SEARCH ENGINES WITH SPECIAL TOOLS
AUDIO | IMAGES | MAPS | NEWS | PEOPLE | TRANSLATORS | VIDEO | WEBLOGS | MISCELLANEOUS |
- AllTheWeb: Audio
- AltaVista: MP3/Audio - MP3, WAV, WindowsMedia, Real, AIFF, etc.
- Blinkx - video and audio (BBC, NBC, C-SPAN, ESPN, etc.)
- Lycos Multimedia - Select "audio"
- Singing Fish - audio and video files (Windows media, Real, QuickTime, and mp3)
- SpeechBot - audio files primarily from public radio
- AltaVista Image Search
- AllTheWeb Pictures
- Corbis - images from advertising, books, newspapers, magazines, TV, and film
- Getty Images - includes Bridgeman Art Library, Hulton Archive, ImageBank, National Geographic TimeLife, etc.
- Google Image Search
- Image After
- Lycos MultiMedia Search - a combination of Getty and AllTheWeb
- National Geographic Image Collection
- New York Public Library Digital Library Collection - thousands of photographs, maps, manuscripts, etc.
- Picsearch - (filtered)
Further guides to finding images on the web
- Atlapedia Online - world maps (physical and political)
- Google Maps - driving directions and street maps of the United States
- MapQuest - driving directions and street maps of North America and Europe
- MapsOnUs - driving directions and street maps of the United States
- MSN Maps - driving directions and street maps of North America and Europe
- MultiMap - driving directions and street maps of Europe, Australia, and the US
- National Geographic Map Machine - world maps and country information
- Outline Maps - United States and world maps
- Yahoo Maps - driving directions and street maps of North America
- DayPop - searches news sites, weblogs and RSS feeds
- Google News - searches worldwide news sites
- Home Town News - links to thousands of large and small newspaper sites
- Ithaki News - searches thousands of online newspapers and news sources (international in scope)
- NewsNow - news search engine from the U.K.; displays results in chronological order (international in scope)
- NewsTrove - searches english-language news, government, political, and opinion websites
- Rocket News - searches news, media, government, and corporate websites
- Total News - searches newspapers, news magazines, television, and radio stations
- Yahoo! News Search - searches news stories, pictures, and audio/video
- PEOPLE
- AnyWho.com - (AT&T) free addresses and telephone numbers (more information for a fee)
- Googlism.com - finds blurbs about people on the web (more information for a fee)
- InfoSpace - free addresses and telephone numbers (more information for a fee)
- Lycos People Search - free addresses and telephone numbers (more information for a fee)
- Smartpages.com - (Southwestern Bell) (more information for a fee)
- SuperPages.com - (Verizon) free addresses and telephone numbers (more information for a fee)
- Switchboard.com
- Yahoo! People Search
- TRANSLATORS
- AltaVista - (Click on "Translate" and type in text or a URL to translate to any language or do a search and click on "Translate")
- Ez2Find Translator
- Google - (Do your search and click on "Translate this page")
- AllTheWeb: Video
- AltaVista: Video - MPEG, Avi, Quicktime, Windows Media, Real, etc.
- Blinkx - video and audio (BBC, NBC, C-SPAN, ESPN, etc.)
- Lycos Multimedia - Select "video"
- Singing Fish - audio and video files (Windows media, Real, QuickTime, and mp3)
- Yahoo! Video Search - search by format, size, and duration (beta version)
- BlogSearchEngine - searches blogs (has a subject directory)
- Bloogz
- Daypop - searches news sites, weblogs, and RSS feeds
- DeskFeeds
- Feedster.com - searches weblogs and news sources (New York Times, BBC, CNET, IDG)
- Open Directory Weblogs - searches weblogs
- Technorati
- CataList - searches the names of listservs
- FTP Search Engines
- Google Groups - searches an archive of Usenet discussion groups dating back to 1991
- Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - finds webpages archived from 1996 onwards
- Search Systems - searches for websites with public records
