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Most Popular General Search Engines:

  • Google - Great for general or image-specific searches.
  • Google Alerts - configure e-mail alerts regarding new web content using specific search terms
  • Local Google - Search for types of businesses - provides links and a map
  • alltheweb - Good for image searches
  • AltaVista - excels at searching for images & sounds. For sounds, can search for specific file types & specific durations (e.g. <1minute or >1minute) and can "Search Within Results." Can also search for video clips.
  • MSN (Microsoft Network)
  • Open Directory Project - The largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web.
  • Yahoo
  • Yahoo Canada

Lesser Known General Search Engines:

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3d Animation Links:

Buy/Sell/Trade:

  • eBay.com - World's largest person-to-person online trading community.
  • BidXS.com - Search public auction sites.
  • kijiji.ca - Canada's free, local classifieds site

Computer Purchasing/Product Reviews:

Consumer Reports / Product Reviews:

Encyclopedias:

  • en.wikipedia.org - A free, up-to-date encyclopedia maintained by the Internet community.
  • NEW July/08!  Knol - by Google - a rival to Wikipedia, except that author(s) are specifically identified and control the content on the pages they have responsibility for. Authors also have the potential to generate income from their work via Google ads.
  • Squidoo - share your knowledge and passion with the world
  • thecanadianencyclopedia.com - Free Canadian encyclopedia (English or French).
  • encyclopedia.com - Internet's premiere free encyclopedia

File Sending:

  • yousendit.com - for sending large files (up to 100 MB ... or larger) securely via the Internet

Genealogy:

General Information:

Government:

"Handyman" Sites:

Income Tax Returns (Canadian):

Investment Tracking & Info:

International Language Translation:

IT News

Job Hunting Resources:

  • ants.com - Looking for work? Looking for freelance help?
  • freeagent.com - For freelancers, consultants & independent contractors.
  • guru.com - The Web's premier exchange for connecting independent professionals with contract projects.

Law:

Libraries:

Maps & Travel Directions:

Magazine Articles (full text)

Music:

Newsgroup Searches:

  • Deja.com - Search over 80,000 Internet discussion groups including archived messages.

Newspapers/Magazines/ TV/ Radio/ News Agencies of the World:

Media (Independent)

Recipes:

  • mymenus.com - Over 10,000 recipe database, meal plans, nutritional information, and customized shopping lists
  • recipezaar.com - "The World's Smartest Cookbook"

Research Tools:

  • Research-It! - An extensive list of research tools - Language, Library, Geographical, Financial, Shipping, Internet.
  • InfoPlease.com - The ultimate fact finder.

Road Conditions:

  • asheweig.com - Winter Ice Roads to Remote First Nations Communities

People/Business Finders:

'Photography:

Podcasting:

Programmers/Computer Resources:

Social Networking

  • facebook.com - (highly popular, with better control of "Profile" info) connect with your friends, upload photos or publish notes, join a network
  • myspace.com - create your personal network and invite your friends to join, upload photos, write journals, view connections, (excels at music promotion)
  • orkut.com (by Google) - messages, scrapbook, album, videos, hobbies & interests
  • gather.com - geared towards older audiences
  • secondlife.com - a virtual world with an ecommerce focus. Requires a high speed connection and a very high-end graphics card to work

Software (Shareware/Freeware):

Sound Libraries:

  • free-samples-n-loops.com - Free music downloads from independent artists and hundreds of free mp3 and wav sound files.
  • findsounds.com - Search the web for sounds
  • freeplaymusic.com - Royalty-free music & sound effects.
  • partnersinrhyme.com - Royalty-free music & sound effects.
  • a1freesoundeffects.com 800+ "Most Requested Sounds" in .wav files. - can be used freely in any school project.
  • sounddogs.com - 105,000+ sounds & music with low-resolution .mp3, .asf & .aiff  previews - can custom-order high-resolution versions to your exact specifications!
  • opuzz.com - Royalty Free Music - ideal for TV, Radio, Film, Video, Multimedia, Web, Events and more

Surveys:

Teaching Resources:

Travel Planning & Booking:

  • priceline.com - bid on vehicle rentals, flights, hotels, cruises and more

Vehicle Purchasing & Rentals:

Video & Video Libraries - Professional Stock Footage (for fee):

Weather:

WebMaster Tools & Resources:

  • w3schools.com - programming tutorials and web statistics
  • alvit.de/blog - a good personal resource from German Vitaly Friedman
  • Alexa.com - website traffic rankings
  • Animation Factory - 3,000 free original animations that can be edited online, 200,000 in total!
  • archive.org - "Wayback Machine" - Internet archive of the whole Internet - Amazing!
  • boogiejack.com resources for web developers
  • CSS Menu Designs
  • devguru - Web Developer Tutorial site
  • internic.com - domain name searches (whois) & registration
  • xampp - use to setup a virtual local Apache webserver on Windows, or MAC. Complete with Apache, MySQL, PHP +, Perl, OpenSSL, FTP Server and more
  • fotoflexer - online photo editor
  • picLens - experience photos on a website in a 3D environment
  • CG Textures - excellent library of free high resolution textures

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