Useful Links

Useful Links for Exploration
	Handouts and exercises from this class	Taming the Web: how things work: www.life.uiuc.edu/edtech/search.html Searching Exercises for this class: www.life.uiuc.edu/edtech/searchex.html Evaluating search Engines: www.searchenginewatch.com Recommended books: 10 Minute Guide to Netscape Communicator 4, by Galen Grimes and Sherry Kinkoph. Que Books 1997. Search Engines for the World Wide Web by Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner. Visual Quickstart Guide series, Peachpit Press 1998
	The Current Main "Portals"	Excite --- www.excite.com GO - Infoseek --- www.go.com Lycos --- www.lycos.com MSN --- www.microsoft.com NetCenter --- www.netscape.com Snap --- www.snap.com Yahoo --- www.yahoo.com
	Search sites	Altavista --- altavista.com Hotbot --- www.hotbot.com Metacrawler --- www.metacrawler.com
	Some specialized sites	Reference: www.hotsheet.com Recipes: www.butterball.com FedEx Package tracing: www.fedex.com UPS Package tracing: www.ups.com Domestic Airline Flight Tracking:flight.thetrip.com/flightstatus The Internet Public Libary: www.ipl.org The HMS Beagle: biomednet.com/hmsbeagle
	Searching for people and places	Finding People: www.whowhere.com Reverse lookup: in-123.infospace.com/_1_154346765__njo/revphone.htm Area codes: http://www.555-1212.com/aclookup.html Zip codes: www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html Street maps and driving directions: maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py Web servers by geographical location: http://www.fisk.edu/vl/WWW/Geographical.html
	Keeping up with current events	Email addresses for government and the media: Mr. Smith E-Mails... News: www.cnn.com Weather: www.weather.com Elections: www.vote-smart.org
	Ordering things on-line	Flowers: www.800flowers.com Books: www.amazon.com
	Entertainment	Live Radio: www.realaudio.com CNN's Video Vault: www.cnn.com/video_vault Movie Sounds Page:www.moviesounds.com
	"Good Reads"	Discovery Channel: www.discovery.com National Geographic:www.nationalgeographic.com Public Television: www.pbs.org Unforgettable Letters: www.usps.gov/letters The Journey North:http://www.learner.org/jnorth
	Finding what's new on the Web	Netscape Button: home.netscape.com/home/whats-new.html Yahoo: www.yahoo.com/new

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