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Search Engines
- 2009-Jan-30: pipl is a search engine that specializes in searching for information about specific people. [7511]
- 2008-Oct-14: Mapping web content by perspective - see how others view the results of your search. [7018]
- 2008-Mar-05: The United Nations' collection of statistical databases is now open for searching, discussed here on Slashdot. [5225]
- A face-search engine may bring Big Brother to the masses. [5930] [1]
- Szigg.org - Web Directory [2280]
- While not a search engine, the CIA's World Factbook can be a useful source of information [2279]
- The Encyclopedia of Life is a project to catalog all species of life on Earth. It went online in Feb 2008. [2278] [1]
- FreeCycle.org is a free, online, used goods swaping service, this is their Calgary area group [2277]
- Wireless hot spots in Calgary [2276]
- Looking for a website that has disappeared? The web archive site tries to keep a copy of sites, but its not a very deep copy. Here's a link to my top page from back in 2001. [2275]
- The Godseye project [2274]
- museum of dead web sites [2273]
- Ellis Island USA immigration records on line now. In a similar vein, the British 1901 census is now online too. [2272]
- The everything2 project [2271]
- Teoma is another search engine [2270]
- NetCraft has a useful search engine that allows you to search for web sites whos' addresses contain a particular string. [2269]
- Web Monkey authoring resources [2268]
- Merriam Webster Online Dictionary [2267]
- MySimon [2266]
- IBuyer [2265]
- PriceWatch [2264]
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Wikipedia, is often a
good place to start looking for facts
[2263] - Google and their newsgroups area, and now their images area. You can easily add a google searching bar to your web page, follow these instructions. [2262]
- AltaVista [2261]
Online Phone Books
- 2008-Dec-16: There is an ITU standard (E.123) for formatting phone numbers and a Wikipedia entry for it, there is also a related RFC 3966. The ITU standard also makes note of the ICE (in case of emergency) contact entry idea (and another more recent proposal that takes the form 0nSTRING, where n is a digit to get the desired sort order and STRING is some descriptive name like "wife", "mother", "doctor"). This ICE idea is a good example of something simple that just needs doing. [7357]
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The online white pages for Canada, findaperson.canada-411.ca
[2284] - Google's telephone directory resource page [2283]
- A listing of many telephone directories on the web [2282]
- For Belgium (where there are many Vermeulens) [2281]