Mike Cockburn's Internet searching Page: search.htm

Searching... (on the web)

• Google

  	All Languages Dansk Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Nederlands Norsk Português Suomi Svenska Custom
  ...or browse web pages by category.

• Alta Vista search engine(Digital Equipment Corp.)
  
  Search the WebUsenet in any language Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish and Display in Standard Form in Compact Form in Detailed Form
  
• Links2Go
• HotBot Claims to be biggest - a search engine with a bit more control

  Search the Web for

• WebCrawler
• Yahoo Search Tool Quick and easy.
• Canada.com Inktomi?
• looksmart.com Sites are organized into categories
• Four11 Directory Service Includes email, phone, net phone etc.
• Lycos
• Open Text - Main page Spin off from University of Waterloo.
• Open Text - search Spin off from University of Waterloo.
• Excite Searches both web sites and usenet newsgroups
• Netscape Netcenter
• Microsoft www.microsoft.com - online search
• CAN Directory Canadian Search Engine for Candian Web sites
• Inquiry.com High tech publications searches.
• Search tool for the World Wide Web Contains pointers to many different search engines.
• InfoSeek Net SearchSeems to usually come up with something useful.
• World Access Internet Navigator
• Encyclopedia Britannica Internet Guide Sorted by general interest categories - not a lot of sites but they are quality links.
• Filez Search for files
• Search Novell Information Assets
• TechWeb Technology search engine
• People Helping On Another Know Stuff An index of web resources, follows structure of usenet groups.
• Listz The mailing list directory
• google newsgroup search Formerly Deja.com. Searches of internet news, has large archive of older material also.

  Meta Searchers - Search several of the above at one time

  • Dogpile
  • Metacrawler
  • Mamma.com The mother of all search engines
  • Fusion2 May be wrong link??

• Ottawa-Carleton Real Estate Board On-line MLS listings
• MLS - Canada Real estate
• grapevine.on.ca
• ByTheOwner.com
  
  
• cottagesunlimited.com Smith Falls - Sales, rentals. focus on cottages
• cottagesontheweb.com sale and rent
• Private Islands Online worldwide
• cottagesincanada.com Sales, rentals
  
  
• Zillow.com USA only, gives estimated values on properties
• Reply.com USA only

• Software - See my Companies page
• Earthcommerce.com Huge listing of businesses in North America. Search engine to find them. Seems extensive.
• Universal Currency Convertor
• OANDA - The Currency Site Convertors.
• Capital Cuisine Guide to food services in the National Capital Area
• Statistics Canada
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• The Turnpike Emporium Market All kinds of information on many products. See the Directory section here.
• How Stuff Works Very good collection of explanations on various topics.
• Video Demystified Lots of reference information on video
• Internet FAQ Archives

  Technical

  • Chip Directory General page - pointer to many mirrors
  • Chip Directory in michigan closest mirror

  People

  • WhoWhere? For finding where people are on the net
  • Yahoo Search Tool Quick and easy, use options to do email address search
  • Infospace The ultimate directory - Search for people, phone, email and more.
  • Bigfoot

  Music and entertainment

  • See my MUSIC page also Check under the Lyrics and Midi files sections in particular.
  • See MOVIES section of my EVENTS page also
  • See TELEVISION section of my EVENTS page also
  • See my EVENTS page also Concert and other listings
  • Lyrics Database Search by artist, album, song, words...
  • Search front end to find midi files Highly recommended!
  • myLaunch Music ranking, uses AI to analyze your taste, very good!
  
  
  

  Internet related

  See my internet page also
  • MarksOnline free trademark and domain name database search
  • Reverse DNS lookup
  • filewatcher FTP Search

• NCF Launch Pad to the WWW
• Places to Visit on the WWW
• About the Online Whole Internet Catalog
• The Whole Internet Catalog
• Netscape's Cool team's list
• Point Communications Best of the Web list
• Hot 100 Websites
• A good directory of the sites they host on www.genghis.com Info on a wide range of stuff, sports & more

Reference Stuff

Time Related

• NRC Time
• US Navy - Time Standard Get the correct time in several time zones from the US Navy.
• Greenwich 2000 HOME of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - Prime Meridian
• National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST Boulder (Colorado) Laboratories
• Calendar Zone All kinds of information about calendars
• Time Synchronization Software
• World Clock

Weather Related


• The Weather Network Canada, or just Ottawa. Also has section for USA cities.
• Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) or Canada forecast map or Ottawa forecast or news:ott.weather Ottawa Weather via newsreader or Franktown weather radar
• Wonderground.com Nice, easily customizable, fast
• The Weather Channel USA
• WeatherLabs
• National Weather Service - NOAA (USA), Internet Weather Service, Satelite Services Division
• U of Wisconsin - Space Science and Engineering Center Real-time images, includes volcanoes.
• Almanac.com The Farmer's Almanac
• intellicast.com Weather for active lives
• The National Center for Atmospheric Research Real-Time Weather Data
• weatherbonk.com WeatherBonk offers a variety weather information on an interactive map

Astronomical

• Space Weather Report Includes aurora mailing list, lastest sightings, predictions etc. Sightings Report, New discussion, STD Aurora Monitor (old discusssion)
• spaceweather.com
• Space Environment Center (SEC) Space Weather Advisories, planetary K-index Level of geomagnetic activity, related to Auroras, updated every 15 min.
• Aurora Web Cam
• Astronomy North
• Alaska geophysical Institute, Aurora Alerts Map
• Ottawa - Clear Sky Clock
• Sky & Telescope The essential magazine of Astronomy. See the section on special sky events
• NORDLYS Northern Lights, see the worldwide reports submitted daily. GONE?

