Reference Links

Directories and Search Engines

General: Google; Google Scholar; Yahoo
Specialized: FirstGov the U.S. government's official web portal; Google Uncle Sam search U.S. government sites using Google; Infomine index of selected sites in academic subjects: University of California; Librarians' Index to the Internet index of selected general interest sites; Berkeley Digital Library; Scout Report Archive over 12,000 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites; WWW Virtual Library index of selected subjects; "the oldest catalog of the web"; Vivisimo search engine that clusters results by subtopic, type of information, etc.
Other Search Engine Guides: Finding Information on the Internet University of California at Berkeley; Internet Search Engines a descriptive list; Laura Cohen, University at Albany; Search Engine Features Chart Greg Notess; Search Engine Showdown; Search Engine Colossus listings by country

Help: Firefox Help; Microsoft Product Support Services; Netscape Help; Opera Help for Mac; Opera Help for Windows; SMU ITS Classes
Reference, Research, and Tools: ClickZ Stats; Electronic Privacy Information Center news and resources on Internet privacy and related topics; Internet 2 news, features, and membership information about the Internet2 consortium and its work; Network-Tools.com utility for traceroute, DNS lookup, ping, etc.; Search Engine Showdown evaluations and comparisons of search engines; Search Engine Watch news and data for saerch engine marketing; Webopedia's Quick Reference Area data formats, error messages, ASCII equivalents, etc.; Whois Lookup database of domain name owners; The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) interoperability specifications, guidelines, software, and tools

Updated 02/17/2005