Search Engines/Subject Directories/Weblogs
Recent Additions to This Section
(This section features sites added to the page in the last few weeks.
Each link is cross-referenced on the page in its proper category.) LinkPopularity.com
Check how many sites link to a particular site. Diplomacy Monitor.com
From the St. Thomas University School of Law, a real time feed of documents from governments from around the globe. BookTV.org
A very handy search tool allows you to locate video interviews with non-fiction book editors. Omgili
Searches more than 100,000 message boards and forums.
Truveo.com
A one-stop video search engine.
BLOG SEARCH TOOLS Google Blog Search Tool Technorati.com
Search tool scans thousands of blogs. Search by directory or by posts. BlogNetNews.com
Offers a specialty blog aggregator designed to help busy editors and news execs keep an eye on the blog conversation about the future of news. It offers a targeted search engine that will let you search all the blogs included, a daily digest of what news stories the news innovation blogs are linking to, excerpts of the latest posts (updated every 15 minutes) and links to the posts where the most robust discussions are going on in comments.
BlogPulse Ice Rocket
Similar to Google! in structure. Has a great advanced search page. MIT's Blogdex
Simple listing/searchable database of blogs. Daypop
Search thousands of sites and blogs for trends. Geobloggers
Google maps and Flikr use a global image map to show updated blogs in various cities. Website-Watcher
Put in the URL of a page you want to keep tabs on and it automatically checks to see if the content has changed. BlogDigger
Sort of a Google feel to this blog search tool. Basically, it's a blog directory and aggregator all in one. Politics.Feedster.com
A speciality feed for tracking political blogs. Feedster: Ego Feed Builder
A dynamic RSS feed, an automatically repeating search that shows who's talking about you online. MonitorThis
Subscribe to 15 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the 'make monitor.opml' button to get a list of RSS feeds in OPML format.
SEARCH GUIDELINES AND TRENDS UC Berkeley: Types of Search Tools
This library clearly explains differences in search engines, subject directories and searchable databases or "invisible Web" sites. Includes tips on how they work and the best kinds of tools in each category. Deadline Surfing Tips
Advice from SPJ's Staci Kramer. Caught in the Web: A Journalist's Guide to Web Searches
A great set of tips, both basic and advanced. 21st Century Text Search Tool
An online free text search tool that uses the Microsoft Index Server and allows key word lookups on localized files. Web Search Techniques for Journalists
A great set of tips, both basic and advanced. George Washington University: Space Policy Institute
Benefits of space research, satellites, etc. NuevaSchool Search Tips and Links
A great quick-reference index of how to use search engines and other online research tools. Google's Search Tips
Guidelines for using Google and other search engines. Searching Tips
A short, but thorough quick reference on searches. WatchThatPage.com
This site lets you automatically collect new information from your favorite Web pages when they?ve been updated. You?re then sent an e-mail or a personal Web page collects your updates. Gary Price: Web Research Tools for Journalists
A great collection of Web site tools from guru Gary Price. HotBot Quick-Search Deskbar
The free tool sits at the bottom of your computer screen and lets you make searches without an open browser. Clusty
Organizes searches into folders and groups similar items together. Blinx TVDatabase of news and other video. SearchEnginewatch.com
Detailed info. on search engines. SearchDay
A free newsletter from Search Engine Watch featuring web search news, reviews, tools, tips, and search engine headlines from across the web. SearchDay is published daily, with headlines only on Fridays. Poynter.org: Basics of Search Engines SearchEngineGuide.com
Full of tips and other resources. Power Reporting.com: Tips for Using Search Engines SearchEngineHeadlines.com
News and tips on the search industry. Google Labs
Check out Google technologies in development. Webaroo
Free. New company. Create a searchable database of saved pages for offline use and searching. Also mobile web features.
Local Website Archive
This free download offers a fast and easy way to store websites from your browser permanently for future reference. Information on the web often vanishes quickly, sometimes before you even have a chance to make use of it. Let Local Website Archive store the information you're interested in.
