Revised: The Best 2008 Activist's People Resource Guide

by Lynda Carson Sunday, Jun. 15, 2008 at 2:08 PM
tenantsrule@yahoo.com

Welcome to The Best 2008 Activist's People Search Resource Guide... Seek & Yee Shall Find... As a companion guide, don't miss the Best 2007 Activist's Information Source... See below...



The Best 2007 Activist's Information Source
(Click here for the best information source)

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/27/18405859.php

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Wiki Leaks
(Finding leaked documents, or posting leaked documents)

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks

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The Way Back Machine
(For hard to open archived web pages that may have seemed lost, shut down or disappeared. )

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

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Non profit search engine

http://www.greatnonprofits.org

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Pipl -- A comprehensive people search? You decide...
(Deep Web People Search)

http://www.pipl.com/

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Unclaimed Property Search / California
(Money or property - The big surprise is that you or friends may have money sitting there. )

http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/

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Government Public Records Data Base

http://gov-reports.net/search.php?search=BRTH&title=Birth%20Records

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(Excellant People/Property Search)
People Data

http://www.peopledata.com/

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(Excellant People/Property Search)
Zaba Search

http://www.zabasearch.com/

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Free: Family History & Genealogy Records

http://www.familysearch.org/

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Western States Marriage Search

http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/Search.cfm

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Birth Data Base

http://www.birthdatabase.com/

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California Death Records

http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi

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Social Security Death Index Base

http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

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California Court Records

http://www.freeprf.com/californiacourts.html

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Criminal Records Database

http://www.freeprf.com/criminal.html

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Political Contributions

http://www.opensecrets.org/states/index.asp

http://www.opensecrets.org/

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Campaign Donors

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php

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Alameda County Public Records - California

http://rechart1.co.alameda.ca.us/

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Alameda County Clerk Recorders Office
(Real Property Sales & Transfers)

http://rechart1.acgov.org/

http://www.acgov.org/auditor/clerk/propertysearch.htm

http://www.acgov.org/auditor/clerk/

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Property Assessment -- Alameda County, California

http://www.acgov.org/MS/prop/index.aspx

http://www.acgov.org/prop_assessment_app/index.jsp

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National Victim Resources
(Who's about to be released)

https://www.vinelink.com/vinelink/initMap.do

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Marin County Jail Public Booking Log - California

http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/SO/bklog/XMLProj/index.asp

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California Wanted Persons Search Engine - On-line Warrant Search

http://ag.ca.gov/wanted/wanted_search.php

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Free Prison Inmate Locators

http://www.ancestorhunt.com/prison_search.htm

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Federal Inmate Locator

http://www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/index.jsp

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Sex Offenders Search Engine

http://meganslaw.ca.gov/search_main.asp?searchtype=name

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National Data Base of Sex Offenders

http://www.nsopr.gov/

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Roots Web Data Base
(Search millions of original documents)

http://searches.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

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ARIN Who Is Database
(internet customers/users)

http://ws.arin.net/whois/

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All Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823141133/http://allsearchengines.com/

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Search Engines

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Search+Engines&btnG=Search

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Attorney Search / California

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_adv.aspx

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Air Craft Registry Inquiry

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/

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Check a license by contractor name - California

http://www2.cslb.ca.gov:80/General-Information/interactive-tools/check-a-license/Name+Request.asp

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Contractor license status check

http://www2.cslb.ca.gov/CSLB_LIBRARY/License+Request.asp

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Check a home improvement salesperson registration by registration number - California

http://www2.cslb.ca.gov:80/General-Information/interactive-tools/check-a-license/HIS+Request.asp

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Check a license by personnel name - California

http://www2.cslb.ca.gov:80/General-Information/interactive-tools/check-a-license/Personnel+Request.asp

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Home improvement salesperson registration status check - California

http://www2.cslb.ca.gov/CSLB_LIBRARY/HIS+Name+Request.asp

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Unique Books & Publications
(Recommended for Adults Only - Not for Children - Note: Loomponics went out of business)


Survival & Self Sufficiency Titles
(Loomponics is out of business, but the books may be available elsewhere)

http://web.archive.org/web/19970111022830/www.loompanics.com/self.htm


Loomponics Book Sellers (1997 Book List)
(Loomponics is out of business, but the books may still be available elsewhere)

http://web.archive.org/web/19970412130351/www.loompanics.com/contents.htm


New Falcon Publications
(Unique)

http://newfalcon.com/


Underground Books

http://www.fsbookco.com/aaaundergroundbooks.html


Rare Books

http://www.fsbookco.com/aaaRareUsedOOPbooks.html


Ronin Books for Independent Minds

http://www.roninpub.com/


Delta Press Catalog

http://www.deltapress.com/catalog/


FS Book Company

http://www.fsbookco.com/


AK Press

http://akpress.com/


Paladin Books (More Loomponics Titles)

http://www.paladin-press.com/loompanics.aspx

http://www.paladin-press.com/


Eden Press

http://www.edenpress.com/


Lehmans Books (simple living)

http://tinyurl.com/3bdnsa


Locksmith Books

http://tinyurl.com/2g9rl9


Uncle Fester Books

http://www.unclefesterbooks.com/


High Times

http://hightimes.com/


LOOMPONICS (More links to Loomponics)
Loomponics has gone out of business.
(But the books may still be available elsewhere)


