	*Wormhole to the Rest of the Internet*
Do you use Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape? Try the Wormhole Sidebar or a selection of other sidebars - also a perpetual calendar, calculator, reference site

Google - Combined Search Engine and Guide

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Yahoo

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Ixquick - Multilingual Metasearch Search

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Metacrawler - Multiple Database Search

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InfoSpace (Forward Lookup Utilities)

Forward Lookup Phone/Address:

Last:	(required)	First or Initial:
City:		State:	(required)

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Lycos Search

People Finder Index:

Last Name:
First Name:
City:
State:
Zip Code:

You can also search City Guides, Pictures & Sounds and Road Maps.

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WebCrawler

Help · No-forms Search

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People Searching:

Email Address Search
Internet Address Finder (IAF) - some free lookups, mostly background checks
InfoSpace - includes reverse look-up utilities!
Spokeo - my new favorite
Switchboard
USA People Search - find people, buy information about them
US Search - find people, buy information about them
Yahoo People Search - mostly web search
ZIP Code/City Map Search - Returns US map location based on city or US ZIP Code
ZIP+4 Code Look-Up - For any US address
Area Connect - find area codes for the US

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Price Comparison Pages*:

Computers & related electronics: PriceWatch.Com - many electronic items
Books:
- BooksPrice - book, CD and DVD comparison pricing, new or used
- BookFinder4U - just books. Checks 55 book sellers for new or used prices
- Fetchbook.Info - just books. Checks major book sellers for new or used prices
- All Discount Books.Net - just books. New & used book sellers
- Discount Textbooks.Net - just textbook & medical books
Miscellaneous:
- Froogle - Google shopping product covering essentially everything (this is the old name!)
- BizRate.Com - computer hardware, electronics, computer software, gifts, flowers & food, travel & leisure, music, DVD/video
- Price Grabber - photo, electronics, movies, video games, DVD & VHS movies, music, books, toys, office, jewelry, apparel, electronics, computers
Old Books: Bibliofind - old books gathered as part of an Internet database of book dealers (now coordinated by Amazon)
*Selection criteria: (1) the rating website should have no vested interest in sales of the individual items listed; (2) the site provides fixed prices available to everyone (i.e., it is not an auction and does not reflect an unstable or bid price).
Some of these sites add shipping price to the rankings to allow comparison of the full delievered price. These sites may change the way you shop!

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Computer and Internet Stuff:

WhoIs, IP assignments, Who owns domains

DNS Lookup (enter domain name) & get DNS name server IP
Domain Record Lookup (enter domain) www. aka WHOIS (specifically for: .aero, .arpa, .biz, .com, .coop, .edu, .info, .int, .museum, .net, or .org) (also can check for domain availability)
http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=botlinx.org&type=domain
Server IP Lookup (enter fully qualified server name) (returns IP address of server) aka WHOIS
Whois Report - wildcard Whois site scanning (.com, .net, .org, .info, .us)
InterNIC database - (.aero, .arpa, .biz, .com, .coop, .edu, .info, .int, .museum, .net, and .org):
UWhoIs - everyone else in some 224 TLDs
The IP Address Guide - Free Online Ping, Traceroute, DNS Lookup, CIDR Geolocation, and HTML Validator - nice!
Look up IP numbers in different geographical and political areas
American Registry for Internet Numbers - ARIN
Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre - RIPE
African Internet Numbers Registry - AfriNIC
Asia Pacific Network Information Center - APNIC
Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry - LACNIC
U.S. Department of Defense Network Information Center - DoDNIC

Internet governing bodies, domains, registrars

ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (controls TLDs and IP address allocations)
IANA Country Codes - ccTLD database at Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
How a domain is registered and activated (detailed)
List of Accredited and Accreditation-Qualified Registrars - from ICANN (prices differ widely, but all have access to the same domain database)
Cheap-DomainRegistration is one inexpensive site (not an endorsement or guarantee, but their prices and services are very competitive and all aspects of service for my domains was expeditious)
Domain Names Registration - An authoritative standard for domain names including news, expiring domains, second hand sales, and deals
Computer drivers, software support
Guide to driver software - requires login
5 Star Support -Free Technical Advice - on many computing topics

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International Links:

Country time, currency, news, translation

Currency Converter - Converts ~27 world currencies, gold, special drawing rights, yada, yada
Discount Currency Exchange - Handy conversion tables, historic charts, exchanges
Currency Trends Charts - see currency exchange trends over time
TimeTicker - all different time zones, one-at-a-time
World Time Zones - simultaneous display of time in ~140 different cities
- Personal World Clock - TIME in your favorite places (easy to set up)
- Meeting Planner - See what times correspond with the work day
- Multicountry Countdown to NEW YEARS' - for any time zone
Today's Date in 14 different calendars (aka "douglas zongker | today's date")
Language-Schools-Directory - Learn a foreign language abroad
List of Newspapers - worldwide coverage
Newspapers Online Around the Globe - Every continent (except Antarctica) is represented
Langenberg.Com - Lots of languages (including many obscure ones)
Translation Services - About 20 languages (BUT have a native speaker correct anything important!)
Uwhois - Looks up two letter country domains
Airline information, visas, electricity
Airlines in the World Wide Web - all major airlines
Airline 1-800 Numbers - sorry, only useful in USA
Traveler's Resource Center - electricity, visa requirements, getting best exchange rates, State Department advisories
Geographical information
World Atlas
Latitude and Longitude
Surface Distance Between Two Points - by city (or latitude & longitude), the Great Circle distance
Virtual Tourist - Map-based geographical interface to servers
ZIP Code/City Map Search - Returns US map location based on city or US ZIP Code
Geographical Locations Search
ZIP+4 Code Look-Up - For any US address
Area Connect - find area codes for the US

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Metric Conversions:

Online Calculators

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Map Searching:

MapQuest - Provide an address ... MapQuest provides a map
ZIP Code Search - Provides US ZIP Codes by city
ZIP+4 Codes - For any US address
World Atlas
Latitude and Longitude
The World Clock - Time Zones
Virtual Tourist - Map-based geographical interface to servers

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Looking for Words:

Merriam-Webster's site has a nice Dictionary and Thesaurus
Free English dictionary
Test Prep Review has a lot of practice tests online (ACT, SAT, etc.) if you want to learn more words!
WordSpy - emerging words and their often trendy usages (changes weekly, as needed!)
Vocabulary University - expand your vocabulary with games, tests
ThinkExist - 10,000 quotations and more, by topic and author
CoolQuotes
Richard Lederer's Verbivore
Lexical Freenet - find words related to other words
Word Play - lots of word links from here
Roget's Thesaurus (modern):
Roget's Thesaurus (1911):

Non-headwords search (*=wildcard character)
Other sites: Word for the Wise | Word of the Day / Word Game of the Day

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Travel Links:

Airline information

Airlines in the World Wide Web - all major airlines
Airline 1-800 Numbers - sorry, only useful in USA
Traveler's Resource Center - some domestic, but much international information
Geographical information
Geographical Locations Search
Surface Distance Between Two Points - by city (or latitude & longitude)
Virtual Tourist - Map-based geographical interface to servers
Map information
MapQuest - Provide an address ... MapQuest provides a map
Virtual Tourist - Map-based geographical interface to servers
ZIP Code/City Map Search - Returns US map location based on city or US ZIP Code
ZIP+4 Code Look-Up - For any US address
Area Connect - find area codes for the US
Terraserver - satellite and topographical map coverage of much of the world
Terraserver - USA - satellite and topographical map coverage of much of the US
USGS TerraServer -- Digital Backyard
Time zone information
Time Zones - simultaneous display of time in many US and other different cities - useful meeting planners and countdown clocks
Personal World Clock - TIME in your favorite places (easy to set up)
Meeting Planner - See what times correspond with the work day
Multicountry Countdown to NEW YEARS' - for any time zone

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Weather Forecast, Zipcodes, Sunrise/Sunset, Parks

North American Centered Resources:
- National Hurricane Center
- NWS-Hydrologic Information Center
- National Severe Storms Lab
- National Weather Service Regions: [Central Region] [Eastern Region] [Southern Region] [Western Region] [Alaska Region]
- NOAA Satellite Images
- USA Weather Warnings - all national warnings
Satellite Imaging:
- World Satellite Image - yes, the whole world as it is now!
  Continents: Africa | Asia | Atlantic | Australia | Canada | Caribbean | Europe | Middle East | Pacific | South America | United States
Weather Forecasts:
- Weather forecasts worldwide from Intellicast (World)
- National Weather Service (USA)
- Weather Channel (World)
- Wunderground (World)
  
  Find the Weather Forecast for a City, State, Zipcode, or Country
  
  For U.S. cities, this also includes conditions, sunrise/set, moonrise/set and phase of the moon
Geographical:
- Zipcodes at the USGS Geographic Nameserver
- ZIP Code/City Map Search - Returns US map location based on city or US ZIP Code
- ZIP+4 Code Look-Up - For any US address
- Area Connect - find area codes for the US
- Find sunrise and sunset with Jarmo's Solar Calendar

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Business and Yellow Page Searching:

MacRae's Bluebook - buyers guide to the products of over 120,000 verified industrial companies
Darnell Group Alphabetical Manufacturer List
First Worldwide Yellow Pages - business listings
GTE SuperPages(tm) - directory to 10 million U.S. businesses
Lycos WWW Yellow Pages
MacRAE'S Blue Book - more business listings
Atlantic Bell Interactive Yellow Pages

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Internet Guides and Catalogues:

AllPages.com Yellow Pages - US States & Categories
The Argus Clearinghouse - A guide to guides to specific subjects on the Internet
Australian First Search Engine - Australian links
Australian Search Enginz - Australian links
Beyond ... the Black Stump - Australian mega-directory of sites
EINet Galaxy - Worldwide information and services
Nerd World Media Internet Subject Index - Index to trivial and other information
Netscape Netcenter - links to Excite search engine
NBCi - selected resources
Starting Point - In case you can't figure out where to start...
World Wide Arts Resources - museums, galleries, antiques databases, government and educational institutions, more
What-U-Seek - a Yahoo-like searchable guide
WWW Virtual Library - the oldest library of the WWW, orginally from CERN, now Stanford

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Foreign Site Searching and Directories:

Web Wombat Australian Search Engine - Australian search site
China FINDOUTER - China search engine
European Directories and Search Engines - by European countries
India FINDOUTER - India search engine
123India - India's Premier Search Engine
Japan Search Engine - Japanese and Western Pacific sites
UK Index Home Page - UK search engine

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Science News:

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Space Sites:

Agencies and Organizations:

British Interplanetary Society
ESA - European Space Agency
Goddard Space Flight Center
International Astronomical Union
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Mars Society
Marshall Space Flight Center
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - predecessor of NASA (1915 to 1958)
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Planetary Society
SETI@home: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home - screen saver that processes radio telescope information

Space Sites:

Recent News:

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Government Sites:

U.S. Federal Government Agencies - WWW-VL directory
NOAA Home page and regional National Weather Service Offices:
- Alaska Region - just Alaska
- Midwest Region includes Colorado, Illnois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming
- Northeastern Region includes Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
- Southeastern Region includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee
  - Norman, OK office
- Western Region includes Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, U.S. Trust Territories in the Pacific
Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
USGS Maps
Census facts
ZIP Code/City Map Search - Returns US map location based on city or US ZIP Code
ZIP+4 Code Look-Up - For any US address
Area Connect - find area codes for the US

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Amateur Radio Sites:

Amateur radio links & call sign lookup - FCC License Data Search, World Radio Amateur Directory, WM7D's Call Sign LookUp Page (search for some combination of Name, and/or City, State or Zip code)
Amateur software & links
Frequency database & mailing list

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Browser Ad-on Search Tools:

Alexa - free advertising-supported Web navigation tool
WebFerret Software - search bot

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Searching Other Engines:

Google Groups Search - search Usenet archives (formerly DejaNews)
Excite Netsearch - Web and Usenet, NetReviews, up-to-the minute news
Freeware FTP Search - find files by name at numerous FTP sites
Mp3 Resources - mp3 related news, books and web resources
Mamma - mother of all search engines

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Religious Site Searching:

CrossWalk - religious site (Christian)
- Scripture: Bible version:
Blue Letter Bible - over 3,560,000 links onsite to over 165,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, images, and Bible versions

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Software and Shareware Sites:

c|net Software Download Library - metasearch of various shareware and freeware
Freshmeat.Net - Excellent Linux download site
Jumbo! - Search - Freeware and shareware software on the Web!
SimTel - SimTelNet Software Repository^tm
ZDNet Downloads

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This site is maintained by Scott D. Russell through the sponsorship of the Noble Electron Microscopy Lab. If you have any suggestions, corrections or comments, please contact srussell@ou.edu. Last modified Monday, 07-Nov-2011 23:02:49 CST.

Since 10-10-05:

Images at the top of the page are from the Hubble Space Telescope and are in the public domain:

Hubble image STScI-PRC96-10
Gravitational lens

Hubble image STScI-PRC2004-09
Supernova Shock Wave

Google - Combined Search Engine and Guide

Yahoo

Ixquick - Multilingual Metasearch Search

Metacrawler - Multiple Database Search

InfoSpace (Forward Lookup Utilities)

Lycos Search

WebCrawler

People Searching:

Price Comparison Pages*:

Computer and Internet Stuff:

WhoIs, IP assignments, Who owns domains

Look up IP numbers in different geographical and political areas

Internet governing bodies, domains, registrars

Computer drivers, software support

International Links:

Country time, currency, news, translation

Airline information, visas, electricity

Geographical information

Metric Conversions:

Online Calculators

Map Searching:

Looking for Words:

Travel Links:

Airline information

Geographical information

Map information

Time zone information

Weather Forecast, Zipcodes, Sunrise/Sunset, Parks

Business and Yellow Page Searching:

Internet Guides and Catalogues:

Foreign Site Searching and Directories:

Science News:

Space Sites:

Agencies and Organizations:

Space Sites:

Recent News:

Government Sites:

Amateur Radio Sites:

Browser Ad-on Search Tools:

Searching Other Engines:

Religious Site Searching:

Software and Shareware Sites: