Resources to exploit the WWW

WWW Search Engines

Directories - websites by topic

• Excite http://www.excite.com/
• Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/

Context Search Engines - based on actual page content

• AltaVista: Main Page http://altavista.digital.com/
• HotBot http://www.hotbot.com/
• InfoSeek http://www.infoseek.com/
• Lycos: Your Personal Internet Guide http://www.lycos.com/
• WebCrawler Searching http://webcrawler.com/

Meta-Search Engines - search multiple search engines

• Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com/
• Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/
• Infind http://www.infind.com/
• MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com/
• MetaFind http://www.metafind.com/

Search Engine Indexes

• C/net Search http://www.search.com/
• MicroSoft NetSearch http://home.microsoft.com/access/allinone.asp
• Netscape - [Net Search] http://home.netscape.com/home/internet-search.html

Other Reference Sites

Business Directories (Yellow Pages)

• BigYellow http://www.bigyellow.com/
• Thomas Registerhttp://www.thomasregister.com/
• USWest http://yp.uswest.com/

Email Addresses (and people-phone, address, maps)

• anywho http://www.anywho.com/
• Bigfoot http://www.bigfoot.com/
• Four11 http://www.four11.com/
• Switchboard http://www.switchboard.com/
• WhoWhere http://www.whowhere.com/
• Telephone Directories on the Web http://www.teldir.com/

Zipcodes, Area Codes, FIPS Codes, Time Zones, etc.

• Zipcodes, Cities, Area Codes, Longitude/Latitude, FIPS http://www.zipinfo.com/

Weather

• Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/
• Accu-Weather http://www.accuweather.com/

Internet Guides

• CMP’s Netguide http://www.netguide.com/

More Search Engines - more search engines of interest

Internet Software

Email Programs and Sources

• Free Email Directory http://www.emailaddresses.com/

POP3 (Traditional Email Clients) Mail

• Eudora http://www.eudora.com/
• PegasusMail http://www.pegasus.usa.com/
• ProntoMail http://www.commtouch.com/

Web (Browser) Mail

• Hot Mail http://www.hotmail.com/ (Browser Mail)
• Mail.Com http://www.mail.com/

Get a Browser

• Netscape
• MicroSoft Internet Explorer
• Opera (Windows 3.1, NT, 95, 98 and fits on one diskette)
• Arachne (DOS Browser)

Newsgroups (Usenet)

• DejaNews http://www.dejanews.com/
• AltaVista http://altavista.digital.com/

Newsgroup Readers

• FreeAgent http://www.forteinc.com/

Find an Internet Service Providers (ISP)

• Sussex County, New Jersey ISPs
• TheList http://thelist.internet.com/
• Boardwatch http://www.boardwatch.com/

Safe Surfing - Parental Controls

• Netnanny
• Cyber Patrol
• Surfwatch
• CyberSitter
• SafeSurf
• Some Built Into the current versions of the most popular Browsers.

U. S. Government - Over 300 Sites

• White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/
• Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/
• US Legislative Branch & Capitol http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/legislative/congress.html
• Department of Justice http://www.usdoj.gov/
• CIA http://www.cia.gov/
• US Treasury http://www.treas.gov/
• US Customs http://www.customs.treas.gov/
• US Secret Service http://www.treas.gov/usss/index.htm
• Social Security Administration http://www.ssa.gov/
• Internal Revenue Service http://www.irs.gov/
• Department of Commerce http://www.doc.gov/
• Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/
• Security and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov/
• Government Printing Office http://www.gpo.gov/
• NASA http://www.nasa.gov/
• National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/
• US Small Business Administration http://www.sba.gov/
• US Business Advisor http://www.business.gov/
• US Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/
• Patent & Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov/
• US Postal Service http://www.usps.gov/

State of New Jersey

• New Jersey Home Page http://www.state.nj.us/

Commercial Sites

Shopping Guides

• Computer Shopper http://www.zdnet.com/computershopper/
• PC Today http://www.pctoday.com/
• C/Net Shopper http://shopper.cnet.com/
• Shopping Guide http://www.shopguide.com/

Shopping Website (Shopping Cart Samples)

• Amazon Books, etc. http://www.amazon.com/
• Buy http://www.buy.com/
• Beyond http://www.beyond.com/
• Computer Discount Warehouse http://www.cdw.com/
• Egghead http://www.usr.com/
• Insight http://www.egghead.com/

Universities and Colleges

• Penn State Home Page http://www.cac.psu.edu/
• Rutgers White Pages http://whitepages.rutgers.edu:8888/

General Interest - mixed bag

• New Jersey Online (Newark Star Ledger) http://www.njo.com/
• CNN - Cable Network News http://www.cnn.com/
• Discovery Channel http://www.discovery.com/
• Smithsonian Magazine http://www.si.edu/resource/simag/start.htm
• Twentieth Century Fox http://www.tcfhe.com/
• Williamsburg Online http://www.williamsburg.com/wol/wol.html
• More interesting websites(with household names)

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