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Search the Internet
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:
Search Multiple Search Engines:
- Beaucoup
- Colossus - International Directory of Search Engines
- Dogpile
- Mamma
- MetaCrawler
- PlanetSearch
- Proteus
- Search AllinOne MetaSearch - search the world's best search engines
Special Interest Search Engines:
- SearchEdu.com - Over 20 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity.
- Searchopolis - Geared to teens & students - help with homework & school research projects.
- First Nations Seeker: Directory of North American Indian Portal Websites
- Campustours.com -
Industry Specific Search Engines:
- aeroseek.com - Aviation
- avsearch.org - Aviation
- Education World - “Where educators go to learn.”
- flightsearch.com - Aviation
- highend3d.com - Awesome 3d Resources!
- cgsociety.org - Great 3d Resources.
- animationarena.com - Animation Techniques!
- pixologic.com - ZBrush Video Tutorials!
- the-blueprints.com - Huge source of free reference images.
- 3dtotal.com - Huge source of 3d resources!
- 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:
- pricewatch.com - Obtain the best real-time street prices for computers & components.
- tomshardware.com - For computer related items.
Consumer Reports / Product Reviews:
- 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
- yousendit.com - for sending large files (up to 100 MB ... or larger) securely via the Internet
- kindredkonnections.com (details are fee-based)
- about.com - Professional expert guidance from hundreds of Guides for thousands of topics.
- Multilingual On-line Dictionaries & Thesauri - Amazing!
- International Currency Conversions
- International Currency Converter - Bank of Canada (1990 to present)
- Statistics Canada
- Visual Thesaurus - Click on any word on the screen and other related words come spinning onto the screen - a very cool Java applet!
- VoyCabulary - Transforms any webpage into links to Dictionary or Thesaurus lookups!
- whatis.com - lookup computer technology definitions.
Income Tax Returns (Canadian):
- CNNMoney.com
- Dow Jones Industrial Average (New York)
- Fund Library - Mutual funds - Canada
- Globe Fund - Create an account and track your investment portfolio
- Investing Canada - about.com
- NASDAQ - Predominately high-tech stocks (US)
- Quicken.com - Markets, stocks, funds, quotes
- smartmoney.com
- stockhouse.ca - Canada
- stockhouse.com - USA
- TSE (Toronto Stock Exchange)
- Yahoo.ca - Finance - Canada
International Language Translation:
- AltaVista Translation Service - Translates any webpage to English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish!
- 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.
- findarticles.com - Good collection of well known and some unique titles.
- magportal.com - Good collection of well known and some unique titles.
- Chord Find
- www.musicbaker.com - royalty-free music
- Deja.com - Search over 80,000 Internet discussion groups including archived messages.
Newspapers/Magazines/ TV/ Radio/ News Agencies of the World:
- The Globe & Mail
- National Post
- Toronto Star
- www.britishpathe.com - Over 3,500 hours of historical newsreel footage between 1910 and 1970.
- CTV News
- CNN
- ABYZ Newslinks - A portal to online news sources from around the world (primarily newspapers).
- Kidon Media Link - Read today's newspapers from around the world.
- Wired News
- www.newspaperindex.com - a list of the most important newspapers in every
country.
Media (Independent)
- www.nowpublic.com ("crowd-powered media") Vancouver-based "citizen journalism"
- mymenus.com - Over 10,000 recipe database, meal plans, nutritional information, and customized shopping lists
- recipezaar.com - "The World's Smartest Cookbook"
- Research-It! - An extensive list of research tools - Language, Library, Geographical, Financial, Shipping, Internet.
- InfoPlease.com - The ultimate fact finder.
- asheweig.com - Winter Ice Roads to Remote First Nations Communities
- Bigfoot
- Canada 411
- Canada Post - Find a Postal Code.
- Info Bell - Telephone Directories on the Web - world-wide.
- InfoSpace
- Switchboard - USA
- Yahoo People Search
- Yellow Pages - Canada
- WhoWhere? e-mail addresses
- dpreview.com
- Denver Post - PhotoBlog - collections of great photos from photographers
- Life Magazine - Photo Archive by Google
- Can Stock Photo - database of more than 1 million high-quality images starting at $1
- podcast411.com - the 411 on podCasts, podCasters and podCasting
Programmers/Computer Resources:
- computeruser.com - Computer terms dictionary & more.
- freecode.com - FreeCode software archive
- jars.com - The #1 JAVA Review Service
- filext.com - Find the program(s) for any file extension.
- 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):
- 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
- developfaculty.com
- academicinfo.net - Subject Guides & Online Degrees (US based)
- priceline.com - bid on vehicle rentals, flights, hotels, cruises and more
- edmonds.com - ratings & values
- "Kelley Blue Book" values
- Registrar of Imported Vehicles - vehicle makes, models and years that allowed for import into Canada
- priceline.com - bid on vehicle rentals, flights, hotels, cruises and more
Video & Video Libraries - Professional Stock Footage (for fee):
- Environment Canada
- The Meteorological Service of Canada
- US National Weather Service
- weather.com
- The Weather Network (Cdn)
- Weather Underground
- Canadian Climate & Surface Water Information - Good for research.
- 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
Search Engine - Content Quality Guidelines:
- Google's Webmaster Guidelines
- Yahoo's Search Content Quality Guidelines
- MSN's Live Search's Guidelines for successful indexing
Search Engine Info:
- searchengine-news.com -
- google.indicateur.biz - info about the world according to Google
- searchengines.com - industry's resource for on-line marketing
- searchengineblog.com -
- SearchEngineWatch.com - Everything you ever wanted to know about Search Engines
- Search IQ - General information regarding searching with links to many search engines.