MSN Academic Search Beta
Enables you to search for peer reviewed journal articles contained in journal publisher portals. Academic search works with libraries and institutions to search and provide access to subscription content for their members. Access restricted resources include subscription services or premium peer-reviewed journals. MetaSpy.com
Get a list of 10 in-progress searches being conducted on the MetaCrawler search engine. It's updated every 15 seconds. Altavista Real Searches
Top recent searches in specific categories. Ask Jeeves: Peek Through the Keyhole
Get a list of 10 in-progress searches being conducted on this search engine. It's updated every 30 seconds. Jeremy Caplan's Web Tips
From an editor at the now defunct Yahoo! Internet Life. Introduction to Search Engines
Just the basics. Forbes.com: Best of the Web
Tracks trends in many e-industries and includes lists of links. Google Zeitgeist
An archive of what people are searching for online. AltaVista Search Trends The Search Engine's Search Engine
Listings of search engine links as well as ranking of the
21 top search engines and search directories in the United States. Yahoo! List of Most Viewed News Content (U.S.) The Yahoo! Buzz Index Top 20 Searches The Lycos 50
Track search trends for the week. Google Search Trends
Tracks patterns and gaining queries. The Meta Search Engines: A Web Searcher's Best Friends
A good article that outlines the benefits. Search Engine Spamming Sucks!
A good article what it is and why it sucks.
SEARCH ENGINES
How They Work: Generally, you use these for broad searches of the Web. Each search engine scans a database of the full text of web pages selected from the billions of web pages out there residing on servers. Using automated Web "spiders" the search engines gather and index the pages. When you search the Web using a search engine, you are always searching a somewhat stale copy of the real web page. When you click on links provided in a search engine's search results, you retrieve from the server the current version of the page. Generally, they cannot access pay sites for information. Google.com
One of the Web's hottest specialized search sites. Google Toolbar
It's worth the download. Makes surfing the Web much easier. Google News Users Guide Google: Government Sites
Search government-only sites with this special Google feature. Ask.com
The new, improved version of AskJeeves.com.
Google Labs
A "how to" section on Google that looks at the site's emerging technologies, including Google Spreadsheets and Google Transits, where you can track public transportation. YaGooHoogle.com
Search both search tools at once. YoySearch.com
A very simple search tool that has special sections for films, etc.. Twingine
Shows results from Yahoo! and Google on a split browser screen. Digg.com
Digg posts prominent links based on users, building a "social news site." Pixsy.com
This search engine pulls images and video from all kinds of news resources. Browse by category, etc. Google News Archive Search
Search newspapers, magazines and article databases such as Factiva, LexisNexis, etc. DoubleTrust
Takes the results of Google and Yahoo! and shows you which ones show up on search tools. Yahoo! Next
Shows what tools are in beta and coming soon. Labs.Google.com
Shows what tools are in beta and coming soon. SearchAllinOne.com
A multiple engine search tool. ZabaSearch.com
This site provides basic information for free, including birth year, month, phone number and address for free and deeper background information for a fee. There is a fee for queries that return a wealth of info sometimes dating back more than 10 years: residential addresses, phone numbers both listed and unlisted, birth year, even satellite photos of people's homes. FundRace.org
Search by ZIP code to see who in your area contributes to federal election campaigns. AlltheWeb.net
An incredibly fast, helpful search tool. The site's FAST search technology scans more than 3,000 news sources worldwide and adds more than 800 articles per minute to its news catalog. Kids.net.au
A search engine just for kids! OneLook.com Dewey Browser
Lets you point and click through the Dewey Decimal Classication to entries of interest, and browse a collection of Worldcat records and other material. Columbia Computer Science Newsblaster
According to Columbia, this tool automatically tracks news events, groups stories from multiple sources that deal with the same event, and writes summaries of the various news stories. It uses a computer technology called "natural language processing." Sources include ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FOX News, Reuters, the New York Post, the Washington Post, and USA TODAY. It's updated daily. Time Magazine Archives
More than 81 years of articles are now online and searchable. Websearch.About.com
Wendy Boswell's About.com page on on web search. LifeHacker.com: Locate Original Documents Online
A guide to finding public records, etc. Lifehacker: Top 20 Search Engine Helpers Lifehacker: Searching the Invisible Web MrSapo.com
This site gives users the option to receive results from 24 search engines at a time. FactBites.com
This site is billed as a cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia. It provides searchers with full sentences about their search topic, rather than the sentence fragments most search engines offer. It s?eeks out authoritative and informative content, preferring
encyclopedia-style fact-based descriptions to the chatty, spammy and
inconsequential.?
HighBeam.com
Access 1.5 million articles from more than 200 sources for free. SearchSpy from Dogpile
Metasite that combines Google, Yahoo! and others into one search tool. A scrolling list of what people are searching at that moment. Leadership Directories
Find leaders in government, foreign affairs, legal, media, etc. Diplomacy Monitor.com
From the St. Thomas University School of Law, a real time feed of documents from governments from around the globe. LookSmart.com
This ties to the mighty Microsoft network searches. Lycos KPLAY Search Site
Find a person's phone number, e-mail address; find local businesses, weather, etc. SearchSystems.net
Great one-stop shopping for links to public records databases. FASCNET Internet Resources
A searchable database of hundreds of helpful sites, organized by beats and topics. Lycos Multimedia Search MSN Windows Live Search
Adds new tools and a new look to help compete for advanced search users. Northernlight.com Hotbot.com Deep Quote
Have you ever wanted to direct someone to a website where you've read something and have to hope that they find the portion of the page you're referring to? Enter the quote, then provide the page you found it on and the service gives you a link that dramatically highlights the quote. SPJ: Rainbow Sourcebook
A dynamite tool that allows you to search for resources on a variety of social and diversity issues. The News Directory
Portal for finding news stories, search magazines, etc. RapidTree.com: Global Newspapers
Search by continent, etc. Omgili
Searches more than 100,000 message boards and forums.
Truveo.com
A one-stop video search engine.
RapidTree.com: Global TV Stations
Search by continent, etc. Google Trends
Type a name in the Trends search box, you receive information on the peak stories of interest from Google News and the volume relative to the overall news volume. YouTube.com
Searchable database of video clips from around the world. Type in a name and search, chances are, you'll find some video clips. Kartoo.com
A France-based search engine that piggybacks on Google and other engines but presents its results unconventionally: as "maps." The results are displayed in a way that allows you to tell which sites are more important. WiseNut.com
A simple, easy-to-use search tool with more than 1.5 billion sites in its database. EntireWeb.com SearchBuzzard.com Podzinger
Provides transcript searching (every spoken word) in some YouTube categories. Searches can currently be performed in a limited number of categories (sports, entertainment, etc.) TVEyes
The site offers "transcript search" of podcasts. The site is fee-based service and allows you to search nearly all major TV networks and some local stations. The site also has a free transcript search of TV news video available on the open web from MSNBC, Reuters, etc. Search Engine Colossus: International Directory of Search Engines WhoisReport.com
This domain name search engine offers some unique features. isleuth.com
More than 2,000 searchable databases. Search-22 Infoplease.com Almanac Search Page Ask2k.com
A listing of top web sites. Topix.net
This site uses news aggregation and categorizes news stories on the Web into more than 150,000 pages. It relies on computer algorithms to sort stories. It monitors breaking news from over 3,000 sources, 24 hours a day. These algorithms read every story as it is released and then categorize each one into one or more topic pages. Among the category pages are separate ones for 30,000 U.S. cities and towns, 5,500 public companies and industries, 48,000 celebrities and musicians, 1,500 sports teams and personalities, and many, many more. Most helpful is the People page. SkipEase.com
A specialized directory for people and public records searching. Grub.org
Grub uses the power of distributed computing to build Web searches. It automatically crawls the Web in the background, borrowing your computer's spare clock cycles, so you won't even notice it's there. The download is quick, you control how much you crawl, and a screensaver shows you the real-time progress your computer is making. A9.com
Amazon.com search site. Copyscape
Track who has lifted content off your website. Just type in the URL of your site. SpyonIt.com
A long-term search engine that notifies your by e-mail or IM when it has completed its search. Newszap.com
Search engine and online news, tools. Pandia Search Engine for News Sites RocketNews.com
Like Google News Search, this engine finds current news from all around the Internet. It automatically searches major online national and city newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade publications and press releases. FindArticles.com
A free online article search. Glossarist.com
A searchable directory of glossaries and subject directories covering hundreds of topics. NewsNow
A British site with many U.S. resources. Updates every five minutes. SearchOnline.info
Supports UK, Canada, United States and French regional searches, multiple languages, mailing and saving of results directly from the result list, and many other features. Includes a comprehensive news system, powered by moreover.com, which delivers news from over 1,000 sources grouped into over 300 categories. All features are free, just enter your search in the box at the top of the page. Only advanced functions like news subscriptions require registration. Search Moreover.com News Feeds
Searches many news feeds. Fagan Finder
A great search tool that added several new features in May 2002. Journalists will be especially interested in the search engines, reference, news and law sections. Datamonster.com
Links to many search engines and subject directories. Findwhat.com
Search engine with great polls and surveys on user habits. Overture.com
Formerly Goto.com, this search engine sells its search results to the highest bidder. AltaVista Image Search SearchSpell.com
Check your spelling as you submit a query. Search SEC Filings Findia.Net Search
A good general search tool. Internets.com Library of Congress: Thomas Search Engine
Tracks congressional bills as they pass through the system. USPS: Quick Zip Code Search AreaCodeDownload.com
Quick reference area codes and zip codes.
