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New additions: Babelfish, from Altavista, offers basic (and sometimes amusing) translations of Web pages or text. . . . PriceGrabber helps you find the lowest price on books, video, computers and consumer electronics. . . . Orbitz, a new travel site backed by major airlines, is in preview. . . . The New Yorker online is both more and less than the venerable magazine. . . . Plastic offers reader-filtered, intelligently moderated discussions of what's happening on the Web and in the world. . . .

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Searching the Net? Here Are Places to Start

• Google gives terrific results by analyzing a page's popularity. It now includes the search of Usenet discussions formerly handled by deja.com. It also offers a government search.
• Alta Vista offers efficient Web search; its newer Raging Search is even better.
• Yahoo: Subject guide and free-text searching of the World Wide Web
• Fast Search lives up to its name
• Excite's concept searching is highly effective
• Northern Light categorizes search results to help you focus
• Hotbot now comes to you from Lycos
• search.com from CNet lists many obscure, topic-oriented search engines
• Abuzz People with questions find people with answers. (From New York Times Digital)
• Ask Jeeves searching with a human touch
• Ixquick searches multiple search engines and quickly returns filtered results.
• ProFusion, SavvySearch, Dogpile and Metacrawler offer simultaneous searches of multiple Web search engines
• Magellan describes Web resources, rather than just listing them. Also visit Voyeur to spy on other searchers
• Looksmart searches a selection of sites chosen by humans
• About.com has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
• Britannica adds human judgment to searching, and presents the results in an unusually effective way
• Searchmil.com searches for information in military (.mil) computers
• ForumOne One-stop guide to forum topics around the Web
• Achoo and The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences catalog health related sites
• Archieplex Search FTP archives around the Internet
• Liszt and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists
• Yack Guide to live events on the Web

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Collections for Journalists

• FedWorld Information Services: Comprehensive guide to Government databases
• Federal Government Agencies, a clean, easy-to-use listing
• Federal Web Locator allows searching
• Fedstats collects and organizes statistics from 70 agencies
• National Archives and Records Administration catalogs records held by Government agencies
• DefenseLink News and live briefings from the U.S. Department of Defense
• The White House
• The House of Representatives
• The Senate
• The Supreme Court
• State and local government websites from Piper Resources
• Statesearch, state-level information on a variety of topics
• GPO Access searches the Federal Register, U.S. Code, Congressional bills and other Government publications
• Thomas, the Library of Congress information service. Also try the experimental Web catalog
• Census Bureau home page, 1990 Census tables and Ferret, for recent population and income data
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Criminal justice links assembled by Cecil Greek at Florida State University
• APBNews.com crime news and information, including police scanners from major cities.
• United States Geological Survey, current earthquake information and Earthquake Information Center
• National Hurricane Center
• United Nations and U.N. Web locator
• The European Journalism page
• Newsahead upcoming news events around the globe
• FindLaw has an extensive collection of legal links
• KnowX Free and low-cost information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and other public filings for businesses and individuals
• WebGator has a variety of useful investigative links
• Federal Aviation Administration databases of airline safety reports
• Landings Comprehensive aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports, pilot certifications
• UniSci gives updates on scientific research at U.S. universities
• Top 200 Government contractors from Government Executive
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has links and information, including a fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request. (This list of Federal freedom of information officers may be useful, as well as this New York State FOI page)
• The Freedom Forum Journalism, journalism education and first amendment issues
• Telecommunications information resources: social, economic, political
• The Smoking Gun presents (undigested) documents obtained from court files and through freedom of information requests
• John Makulowich's list of web resources
• Business & Finance references are available from Business Connections

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The Reference Desk

• Research It all-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators, more
• LibrarySpot Extensive guide to online reference works
• YourDictionary.com and Onelook give access to hundreds of dictionaries, specialized and general
• Encyclopaedia Britannica The one and only.
• Roget's Internet Thesaurus
• Information Please Almanac Almanac, dictionary and the full Columbia Encyclopedia
• Biography.com offers brief, cross-referenced biographies of more than 25,000 notables.
• Travlang language-to-language translation dictionaries
• Shark Talk: Nolo's Law Dictionary

