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GeoRunner's Internet Search Tools

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Below are the most comprehensive search engines, tools, and sites that I have found to locate information, websites, software and people. It was prepared with the assistance of QuarterDeck whose commercial software is exellent and used extensively by me (CleanSweep, ProComm, MagnaRam, WebCompass, etc.).
If you can't find what you're looking for here, try my "Additional Resource Page" and if you don't locate it there, give up!

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My Personal Favorites

Hardware & Software Companies
This site has links to virtually every major hardware and software company on the internet and is a great resource for updates, patches, and drivers for their products.

Tucows
This is a local mirror site (there are many) for Tucows which has a huge and frequently updated collection of freeware and shareware programs.

To Locate People:

Big Yellow

 Big Yellow is a great resource for locating companies and more.

Four11 E-Mail Directory

InfoSpace

Populous People Finder (This is fairly new, but rapidly expanding)

WhoWhere?

Switchboard
The above services are exellent for locating people, e-mail addresses and telephone number and address searches. Switchboard is very comprehensive. Infospace also permits you to view detailed maps of the person's address (through Mapquest, below).

Reference:

MapQuest
Exellent maps; zoomable and searchable by zip or area code, location (city, street, etc.).

Tiger Mapping Service
maps and data service from U.S. Census Bureau. Searchable by zip code, location, and longitude/latitude.

U.S. Gov. Links Using Tiger (above)
Links from Tiger to weather service, airports, radio station locator, geographic names locator, etc.

Electronic Library
The truly comprehesive site I have found to information: 2,000+ books, 800+ magazines,160+ newspapers, maps, photos, etc. You can research virtually anything.

NAA Hotlinks
Newspaper Association of America site links you by clicking on map to the on-line edition of every U.S. newspaper who has one (which, of course, excludes the Toledo Blade) . It is updated very frequently.

IPL Reference Center

The Internet Public Library provides a huge reference section grouped by general areas of interest.

Windows 95 Software Collections:

"UnOfficial Win95 Software Archive"

Windows95.com

Frank Condron's World O'Windows

PCWin Resource Center - Software Page

Walnut Creek Win 95 archive

Weather Information:

Intelliquest: USA Weather (Local & National)

WeatherNet (exellent resource, even if Univ. of Mich.).

NOAA Interactive Weather (U.S. & Local - text version.)

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InfoSeek

InfoSeek is one of the most popular search tools on the Web. Enter your request and submit your query. For more powerful searches try using InfoSeek's special query operators:

Yahoo is one of the most comprehensive directories on the Web. Yahoo offers two services, a search feature and a directory of what's on the Web. The directory categories can be helpful when you don't know exactly what you're looking for.

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WWW Indexes

These are manual indexes of WWW-based information. Manual indexes can give you more accurate searches (and less extraneous stuff), but can be somewhat dated.

The CUI W3 Catalog is a fairly comprehensive semi-automated index. Nexor's ALIWEB is a public service resource discovery system for the WWW. BUT, these two sites have much less utility to those outside western Europe. The GNA Meta-Library can be out of date, but does have non-WWW references also. CityScape'sGlobal On-Line Directory is another (and improving) "ultimate Internet reference". DA-CLOD is a database where anybody can add URLs. The comp.infosystems.announce search engine is excellent for locating usenet articles. The UK Index is a manually maintained index of resources in the UK.

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Robot-Generated WWW Indexes

These indexes of WWW-based resources are generated by robots, and therefore very complete, but often produce too much information. Most on-line services incorporate one or more of these as search tools.

The Lycos robot is probably the largest. The WebCrawler is smaller, but more up-to-date. The comprehensive Harvest Resource Discovery system has a demo database of WWW Pages. The EInet Galaxy also has a subject tree. Open Text is another big commercial database. DEC's Altavista is a big contender for best web robot and one of my favorites...

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Other Internet Indexes

These are not WWW-based, but may well be of interest.

Veronica searches Gopherspace, but is very busy and often gives far too many matches to be useful. The WAIS Directory of servers will find relevant WAIS sources. The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides has lists of resource guides.

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Software

I generally search for Win '95 software at the sites listed in "My Personal Favorites", but thse sites are very helpful. ArchiePlex is a full-featured Archie gateway for the web, and locates files on Anonymous FTP sites. The Language List and the Free Compilers and Interpreters List are self explanatory. The Mac Software Catalog is a Web view of the Univ. of Michigan (Boo!) Mac (also "Boo! "). The PC Windows Archives are part of the HENSA/Micros archive, and the Unix Archive is also maintained by HENSA in the UK. Another good software resource is the Virtual Shareware Library (SHASE), with search engines for UNIX, Mac, Windows, DOS, Atari, Amiga, etc..( But it's getting really tough to find stuff for my "Commodore 64" and "Timex-Sinclair Z-80"...still got them, though!)

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People

The best search engines I have found for finding people, street and e-mail addresses and phone numbers so far have been the Four11 E-Mail Directory and InfoSpace which are included above in "My Personal Favorites," but the NetFind Gopher uses a number of different sources to locate people, although rather cryptic and hard on your eyes. The UFN Search will find people in the X.500 directory. You can query the Internet domains database to look for organizations on the net.

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Dictionaries

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Documents

For Internet related standards and proposed standards you can use the RFC Index Search and Internet Draft Index Search at NEXOR. The Unified CS TR Index gives nice HTLM abstracts, and Rick Harris maintains a WAIS database of Computer Science Technical Reports. The SEL-HPC Article Archive contains databases on High Performance Computing and other disciplines. The CIA World Factbook is the 1993 edition. Alex is a Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet.
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