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- Google gives terrific results by analyzing a page's popularity. It now includes the search of Usenet discussions as well as a government search and a new image search.
- Alta Vista offers efficient Web search; its no-frills text search loads faster.
- Yahoo: Subject guide and free-text searching of the World Wide Web, and many other services
- All the Web, from Fast Search, is quick and simple
- Hotbot now comes to you from Lycos
- Ask Jeeves searching with a human touch
- 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
- Looksmart searches selected sites reviewed by humans, but emphasizes those who pay for placement.
- 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
- Achoo and The Hardin Meta Directory catalog health related sites
- Archieplex Search FTP archives around the Internet
- Topica and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists
- Yack Guide to live events on the Web
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Collections for Journalists
- FedWorld Information Services: Comprehensive guide to Government databases
- FirstGov gives organized access to a variety of government web sites and services
- Federal Government Agencies, a clean, easy-to-use listing
- Federal Web Locator allows searching
- Fedstats collects and organizes statistics from 70 agencies
- National Archives and Records Administration catalogs records held by Government agencies
- DefenseLink News and live briefings from the U.S. Department of Defense
- The White House
- The House of Representatives
- The Senate
- The Supreme Court
- State and local government websites from Piper Resources
- Statesearch, state-level information on a variety of topics
- GPO Access searches the Federal Register, U.S. Code, Congressional bills and other Government publications
- Thomas, the Library of Congress information service. Also see its Portals to the World for country-by-country information
- Census Bureau home page, 1990 Census tables and Ferret, for recent population and income data
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Criminal justice links assembled by Cecil Greek at Florida State University
- United States Geological Survey, current earthquake information and Earthquake Information Center
- National Hurricane Center
- United Nations and U.N. Web locator
- The European Journalism page
- Newsahead upcoming news events around the globe
- FindLaw has an extensive collection of legal links
- KnowX Free and low-cost information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and other public filings for businesses and individuals
- Virtual Gumshoe (formerly Webgator) has a variety of useful investigative links
- Federal Aviation Administration databases of airline safety reports
- Landings Comprehensive aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports, pilot certifications
- Top 200 Government contractors from Government Executive
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has links and information, including a fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request. (This list of Federal freedom of information officers may be useful, as well as this New York State FOI page)
- The Freedom Forum Journalism, journalism education and first amendment issues
- Telecommunications information resources: social, economic, political
- The Smoking Gun presents (undigested) documents obtained from court files and through freedom of information requests
- John Makulowich's list of web resources
- Power Reporting is Bill Dedman's well-organized list of resources for journalists.
- The Wayback Machine archives many Web pages back to 1996.
- Business & Finance references are available from Business Connections
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The Reference Desk
- Research It all-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators, more
- LibrarySpot Extensive guide to online reference works
- YourDictionary.com and Onelook give access to hundreds of dictionaries, specialized and general
- Encyclopaedia Britannica The one and only. (Now with a fee for full articles.)
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- Information Please Almanac Almanac, dictionary and the full Columbia Encyclopedia
- Biography.com offers brief, cross-referenced biographies of more than 25,000 notables.
- Travlang language-to-language translation dictionaries
- Babelfish basic (and sometimes amusing) translations of Web pages or text
- The Elements of Style The 1918 version
- C.I.A. World Factbook
- Library of Congress, including Marvel and Locis
- The New York Public Library
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library
- National Library of Medicine and Medline
- Ingenta (formerly Carl Uncover) provides free citations from 26,000 publications; charge for full articles
- The Merck Manual guide to diseases
- RxList: The Internet Drug Index Extensive information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs
- Bioterrorism resources from the National Academies
- Nutrient database from the U.S.D.A.
- Law Guru gives access to hundreds of legal search engines and the Internet Law Library
- Lawoffice.com from West's Legal Directory and Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer Locator
- The U.S. Constitution
- U.S. Patents since 1971, from Delphion or the Patent and Trademark Office
- The Bible Gateway replaces the Bible Browser, which is now defunct
- I.R.S. information and publications. For more tax sites, try taxsites.com.