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• The Elements of Style The 1918 version
• C.I.A. World Factbook
• Library of Congress, including Marvel and Locis
• The New York Public Library
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library
• National Library of Medicine and Medline
• Carl Uncover Free citations from 17,000 publications; charge for full articles
• The Merck Manual guide to diseases
• RxList: The Internet Drug Index Extensive information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs
• Nutrient database from the U.S.D.A.
• Law Guru gives access to hundreds of legal search engines and the Internet Law Library
• Lawoffice.com from West's Legal Directory and Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer Locator
• The U.S. Constitution
• U.S. Patents since 1971, from I.B.M.
• The Bible Browser
• I.R.S. information and publications. For more tax sites, try taxsites.com.
• Citynet guide to Net information in and about major cities
• Metroscope city, business, entertainment guides for major cities
• National Geographic's Map Machine
• Mapquest gives a street-level map for any U.S. address
• Social Security death index
• Consumer World has consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
• Currency converter from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
• Cost-of-living calculator and other useful tools
• How Far Is It? gives the distance between two cities
• U.S. Naval Observatory clock

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Telephone & E-mail Directories

• Anywho from AT&T has fast, clear directory service, and a reverse directory
• Switchboard nationwide telephone and address directory
• InfoSpace personal, business and goverment phone, fax and e-mail
• Zip2 Yellow Pages lets you search businesses by name, category, or distance from your home
• Directory of toll free numbers from Infospace
• Superpages.com (was Big Yellow) National business yellow pages and residential listings from Verizon
• 555-1212.com National and international phone and e-mail directories
• Thomas Register of Manufacturers
• WhoWhere, Internet Address Finder and Yahoo People Finder can help find e-mail addresses
• Network Solutions domain name database
• Zip Code and Zip+4 Finder Simple and efficient, but sometimes busy. Also try the Postal Service.

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Publications on the Net

• ABC News offers top news, including the current ABC radio report, and (large) video clips.
• Agence France-Presse world report from Yahoo Asia
• BBC News British Broadcasting Corporation
• CNN Interactive and CNNfn
• Fox News Clean, simple search of AP and Reuters wires
• MSNBC, from Microsoft and NBC News
• NPR Online from National Public Radio

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• Boston.com, from The Boston Globe
• CNet combines computer news, reviews, software and services. Tech news is at news.com
• The Electronic Telegraph from The Daily Telegraph of London
• The Gate, from the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
• Los Angeles Times
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• San Jose Mercury News
• The Times of London
• USA Today
• The Wall Street Journal (Also see DowJones.com, a free business portal)
• The Washington Post

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• Inside News and gossip from the worlds of media and entertainment
• Media Central, from Cowles New Media, stays on top of media and marketing
• MediaNews (formerly Mediagossip) Jim Romenesko offers media news from everywhere
• NewsHub culls technology business headlines from major Web sites
• News Index and TotalNews search for breaking news on the Web
• 1stHeadlines offers headlines from 50-some news organizations.
• Newspaper archives on the Web from the Special Libraries Association
• Wired News and Newsbot

Magazines & Features

• The Atlantic
• CareerPath.com,a classified ad service from many newspapers (including The Times)
• The Drudge Report
• Law.com has merged several sources of legal news into a single site
• Mr. Showbiz, entertainment news and gossip from Starwave
• National Enquirer The supermarket tabloid comes to the Web
• The New Yorker More and less than the venerable magazine
• The Onion and Modern Humorist Comic relief
• Rolling Stone
• Slate, Feed and Salon Three flavors of cyber-literary-trend publications
• Thrive Health and fitness features and information
• United Media, a collection of comics
• U.S. News

Guides to Many Publications

• Newslink, a guide to newspapers, magazines and broadcast organizations.
• Ecola's 24 hour newsstand, quick and easy access to web sites of more than 900 publications
• Electric Book Newspapers, magazines, e-zines and books online
• Editor & Publisher's MediaInfo Links also read Steve Outing's Stop the Presses column here.)
• Newspaper Association of America
• The Electronic Newsstand
• Project Gutenberg puts out-of-copyright literary works online
• AdCritic.com TV commercials in Quicktime format

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Politics

• Project Vote Smart, a guide to candidates and issues
• All Politics from CNN with Time magazine
• The Empire Page links to major news headlines on politics each day, emphasizing New York
• Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions
• Federal Election Commission data in a more useful format, compiled by two former F.E.C. employees
  • Politics Navigator, also from The Times on the Web, has more political links

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The New York Region

• New York City Reference, a subject guide to sites on all aspects of the city
• NYC Blue has New York web sites in easy-to-use tabular form
• New York Today Arts, entertainment, restaurants and New York life from The New York Times
• CitySearch NYC, a guide to arts and entertainment
• Digital City New York from America Online
• The Paperless Guide to New York City, from Mediabridge (updated sporadically)

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• NYC.gov, New York City's official web site
• Guide to New York City Government Government contacts, from the Public Advocate's office
• The Official I Love New York State Tourism Guide
• M.T.A. maps and schedules for subways, Long Island Railroad, Metro North

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• New York City Culture Guide and Calendar from the Alliance for the Arts
• Playbill On-Line, Theatre.com and Broadway.com will help you find Broadway, off-Broadway, national and international theater listings

