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Alta Vista: Main Page
http://www.altavista.com/
One of the best search engines out there. Be sure to see the advanced search for Boolean use and read the "help" to discover all the extra good features of this search engine. AltaVista gives you access to the largest Web index: 31 million pages found on 627,000 servers (1,158,000 host names), and four million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 31 million times per weekday. You may search the web, or the Newsgroups. You may conduct a simple keyword search, or an advanced Boolean search. Remember that AltaVista does not rank its findings by relevancy, so force your key words to the top of the list. Be sure to read the help files on each type of search. Having done that, you will find that AltaVista is probably the best search engine on the net today.
AltaVista Translation Services
http://world.altavista.com/
"Translating Web Pages 1.If you are coming from the search site, the URL of the link you chose should appear in the text area automatically. If you want to translate a different page, just enter the absolute (complete) URL of the page to translate. Remember to include the http:// 2.Select the language pair (German to English, for example) to use. Once again, if you came from the search site and the document is not in English, this should be done for you already. 3.Click Translate. Translating Your Own Text 1.Type or paste in the text to translate. 2.Select the language pair (English to French, for example) to use. 3.Click Translate."
Ask Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com/
"With Ask Jeeves, unlike other search engines, users enter a question in plain English and then Ask Jeeves presents a list of matched questions (typically, just a few). After the user selects the closest match, Ask Jeeves takes him or her directly to a site that was selected by the Ask Jeeves research staff as being an appropriate answer to the question. The user never faces a dreaded response such as "7837 matches to your query"!"
BigBook Directory Search
http://www.bigbook.com/
"BigBook, Inc. was founded in 1995 to build a whole new kind of Yellow Pages. A Yellow Pages that would include all the business information that consumers need - and features to let them get to the information quickly and easily. At the same time, BigBook helps local businesses provide details about their products and services, cost-free. BigBook makes it easier for consumers and businesses to hook up with each other, and provides "value-added" information to help consumers make better, more informed decisions."
CataList
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
Welcome to CataList, the catalog of LISTSERV lists! From this page, you can browse any of the 33,711 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites. This information is generated automatically from LISTSERV's LISTS database and is always up to date."
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