitize government documents and records. The National Archives and Records Administration has given Google about 20 government films to digitize and post on Google Video. Susan Cooper, a spokeswoman for the archives, said her agency was negotiating with Google to digitize more material, possibly in other types of media. She said that the National Archives’ negotiations with Google were not exclusive. Yahoo is rumored to be talking with the National Archives as well, but Ms. Cooper could not confirm that. In early July, the Library of Congress Law Library will begin sending thousands of volumes of U.S. congressional hearings to Google for digitization. The first shipment will consist of 5,000 volumes, but library officials anticipate that they will send 10,000 volumes a month to the search-engine company, says Mark Strattner, the law library’s chief of collection services.

Major search engines are working toward adding new features that would make searching the Web a more social activity. Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy a small search company called Eurekster, which combines traditional Web-search results with information culled from social-networking sites like Friendster. A Web search could end up looking at the information and preferences on a searcher's friends' Web sites for answers in addition to scouring the entire Web. _(BusinessWeek)_ If that happens, could that limit people's online worldviews? Or are such moves necessary to find relevant information as millions of full-text books and billions of new Web pages hit the Internet?

Find out how Google got its name  http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html
 

Find targeted news on the internet

Kosmix is a beta version of a site designed to let "people search less, and discover more great stuff."

Ask Jeeves is now Ask.com

Flamenco Search is a great scholarly site about faceted search

Magellan Metasearch 1.3.0 is a powerful search engine...go exploring

ZabaSearch finds addresses, phone numbers and birth years etc..

Did you know there were search engines designed for kids? Kids' Search Engines

Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere.

Google Maps provides options to search for locations, businesses and driving directions and a general search box. Results can be printed or e-mailed.

Google, on November 18, 2004 unveiled a Beta version of a search engine that focuses on scholarly materials, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, and technical reports. The tool was released in a preliminary version. http://scholar.google.com/

Looking for a lawyer or just good legal advice? Learn with zac is a site with thousands of pages for legal information, directory, codes and legal services.

Digital Earth: GeoWeb is "a vision for making all geographically referenced, or georeferenced, data available on the Web. The infrastructure permits for open, global, and scalable internet searches associated with a specific latitude/longitude location.

Librarians have developed this collection of recommended Internet Search Tools.

The Gumshoe Librarian provides links to material for conducting research on international topics.

A Search Term Glossary: A browsable list of terms associated with searching and search engines. Learn how to distinguish a false drop from a fuzzy match, explore Boolean operators, and much more. From search engine specialist Avi Rappoport.

Have a question that needs an answer? Interact with a real librarian on the web through this "online reference service from the Library of Congress."

healthopedia.com is a goldmine of good medical and health information containing comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, and reliable database of health articles and reference materials. Consumers and health professionals alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up-to-date.

You can search the web using  Google search engine below.   

How about the new international search engine.  Try VOILA!

Beaucoup has 2000+ search engines...take your pick.

You may look for a specialized search engine by clicking on this link that will take you to the Needle in a CyberStack search page.  And while you are there you should check out the well-organized links to all kinds of interesting information you will find on this librarian-created web site.  You may find something you didn't know you were seeking.

Design your search with Proteus.

Select Surf is a new portal and it is actually a pretty good one.
SelectSurf

Singingfish is a multi-media search engine.
Singingfish

Or you can search for 3-D models with  Princeton 3D Models Search Engine

Find the best education sites with TKM Education Web Search or try using SearchEdu.Com to link to over 20 million university and education pages.  Some other good education search engines are LightSpan Educational Search and Planet K-12 Search.

Are you looking for an article?  Find Articles will search for articles in more than 300 magazines & journals.  **(new)

The University of Texas maintains a Spanish Language Search Engines & Web Directories  web page. 

Or try the best portal of them all - Fossick!

Looking for instructions on how to do just about anything?  I can't vouch personally for any of the tutorials, but they are all free so what do you have to lose?  Try:
The Tutorials Search Engine

If you are looking for the best downloads, Tucows is number one.

Perhaps you are looking for a business publication.  You should be able to find what you want with the Business Publications Search.

 Finding a movie review is a cinch with the Movie Review Query Engine.

Or perhaps you need to find out if a flight is on time.  Flight Tracker will let you follow that flight from takeoff to landing.  And now you can also check the Air Traffic Control Systems Command Center.

Searching for a zip code has never been easier. 

Need to find federal, state or local government officials?  Try  State & Local Governments on the Net.

Maybe you are looking for that unique gift.  And where is the best place to shop in the whole wide world?  You know...it's Harrod's !

If  you are searching for  original designer clothes or/and home accessories at a fraction of their original cost, Bluefly  and Anthropologie's Online Catalog are the online stores for you.

Do you need directions?  Try MapBlast below.

If you would like to search for weather conditions anywhere in the world (and dream about going there), try this link to the Weather Underground.  Below are instant forecasts for some of our favorite destinations... just click on the button or banner for an in-depth forecast.  Perhaps some of your own favorite destinations are here.

Click here for the correct time anywhere in the world.

 

We have also provided a link below to download StarOffice 5.1. , Sun Systems office productivity  software.  You will love it and best of all... IT'S FREE!!!

 

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