- Metroscope city, business, entertainment guides for major cities
- National Geographic's Map Machine
- Mapquest and Mapblast give street-level maps and directions for U.S. addresses
- Social Security death index
- Consumer World has consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
- Currency converter from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
- ConvertIt converts measurements, currencies, timezones and more
- Cost-of-living calculator and other useful tools
- How Far Is It? gives the distance between two cities
- U.S. Naval Observatory clock
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Telephone & E-mail Directories
- Anywho from AT&T has fast, clear directory service, and a reverse directory
- Switchboard nationwide telephone and address directory
- InfoSpace personal, business and goverment phone, fax and e-mail
- Directory of toll free numbers from Infospace
- Superpages.com National business yellow pages and residential listings from Verizon
- Thomas Register of Manufacturers
- WhoWhere, Internet Address Finder and Yahoo People Finder can help find e-mail addresses
- Network Solutions domain name database
- Zip Code and Zip+4 Finder Simple and efficient, but sometimes busy. Also try the Postal Service.
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Publications on the Net
Breaking News & Daily Publications
- ABC News offers top news, including the current ABC radio report, and (large) video clips.
- Agence France-Presse world report from Yahoo Asia
- BBC News British Broadcasting Corporation
- CNN Interactive and CNNfn
- Fox News Clean, simple search of AP and Reuters wires
- MSNBC, from Microsoft and NBC News
- NPR Online from National Public Radio
- Boston.com, from The Boston Globe
- CNet combines technology news, reviews, software and services. Tech news is at news.com
- The Electronic Telegraph from The Daily Telegraph of London
- The Gate, from the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
- Los Angeles Times
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- San Jose Mercury News
- The Times of London
- USA Today
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Washington Post
- MediaNews Jim Romenesko offers media news from everywhere
- NewsHub culls technology business headlines from major Web sites
- News Index and TotalNews search for breaking news on the Web
- 1stHeadlines offers headlines from 50-some news organizations.
- Newspaper archives on the Web from the Special Libraries Association
- Wired News
Magazines & Features
- The Atlantic
- Careerbuilder Classified ad service from many newspapers
- The Drudge Report
- Law.com legal news from several sources
- National Enquirer The supermarket tabloid comes to the Web
- The New Yorker More and less than the venerable magazine
- The Onion and Modern Humorist Comic relief
- Plastic Reader-filtered, intelligently moderated discussions of what's happening on the Web and in the world.
- Slate and Salon Two flavors of cyber-literary-trend publications. (Salon now charges for much of its material.)
- Thrive Health and fitness features and information
- United Media, a collection of comics
- U.S. News
Guides to Many Publications
- Newslink, a guide to newspapers, magazines and broadcast organizations.
- Newsdirectory.com Quick and easy access to web sites of hundreds of publications by name, location or subject.
- Editor & Publisher's MediaInfo Links Also read Steve Outing's Stop the Presses column here.)
- Newspaper Association of America
- Project Gutenberg puts out-of-copyright literary works online
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Politics
- Project Vote Smart, a guide to candidates and issues
- All Politics from CNN with Time magazine
- The Empire Page links to major news headlines on politics each day, emphasizing New York
- Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions
- Federal Election Commission data in a more useful format, compiled by two former F.E.C. employees
- Politics Navigator, also from The Times on the Web, has more political links
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The New York Region
- New York City Reference, a subject guide to sites on all aspects of the city
- NYC Blue has New York web sites in easy-to-use tabular form
- New York Today Arts, entertainment, restaurants and New York life from The New York Times
- CitySearch NYC, a guide to arts and entertainment
- Digital City New York from America Online
- The Paperless Guide to New York City, from Mediabridge (updated sporadically)
- NYC.gov, New York City's official web site
- Guide to New York City Government Government contacts, from the Public Advocate's office
- The Official I Love New York State Tourism Guide
- M.T.A. has maps and schedules for subways, Long Island Railroad, Metro North
- New York City Culture Guide and Calendar from the Alliance for the Arts
- Playbill On-Line, Theatre.com and Broadway.com will help you find Broadway, off-Broadway, national and international theater listings
- The New York Daily News
- The New York Post (or go directly to Page Six)
- Newsday
- New York 1 has a nice build-a-newscast feature.
- The New York Observer
- The Village Voice
- papermag.com, virtual sister to the magazine of the Downtown scene
- New Jersey Online
- New Jersey Web
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Commerce
- AddALL no-frills book price comparison service.
- Amazon The online megastore. Books, music, videos, games, electronics, auctions -- and growing
- Bankrate.com and E-loan can help find the best interest rates for a mortgage, auto, credit card or other loan
- Bizrate lets you see how fellow consumers rate online merchants and compares prices
- BizWeb: Internet commercial sites by category
- Buy.com good prices and service on electronics, books, music and video.
- Buyer's Index searches 19,000 Web sites and catalogs for the product you seek.
- CD Now Playcentric and Alphacraze Discounts for music, videos and dvds.
- Cheap Tickets and Hotwire help you find bargains on travel if you're flexible
- Consumer Search Reviews of products from a variety of publications
- DeepDiscountDVD has consistently low DVD prices, and now has a DeepDiscountCD service.
- Ebay The online auction house and storefront
- Epinions has consumer reviews of many products, and price comparisons
- Internet Fashion Mall
- NetMarket has discounts on brand name goods.
- PriceLine lets you name your own price for travel, cars or mortgages, and see if anyone will bite.
- PriceGrabber and PriceScan compare prices for computer hardware and software, electronics, movies and books.
- Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia, Trip.com and Orbitz have airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information
- Travelzoo collects special travel offers from many sites
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Entertainment/Culture/Pastimes
- The Internet Movie Database Everything you want to know about films
- Movie Review Query Engine Find reviews from all over for the movie of your choice
- Moviefone and Fandango have theater times and advance ticket purchases
- Ticketmaster has information and tickets for music, theater and sporting events
- Reel surveys your movie tastes and recommends ones it thinks you'll like
- Atom Films offers short films and animations on the Web
- TV Guide Now includes an extensive movie database
- Gist lets you customize TV listings
- PBS Online
- The Discovery Channel Online
- Culturefinder has schedules for the performing arts around the U.S.
- National Endowment for the Arts
- World Wide Arts Resources
- NWHQ:Independent artists on the Web
- The Louvre More fun to visit in person, but you can see many exhibits without leaving home.
- Art on the Net, an exhibit by 80 artists, and links to other art sites
- Yack.com Guide to live events and multimedia on the Web
- mp3.com makes a wide variety of music available in its eponymous Internet format
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Internet Underground Music Archives
- Classical Music Archive Thousands of classical music samples in midi format
- Epicurious, the Food Network, RecipeSource and Gemini and Leo's recipe links will help you answer the question, "What's for dinner?"
- Wine Spectator has ratings and reviews of thousands of wines
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Sports & Recreation
- ESPN SportsZone
- Sportsline from CBS
- CNN/SI from CNN and Sports Illustrated
- The Sports Network gives up to the minute news and results
- Allsports has news, scores, odds, audio feeds and more
- NFL.com from the N.F.L.
- majorleaguebaseball.com from Major League Baseball
- GORP, the Great Outdoor Recreation Pages, has extensive information on parks and outdoor activities of all sorts
- The WWW Bicycle Lane A bit dated, but still a good collection of links
- The Tennis Server have news, schedules, rules and more
- GolfWeb, GolfDigest.com covers the golf world
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Demonstrations and Miscellany
- Cool Site of the Day
- Useless Pages Useless, maybe, but fun.
- Ghost Sites of the Web will guide you to some of the rusting hulks along the information superhighway.
- QuickBrowse lets you combine and fetch Web pages you frequently read into one long page.
- The F.B.I.'s Most Wanted
- eHow.com teaches you how to do useful everyday things
- How Stuff Works tells you just that
- Liftoff, from NASA, shows the positions and trajectories of thousands of objects in space, in 2D and 3D.
- Dead People Server might answer the question, "What ever happened to . . ."
- Sites for parents and children from the American Library Association
- Internet virus myths and Virus hoax information Check here before you pass along that grave warning
- Sodaconstructor lets you make models of masses and springs -- and makes your time disappear
- Tarot Card Reader, I Ching and more
- Elvis Presley's Graceland, the ever more elaborate official site, and the unofficial Elvis home page
- iVillage and women.com concentrate on women's interests.
- Gay.com, Planet Out and Queer Resources Directory have news and information for gay people
- Earthcam and Jasbits Netcams have links to live cameras all over the Net
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About This Page
Navigator is the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent is to give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose is to show people that there's still a lot of fun and useful stuff going on out there.
The list is by its nature highly selective and constantly changing. Suggestions are always welcome.
Maintained by Rich Meislin. Revised 10/21/02.