Loomponics (1996) Catolog Index

http://web.archive.org/web/19970111022237/www.loompanics.com/catalog.htm


Loomponics Booklist

http://tinyurl.com/yp97uc

http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/Index.htm

http://www.loompanics.com/43.html


Loomponics Going Out Of Business Sale

http://tinyurl.com/2y952p


Alphabetical List of Loomponics Books

http://tinyurl.com/27qbak


Archived Pages of Loomponics

http://web.archive.org/web/*/loompanics.com/*

http://tinyurl.com/yvwqtl


Archived Issues of Loomponics

http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/loompanics.com/


Loomponics Catalog Index (year - 1998)

http://web.archive.org/web/19980610213356/www.loompanics.com/content.htm


Loomponics Articles Index

http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/index.html


loompanics.com/
(All pages between Nov 11, 1998 and Jan 26, 2007)

http://web.archive.org/web/*sa_/http://loompanics.com/


Welcome to Loomponics (1996)

http://web.archive.org/web/19970111022216/http://www.loompanics.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/19970111022237/www.loompanics.com/catalog.htm


Loomponics Home Page (1999)

http://web.archive.org/web/19990203141823/www.loompanics.com/shop/

http://web.archive.org/web/*/loompanics.com/*


Anarchism & Egoism Titles
(Loomponics is out of business - but books may be available elsewhere)

http://web.archive.org/web/19970111022946/www.loompanics.com/anar.htm#101


List of Heresy/Weird Ideas Titles

http://web.archive.org/web/19970111022924/www.loompanics.com/heresy.htm#LOOMPANICS


List of Paralegal Skills Titles
(The Outlaws Bible)

http://web.archive.org/web/19970111022840/www.loompanics.com/legal.htm


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US Securities and Exchange Commision
Search SEC documents
(Edgar database)

http://www.sec.gov/search/search.htm

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NASA employee search

http://directory.nasa.gov/index.html

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Executive Profiles

http://www.hoovers.com/free/

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Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

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Fictitious Business Name Search - Orange County

http://cr.ocgov.com/fbn/index.asp

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(Public Records)
State, Local & City Databases

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/states/state_and_local_databases.htm

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San Mateo Superior Court - California

http://www.sanmateocourt.org/

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Voter Registration Databases

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/category/voter_registration_databases.htm

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Street Address Verification & Information

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/category/street_address_verification.htm

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Property Records

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/category/PropertyRecords/index.htm

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Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/

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Free California County Marriage Records

http://www.genwed.com/state/cagen2.htm

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Free Public Records Directory
(State & Local Government Data Bases To Obtain Public Records Freely)

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/

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Court Records -- On Line

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/category/court_records.htm

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Military Personell Databases & Lookups

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/category/military_databases.htm

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Cemetary Searches & Social Security Death Indexes

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/category/cemetery_searches.htm

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Library and Archives of Canada

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/index-e.html

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Roots Web - ancestors

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

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National Data Base -- Fire arms license check & more...

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/national.htm

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Butte County Superior Court Search - California

http://www.buttecourt.ca.gov/online_index/CMSSearch.cfm?URLdc=y

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Newspaper Websites

http://library.manor.edu/newspapers.htm

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Newspapers, US & Worldwide

http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html

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Locate Classmates

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/category/classmate%20search.htm

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Flickr on-line photo album search, people or groups

http://www.flickr.com/search/people/

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U.S. Infant Mortality Database (2000 - 2004)

http://www.scrippsnews.com/sids/database/

http://scrippsnews.s10113.gridserver.com/

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Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)
(Access to public records.)

http://www.dfeh.ca.gov/publications/pubRecordAccess.aspx

Filing housing or employment complaints...

http://www.dfeh.ca.gov/complaints/Default.aspx

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Corporate Information Search

http://www.publicdatacenter.com/category/company_search.htm

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The Bay Area's 45 Worst Slumlords

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2000/09/01/17492.php

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PEOPLE SEARCH ENGINES


Telephone Directories - telephone, fax and business directories to 150 countries

http://www.infobel.com/en/world/

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EarthCam - a searchable database of live cameras pointing to all kinds of places

http://www.earthcam.com/

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Ultimate White Pages

http://www.theultimates.com/white/

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Ultimate E-Mail Directory

http://www.theultimates.com/white/

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Ultimate Yellow Pages

http://www.theultimates.com/yellow/

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Dogpile -- Free People Search Listings

http://tinyurl.com/68a94b

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People Finder Search Engines

http://www.justlawlinks.com/SEARCH/cepeople.php

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People Search Engines

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/search.people.html

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Personal Information Search

http://www.nettrace.com.au/resource/search/people.html

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People Search -- Global

http://www.people-search-global.com/

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Switchboard - People Locator

http://www.switchboard.com/

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People Search -- General searches & Obits

http://www.ecocoma.com/peoplesearch_marketing.aspx

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Pandia People Search

http://www.pandia.com/people/

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Pipl -- The most comprehensive people search on the web?

http://www.pipl.com/

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People Search

http://wink.com/

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Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/

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Peek You

http://www.peekyou.com/

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Yo Name

http://www.yoname.com/

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Linked In

http://www.linkedin.com/

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Riya -- links to images

http://www.riya.com/

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Friendster

http://www.friendster.com/

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Spock

http://www.spock.com/

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Zoom Info

http://www.zoominfo.com/

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Explode

http://tinyurl.com/4pl3k7

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The Internet Address Book

http://www.internetaddressbook.com/

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Socialgrapes

http://www.socialgrapes.com/

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Celebrity Addresses

http://www.addresses.site2go.com/

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Abika

http://www.abika.com/

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Any Student (search for college students)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070202164436/www.anystudent.com/

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Any Who

http://web.archive.org/web/20070404152244/www.anywho.com/

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Big Foot (advanced people search)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070302151842/http://www.bigfoot.com/

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Docu Search (DMV, telephone, criminal, etc..)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070306215025/www.docusearch.com/

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Internet Movie Database

http://www.imdb.com/

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IAF - Internet address finder
(Profiles on actors, directors and producers)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070304221350/www.iaf.net/

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IQ Data -- Sec's states, county, criminal, civil, UCC, tax lien, judgment, federal & bankruptcy.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070306030504/www.iqdata.com/

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InfoSpace -The best people finder, white pages, reverse lookup.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070303164259/www.infospace.com/

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People Finder

http://web.archive.org/web/20070302020517/www.infousa.com/

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Know X -- public records

http://web.archive.org/web/20070306033912/www.knowx.com/

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Lost People -- Asset search, criminal records, FBI files.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070227165314/www.lostpeople.com/

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Switch Board -- People, addresses, phone numbers.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070303032530/www.switchboard.com/

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White Pages

www.whitepages.com/9901/

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Who, Where -- From Lycos. Look for people, celebrities.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070405122319/www.whowhere.lycos.com/

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Yahoo People Search

http://web.archive.org/web/20070302151842/http://people.yahoo.com/

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Federal Bureau of Prisons Website

http://www.bop.gov/

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Federal Prison Inmate Locater

http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/LocateInmate.jsp

http://www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/index.jsp

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Criminal Records/Federal

http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/criminal_records_federal.shtml

http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/criminal_records.shtml

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People Search Engines
(Great resource to track people down)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070826210101/http://www.allsearchengines.com/people.html

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Directories

http://www.411locate.com

White Pages:

http://www.go.com/White_Pages

Yellow Pages:

http://www.yellow.com

E-Mail:

http://www.411locate.com/email.htm

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Alameda County Property Assessment Information

http://www.acgov.org/prop_assessment_app/index.jsp

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Pretrieve Search Engine
(Free Public Record Search Engine)

Search thousands of official public record sites to find free court records, free criminal records, property records, and more. Find people, property, criminal and civil cases, and other background check information quickly, easily, and free.

http://www.pretrieve.com/

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Virtual Chase
(Legal Professional Research Site)

http://www.virtualchase.com/

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Public Records Free Directory

http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/

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Investigative Guide To Internet Research
(Seek & Yee Shall Find)

http://www.journalismnet.com/

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Website Domain Search

http://www.whois.ws/

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US Personal Databases

http://www.journalismnet.com/people/uspersons.htm

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Spy on People

http://www.journalismnet.com/spy/

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US Criminal Databases

http://www.journalismnet.com/people/uscrime.htm

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Finding Someones E-mail Address

http://www.journalismnet.com/people/email.htm

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The Largest Public Records Directory

http://www.searchsystems.net/

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Background Checks

http://www.efindoutthetruth.com/

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Company Information Guide/Public Records

http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/public_records.shtml

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Parcel Quest Search Engine
[A California Property Search Engine -- Assessor's Data Base]
A resource to track down people in California, learn what properties they own, how much they paid for it , etc...

