A RATHER COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THE BEST SEARCH SITES WE COULD FIND
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We need help analyzing each site and writing a summary and/or overview for that site -- any volunteers?

We recommend (A) Bubl Link, (B) Library Of Congress and (C) New York Times as the best places to startlooking for information.

Here is an alphabetical list of all the search sites we've found. Notice, by looking at the five AARP entries, how we often not only direct you to the site -- but explain how to navigate the site.

Lots of these leads were originally taken from << http://www.beaucoup.com >> (see suffix "B"). We eliminated some link rot and misleading entries and put the entries in alphabetical order. At some later date, we intend to analyze each site in a slightly more-than-casual-way -- telling what is good and what is not-so-good about the site.

If you can't get a good lead from these sites, the information you are looking for probably does not exist.

1. A-Z Reference Websites, Annotated List from Library of Congress. Click on any of the approximately 400 topics on the page (url)
2. AARP Bulletin -- << http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/ >> / Find archived articles *** by clicking on "Current and Past Issues" at the top-right of the home page / Then use the drop down menu on the new page to get to any issue and the featured articles. (*** they have changed their format -- this info no longer applies -- sorry, but you are on your own)
3. AARP LEARN TECH / http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/howto/ --- 125 how-to computer articles from AARP. Once you get to the site -- put "how to" in their search window and you will find 13, 444 articles in no particular order.
4. AARP Magazine -- << http://www.aarpmagazine.org/ >> "World's Largest Circulation Magazine" / Find archived articles by clicking on "Current and Past Issues" at the top-right of the home page / Then use the drop down menu on the new page to get to any issue and the featured articles.
5. AARP (online) -- << http://www.aarp.org/ >>The site has lots of good information. The best way to get acquainted with the site is to click on "site map" at the top of the page. That will take you to categorized links of all the subject matter, sections and "channels" on the site -- including the AARP Bulletin and the AARP Magazine.
6. ABOUT.COM / http://www.about.com/ -- If you go to About.com and enter "how-to " in the search window -- you will get 7,849 entries on a variety of subjects. (if you enter "how to" (without the dash)-- you get zero entries). This site is evidently owned by the NY Times. It has lots of information.
7. Academic Info << http://www.academicinfo.us/ >> " Rich selection of about 25,000 pages, selected as "college and research level Internet resources" aimed at "at the undergraduate level or above." Brief annotations." Another link on that site: << http://www.academicinfo.us/reffind.html >> goes to a page on "Finding information on the internet". There is a list of about 30 llinks to related sites on that page.
8. Alexa -- "The Web Information Company" << http://www.alexa.com/ >> Alexa tracks all websites and puts together various information about the traffic at each of the 100,000 most popular websites. You will find these three important topics on the top bar -- Search / Traffic Rankings / Directory. "Search" takes you to << http://www.alexa.com/search?q= >>. At the bottom of that page, you will find a link to "Top 500 Sites" -- click on that and you will get to links to the meat of the site. Click on "browse -- by subject" and you can find the most popular site for any subject. Bookmark that page << http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500 >> because it is sometimes hard to find your back. (Alexa kept taking me back to pages I did not want)
9. AltaVista -- http://www.altavista.com/ AltaVista / Overture Services, Inc. / 74 North Pasadena Avenue, 3rd Floor / Pasadena, California 91103 / Fax: (626) 685-5601. This site seems to have been melded into Yahoo.
   
10. ANSWERS.COM / http://www.answers.com/ -- this website from Answers.com is wide, deep and long with detailed information on tens of thousands of subjects ( for instance -- 70,000 family names) . In three to six clicks you can usually find information about almost anything. They claim to cover 4 million topics. In any event - it is a great place to browse for information on any subject. They say they have "handpicked reference content from publishers such as Houghton Mifflin, Columbia University Press, Thomson Gale, Britannica, Barron's, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, MarketWatch, Investopedia, All Media Guide, Who2, AccuWeather and eSpindle (just to name a few), to make sure that you always have reliable and frequently updated facts on any subject you look up."
11. AOL Search -- http://search.aol.com/aol/webhome / Search tips -- http://search.aol.com/aol/help (B)
12. Ask.com -- http://www.ask.com/ Ask.com Headquarters / 555 12th Street, Suite 500 / Oakland, CA 94607 / tel: (510) 985-7400 / fax: (510) 985-7412. Part of IAC/InteractiveCorp? -- a Barry Diller company?
13. Best Of The Web -- This is a fee-based site << http://botw.org/helpcenter/submitterms.aspx >> -- consideration for a listing is priced at $79.95 / year or a one-time fee of $239.95. I personally would not trust the validity of the entries -- because of the yearly fee.
14. BUBL LINK -- Guide to Internet sites -- Perhaps the best organized search site. Go here to see our discussion of the site, where we attempt to explain how it is organized. Or go directly to the first page of the site and browse around for yourself: << http://bubl.ac.uk/ >>

