Free E-mail

• Windows Live Mail - Previously known as Hotmail.
• Yahoo - Access email from anywhere, enjoy unlimited storage space, and feel secure with award-winning spam protection.
• Mail.com - Free Email Account, 3GB Storage, Spam and Virus Protection
• Hushmail - The world's most secure, easy-to-use encrypted free email and document storage with PGP compatibility!
• Gmail - Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages.

Directories

• Google Directory - A directory of web sites offered by the popular search tool.
• Yahoo - Search engine and web portal rolled into one.
• My Excite - Excite is the leading personalization Web portal, featuring world-class search, content and functionality.
• 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

• Google - Google is the world's leading search engine. Google also provides a wide range of free services like maps, web-based email, etc. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
• Yahoo - Search engine and web portal rolled into one.
• 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.
• Wolfram|Alpha - Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.
• Bing - A "decision engine" from Microsoft for Web, image, shopping searches.
• Ask.com - Offers search for web sites, images, news, blogs, video, maps and directions, local search and shopping.

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.