(Sign up for "2 day Free Demo" to do property searches in California)

http://www.parcelquest.com/

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National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/is/ncic.htm

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ZInternet (driving records, etc...)

http://www.zinternet.com/

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Geneaology SEs


Search term -- American Plantations and Colonies

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Ancestry

http://web.archive.org/web/20070228163746/www.ancestry.com/

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Census on-line

http://web.archive.org/web/20070305235150/www.census-online.com/

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Cyndis List

http://www.cyndislist.com/

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Everton Publishers

http://web.archive.org/web/20070303134541rn_3/www.everton.com/

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Family Search -- Mormon Sight

http://web.archive.org/web/20070315231109/www.familysearch.org/

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Family Tree Maker

http://web.archive.org/web/20070302151842/http://www.familytreemaker.com/

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Family Tree Searcher

http://web.archive.org/web/20070306111111/www.familytreesearcher.com/

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Gendex

http://www.gendex.com/

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Kindred Konnections

http://web.archive.org/web/20070304103254/www.kindredkonnections.com/

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The Olive Tree Connection

http://web.archive.org/web/20070308113208/www.rootsweb.com/~ote/

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Roots Web

http://web.archive.org/web/20070228115337/www.rootsweb.com/


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Social Security Death Index

http://web.archive.org/web/20070301051332rn_2/www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693

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US Gen Web Project -- Free service

http://web.archive.org/web/20070305220902/www.usgenweb.com/

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Westland Publications

www.theriver.com/westlandpubn/

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---Information & Search Engine Links---

Banned Books

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_books

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Banned Films

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_films

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Anyday in History - search by month and day to see what happened on that day.

http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/

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Search Engine Resources

http://www.refdesk.com/newsrch.html

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Federal Government Links

http://www.firstgov.gov/

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Investigators Guide To Sources of Information

http://www.fas.org/irp/gao/osi-97-2/soi_ch5.htm#PAGE187

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Wikileaks
(Leaks to media)

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks

http://www.wikileaks.org/

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks

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Military Accident Reports

http://www.accident-report.com/

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Gov -- Search Engines

http://usasearch.gov/search?v%3Aproject=firstgov-web&query=Search+Engines

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Government Resources - Links

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/govweb.html

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Fed World

http://www.fedworld.gov/

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Major Resources - Search Engines

http://www.librarieshawaii.org/information/links/searchen.htm

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50 States - Links

http://www.50states.com/

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Large Search Engine List -- Nice List

http://www.accesscom.com/~ziegler/search.html

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Serious Games & Simulations

http://www.fas.org/programs/ltp/games/index.html

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Major Search Engine Page -- Great Source

http://www.harrold.org/rfhextra/srchhelp.html

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Page of Multi-Search Engines -- Nice Choice

http://www.bjorgul.com/

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Proteus

http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html

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Search Engine Resource

http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/searchengines.html

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Yahoo Search Engines -- Huge Resource List

http://tinyurl.com/3k8fs6

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Virtual Search Engines -- Secrets

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/search.secrets.html

Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20010513084408/set.gmd.de/~surmann/wsearch.html

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Search Engine Collossus
(International Directory of Search Engines)

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/

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700 search engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20010513084408/set.gmd.de/~surmann/wsearch.html

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Free Web Hosting

http://www.cjb.net/

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Google

http://www.google.com/

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The Search Box

http://www.thesearchbox.com/

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Anonymouse (surfing & e-mails)

http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html

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Stealth Surfing

http://www.cjb.net/proxy.html

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Anonymous Surfing

http://www.findnot.com/

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E-Zines

http://www.e-zine-list.com/

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Ampersand -The best of the web.

www.arrowweb.com/amp/

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A2Z -Lycos directory of popularly linked websites.

www.a2z.lycos.com/

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Government Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20060810184015/allsearchengines.com/government.html

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Federal Data Base of Research & Development

https://radius.rand.org/radius/index.html

Overview of Federal R&D Funding

https://radius.rand.org/radius/federal_rd.html

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Lexus Nexus

http://www.lexisnexis.com/

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Bright Planet -- deep internet search

http://www.brightplanet.com/

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Nerac - patent & intellectual property research

http://www.nerac.com/

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Electric Library

http://www.elibrary.com/libweb/elib/do/login

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National Science Foundation

http://www.nsf.gov/

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Search Engines, other...

http://web.archive.org/web/20061205061639/allsearchengines.com/other.html

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Foreign Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070408010921/allsearchengines.com/foreign.html

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Regional US/Canada Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070404070847/allsearchengines.com/usregional.html

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People Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070302151842/allsearchengines.com/people.html

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Legal Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070821151341/allsearchengines.com/legal.html

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Library Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070813193422/allsearchengines.com/libraries.html

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Software & Computer Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20060613011003/allsearchengines.com/software.html

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Web Directories

http://web.archive.org/web/20061205061223/allsearchengines.com/directories.html

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News & Weather Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20060613011809/allsearchengines.com/newsweather.html

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Health & Medicine Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070824041223/allsearchengines.com/healthmed.html

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Point

http://www.pointcom.com/

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Science & Technology Search Engines

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Science+%26+Technology+Search+Engines&btnG=Google+Search

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Arts & Humanities Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070320134350/allsearchengines.com/arts.html

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Book Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20060613011130/allsearchengines.com/books.html

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Education Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070810145747/allsearchengines.com/education.html

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Web & On-line search engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070629071729/allsearchengines.com/webonline.html

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All Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.allsearchengines.com/



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Revised: Best 2007 Activist's Information Source

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/27/18405859.php

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Newspaper Websites

http://library.manor.edu/newspapers.htm

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Newspapers, US & Worldwide

http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html

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Search Engines

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Search+Engines&btnG=Search

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All Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823141133/http://allsearchengines.com/

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Meta Search Engines - Some of the best

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823060313/allsearchengines.com/meta.html

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Alta Vista - Translations

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823193248/www.altavista.com/

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DMOZ

http://web.archive.org/web/20070824170606rn_1/www.dmoz.org/

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Excit- webcrawler

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823053633/www.webcrawler.com/

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Lycos

http://web.archive.org/web/20070822161054/www.lycos.com/

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(One of the best)
Ixquick

http://web.archive.org/web/20070819171653/www.ixquick.com/

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Wisenut

http://web.archive.org/web/20070812232009/www.wisenut.com/

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(Great Search Engine)
All The Web

http://web.archive.org/web/20070807174505/www.alltheweb.com/

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Teoma (Great Relevancy)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070614081803/www.ask.com/

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(Super target your search)
Acoona

http://web.archive.org/web/20070605234453/www.accoona.com/

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Live Search

http://web.archive.org/web/20070607075855/www.live.com/

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Hog Search

http://web.archive.org/web/20070202035451/hs.qsrch.com/dpark?s=hogsearch.com&prt=hs01

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Meta Search Engines List

Ask Jeeves

http://web.archive.org/web/20070807104426/www.ask.com/

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Brightgate -- 94 search engines in one

http://web.archive.org/web/20070626172714/www.brightgate.com/

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All 4 one

http://web.archive.org/web/20070617050044/www.all4one.com/

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Draze - Google, Yahoo, & MSN all in one...

http://web.archive.org/web/20070817235829/www.2trom.com/

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800 Go -- 12 search engines in one

http://web.archive.org/web/20040728081455/www.800go.com/

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Copernic

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823003220/www.copernic.com/

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Cyber 411

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823003220/www.copernic.com/

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Debriefing

http://web.archive.org/web/20070612143905/www.debriefing.com/

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Dogplie -- One of the best

http://web.archive.org/web/20070811170640/www.dogpile.com/

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Find It

http://web.archive.org/web/20070515081619rn_1/www.itools.com/

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Fly Catcher

http://web.archive.org/web/20070629214141/www.fly-catcher.com/

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Genie Knows

http://web.archive.org/web/20070406221351/genieknows.com/

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Gosh Darn

http://web.archive.org/web/20070822022936/goshdarn.com/

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Go Hip

http://web.archive.org/web/20060712093823/www.gohip.com/

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Highway 61

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823060313/http://www.highway61.com/

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Inference (good one)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070614110429/www.inference.com/

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Internav (good)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070827072707/internav.net/

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Inforia Quest 98 (organizes hundreds of search engines)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070604134443/www.inforia.com/quest/index.asp

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Mama

http://web.archive.org/web/20070701162158/www.mamma.com/

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Match Site

http://web.archive.org/web/20070816102212/www.matchsite.com/

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Metabug

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823060313/http://www.metabug.com/

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Metacrawler (excellant)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070808092108/www.metacrawler.com/

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Meta Find

http://web.archive.org/web/20070629155443/www.metafind.com/

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Meta Gopher

http://web.archive.org/web/20070819154035/www.metagopher.com/

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Multi Media (bi-lingual search engine)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823020509/www.multimeta.com/

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Meta Search

http://web.archive.org/web/20070812191713/www.metasearch.com/

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One Seek

http://web.archive.org/web/20070819052510/www.oneseek.com/

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Pro Fusion

http://web.archive.org/web/20050202085651rn_1/www.profusion.com/

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Savvy Search

http://www.savvysearch.com

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Search Spaniel

www.searchspaniel.com/

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Surf Wax

http://web.archive.org/web/20070812023524/www.surfwax.com/

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Search Spell - (spelling search engines)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070821025815/www.searchspell.com/

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Surfy

http://web.archive.org/web/20070819123727/www.surfy.com/

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The Big Hub

http://web.archive.org/web/20070817152131/www.thebighub.com/

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To Crawl

http://www.tocrawl.com/

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Web Assyst -- 11 search engines in one

http://web.archive.org/web/20070806001424rn_1/www.webassyst.com/index.html

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Web Info Search

http://web.archive.org/web/20070629114749/www.webinfosearch.com/

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Web Taxi

http://web.archive.org/web/20070610173917/www.webtaxi.com/


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Reference Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20061205024137/allsearchengines.com/reference.html


Dictionary .com

http://web.archive.org/web/20061216020637/dictionary.reference.com/

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Encylopedia .com

http://web.archive.org/web/20061205072251/www.encyclopedia.com/

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Encylopedia Brittania

http://web.archive.org/web/20061205100700/www.eb.com/

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Info Please Almanac

http://www.informationplease.com/

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Info Jump -- 5 million pieces of information

www.infojump.com/

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Merriam Webster Dictionary

http://web.archive.org/web/20061208205031/www.m-w.com/

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Reference .com Search for organizations and groups.

www.reference.com/

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Research It

www.itools.com/

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Wikipedia

http://web.archive.org/web/20061116164348/www.wikipedia.org/

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Rogers Thesaurus

http://web.archive.org/web/20061118191057/thesaurus.reference.com/

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World Book

http://web.archive.org/web/20061205024137/http://www.worldbookonline.com/

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Word Reference

http://web.archive.org/web/20061205054727/wordreference.com/

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X Reference

http://web.archive.org/web/20061211134618/www.xrefer.com/

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World Fact Book -- World facts from 2001 to 2006

http://www.worldfactbook.com/


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CIA - The World Factbook

US government profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, ...

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

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Countries of the World - 20 years of CIA World Fact Books

Countries of the World - 20 years CIA World, fact books, factbook, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, ... CIA World Factbook The current world fact book in ...


http://www.theodora.com/wfb/abc_world_fact_book.html

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The World Factbook. 2008

complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ...

http://www.bartleby.com/151/


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Government Resources

World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency). World Factbook 1991 (UMSL Libraries) ... World Factbook 2007 (UMSL Libraries) · World Factbook 2008 (CIA) ...

http://library.louisville.edu/government/goodsources/factbook.html

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World Fact Book

World Fact Book. ... Subway Maps, Translator, Travel Warnings, Vaccinations Required, Visa Information, Weather Worldwide, World Clock, World Fact Book.

http://www.worldfacts.org/

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Google Earth Community: CIA World Factbook - Population data

CIA World Factbook - Population data #862607 - 04/12/07 10:50 AM. View in Google Earth · View in Google Maps (1919 downloads) ...

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/862607/an/0/page/0

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Almanacs: World Almanac, Farmers Almanac, CIA World Fact Book

Discover a wealth of topical information in online almanacs at LibrarySpot.com.

http://www.libraryspot.com/almanacs.htm

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NASA Quest > Archives

THE CIA WORLD FACTBOOK 1994. 7/19/94. ANTARCTICA. Forest and woodland: 0%. Other: 100% (ice 98%, barren rock 2%). Irrigated land: 0 sq km ...

http://quest.nasa.gov/antarctica/background/NSF/antarctic.html

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Cell Phone Usage Worldwide, by Country — Infoplease.com

World, 2168433600, 2005. 2. European Union, 466000000, 2005 .... Source: CIA World Factbook 2007. Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, ...

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0933605.html

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Bureau of Justice Statistics The World Factbook of Criminal ...

More non-criminal justice information about these countries is available from the CIA's World Factbook. To go to the entry for a country, click on the first ...

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/wfcj.htm

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Technophilia: U.S. government web sites you didn't know you could use

factbook.png The CIA World Factbook provides detailed information for (most) every .... So someone get working on a CIA World Factbook Google Maps Mashup. ...

http://lifehacker.com/software/technophilia/us-government-web-sites-you-didnt-know-you-could-use-277405.php

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Adult Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070410025111/allsearchengines.com/adult.html

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Entertainment Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070404172409/allsearchengines.com/entertainment.html

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Foreign Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070408010921/allsearchengines.com/foreign.html

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Game Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070222015816/allsearchengines.com/games.html

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Kids Search Engines

http://web.archive.org/web/20070813192929/allsearchengines.com/kids.html

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Top Secret Umbra

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Top+Secret+Umbra&btnG=Search

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Updates on current 2009 Budget Battle

http://www.govexec.com/specialreports/budget09.htm

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Federal budget breakdown for FY 2009:
How agencies, programs fared 02/05/08
Winners and losers in President Bush's fiscal 2009 budget proposal.

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39223&dcn=todaysnews

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Newspaper Websites

http://library.manor.edu/newspapers.htm

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Newspapers, US & Worldwide

http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html

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Search Engines

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Search+Engines&btnG=Search

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Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines

By Chris Sherman, Search Engine Watch, Mar 23, 2005
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Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page. Below are some of the major metacrawlers. Also see the Search Toolbars & Utilities page for metacrawler-style software that you can run from your desktop.

Jump To:
Award Winners - Other Choices - Specialty Choices
All-In-One Search - Meta Search Articles


Award Winners

Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com
Popular metasearch site owned by InfoSpace that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually. Winner of Best Meta Search Engine award from Search Engine Watch for 2003. (Review: Dogpile Sports a Fetching New Look, SearchDay, Sept. 2, 2003. Updates: Dogpile Enhances Search Results Search Engine Watch Blog, Nov. 10, 2004 - Dogpile Adds New Features Search Engine Watch Blog, Jan. 18, 2005 )

Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com/
Enter a search term, and Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories. Slick and easy to use. Vivisimo won second place for Best Meta Search Engine in the 2003 Search Engine Watch awards and winner in 2002. (Review: Power Searching with Vivisimo, SearchDay, July 8, 2003)

Kartoo
http://www.kartoo.com
If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords. Honorable mention for Best Meta Search Engine award from Search Engine Watch in 2002.

Mamma
http://www.mamma.com
Founded in 1996, Mamma.com is one of the oldest meta search engines on the web. Mamma searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories and specialty search sites. The service also provides a paid listings option for advertisers, Mamma Classifieds. Mamma was an honorable mention for Best Meta Search Engine in the 2003 Search Engine Watch awards.

SurfWax
http://www.surfwax.com
Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to chose from a list of hundreds. Using the "SiteSnaps" feature, you can preview any page in the results and see where your terms appear in the document. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use. Honorable mention for Best Meta Search Engine award from Search Engine Watch in 2002.


Other Top Choices

Clusty
http://www.clusty.com
Clusty, from Vivisimo, presents both standard web search results and Vivisimo's dynamic clusters that automatically categorize results. Clusty allows you to use Vivisimo's dynamic clustering technology on ten different types of web content including material from the web, image, weblog and shopping databases. You can access each type of search by simply clicking a tab directly above the search box. (Review: Reducing Information Overkill, SearchDay, Sept. 30, 2004).

CurryGuide
http://web.curryguide.com/
Meta search engine for the US and several European countries, as well as in various subject areas. Has ability to save your results for easy rerunning at a future point.

Excite
http://www.excite.com
Formerly a crawled-based search engine, Excite was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but maintains its own portal features.

Fazzle
http://www.fazzle.com/
Fazzle offers a highly flexible and customizable interface to a wide variety of information sources, ranging from general web results to specialized search resources in a number of subject specific categories. Formerly called SearchOnline.

Gimenei
http://gimenei.com/
Gimenei queries an undisclosed number of search engines and removes duplicates from results. Its most useful feature is an advanced search form that allows you to limit your search to a specific country.

IceRocket
http://www.icerocket.com/
Meta search engine with thumbnail displays. The Quick View display, similar to what WiseNut has long offered, is cool. The service queries WiseNut, Yahoo, Teoma and then somewhat repetitively also includes Yahoo-powered MSN, AltaVista and AllTheWeb. Disclosure of search sources within the actual search results is not done, sadly. Makes it hard to know exactly where the results are coming from.

Info.com
http://www.info.com
Info.com provides results from 14 search engines and pay-per-click directories, including Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Kanoodle, LookSmart, About, Overture and Open Directory. Also offers shopping, news, eBay, audio and video search, as well as a number of other interesting features. (Review: New Metasearch Engine: Info.com Search Engine Watch Blog, Oct. 18, 2004)

InfoGrid
http://www.infogrid.com
In a compact format, InfoGrid provides direct links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories. Meta search and news searching is also offered.

Infonetware RealTerm Search
http://www.infonetware.com
This site is primarily designed to demonstrate classification technology from Infogistics. It's a meta search engine, and it does topical classification of results, like Vivisimo. However, it is unique in that you can select several different topics, then "drill down" to see results from all of them, rather than being restricted to the results from only one topic.

Ixquick
http://www.ixquick.com/
Meta search engine that ranks results based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the various search engines.

iZito
http://www.izito.com
iZito is a meta search engine with a clever feature. Click on any listing you are interested in using the P icon next to the listing title. That "parks" the listing into your to do list. Click on the P tab, and you can see all the pages you've culled. It's an easy, handy way to make a custom result set. Also interesting is the ability to show listings in up to three columns across the screen, letting you see more results at once. (Review: iZito & Ujiko: Meta Search With Personality Search Engine Watch Blog, Sept. 29, 2004)

Jux2
http://www.jux2.com/
This search result comparison tool is cool. It allows you to search two major search engines at the same time, then see results that are found on both first, followed by results found on only one of them next. The small overlap visual tool displayed is great. I used to make examples like this to explain search engine overlap and why one search engine may not cover everything. Now I have an easy dynamic way to do this. The stats link at the bottom of the home page provides more visuals. (Update: Jux2 Adds New Features, Search Engine Watch Blog, Oct. 13, 2004)

Meceoo
http://www.meceoo.com/
Meta search with the ability to create an "exclusion list" to block pages from particular web sites being included. For example, want to meta search only against .org sites? French version also offered.

MetaCrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com
One of the oldest meta search services, MetaCrawler began in July 1995 at the University of Washington. MetaCrawler was purchased by InfoSpace, an online content provider, in Feb. 97.

MetaEureka
http://www.metaeureka.com
Search against several major search engines and paid listings services. Offers a nice option to see Alexa info about pages that are listed.