Washington Post Bill Tracker
Search bills by state, voters, those who missed a vote, vote margin, etc. FirstGov.Gov Search Database
The new database is built and powered by FAST Search and Transfer. FAST also provides the AllTheWeb engine. Limit terms by title, URL, text, state government, federal government or a specific domain. WebSite-Watcher
A clipping-type tool that automatically looks for changes on web pages, any page at any level), as often as you like (every 30 minutes, hourly, daily, etc.) and then highlights precisely where on the page changes occur. Results are delivered via the tool or via e-mail. TrackEngine.com
A clipping-type tool similar to WebSite-Watcher. Researchville.com
A great collection of search tools, reference sites, encyclopedias and dictionaries. Orientation
Locally focused search engines from hundreds of countries. All Law
Search engine and legal directory that has state resources. United States Constitution Search
This search engine allows you to search for words and phrases and find lists of links to the location within the text of your search terms. Business.com
Business search engine. Business Publications Search Engine
Find several great topics, including Internet business, intellectual property issues, industry publications, economics, management and more. Onvia.com Itzalist.com Humansearch.com Newswords.com
A global headline search site. SearchIQ
An independent site that reviews and ranks dozens of sites on relevance, accuracy, and speed. 1st Headlines
Searches current news headlines and can be refined by topic, country, breaking news. Alta Vista Advanced Search Engine
Click on advanced search button. Infomak.com 20Search.com
A search time-saver: on one page, there are the search boxes for 20 of the most popular search engines. Not just links to each engine, although those links are there as well, but the actual search box for each engine. Anzwers.com Viola.net ExactSeek.com
Descibes itself as "an intelligent search engine." Inktorri.com WhatUseek.com Traffick.com
A guide to Web portals. Many helpful tools. SpeechBot Audio/Video Search Engine Ultimate Google Interface
From the Fagan Finder, this combines all of the options from all of the Google tools. Fagan Finder Search Box The Paperboy.com Inference Find Washington Post.com World News Search
Enter country name in a database for news and Web links. CNET Search.com DirectHit.com GoTo.com GoClick.com Metahoo.com
Metahoo! is an AD-FREE Web portal dedicated to simplifying the search process for its users by bringing back relevant and timely results as efficiently as possible. It offers users the ability to quickly and easily find information on the Web by searching through indexes of web documents. A user may enter a search term or terms and review a list of the best matches from all indexed Web pages. Niche Search Engines Index SparkNotes
Search texts, newsfeeds, study guides and message boards. LinkPopularity.com
Check how many sites link to a particular site. Researchville.com LawCrawler
Powered by Google, the Web?s best search engine, it hunts down anything legal online. The Daily Globe Date Archive
Look up by date, month, day. Direct Hit
A search engine in the spirit of Yahoo! TVEyes.com
Search software that tracks what's being said on TV scripts. Yahoo! Mindset
Developed at the Yahoo Research Labs, Mindset is a beta search engine that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources). Gahooyoogle.com Search
This site also lets you compare search results from Yahoo! and Google, side-by-side on your computer screen. Local Blog Digger
This search tool helps you find blogs by geographic location. It's easy to use. Simply enter the location (city/state or zip code) and search. Feedspot
Another search tool that allows you to search blogs by geographic location. Regret the Error
A blog that reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in North American media.
ChronWatch.com
A reader blog that monitors the San Francisco Chronicle. Videoblogging Search
This image map allows you to click on the red dot to go to a location. Fund for Investigative Reporting and Editing (FIRE)
A non-profit organization that provides community media resources to the Appalachian Region, to raise awareness and make available FIRE's online searchable archive of regional community news. This online archive is a resource that contains news stories, oral histories and local features about Southeast Appalachia. The Wayback Machine
Tied to a database of 10 billion archived Web pages that go back five years. See what old and defunct sites looked like. Heavy use, so download may be slow. Best20Sites.com Internet Archive
How to build an Internet library. Yahoo News Search
Still in beta-testing. This site covers thousands of periodicals and web sites. Alexa.com
Downloadable software that makes searching the Web easier. The site has many Web search tools. The Cybercafe Search Engine Podscope
A search engine for podcast. University of Michigan: NewsInEssence
"A prototype system for finding and summarizing multiple news articles on the Web." CrossSearch
Major search engine for Christian and religious Web sites. Global Catholic Search Engine FinancialEngines.com Agrisurf
Billed as "The Farmer's Search Engine" this site has a plethora of ag resources. Shakespeare Search Engine
Look up anything on the Bard. Cinema FreeNet
Search for a database of movies, actors, directors, and producers. Office of Scientific and Technical Info. PrePrint Search Engine
A mega-search engine that will be available to science writers. Sign up for it here. She Knows Search Engine
A women's resource search tool: arts, business, education, parenting, health/fitness, finance and more. GolfFarm.com CycleSearch.net
Links to thousands of motorcycle sites. Celebrity Address Search Engine ElvisFind.com
Billed as the ultimate Elvis search engine and site directory, this is your Internet guide to the King.
META-SEARCH TOOLS How They Work: Submit keywords in the search box, and it transmits your search simultaneously to several individual search engines, subject directories and their databases of Web pages. W3 Search Engines
Offers more than 100 links to meta-search, search engines, subject directories and more. A great bookmark! OneSearch.com
Claims you need only one search -- this one. Mamma.com
Billed as the "mother of all search engines," this tool keeps it simple. Teoma.com
Provides three types of results: 1) a listing of Web links; 2) clustering related links into categories; 3) "expert links" that bring together resources on specific topics. It removes duplicate links as well, thus speeding your search. Vivisimo
Results page groups links together, making it quicker to scan. Searches Yahoo, AltaVista, MSN/Hotbot, alltheweb, OpenDirectory/AOL, Excite, DirectHit, Looksmart, EuroSeek. Copernic
This site searches Alta Vista, AOL.com, Direct Hit, EuroSeek, Excite, Fast Search, Google, GoTo, HotBot, LookSmart, Lycos, Magellan, MSN Web, Netscape Netcenter, Open Directory, Snap, Web Crawler,Yahoo! and some international sites. DipBox.com
A metasearch thats search of Altavista, Fast & Wisenut. ZenithMedia.com
Links to several search engines, subject directories and image banks. Nelson Search: The Search Tool for Journalists
A great searchable archive of several interesting topics. Freeality
Various search tools, people locator. Dogpile
Surfs about 15 search engines and directories. Ixquick
AOL, AltaVista, LookSmart, EuroSeek, Excite, FindWhat, MSN, alltheweb, GoTo, Hotbot, Yahoo! Translates your search into each search engine's syntax. MetaCrawler
Searches AltaVista and some minor databases. ProFusion
AltaVista, , LookSmart, Excite, Magellan, WebCrawler, GoTo, AllTheWeb/alltheweb, Yahoo! Can customize what is searched. Proteus
A guide to the Web guides. This site makes it convenient to use many search tools all in one place. W3 Search Engines
Offers more than 100 links to meta-search, search engines, subject directories and more. A great bookmark! NoImages.com
Surf sites minus their photos and graphics. Great for quick queries. NewsPlace.org
Features meta-search capabilities which scan sistes such as ixQuick, AllTheWeb News, and News search from Northern Light. The site also has a "Grammar Matters" review section. RocketNews.com
A helpful, current news search tool. Mooch.com
Mooch tries to break down the broad of information available on the Web and place it into easy to digest nuggets. Flash navigation allows you to quickly drill down into the Web. Black Widow Search Tool LastMinuteSearch.com SavvySearch.com All 4 One Search Engines Worldwide
Search tools organized by country. Very cool. SearchSpaniel.com
Search several sites simultaneously. TotalSurf.com
Search several sites simultaneously. WebInfoSearch.com
Surfwax.com
Good for general keyword searches. Profusion
Search up to nine search engines at once. DayPop
A current events search engine that indexes more than 5,000 news sites and weblogs each day. Cyber411.com MetaSearch Metaspy
Track what people are surfing online. Planetsearch.com
Search 12 engines at once! Debriefing Search Engine
Claims to be the "world's most powerful search engine." The Big Hub Search Site InfoPeople Guide
A resource guide for finding different search engines that underscores its strengths and special features. StudytheWeb.com
Topic pages and keyword search thousands of pages.
SUBJECT DIRECTORIES
How They Work:You use these for searches for specific topics. They're managed by hand and not by automated Web spiders. Sites are broken into specific subject areas and not ranked. Yahoo About.com Excite Excite Precision Search Info - Encyclopedia and Reference Resource
Browse articles in all areas of topics within Earth & Environment, History, Literature & Arts, Health & Medicine, People, Philosophy & Religion, Places, Plants & Animals, Science & Technology, Social Science, Law, Sports, Everyday Life, and more. Includes Country Studies and North America Gazetteer. Dmoz.org/
Open directory project. Has look and feel of a Yahoo! Librarians' Index to the Internet
A "thinking person's Yahoo" subject directory that's updated regularly. Internet Public Library Pathfinder
University of Michigan librarians organize subject pages that included annotated suggestions for both the Web and library books. A great starting point for any story. Infomine
A high-quality subject directory; librarian-selected with flexible search option. Subjex.com
A dialogue-based format where search terms can be placed in natural language style. Teoma
Organizes results by grouping into topic folders at the top, as well as listings of relevant authoritative sites and expert or "hub" links. Feedster
Search thousands of Weblogs. Coneteq
Allows you to search products by brand, price and location. Created in Lebanon. Soople.com
Contains a series of well-organized forms enabling one-click searching of Google's most powerful features, from mathematical calculations to language translation. GeoURL: Location-to-URL Reverse Directory
This directory will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. Says Poynter.org: A GPS location allows readers to not only find the news of their community, but they could find the news within a city block of where they were if they wanted. Mapping Cyberspace
An online directory full of resources. AlphaSearch
This tool points you to gateways for a subject, discipline or idea. Entertainment Weekly Search Tool
A searchable archive of 10 years of E-Weekly stories. Webyah.com Portal Phaster Lookups Reference Database
Do quick searches for reference tools: encylopedias, economic terms, legal dictionary, biblical reference, quotes and more. Great one-stop reference shopping. Cyberjournalist Reporter's SuperSearch AcademicInfo.net
Click on advanced search button. U.S. City Directories
City directories, arguably one of the most over-looked resources by genealogists, have been around since the 1700s. This web site attempts to identify all printed, microfilmed, and online directories, and their repositories, for the United States. Suite 101.com AlphaSearch
This site's goal is "to collect the finest Internet 'gateway' sites." Also includes some databases, online journal links, and full-text sites. Argus Clearinghouse
A collection of subject guides, mostly academic and not annotated. Guidebeam.com
A directory listing subcategories to general search requests. Pretrieve.com Public Records Search Engine
A public records search tool designed to make finding information about a person or business from free public record sites faster and easier. Pretrieve provides categorized tabs with links to meaningful and relevant information and delivers users directly to their search results -- not simply dumping them off at the front door of the home page -- by preloading the search criteria. WWW Virtual Library
Subject guides are mostly academic. Browse by subject category or alphabetical list.recommended. The New Atheneum
An Internet resource guide organizedby Dewey decimal classification. Scout Report Signpost
More than 8,000 of the best internet resources chosen by Scout Report. Martindale's The Reference Desk
An extensive set of health science links. Megasoccer Search
A specific football search engine - similar in approach to Google.com and alltheweb.com, but only searching football content on the web. Zeal.com
A community of enthusiasts and editors building the world's most widely used Web directory. 4Anything.com
A great Web portal. CyberPaperBoy.com
Helps you find any online newspaper in the world. RhymeZone Shakespeare Search Engine West Egg ClicheFinder Search Engine
More than 3,300 indexed cliches. Look them up and edit them out of stories. American Society of Association Executives
An alternative search engine for locating associations. Computer-Mediated Communication Information Sources
A vast collection of links on computers, the Internet, communications technology, including journals, major sites, major projects and more. Subject Area Links
A vast collection of links on computers, the Internet, communications technology, including journals, major sites, major projects and more. Columbia Computer Science Newsblaster
According to Columbia, this tool automatically tracks news events, groups stories from multiple sources that deal with the same event, and writes summaries of the various news stories. It uses a computer technology called "natural language processing." Sources include ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FOX News, Reuters, the New York Post, the Washington Post, and USA TODAY. It's updated daily. Reporter?s Desktop
Duff Wilson?s search and quick-reference tools site is a must bookmark.
INVISIBLE WEB
How They Work:These are databases and online tools that the search engines and subject directories often miss. They're great for finding powerful databases and research on a a variety of topics. The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See
This directory, the companion site to the book of the same name, is brought to us from Chris Sherman and Gary Price, to research specialists. In addition to the Invisible Web Directory, a useful annotated directory of sources for "invisible" resources on the Web, the site features the text from the book's chapter on business and investing resources as well as .pdf versions of the introduction and table of contents. CNET Search.com
This "Invisible Web" tool offers specialized search topics such as business, government, people and travel. HyperStat Searchable Stats Database
Powered by Rice University. SearchSystems.net Database Links
Links to almost 5,000 public records databases. Claims to be the largest free collection of public records databases on the Web. News Blues.com TV Sourcebook
Contact information for nearly 1,600 stations. Search by station, news directors, ownership group, etc.
WEBLOGS/WEB RINGS
(Use for specific topics) What the heck is a Blog? Blogs are online journals with time-stamped postings by a person or group. Take the personal musings for what they're worth -- surfers can post anything they want, so don't rely on them for factual information. But blogs can be helpful for finding sources on offbeat topics. Many of them are designed to comment on or share interesting links, so it can help you navigate the Web. The best tip on accessing blogs when reporting: Use caution and check the facts. The Scoop.org: How Journalists Can Use Weblogs E-media Tidbits
A group Weblog organized by Steve Outing. Portal.Eatonweb.com
A blog index organized by topic. Daypop
This relatively new news and weblog search engine offers a "Top 40" list of the most popular links from various weblogs and news sources. You'll also see a list of the "Top 10" search terms/phrases. This is updated a couple of times a day. Blogdex
This site from MIT also returns a constantly changing list of the most popular links from weblogs. It?s built to harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news content into one navigable source, moving democratic media to the masses. Currently, Blogdex is focused on the referential information provided by personal content, namely using the timeliness of weblogs to find important and interesting content on the web. BloggingNetwork.com
Blogging Network is the easiest way to blog and the only site where you earn money blogging. You'll get readers right away, since your blog is automatically listed in the Blogging Network directory. The blogging system has a full set of features, from Microsoft Word-like rich text editing and up-to-date search to customizable templates and syndicated headlines. All you need is a Web browser -- there is no software to download. Cyberjournalist.net: Weblog Blog
Links to stories about using Weblogs and journalism. Weblogs and the News
Explores some of the emerging forms of journalism online, including weblogs, collaborative news and community journalism. Paul Mallasch Journalism Blog
A journalism blog/community. The site contains news about journalism, the ability to rant and rave about your job as a journalist, material about the Internet and how it's affecting journalism, pointers to innovative and useful online tools for journalists, etc. ResearchBuzz News Weblog
This site keeps you up on the latest research tools. Malcontent Home for Disgruntled Journalists Testy Copy Editors Suite101.com: Journalism
Resources from Daryl Lease. MicroContent News: News for Webloggers MicroContent News: Blogging Code of Ethics Andrew Sullivan's Journalism Weblog
Former writer for the NY Times Magazine, Sunday Times of London. Linkwatcher.com
Similar to News blogger, this site searches headlines on various sites. Metalink.com
A Weblog site with search function. ContentSummit.com InteractivePublishing.Net Iptop.com Ovivo.de Blogcritics.com EBNA.org MSNBC: Weblog Central
The site claims is "serves as a perch from which you can observe and participate in the brave new world of personal news." Will Femia writes a daily Blogspotting Weblog. People?s Press
A non-commercial site that allows anyone in the world to share news stories with everyone else. Blogger.com
Free software to create blogs. WebRing
Web rings are loosely affiliated groups of sitesthat have agreed to link to one another because they share a common topic. Livejournal.com
Lets users create blogs. National Gallery of Art Searchable Database
Search for all of their pieces by artist, title, etc. BookTV.org
A very handy search tool allows you to locate video interviews with non-fiction book editors.
National Portrait Gallery Searchable Database
Search for all of their pieces by artist, title, etc.
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