Searching the 'World Live Web'

"According to popular opinion, and indeed hard market research, Google and Yahoo! have the Internet search engine market pretty well sewn-up. Google in particular has been instrumental in driving technical change, with an extremely active research and development program. For example, one of its more recent developments is a news search service, which allows users to access breaking news from a multitude of different sources. However, where do you go if you are looking to capture popular opinion on a particular subject, or get an insight into the very latest developments in a particular field?"

Poynter Online - Internet IQ Checklist for Journalists

"Evaluating online information is one of the trickiest and most important parts of using the Internet in your reporting, so I thought I'd follow up Sree's tips on judging accuracy with a checklist to help guide you."

CyberJournalist.net: Cyber Slip-Ups

What happens when you don't verify info

"No matter how often the media gets warned to verify information -- especially online information -- it seems journalists never learn. Here are a few tips to help you make sure you get the facts straight, followed by a summary of some of the cyber slip-ups journalists have made."

All The News That's Fit For Searching by Kristi Heim, Mercury News Seattle Bureau

"Eric Horvitz is an admitted news junkie. But like most Web surfers, he's been getting an overdose of the same information. Horvitz and Susan Dumais, both senior Microsoft researchers, are creating technology to make searching for news more effective. Their project, called NewsJunkie, could help Microsoft develop a search function in Windows to compete with Google. It's also planned as part of MSN's upcoming news page, called Newsbot."

VerticalPortals.com - Main Directory

"This is the VerticalPortals.com Main Directory. From here you can find any destination in our growing family of 'the_____Portal.com' Web portals - sites that concentrate on a particular area of interest or information, to help you find what you're looking for, faster."

My Way News: Upstart Competitors Try to Outdo Google

BrainBoost - Question Answering Search Engine

"BrainBoost is a Question Answering search engine. It was specifically designed to answer questions, asked in plain English."

GoGuides.Org Directory & Search

"GoGuides.Org is a virtual community made up of people from all over the world brought together by common goals: to build and maintain a directory of the highest quality and give each and every member a voice in its growth and operation."

The Ultimate Search Engine Links Page - International Search Engine Directory

Internet Archive: Live Music Archive

"Welcome to the Live Music Archive. etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial releases are off-limits. This collection is maintained by the etree.org community."

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive

"About the Movie Archive: This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films. By providing near-unrestricted access to these films, we hope to encourage widespread use of moving images in new contexts by people who might not have used them before."

Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching

The Infography

"This reference tool enables a student, librarian, or teacher to identify superlative sources of information about a subject of inquiry, viewed through the lens of expert opinion. The subject specialists who select the citations published in The Infography are professors, librarians, and other scholars who know the literature about their subjects of expertise, who know which information sources are seminal for research."

The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources Online companion to the book. Frequently updated by Nick Tomaiuolo

MSNBC - Little Engines That Can

"Even Google can't think of everything. A host of start-ups are working to fill niches and capitalize on the search boom."

LEARN THE NET: Test Your Net IQ: Quiz I