15. BUBL LINK -- Guide to Internet sites -- Perhaps the best organized search site. Go here to see our discussion of the site, where we attempt to explain how it is organized. Or go directly to the first page of the site and browse around for yourself: << http://bubl.ac.uk/ >>

    LIBRARY OF CONGRESS / Go to this Internet Information link to find out how we suggest you navigate the LOC site -- probably the best place to start any search.

16. CHIFF.COM -- Chiff.com -- looks like a pretty good site. We stumbled on to the "baby names" page and were impressed at a quick glance. They claim it is a "Human Reviewed Guide to the Web".
17. THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION The Cochrane Collaboration / "Improving healthcare decision-making globally, through systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions, published in The Cochrane Library. Independent, reliable: The Cochrane Collaboration is a global network of dedicated volunteers, supported by a small staff."
18. C-span.org -- http://www.c-span.org/ -- This is a wonderful site with all sorts of information about the US Government. Someday, we will put a comprehensive review here -- but until then, go there and browse around. Here is a short list of topics that are covered -- 110th Congress / Bush Administration / Energy / Iraq / Response to Terrorism / Supreme Court / America & the Courts / American Perspectives / American Politics / Road to the White House / Booknotes / Book TV | Schedule / The Communicators / Newsmakers / Prime Minister's Questions / Q&A / Washington Journal
19. dmoz -- http://www.dmoz.org/ -- The Open Directory Project -- They say "The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors." (B) / About dmoz -- http://www.dmoz.org/about.html / Search tips -- http://www.dmoz.org/searchguide.html
    
