	*Wormhole to the Rest of the Internet*
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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!
Phonebooks - people search
Spokeo - my new favorite
Switchboard
USA People Search - find people, buy information about them
US Search - find people, buy information about them
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:
- 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
- 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:
- 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:
- Length, Distance
- Area
- Volume
- Weight, Mass
- Speed
- Pressure
- Temperature
- Angle
- Others
- Periodic Table of the Elements
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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:
- 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:
- Daily:
- Weekly:
  - Science News
  - Botany in the News Botanical Society of America
  - NPR Science
  - Science Friday
- Educational:
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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:
- Space.com
- Space Daily
- The Nine Planets - multimedia visit
- Hubble Space Telescope Images
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, 10-Jun-2013 09:56:33 CDT.
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: