Research Web Sites

Chris Harris recommends the following list, taken from the New York Times Newsroom Navigator:

• Google So good it became a verb. It includes a search of Usenet discussions, a government search, an image search, maps, local listings and Google Scholar for scholarly literature.
• A9, from Amazon, adds some interesting twists to Web search.
• Alta Vista now from Overture, includes audio and video search.
• Yahoo! Subject guide and free-text searching of the World Wide Web, and many other services
• The Open Directory Project aims to become the largest Web directory edited by (volunteer) humans
• All the Web, from Fast Search, is quick and simple
• Ask Jeeves has several different flavors of search.
• Ixquick searches multiple search engines and quickly returns filtered results.
• ProFusion, Excite, Dogpile, CNet Search.com and Metacrawler simultaneously search different combinations of multiple Web search engines
• Vivisimo searches and categorizes results helpfully
• Reporter's Desktop conveniently consolidates many ways to find people and things.
• Hotbot
• Looksmart searches selected sites reviewed by humans, but emphasizes those who pay for placement.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet Useful sites organized and annotated by librarians in California and Washington
• 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
• The Hardin Meta Directory catalogs health-related sites
• Topica and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists

Copyright 2006 The New York Times Newsroom Navigator
http://tech.nytimes.com/top/news/technology/cybertimesnavigator/index.html
— a great source of vast information for reporters

Have other research web sites to add? Email kmpawlak@centurytel.net