20. DogPile -- http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/ (B)
21. EASY SURF HOME PAGE -- an internet index ... Automobiles and Travel ... Beauty, Cosmetics, & Fashion Shopping ...Books ... Collectibles and Gifts ... Computer ... Education ... Family ... Film and Entertainment ... Food ... Government and Law ... Health and Medical ... Home and Garden .. Hotels ... Investing, Mutual Funds Stocks ... Jobs Help-wanted Career ... Memory Game - Test Your Memory ... Metric Conversion ... Miscellaneous ... Museum and Art Finder ... Newspapers and Magazines ... New York City ... Politics ... Radio and Music Page ... Science Space Weather ... Search Engines ... Sports ... Travel ... Television the museum and art finder is quite good
22. EHOW / http://www.ehow.com/ -- They claim to tell you how to do "just about everything". They cover the following categories: Arts & Entertainment / Business / Careers & Work / Cars / Computers / Culture & Society / Education / Electronics / Fashion, Style & Personal Care / Food & Drink / Health / Hobbies, Games & Toys / Holidays & Celebrations / Home & Garden / Internet / Legal / Parenting / Parties & Entertaining / Personal Finance / Pets / Relationships & Family / Sports & Fitness / Travel / Weddings
23. ENGINEERING NETWORK -- <<http://www.engnetglobal.com/>> A comprehensive search engine and A-Z directory of all kinds of engineering businesses, products and services.
24. ENTREPRENEUR / http://www.entrepreneur.com/howto/index.html -- Help & How-To from Entrepreneur Magazine. "Ask an expert. Find answers. Discover how to."
25. Excite -- http://www.excite.com/ -- Precision Search -- http://msxml.excite.com/info.xcite/ (B)
26. FINANCIALFIND.COM -- Financial Information -- Plumbs sites about financial planning and investing, including those that offer tax information. Also a complete A-Z index for financial planning.
27. Find Articles / http://findarticles.com/ Links to 10,000,000 articles / Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry, and general interest publications, with archives dating back to 1984. (B)
28. FINDLAW.COM -- Combs through a legal dictionary, legal news and the text of the United States Constitution. A search engine powered by Alta Vista enables users to search for documents on federal and state Web sites.
29. FindWhat.com -- http://www.findwhat.com/
30. Furl.net -- http://furl.net/ -- Part of LookSmart / "Utilize this free social bookmarking and personal archiving service that saves the important items you find on the web. Each member has a personal archive of 5GB, large enough to store tens of thousands of searchable items." (B)
31. FUTEF -- Wikipedia: searching for topics in Wikipedia. Read the "about" page at the linked (on this line) "FUTEF" site. In our first test, the FUTEF search box was superior to the Wikipedia alphabetical index when searching for the topic "indexing". The Wikipedia index did not have the word "indexing -- however we found exactly what we were looking for by typing "indexing" into the FUTEF seach box.
32. GAPING VOID / http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html -- "How To Be Creative". The website on which this article appears was acting peculiarly -- so I do not know where the article comes from. However, it is a worthwhile treatise on the quoted subject. Read it -- no matter what you do for a living.
33. GlobalSpec.com: <<http://www.globalspec.com/>> Find all sorts of engineering and technical information
34. Google -- http://www.google.com -- Search tips -- http://www.google.com/support/ (B)
35. HotBot -- http://www.hotbot.com/ (B)
36. HOW STUFF WORKS / http://www.howstuffworks.com/ -- Has 15 "helpful how-to guides" clickable from their front page
37. HOW TO CLEAN ANYTHING / http://www.howtocleananything.com/ -- "There are more than 1300 free cleaning tips on this site ...". "A unique feature is a central listing of cleaning service providers from around the world."
38. HOW-TO.COM / http://www.how-to.com/ -- "How-To's for Business" ... 96 business-oriented entries as of 9/1/07
39. HOW TO LEARN / http://www.howtolearn.com/ -- Evidently a site put up by (or in the interest of) Pat Wyman, M.A. "Best Selling Author, ... America's Most Trusted Learning Expert"
40. HOW TO DO THINGS / http://www.howtodothings.com/ -- "reliable information from experienced contributors". They cover the following categories: Automotive / Business / Careers / Computers / Education / Electronics / Family & Relationships / Fashion & Personal Care / Finance & Real Estate / Food & Drink / Health & Fitness / Hobbies / Home & Garden / Pets & Animals / Religion & Spirituality / Sports & Recreation / Travel
41. HOW TO WIRED / http://howto.wired.com/wired/index.cgi -- "... a collaborative site ... all kinds of projects, hacks, tricks and tips on how to live, work and play better.". From Wired.com.
42. IMAGINOVA websites: LiveScience.com, Space.com, Aviation.com and Newsarama.com
43. INFOMINE << http://infomine.ucr.edu/ >> "Over 120,000 Great, reliable annotations. Cooperatively compiled by university & college-level, academic librarians of the UC campuses". For browsable subject titles, (a) click on "site map" on the first page, (b) Click on one of the subject areas under "Searching INFOMINE", (c) click on "subjects" in the lower left-hand corner of the search-block. That will take you to a long alphabetical list of subjects where you can look for subjects of your choice.
44. INFOPLEASE.COM -- All sorts of information on a wide variety of categories -- Almanac complete subject List / Alphabetical Index / Atlas / Dictionary / Encyclopedia
    
45. InfoTiger -- http://www.infotiger.com/ -- Search tips -- http://www.infotiger.com/help.html (B)
46. INC. / http://www.inc.com/guides/ -- "How-to guides from Inc.com ... on specific business-management issues"
47. Indexers, American Socity of / Reference Sources on the Internet: << http://www.asindexing.org/site/refbooks.shtml >> Links to resources that professional indexers find useful in their daily work. General Reference Sources -- Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Other Language Tools / Encyclopedias, Collections of Information, and Fact Books / Phone Directories, Organizational Listings, and Geographical Maps Of Particular Interest to Indexers / Additional Lists of General Reference Sites. Specific References Sources -- Art & Architecture / Biographical / Business / Computers & Technology / Health and Medicine / Law / Science / Technical Writing / Libraries / Miscellaneous -- Plus A Lot More ...
48. Internet Public Library / http://www.ipl.org/ A consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science is developing and maintaining this IPL. It is a very good directory: one of our primary targets,
49. Internet Public Library -- Links to all Subject Headings and Sub-Subject Headings (ipl)
50. Internet Public Library -- All Subjects and sub-subjects in alphabetical order (ipl) (to be linked)
51. Jayde ("the B-2-B search engine") -- http://www.jayde.com/ (B)
52. Librarian's Internet Index -- http://lii.org/ -- (B)
53. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS / http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/bibhome.html -- Bibliographies, Research Guides and Finding Aids. Find books on every subject at this site.
54. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS / Internet Information from LOC -- probably the best place to start any search.
55. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS -- A-Z Reference Websites, Annotated List from Library of Congress. Click on any of the approximately 400 topics on the page (url)
56. LIBRARY SPOT / http://www.libraryspot.com/howto.htm -- Mostly a library oriented site -- but it does have some how-to articles clickable from the front page
57. LookSmart -- http://www.looksmart.com/ -- primarily an advertising oriented company (B)
58. Lycos -- http://www.lycos.com/ (B)
59. MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGE / http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/webhound/ -- "How To Find Information On The Web": Dedicated to foster student success by the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI), part of the Maricopa Community College District, which is dedicated to supporting and advancing teaching and learning by working collaboratively with faculty, administrators, and district-wide groups to provide quality services, programs, and resources."
60. MOREOVER.COM <<http://w.moreover.com/>> Finds online, realtime news
61. NY TIMES / http://www.nytimes.com/ -- Enter any topic in the search window and you will get every article published on that topic in the N.Y. Times. The Times makes available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free. See more New York Times links at the head of this page.
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    New York Times: a wonderful place to start looking for anything. Check out these three links and the comment below.

    1) News, current and archival -- http://www.nytimes.com/ -- Enter any topic in the search window and you will get every article published on that topic in the N.Y. Times. The Times makes available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free. -- 5 * * * * * 2) New York Times Alphabetical Index Of Archived Topics (or "subjects") << http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/index.html >> "(This alphabetical list) offers abstracts of all the significant news articles, editorial matter and special features (in the newspaper), classified by subject, geography, organization and personal name..." A good place to start searching for anything. 3) New Yorker, The, Archives -- Go to << http://www.newyorker.com/archive >> . In the center of the page you will find a short selection of selected articles. Currently (November 2007), they are featuring a few articles on Iraq, The Campaign Trail, New Orleans, Books, Film and Food. Don't confuse this limited link with the more complete #2 just above.

    Compare #1 and #2 directly below: #1 takes you through a search on an alphabetical list at the NY Times / #2 is a recount of what we found on Google 1) Check out this entry on our alphabetical list, "Boxed Sets of Music -- From the archives of the NY Times << http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%22boxed+sets%22&srchst=nyt >> This link was generated by going to nytimes.com and typing "boxed sets" into the search window. That search resulted in 733 leads compiled by knowledgeable music critics. 2) The same search in Google resulted in 1,950,000 leads compiled by machines. Which would you rather wade through? This shows what we think is a real advantage in relying on (a) directories compiled by humans and (b) limited search windows rather than massive search engines." It certainly seems like it a good idea to start most searches by first going to the NY Times and seeing what information they have.

    Selected NY Times Topics appear throughout our alphabeticalist website. At the beginning of each alphabetical section, we link directly to a few thousand selected topics at the Times. You can then click to read the hundreds of thousand related articles at the times. This may be the best way to start any search.

63. OneKey -- http://www.onekey.com/ (B)
64. Open Directory Project -- http://www.dmoz.org/ -- They say "The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors." (B)
    About dmoz -- http://www.dmoz.org/about.html
    Search tips -- http://www.dmoz.org/searchguide.html
65. PBS: THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM -- Follow these instructions for efficient use of the wonderful site: (1) go to << http://www.pbs.org >>; (2) click on "SEARCH", near the top-right (do not fill in the search window); (3) click on "Site Map"; (4) scroll down and browse through the Headlines (About PBS, About This Site, Arts & Drama, History, Home and Hobbies, Life & Culture, News & Views, Science & Nature, Search, Station Finder, TV Schedules); (5) note the various subjects under each heading; (6) Click on the Headline or subject that seems most likely to lead you to the information you want; (7) repeat #6 as needed. If you do not follow these steps, we can almost guarantee you will get lost.
66. QuestFinder -- http://www.questfinder.com/ (B)
67. ResearchBuzz -- Information about search engines and related information / http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/admin/about-researchbuzz/
68. Rushmore Drive -- << http://www.rushmoredrive.com/ >> Designed to give the black audience a quick way to find information that other search engines might bury beneath pages of less relevant results. The strategy will eventually extend to other ethnic groups, in what analysts said is the latest stab at diminishing Google’s dominance in the search market. News story.
69. Science search sites -- see this site for a related list -- << http://www.qdinformation.com/links/index.html >> (B)
70. SCOUT, THE INTERNET SCOUT PROJECT (Over 23,000 entries) -- Since 1994, the Scout Project has focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata. Located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus, and part of the University's College of Letters and Sciences... Note the alphabetical Index to Library Of Congress Subject Headings. Use this index to find the subject(s) of your interest. If you see the following "Archived Scout Publication URL:", you can copy that URL, paste it into the address line of your brower and go there.
71. Scrub The Web-- http://www.scrubtheweb.com/ / Search tips -- http://www.scrubtheweb.com/help/index.html (B)
72. Search Engine Guide: Uses a fill-in search window. Put in any topic and it will find the best websites for that topic.
73. Search Engines and closely related subjects ( a linked list of about 65 sites) (wp)
74. Search Tools -- About 150 search tools are listed in A-Z order.
75. Search sites, science -- << http://www.qdinformation.com/links/index.html >> -- while you are there, scroll down for related information.
76. Searching the internet / www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html - UC Berkeley / 5 * * * * *
77. Searching the internet / http://www.sou.edu/library/searchtools/ Southern Oregon University / 5 * * * * *
78. Searching the internet / http://lone-eagles.com/search3.htm / Worthwhile tips by David Warlick << http://landmark-project.com >>
79. Searching the Internet / http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml / University of South Carolina / bare bones 101: A basic tutorial on searching the web
80. Searching the internet by using directories -- Directories are generally human selected and alphabetical and are an alternative to using "fill-in search windows"... We think directories are more efficient and will ultimately become recognized as the best way to find information on the web -- The following is a list of directories from the UC Berkeley library << http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SubjDirectories.html >> ... Some of these are listed elsewhere on this list.
    Librarians' Index: http://www.lii.org
    Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu
    Academic Info: http://www.academicinfo.us
    About.com: http://www.about.com
    Google Directory: http://directory.google.com
    Yahoo!: http://dir.yahoo.com
81. Searching the internet with Google -- A link to their "advanced searching" / scroll down on the linked page
82. SearchKing -- http://www.searchking.com/ (B)
83. SearchPort -- http://www.searchport.com/ -- primarily interested in advertising (B)
84. STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES -- <<http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/>>
85. SUNY, BUFFALO / http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html -- "How to Study": A Brief (about 32 pages) Guide by William J. Rapaport Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Philosophy, and Center for Cognitive Science State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2000
86. SuperCrawler -- A good site with lots of solid information. It disappeared for a while late in 2007. It is now February 2008 and the site is back.
87. The Net 1 -- http://www.thenet1.com/ (B)
88. TOTALSEEK -- http://www.totalseek.com/ (B)
89. US SENATE / http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/b_three_sections_with_teasers/howto.htm ... A selection of 14 how-to items on the site of the U.S. Senate
90. WebCrawler -- http://www.webcrawler.com/ (B)
91. WHATIS -- http://whatis.techtarget.com/ -- Primarily an A-Z site about Information Technology. It also has a search window.
92. WIKIA.COM -- <<http://alpha.search.wikia.com/>> This is the home of a new search engine based on the "wiki" model of constant change by volunteers. The owners say, "The Wikia search engine will be an open-source project, whose programming code and data will be available to anyone." Users will ultimately "rate" the sites in the search response and those ratings will be part of the search system.
93. WICKIHOW / http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page -- "a (how-to) manual anyone can write in and edit". They cover the following categories: Arts & Entertainment / Food & Entertaining / Philosophy & Religion / Careers & Education / Health / Relationships / Cars & Other Vehicles / Hobbies and Crafts / Sports & Fitness / Communications / Holidays & Traditions / Teenagers / Computers & Electronics / Home & Garden / Travel / Family Life / Personal Care & Style / Finance & Business / Pets / Other
    
    

