Web Search Engines
 (Use for a specific topic or if you want to combine search terms.)

Google

Easy to use interface that simplifies entering search queries and interpret results. The crawler-based service provides relevant comprehensive web coverage. Using "tabs" on the top of the search box on the Google home page, you can easily seek out images from across the web.

Vivisimo Document Clustering

Automatically clusters search results into categories that are intelligently selected from the words and phrases that are contained in the search results themselves. Powerful!

Alltheweb.com

Simple, quick, and effective.

AltaVista             HotBot             Excite

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 Web Directories
 (Use for browsing, or when you have only a general topic in mind.)

KID'S SEARCH DIRECTORIES

Kid's Search Tools

One page input form to many search tools that will help find search words on a topic, find basic information on a topic, find web sites for kids, or find web sites for teachers and kids. from the Ramapo Catskill Library System

Kid's Image Search Tools

One page input form to many image sources from KidsClick.org

Ask Jeeves for Kids

Just type in a question -- general encyclopedia reference answers

KidsClick! Web Search

Web search for kids by librarians; an easy to use word "look-up" or category browse.

Yahooligans!

Yahooligans is a Web guide made specifically for kids.

OTHER SEARCH DIRECTORIES

Argus Clearinghouse

Hierarchical list index

Digital Librarian

Another quick loading and nicely organized list of links by topic for research or browsing -- by a librarian in Cortland, N.Y.

LookSmart

Hierarchical list search index.

Lycos

Hierarchical list index approach with search capablilty that will search document titles and content.

Martindale's -- The Reference Desk

Monsterous list of topical links, graduate and undergraduate courses tutorials & databases, global time references

My Virtual Reference Desk

The Internet's answer to your public library reference desk!

Tasha's List of Links

Tasha is the director of the Green Lake (Wis.) Public Library, and has compiled a comprehensive but quick loading and nicely organized list of links for research or browsing.

Yahoo

Yahoo is a topical index to the Web. It includes search capability to help you find things listed within it.

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 Phone Directory Databases:
(People & Businesses)

Infospace Directory

Phone directory database; find addresses and phone numbers of people and businesses. Reverse lookup capable.

Switchboard Directory

Find addresses and phone numbers of people and businesses. A good nine digit ZIP code source.

AnyWho

AT&T's phone directory database.

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 Stocks/Financial:

164 Currency Converter

You can view any exchange rates among the 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through today. The currency converter is updated daily at 8:00 PM EST.

SmartMoney.com

Enter the symbol or name of a company or mutual fund to view the company's current quote, chart, and data..

Yahoo! Quotes

Enter one or more ticker symbols, or you may look up the symbol by company name. Returns latest quote, link to chart, and links to recent related headlines.

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 Map Resources:

Mapquest-Interactive Atlas

Enter street address and city and get a map with location marked with a star.

MapPoint.msn.com

U.S. city maps of your choice; enter a street address. Similar to Mapquest.

Tiger Map Server

Nice detailed (to your specification) U.S. city maps; but won't find a specific street address. .

TerraServer

Did you ever wonder what your neighborhood looked like from space, or wished you could get an aerial shot of your favorite vacation spot? Here are United States Geological Survey (USGS) aerial photos that you can zoom and pan right down to your neighborhood.

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 Online Databases:
 (The AEA and the Council Bluffs Community School District are providing the online databases listed below for use by Walnut Grove staff and students. These sites are avaliable free of charge through your home computer as well as at school. Since these are available only to subscribers, a user name and password is needed to access them outside of our school building. Students should see Mrs. Dea or Mrs. Ferris in the Media Center to obtain login information for home use.)

AP Photo Archive

Over 500,000 photos and graphics with captions from beginning before the Civil War to today. Photos from this site may be used copyright free for educational purposes only.

EBSCO

Very complete database including many full-text magazines, books, newspapers, images, maps, primary source and historical documents, health and science-related pamphlets, encyclopedia of animals, and biographies. Also includes a professional development collection for educators. The NoveList database provides information on fiction for grades 4-12, as well booktalks and ideas for using fiction in the classroom.

Atomic Learning

Atomic Learning is an electronic help desk and training system for your computer applications. Atomic Learning breaks down your favorite software programs into fast loading tutorials played right over the Internet. Designed for K-12 educators, Atomic Learning covers all of the standard applications like Microsoft Office plus many popular K-12 applications such as Inspiration, Kidspiration, KidPix, Hyperstudio and more.

Clipart.com

Clipart.com has a collection of over 2.5 million searchable clipart images, photos, fonts, and sounds. These have a multitude of uses in schools, such as vocabulary and concept development, school newsletters, student assignments, multimedia presentations, web pages and more...Use of Clipart.com should include a credit, which reads as follows: "some images copyrighted 2003 www.clipart.com"

World Book Online

World Book Online includes all of the articles from the 22-volume print set plus over 18,000 additional new and historic online-only articles, as well as more than 9,500 pictures and maps, 115 videos and animations, 9,300 sounds, 129 panoramic 360 degree views and more than 100 simulated historic web sites. World Book Online provides 60,000 cross-referenced links and 248,000 hyperlinked dictionary definitions.

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 Other Search Item Tools:

Britannica.com

Looks like you can find out anything here; the whole Encyclopedia Britannica on line.

College & University Directory

Click by state; includes community colleges.

Edmund's Auto Buyer's Guides

New and used car and truck price guide information on-line, rebates and incentives, road tests.

Kelley Bluebook Car Pricing

New and used car pricing information and more.

Internet Movie Database

Enter a movie title and get data on year, plot, cast, characters, quotes, goofs, trivia.

Shareware.com

Search for download-able software by key words.

Hypertext Webster Gateway

Powerful dictionary on-line, with hypertext cross references.

Interactive Units Converter

Choose weight, volume, length, area, speed, pressure, temperature, circular measure, or time, and enter a value for one unit, and this Java Script site converts your value to about all other units you've ever heard of.

Zip + 4 Code Look-up

United States Postal Service. State abbreviations list, too.