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• The New York Daily News
• The New York Post
• Newsday
• New York 1 has a nice build-a-newscast feature.
• The New York Observer
• The Village Voice
• papermag.com, virtual sister to the magazine of the Downtown scene

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• New Jersey Online
• New Jersey Web

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Commerce

• Amazon.com Books, music, videos, games, electronics, auctions -- and growing
• Barnesandnoble.com and Borders have books and music to enjoy off line.
• Bizrate compares prices and lets you see how fellow consumers rate online merchants
• BizWeb: Internet commercial sites by category
• Buyer's Index searches 19,000 Web sites and catalogs for the product you seek.
• CD Now and Tunes.com Online music stores
• Ebay The online auction house
• Internet Fashion Mall
• NetMarket has discounts on brand name goods.
• PriceLine lets you name your own price for travel, cars or mortgages, and see if anyone will bite.
• PriceScan and PriceGrabber compare prices for computer hardware and software, electronics, movies and books.
• Product Review Net Reviews of products from a variety of publications
• Travelocity, Biztravel, Expedia, Trip.com and Orbitz have airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information
• Travelzoo collects special travel offers from many sites

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Entertainment/Culture/Pastimes

• The Internet Movie Database
• Movielink from 777-FILM has theater times and advance ticket purchases in major cities
• Ticketmaster has information and tickets for music, theater and sporting events
• Film.com News from the movie industry, as well as links to film resources and studios around the Web
• Reel surveys your movie tastes and recommends ones it thinks you'll like
• Atom Films offers short films and animations on the Web

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• TV Guide Now includes an extensive movie database
• Ultimate Television Network, a guide to everything TV-related on the Web
• Gist provides customized TV listings
• PBS Online
• The Discovery Channel Online

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• Culturefinder has schedules for the performing arts around the U.S.
• National Endowment for the Arts
• World Wide Arts Resources
• NWHQ:Independent artists on the Web
• The Louvre More fun to visit in person, but you can see many exhibits without leaving home.
• Art on the Net, an exhibit by 80 artists, and links to other art sites

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• Yahoo events (formerly Broadcast.com) Audio and video of all sorts, from all over
• mp3.com makes a wide variety of music available in its eponymous Internet format
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Internet Underground Music Archives
• Classical Music Archive Thousands of classical music samples in midi format
• Epicurious, the Food Network, Recipes from the Net and Gemini and Leo's recipe links will help you answer the question, "What's for dinner?"
• Wine Spectator and WineToday.com have ratings and reviews of thousands of wines

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Sports & Recreation

• ESPN SportsZone
• Sportsline from CBS
• CNN/SI from CNN and Sports Illustrated
• The Sports Network gives up to the minute news and results
• Allsports has news, scores, odds, audio feeds and more
• Total Sports well organized sports news, plus Head to Head Baseball, which lets you compete online with others using real players' stats.
• NFL.com from the N.F.L.
• majorleaguebaseball.com from Major League Baseball
• GORP, the Great Outdoor Recreation Pages, has extensive information on parks and outdoor activities of all sorts
• The WWW Bicycle Lane A bit dated, but still a good collection of links
• The Tennis Server and Tennis Country have news, schedules, rules and more
• GolfWeb, GolfDigest.com and Golf.com cover the golf world

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Demonstrations and Miscellany

• Cool Site of the Day
• Useless Pages Useless, maybe, but fun.
• Ghost Sites of the Web will guide you to some of the rusting hulks along the information superhighway.
• QuickBrowse lets you combine and fetch Web pages you frequently read into one long page.
• The F.B.I.'s Most Wanted
• eHow.com teaches you how to do useful everyday things
• How Stuff Works tells you just that
• Dead People Server might answer the question, "What ever happened to . . ."
• Sites for parents and children from the American Library Association
• Internet virus myths and Virus hoax information Check here before you pass along that grave warning
• Sodaconstructor lets you make models of masses and springs -- and makes your time disappear
• Tarot Card Reader, I Ching and more
• Riddler will help keep you from your work
• Elvis Presley's Graceland, the official home page, and the unofficial Elvis home page
• iVillage and women.com concentrate on the women's interests.
• Gay.com, Planet Out and Queer Resources Directory have news and information for gay people
• Earthcam and Jasbits Netcams have links to live cameras all over the Net

Jerry's Christian Links

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Hotmail
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Lycos
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Metacrawler
Mindspring
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New Bookmark
Open Directory
Password.Net
Planet Direct
Portalmix
Prodigy
Schwab
Snap
Suite101
Thatweb
The Globe
Visto
Web Portals
Webcrawler
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