Telephone Related

• canada411.ca May be more complete that the one below.
• 411.ca Includes reverse lookup, mapping
• Yellow pages.ca Business, personal, reverse canadian phone number lookup. Related to Canada wide phone book For people, even has postal code, reverse lookup
• Infospace The ultimate directory - Search for people, phone, email and more.
• AT&T 800 number directory
• Yellow pages
• NYNEX - Big Yellow Yellow pages listing
• GTE Corp's SuperPages Interactive Services Includes business Web Site directory
• Government Electronic Directory Services (GEDS) integrated directory of all canadian federal public servants
• Send Rogers Text Message To Cellphone
• Telus Mobility (Clearnet) To Cellphone
• Who Called Us The phone is ringing, and I don't recognize the number, All Caller ID says is, "NAME UNAVAILABLE". Please help me figure out who is calling and what they want
• Discount Carriers
  • 450tel.ca 10-18-450
  • buzztelecom 10-11-289
  • buzztelecom 10-11-555
  • Google info line 1-800-466-4411 (1-800-GOOG-411) - directory assistance. GOOG-411 is only available in the US and Canada for US and Canadian business listings.

Postal Related

• Canada Post Postal code lookup
• US Postal Service Zip code lookup
• Semaphore's National Address and Zip+4 browser Works with partial information
• Zip Code Lookup

Maps & Geography

• Map Quest Detailed maps of Canada and USA, including road maps and city streets
• maps.google.com includes satellite images, maps and directions including canada. simpler version
• bing maps from Microsoft
• Map Blast Has detailed maps in canada but cannot search them.
• Microsoft Expedia Maps Very limited detail in Canada.
• OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.
• Geokov Trail maps, topos etc
• Pathfinder Seems to go only to the provincial level.
• National Geographic - MapMachine
• National Imagery and Mapping Agency GEOnet Names Server a searchable database of 3.3 million non-US geographic-feature names.
• Yahoo Maps Seems to cover USA only.
• Xerox PARC Map Viewer This is best for large overviews rather than local information.
• About the Xerox PARC Map Viewer
• Tiger Mapping Service US Census - Maps of USA, GIS like
• The virtual tourist Explore cities around the world
• World of Maps Maps & travel info, Ottawa.
• Map Mobility and Dun-Map New service, canadian maps, not fully operational yet.
• Ikonos - Photos from space, Best of gallery, media interest
• Pathfinder Maps Maps distributor in Carp, On. Does some custom mapping also.
• USDA Geospatial Data Gateway, lots of free data to view
• freetrip.com US & Canada, driving route planning, lists hotels camping etc along the way.
• JLC Geomatic Quebec topographic maps
• Touratel/Fugawi free access to topo maps, appears to be recent versions
• Geography Network Esri, lots of maps of canada

  Canadian Government Sites (incl provincial)

  • Official Road Map of Ontario Online!
  • The Atlas of Canada
  • Natural Resources Canada
  • GeoGratis Geospatial data available online at no cost!
  • Nautical Charts Fisheries and Oceans - Canadian Hydrographic service. No online maps.
  • NRCan Center for topographics information
  • NRCan Topographics Map Search To determine map number but you cannot see them
  • toporama Browse Canadian topographic maps. Online view of topo data (CanVec) - GONE
    topo maps from atlas of canada
  • NAISMap Canadian Geographical Information - National Atlas of Canada
  • Federal Maps Inc. Ottawa based distributor of Canadian maps.
  • Land Information Ontario Gov't of Ontario, topographics maps online. Also crown land. Detailed map of crown land use.
  • Land Information Ontario Gov't of Ontario, topographics maps online. Also crown land. Detailed map of crown land use.
  • GeoConnections

  GPS and related

  • travelbygps.com GPS Maps for Adventure Travel
  • gpxchange.com Your Resource for Finding, Creating and Sharing Location-Based Information
  • Google Earth, keyhole community
  • FAA WAAS Includes real time diagram of GPS satellite positions

Health & medicine

• Medline The National Library of Medicine
• Healthfront.com Answers to various health problems.

Dictionaries & Language

• OneLook Online dictionary, seems to search many sources.
• Merriam-Webster Online Information on English Language including on-line dictionary.
• Computer related definitions
• Cliche finder
• Research-It! Translation, thesaurus, dictionary.
• The glossarist

Libraries

• Ottawa Public Library
• National Library of Canada Includes the library's fall publications, descriptions of its collections and sevices, and cultural events and exhibitions.

Online books and text

• Project Gutenberg Many famous texts in electronic form, Sailor's Gutenburg server
• Open Library One web page for every book. Some books are available as free e-books, particularily older books.
• The Internet Archive Public domain movies and books for download. Seems to be mainly very old films, many news & instructional ones.
• Internet Archive
• the Internet Public Library
• informIT.com Online techinical books, generally older versions but full online text.

Other

• www.repairfaq.org Lots of good stuff on repair of electronic equipment.

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