Web sites about using Web sites and HTML, including search engines

Google and some of its aspects:

• Basic Google search engine.
• Google Uncle Sam for U.S. government sites.
• Google Book Search, formerly Google Print.
• Google Scholar.
• Google's University search.
• Google Hot Trends showing frequent searches (a successor to Zeitgeist).
• Google ~Guide for advanced user tips.

Other significant search engines (based on Search Engine Watch review):

• Yahoo directory and the related AllTheWeb.
• AskJeeves.

Meta-engines:

• Dogpile runs a search in multiple search engines simultaneously.
• HotBot covering content from Yahoo, Google and Teoma.
• Metacrawler uses multiple engines and uses an algorithm to rank hits for relevancy.
• Ixquick has options to tap a dozen engines, or news, and picture sites.

Miscellaneous:

• OAIster searching scholarly digital content.
• Internet Scout Project archives.
• Internet Archive (the Wayback Machine) archives early Web pages.
• OCLC's Web Characterization Project, with statistics about the Web up to 2002.
• Alexa Web Search posts rankings of the most active Web sites.
• Network Solutions services: whois, domain registration, dot-com directories.
• Internet Traffic Report measures global data flow through response time and packet loss.
• Internet Health Report: measures "latency (delay) of establishing a TCP connection across the Internet."
• For the voyeur: Metaspy shows live search engine activity.

Sites for checking out rumors and viruses:

• The Urban Legends site for debunking email rumors.
• Hoaxbusters archive.
• Urban Legends Reference Page.
• The FTC site is the place to complain about frauds to the Federal Trade Commission.

Validators to check Web sites for standards and connectivity:

• Cynthia Says validates sites for "errors in design related to Section 508 standards and the WCAG guidelines."
• W3C Markup Validation Service checks for precise HTML coding features.

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