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The Internet - Useful Web Links

The following Internet sites have been selected for their value as reference sources. Although reviewed by library staff at the time of inclusion in this list, the Palm Beach County Library System is not responsible for their contents.

 

Free E-mail

Directories

Search Engines

The Web

Free E-mail

CoolToad
A full service site providing email, web hosting, and a web directory.

Gmail
To sign up for a Google email account, you must be invited by another user or get a registration code sent to your mobile phone.

Hotmail
MSN Hotmail is the world's largest provider of free Web-based e-mail.

Lycos
A free service offered through Lycos, this is a simple to use web mail program.

Mail.com
On this site, you can select from many different domain names for your own personal email.

My Way
No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way.

SAFe-Mail
SAFe-mail is the secure e-mail system that permits users to exchange information over the Internet in complete privacy.

Yahoo!
Yahoo! Mail is one of the Internet's most popular free e-mail services.

 

Directories

Google Directory
A directory of web sites offered by the popular search tool.

Information Please
This site includes an almanac, encyclopedia, and dictionary.

The Internet Scout Project
Librarians and educators weed out the worst sites to make Internet surfing smarter.

Librarian's Index to the Internet
Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.

Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

 

 

Search Engines

Academic Info
Use this site to locate online college and research level Internet resources.

Ask Jeeves
This tool seeks to humanize the web by making it easy to find the most relevant information, products and services.

Beaucoup
This site links directly to the search tools of thousands of specialized sites.

Dogpile
Dogpile combs popular search engines to compile a complete list of matches for a user's query and organizes the results by each individually searched resource.

FindLaw
Use this site to locate legal information.

Google
The largest search tool on the web.  It allows users to find web pages and images, supports a web directory.  Are you feeling lucky?

Google: Unclesam
Search for government information on this specialized tool offered by Google.

Vivísimo
Vivísimo web search clusters the results of different search engines into a set of easy to read and useful results.

WebCrawler
A simple, straightforward search engine that allows searches look for web pages, photos, and news.

 

 

The Web

PBCLS Computer Buying Web Sites
A list of great web sites to look at when you are considering buying a computer.

PBCLS Cyber Security Links
Links to get sites to help you better protect your computer and your personal information.

Which search tool should I use?
This site from Noodle Tools suggests search tools for different types of searches.

Whois lookup
Search for who owns which Web address.

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