- Academic information
- Comparison prices
- Books
- Comparing prices
- Merchandise
- Google Scholar
- search all published academic papers at once
- howmuchisit.org
- Founded in late 2010, HowMuchIsIt was designed to help the ordinary consumer find out what the costs of things are in life.
- ipl2.org/
- a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions (like finding links to the Dutch phone directory)
- Jokes, etc.
- News stories search engines
- Courtesy of Search Engine Watch
- Russian Search Engines
- www.rambler.ru
- www.ya.ru
Going to the Source - Many sites offer the ability to search quickly through primary and secondary historical sources. Sites are free.
Primary Sources
- The Library of Congress
- scanned items, such as maps, photos and sound recordings, related to U.S. history, culture, politics, and more.
- EuroDocs
- links to scanned original documents and other historical sources from 24 different European countries and city states.
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
- over 5,000 digital reproductions of wax-cylinder recordings, including vaudeville acts and Tin Pan Alley tunes.
- The Avalon Project
- historical documents, ranging from the journals of the Continental Congress to the federal indictment of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh.
Secondary Sources
- Google Scholar
- a search engine for digging through academic material on the Web, from a wide variety of journals and other sources.
- Google Book Search
- a search engine that lets users scour the content of a wide variety of scanned books.
