Many, but not all, of the resources collected here are also interspersed throughout the Crosslinks. Feel free either to bookmark this page or to save a copy of it to your own site for easier use. If you do make a copy, please include a link back to the Writing Online web site and the acknowledgment that follows. In addition to my own earlier lists, many of the resources here were culled from three main sources: Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch, Robert Harris's World Wide Web Research Tools, and Arts and Letters Daily.

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Search Engines

Google	Fast Search	Mamma
Northern Light	HotBot	GoTo.com
AltaVista	Go Network	Dogpile
Excite	Lycos	Thunderstone
Starting Point	Ask Jeeves	MSN Search
Webcrawler	Oingo.com	SearchBug.com

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Directories

Yahoo	Google Directory	Onekey
Magellan	Lycos Top 5%	Search.com
NBCi	about.com	Netguide
GoGettem Mega Searching	Scout Report Signpost	LookSmart
100Hot.com	1001 Best Web Sites	StudyWeb
Education Index	Open Directory	GoGettem's Directories List

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Indexes

Infomine	Argus Clearinghouse
Essential Links	Refdesk.com
Librarian's Index

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Databases (These are search collections that search engines can't access.)

InvisibleWeb.com	Lycos Databases
Direct Search	WebData
UnCover	"Invisible Web" Revealed  by Danny Sullivan

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Graphics

Ditto.Com	Scour.com	Barewalls.com
FasTV	World Wide Arts	Art.Com
Richmedia	The San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts	PCL Maps
Clipart.Com	National Gallery	ArtsEdNet
The Louvre	Graphsearch

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Mailing Lists,  Usenet, Web Forums

Mailing Lists
Liszt	Tile.Net
Kovacs' Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences	MetaList
Intercultural Email Classroom Connections	EGroups.com, formerly Find Mail
Catalist: Listserv List Catalog	Internet Scout New List
E-ZineZ  List of email newsletters
Usenet
Deja.com	Remarq
CyberFiber NewsGroups
Web Forums
ForumOne	Free Forums on Free Center
Conferencing Software for the Web

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Writers' Resources

Inkspot	The Quill Society
A+ Research and Writing	Writing Centers Online
Writers' Resource Center	The Writer's Block

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Specialty

Business
Pinstripe	Superpages.com
LocalEyes	DotComDirectory
Office.com	CompaniesOnline
Medical
Medline	HealthAtoZ
MedHunt	Medical World Search
Legal
FindLaw	Nolo.com
Lawcrawler
White and Yellow Pages
AnyWho	InfoSpace

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Online Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, and Other News Sources

Collection Sites
Newslink	Enews	News.com
BUBL Information Service	Arts and Letters Daily	News Watch
News Index	Newsbot	MediaNews
Useful Sites
New York Times	Washington Post	Newsweek
Christian Science Monitor	Columbia Journalism Review	US News
CNN	Time	Ejournal SiteGuide : a MetaSource
American Outlook	Forbes	Philosophers' Web
American Prospect	Independent Review	Philosophy and Literature
American Spectator	Industry Standard	Prospect
Atlantic Monthly	Intellectual Capital	Publisher's Weekly
Boston Review	Lingua Franca	Reason
Brill's Content	LM Online	Salon
Chronicle of Higher Education	Le Monde Monthly	Scientific American
City Journal	Mother Jones	Skeptical Inquirer
Civilization	The Nation	Slate
Commentary	National Journal	The Spectator
Culturefront	National Review	Threepenny Review
Dismal Scientist	New Criterion	21stC/Columbia
Discover	New Republic	University Business
Dissent	New Scientist	Utne Reader
Economist	New Statesman	Washington Monthly
Editor and Publisher	New York Magazine	Weekly Standard
Feed	New York Observer	Wilson Quarterly
First Things	NY Times Magazine	Wired

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Reference

Britannica	Encyclopedia.Com	OED  Word of the Day
Encarta Online	Free Internet Encyclopedia	Yahoo Foreign Language Dictionaries
Encyberpedia	WWW Virtual Library	Freeality Phrase Search
Bible Gateway	InfoPlease.com	RhymeZone
Onelook Dictionaries	Libraryspot.com
Biography.com	Bartlett's Quotations	AcronymFinder
whatis?com   (computer terms)

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Government

USGovsearch	Fedworld	American Memory
Federal Information Center	Govt Information Xchange	Library of Congress
Great American Web Site	Govspot.com	Consumer Information Center
Thomas Legislative Site	U.S. Census	Fedstats

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Computer

SoftCrawler.com	The Macintosh Search Engine from Apple
TechPointer.com	Web Developers' Virtual Library
ZDNet	Yahoo Interent Life
MSDN Online Web Workshop	OnlineInc.com
The SciTech Daily	NY Times' CyberTimes

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