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• Web

Find out anything using the best tools to search the web : A collection of the best search engines

• Google's web search engine gives you one of the easiest and most complete ways to find anything on the web
• Nice, clean web search results with more privacy than Google, fewer ads and spam. A little known gem.
• Microsoft's web search engine for the Web, images, videos, shopping, news, maps, travel and local
• blekko's web search uses slashtags that narrow your search to only the sites or concepts you want
• Search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources – peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant published research in academia.
• Search the Usenet discussion forums. Find something written an hour ago or over 20 years ago. Over 700 million newsgroup messages are available
• Search through the About directory of over 50,000 specialized topics, each one managed by an expert on the subject
• Use the Yahoo web directory when you want to find sites specializing in a given topic or you are looking for a specific Web site home page
• The largest human-edited directory in the world. Previously known as the Open Directory Project (ODP)
• Quick access to trusted, reliable How-To content on the Internet
• Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything
• Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and groups similar results together into groups

• Real-Time

Search the communication stream of the Real-Time Web. Dig into up-to-the-minute alerts, blog posts and tweets as well as traditional news. The rise of the Real-Time Web is one of the most important trends changing the way the Internet works.

• See what's happening - right now. Twitter contains up to the second news from around the world. Search Twitter to scan for happenings before traditional news media writes about it.
• Google News is an automated news aggregator. Search for news articles appearing within the past 30 days on any of thousands of news websites.

• Encyclopedias

Get facts about anything from these compilations of human knowledge

• Encyclopedia of human knowledge written collaboratively by contributors around the world
• Search through over 70,000 articles of the Encyclopædia Britannica
• Search through the About directory of over 50,000 specialized topics, each one managed by an expert on the subject
• Get definitions for Internet, hardware, software or networking-related terminology
• Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything

• Images

Use the best tools to search for images and pictures of anything, and photos of anywhere or anyone

• Quickly find the pictures, photos, graphics or icons you're looking for
• Huge photo sharing service with tagging and commenting on pictures, maps showing where geotagged photos were taken. Find pictures of anything, including beautiful art images. Many of the free pictures are offered via Creative Commons licenses that let you use it as a stock photo gallery.
• • Search the Usenet discussion forums. Find something written an hour ago or over 20 years ago. Over 700 million newsgroup messages are available
• See what's happening - right now. Twitter contains up to the second news from around the world. Search Twitter to scan for happenings before traditional news media writes about it.

• People

Use the best people search tools to find someone's contact information. Find a person's street address, phone number or email address.

• Looking for current information about someone, but have just their email address? Spokeo's email lookup service can help.
  Just enter their email address to look them up. When your search finds a match in the email address directory, you can find out who owns that email address — their name, current phone numbers, street address, and other contact information along with photos and link…
• Search hundreds of millions of people on the world's largest social network
• Search the profiles of professionals around the world. People list themselves on LinkedIn and create their own professional profile including their current and past companies and job titles, city, industry, and their education.
• You got a phone call from someone — but you don't recognize the number? Spokeo's phone number lookup service can help find out whose phone number it is.
  Just enter the phone number to search Spokeo's enormous telephone directory. Successful searches show the owner's name, location, time zone, email address and other public profile datainformation.
  Unlike traditional white pag…
• Find out if someone has any secrets in their past – Run a background check to get a report that could show if they have been found guilty of a misdemeanor or felony crime or have a criminal record. Find out if it's their real name or if they gave you an alias or aka. Check on their court judgements and if they've ever filed bankruptcy. Locate property they're the owner of and the addresses t…
• Find a person's name and street address from a US or Canadian telephone number.
• Spokeo is a people search engine that organizes White Pages listings, Public Records and Social Network Information to help you safely find & learn about people.
• Find a person's address (including postal code) and telephone number in Canada
• Look up a person's street address and their telephone number.
  Good for people in the United States and Canada.
• Free people search - find people on social networks and across the Web. Find people using name search, location, school, work, interests, and more.
  Name First name, last name, user name
  Location City, state, province, country, zip, etc...
  Other Interests, School, Music, TV, Movies...
• Look up whose name and telephone number is associated with a street address in the United States or Canada, a 'reverse address lookup'
• Look up the city for a given telephone area code
• Look up the city for a given ZIP or Postal code
• Look up the telephone area code for a given city
• Look up the US ZIP Code or Canadian Postal Code for a given city
• Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything
• Give Yahoo's email address search tool someone's name, and get a list of email addresses.
• Find a person's address and phone number

• News

Get the latest news on any subject from around the world

• Google News is an automated news aggregator. Search for news articles appearing within the past 30 days on any of thousands of news websites.
• See what's happening - right now. Twitter contains up to the second news from around the world. Search Twitter to scan for happenings before traditional news media writes about it.

• Biography

Get biographies and bibliographical information on famous people

• Search the Biography.com database for over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present
• Encyclopedia of human knowledge written collaboratively by contributors around the world
• The Biographical Dictionary contains information on more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
• Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything

• Legal

Get information on the legal system and its laws, including terminology and trademark search

• Find the meaning of any legal term
• Nolo's Law Dictionary contains plain-English information on many different legal topics