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Author: admin January 23, 2008

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Associations
A database that links to over 6,500 associations by searching on association name, keyword category, city, and state (from the American Society of Association Executives)

Ask X-search engine from Ask.com which combines images, video and text in search results. Uncovers useful tidbits buried by other search engines.

Art Cyclopedia - guide to art on the internet

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Bargainist-The Bargainist finds the best deals around on just about everything. From gadgets to clothes, you’ll always read about the hottest bargains, sales, coupons, and freebies right here.

Berkeley Digital Library - The American Heritiage Project, Catalonian Manuscripts, Emma Goldman Papers, Incunabula Database, and more

Boston Consulting Group Free Publications - with a focus on business topics and industries

British Library

Bug Me Not - Bypass compulsory registration

C

Card Sorting

ComicSpace - a wiki for comic enthusiasts

Cruise Critic

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Doing Business-foreign trade data, corporate taxation report for 178 countries, and country reports. The source of information is primarily the World Bank.

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EuropeForVisitors.com

Etsy–buy and sell all things handmade

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Fast Facts for Congress–information from the Census Bureau regarding Congress

Feedster- search engine for blogs

Firefox - The best browser

Free Thesaurus - good for building taxonomies

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Get Human - a list of companies with instructions to get to a human using their customer service numbers.

Go2web20-new web 2.0 companies and products. Site has Ajax properties.

GreatSchools.net–school rankings

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House and Senate Membersa guide to the House and Senate Members of the 110th Congress is intended to be a single point of access for Member information from several different official sources.

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Infoplease

Internet Archive Wayback Machine

K

Killer StartUps

L

Librarians Internet Index

Library Arcade -features games designed to help students develop research skills through entertaining and easy-to-repeat activities

N

National Archives Databases

National Film Registry - from the Library of Congress

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Our Story-write and publish your own book

OpenCongress

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Pew Internet & American Life Project - produces reports that explore the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life


Politifact- is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign.

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Ratemyprofessors- listing of collegiate professor ratings, with more than 6.8 million student-generated ratings of over 1 million professors. Useful aide for students plan their class schedules. The site rates current and past professors on attributes such as helpfulness and clarity.

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Searchmash-a search engine made by google that brings up images, text and video all together in the results. Interesting to see if the functionality becomes part of google.

Search Wikia - search engine from the founder of Wikipedia

ShadowTV-monitor TV programs on the Web

SiloBreaker - contextual graphs for news

Song the day you were born - number one song on a particular day in history

Squidoo - A community where you can share your expertise and learn from others

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Tabblo

Trulia-cool real estate mashup

V

Viator.com

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Web2.0- the phrase Web 2.0 can refer to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users.

Wikimedia


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Zillow - real estate information

Zoho -an online meeting service to show and share your desktop online

Zoomii - cool Amazon books interface