ProFusion
http://www.profusion.com
Brings back listings from several major search engines as well as "Invisible Web" resources. Formerly based at the University of Kansas, the site was purchased by search company Intelliseek in April 2000.

Query Server
http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm
Search against major web-wide search engines, as well as major news, health, money and government search services.

Turbo10
http://turbo10.com
Turbo10 is a metasearch Engine accesses both traditional web search engines and some invisible web databases, with a very speedy interface. (Review: Make way for the contender to Google's crown, The Register, May 30, 2003)

Search.com
http://www.search.com
Search.com is a meta search engine operated by CNET. It offers both web-wide search and a wide variety of specialty search options. Search.com absorbed SavvySearch in October 1999. SavvySearch was one of the older metasearch services, around since May 1995 and formerly based at Colorado State University.

Ujiko
http://www.ujiko.com/
From the makers of visual meta search tool KartOO, this is a really slick service to try. Do your search, then scroll through the list. See something bad? Click the trash can icon, and the listing goes away. It's a great way to prune your results -- even better would have been if everything trashed brought up something new to look at. That would be a help for those who simply refuse to go past the first page of results.

See something you like? Click the heart icon and you can rate the listing. This information is memorized, to help ensure the sites you choose to better in future searches. Unlike KartOO, Ujiko uses results from only one search engine: Yahoo. It also offers many more features I haven't even yet explored, but you can learn more about them here: http://www.ujiko.com/en_htm/. Gary Price also gives a rundown here: http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2004_04_01_resourceshelf_archive.html. The only downside? Flash is required.

WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com
Formerly a crawled-based search engine owned by Excite, Webcrawler was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but offers a fast and clean, ad-free interface.

ZapMeta
http://www.zapmeta.com
Provides a variety of ways to sort the results retrieved, plus provides interesting visualization tools and other features. (Review: ZapMeta: A Promising New Meta Search Engine, Feb. 26, 2004)


Specialty Choices

The metacrawlers listed below let you meta search in specific subject areas.

Family Friendly Search
http://www.familyfriendlysearch.com
Meta search service that queries major kid-friendly search engines.

GoFish
http://www.gofish.com
Meta search service for licensed and commercially available digital media downloads including music, movies, music videos, ringtones, mobile games and PC games, searching over 12 million media files. (Review: GoFish Multimedia Shopping Search: IceRocket Deal & Closer Look, Search Engine Watch Blog, Feb. 4, 2005)

Searchy.co.uk
http://www.searchy.co.uk
Searches 15 U.K. engines. The advanced search form allows you to change the order that results are presented, either by speed or manually to suit your own preferences.

Watson for the Macintosh
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/watson.html
Watson is a "Swiss Army Knife" with nineteen interfaces to web content and services -- an improvement on Sherlock, with nearly twice as many tools, including Google Searching.


All-In-One Search Pages

Unlike metacrawlers, all-in-one search pages do not send your query to many search engines at the same time. Instead, they generally list a wide-variety of search engines and allow you to search at your choice without having to go directly to that search engine.

Google Versus Yahoo Tool
http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-google.html

See visually how results compare on Google versus Yahoo.

One Page MultiSearch Engines
http://www.bjorgul.com/
Clean interface lets you query major services from one page.

Proteus
http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html
Lets you easily send your search to one of several search engines. It also has links to search engine help pages.

Queryster
http://www.queryster.com
Queryster lets you quickly get results from one of several major search engines, simply by clicking an icon. (Review: A Fun Multi-Search Tool, Feb. 23, 2004)

YurNet
http://www.yurnet.com
Select your search engines from the many choices offered. The results will all appear within one page, side-by-side. It's a great way to compare results, though a bit hard to read with more than two search engines selected.


Meta Search Articles

For other articles and older reviews, also see the Search Engine Reviews page.

Meta Search Engines are Back
SearchDay, Dec. 4, 2003
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3109441
It's been a busy year for the major meta search engines, with a number of notable developments that have restored their usefulness as worthy search tools.

Meta Search Engines: An Introduction
SearchDay, September 16, 2002
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160771
This week, SearchDay focuses on the world of meta search engines, looking under the hood at how they work and profiling the major players and their offerings

The Big Four Meta Search Engines
SearchDay, September 17, 2002
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160781
Though there are dozens of useful meta search engines, InfoSpace is the industry gorilla, operating the four arguably best known and most heavily used properties.

The Best and Most Popular Meta Search Engines
SearchDay, September 18, 2002
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160791
Meta search engines look pretty much the same up front, but their approach to presenting results varies widely. Here's a list of Search Engine Watch's pick of the best and most popular metas for searching the web.

A Meta Search Engine Roundup
SearchDay, September 19, 2002
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160801
Completing our roundup of meta search engines, this list focuses on services that are competent and in many cases worthy of a look, but don't meet all of our evaluation criteria.

Meta Search Or Meta Ads?
The Search Engine Report, June 4, 2001
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2163821
A review of meta search services by Search Engine Watch shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service.