94. WIKIPEDIA
    Wickipedia, Finding content 1) The best and easiest way -- Go to <<http://wikipedia.org/>> and use the search widow there. If there is an article, page or content with that exact title, you will be taken there. Almost any single word will work. This is particularly good for finding all sorts information about cities. Type any city name in the window and click and you will get to a page with that tiltle and various related information. Warning #1.1 -- this is not called "Main Page" on the site, Clicking on "Main Page" takes you to a page that does NOT have a search window -- so always be prepared to get back to <<http://wikipedia.org/>>. Warning #1.2 -- If you do wind up at "Main Page" you will be tempted to click on (A) "Contents" and "Featured content" in the left column or (B) "All portals", "Contents", "Categories" and "Featured Content" in or near the right column. Don't click on any of those. They lead to confusing pages and chances are high that you will get lost.
    2) Another way of finding content -- When you are at what they call "Main Page", click on "A-Z index" at the top of the right column. That will take you to an enormous index of what appears to be subjects (there are no words telling you what this is an index of -- it could be subjects, contents, articles, categories, portals or whatever. You may be able to find what you are looking for by clicking from that point -- but it is laborious. Warning #2.1 -- The results from the A-Z index are quite different from the results of (1) above. Here is the result from "Aborigine" at the A-Z index. <<http://wikilookup.info/info/guide/a/ab/aborigines.html>>. Compare that with the result from the result of typing in "aborigine" at the search window at <<http://wikipedia.org/>> They are completely different.
    3) If you go from "Main Page" to "Contents", you will wind up at <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents>>, At that page, you will find about 40 links, each of them sound promising in your search for contents -- but they do not pay off. They go to some interesting content, but it is either (a) isolated information that you are unlikely to be looking for or (b) not organized in a logical way that is easy to follow. In other words, it seems to be a poor way of organizing information.
    4) If you go from "Main Page" to "Contents" to Overviews > Topics > Basic topics · Glossaries > Portals > Categories, you will traverse 6 pages -- each chock full of links which, seem random and not well organized. I, Martin Carbone, could not make sense of the system. If you can explain it to me -- please contact me at our contact address.
    5) Wikipedia, searching for topics: searching for topics in Wikipedia. Read the "about" page at the link on this line, it is for the "FUTEF" site. In our first test, the FUTEF search box was superior to the Wikipedia alphabetical index when searching for the topic "indexing". The Wikipedia index did not have the word "indexing -- however we found exactly what we were looking for by typing "indexing" into the FUTEF seach box.
    6) Wikipedia -- Be warned that wikipedia is not the place to go for new thinking. The following is a direct quote from wikipedia. "Wikipedia does not publish original research or original thought. This includes unpublished facts, arguments, speculation, and ideas; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position. This means that Wikipedia is not the place to publish your own opinions or experiences. Citing sources and avoiding original research are inextricably linked: to demonstrate that you are not presenting original research, you must cite reliable sources that provide information directly related to the topic of the article, and that directly support the information as it is presented."

    
    
95. wisegeek.com -- "wiseGEEK is a very straightforward website: they offer free and clear answers to common questions. What is wiseGEEK? / FAQS / Who is ... ? /
    
    Categories at "Wise Geek" -- (some of these are combined at the Wise Geek site) Airplanes / Animals / Art / Boats / Business / Cars / Cooking / Computers / Crafts / Do-It-Yourself / Economy / Engineering / Entertainment / Environment / Finance / Food / Gadgets / Garden / Government / Health / History / Hobbies / Home / Humanities / Industry / Internet / Investing / Language / Manufacturing / Miscellaneous / Music / People / Science / Special Collections / Sports / Technology / Travel / Wellness / World / United States /
    
    Continued from above: Home & Garden Sub-categories at wisegeek.com / Bathrooms / Bedrooms / Brief Guide / Buying Guides / Children / Dining / Do it Yourself / Energy Sustainability / Entertaining / Furniture / Garages / Gardens / Health and Safety / Helpful Tips / Holidays / Home Decor / Home Repair / Kitchens / Luxuries / Maintenance / Organization / Real Estate / / Outdoors /. This seems to be the only category at wisegeek.com that is divided into sub-categories as well as articles.
    
    The articles at wisegeek are very basic -- but they are a good place to start searching if you are just getting started on a certain topic.
    
96. "WORLDCAT --- "The world's largest network of library content and services. Over 1 billion items in libraries worldwide.
97. WWW Virtual Library / An enormous categorized index of the internet
98. Yahoo -- http://www.yahoo.com -- Search tips / http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/ (B)
99. Yahoo's original search page -- from webarchive.org