Bro. Richard's Favorite URLs: International, Minnesota, News and Search Tools

Brother Richard's Favorite URLs: a personal index and navigation guide
Contents: International: News, Weather etc. * This page * Minnesota * This page * Tools for Searching * This page * Links Checked: 12 Feb. 2008
Religion & Theology * Catholic Education and Enrollment Management Entertainment Universities (select)	Miscellaneous Libraries and books Music Travel United States

Brother Richard's Favorite URLs:
a personal index and navigation guide

General Searches by Topic. (Directory-based engines limit the scope of a search.)
Alta Vista BUBL Search (UK) DogPile (finds and ranks the best sites) Excite (major portal) Fagan Finder (multi-faceted tools) FindHow- The How-To Search Engine Flnder.org - An experimental search interface Go.com (portal) Google! (Results by popularity; fast) Ixquick (relevant, comprehensive and fast)	LookSmart (business directory) Lycos (portal) MetaCrawler (search the search engines) OSB. Search (OSB, CSBSJU and the Web) The Paperboy (find newspapers worldwide) Search.com (C\|Net) Technorati (Search Blogs) WebCrawler (Metasearch engine) Yahoo Web Search

People: 555-1212.com (Commercial: telephone, reverse, wireless, city guides, e-mail, area codes); Addresses & telephone numbers (Switchboard); Alumni/ae E-mail Addresses; American Alumni Directory; People Search (Yahoo; telephone, e-mail); PIPL: the most comprehensive people search on the Web; Web, phone, e-mail addresses (WhoWhere/Lycos)

Phone: All Area Codes (since 2001); AT&T Anywho Info (reverse phone, email, websites, events); Consumer Complaints Board (for reporting telemarketers); Dex Knows (yellow pages and white pages with reverse phone search); Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (how you can sue telemarketers disrespecting "Do Not Call List"); Reported Phone Numbers (directory of harassing phone numbers. Add your pest!); Telephone Directories on the Web (Infobel Intl., 5 langs., telephone, e-mail, fax); Who Called Us? (The phone is ringing, and I don't recognize the number.)

Geographic Search Tools (see also "Travel"): City/Zip+4 Codes and more, etc. (US Postal Service); Directorate of Time (USNO); Free Canada Postal Code Lookup (Free postal code lookup with area code, province, latitude, longitude, elevation, dwelling, street name and time zone); Google Maps; Local Times Around the World (The World Clock); Lycos Travel Guide; Map (Yahoo. Search?); Map Quest (plan your route); Time Now (World Clocks for Everyone); Zip Find® Central (find distance between US Zip codes and more)

Discussion Groups/Mailing Lists: CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV® lists; Google Groups (Search Newsgroups); LISTSERV Mailing Lists/Discussion Groups

Various and Miscellaneous: Can Stock Photo (15 million professional royalty free, stock photos; free registration and license fee required); Fotosearch Stock Photography (royalty free and rights-managed); Internet Movie Database (Search ?); Job-Hunt (metalist); Search CSBSJU Movie List; United Parcel Service. Tracking.; US. Postal Service Zip+4 Codes, etc.