50 States (loads of info on the states)
www.50states.com/

AcidSearch (hunts down audio files from multiple search sites)
www.acidsearch.com/

Acronym Finder
www.mtnds.com/af/

ADAM (the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, a search site for art history pages, including fine arts, design, architecture, applied arts, and media)
adam.ac.uk/

Agriculture Network Information Center (large central database for all things agricultural)
www.agnic.org/

Ain't It Cool News (fan site that covers all things Hollywood)
www.aint-it-cool-news.com/

Alight.com (site that bills itself for "size 16 women trying to live in a size 6 world" -- lots of practical info on health, lifestyles, and shopping)
www.alight.com/

All Apartments
www.allapartments.com/

AltaVista Image Search
www.altavista.com/sites/search/simage/

American Computer Resources International Calling Codes Page (go here to find the calling codes for particular countries or cities)
www.the-acr.com/codes/cntrycd.htm

American Memory (Library of Congress site featuring primary documents from all stages of American history)
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

Area Decoder (site to find the location of area codes and country codes)
decoder.americom.com/main.html

Artist Direct: Ultimate Band List
ubl.artistdirect.com/

AsiaRecipe (click on an Asian country and get a listing of recipes; cooking tips and techniques are also available)
www.asiarecipe.com/

Astrocenter (go here for personalized astrological readings)
www.astrocenter.com/

BadFads (light-hearted compilation of pop culture fads that didn't stick -- wanna bet Pokemon will be listed soon enough?)
www.badfads.com/

BarPoint (enter in a product's 12- or 13-digit UPC code and find out product info, prices, reviews, and links to purchase the product; still in its infancy, but catching on)
www.barpoint.com/

BeliefNet (large, highly interactive site collating info on most of the world's religions, without taking overt sides)
www.beliefnet.com/

Bibliofind (over 10 million current and out-of-print book listings; recently Bibliofind was the center of a large security scandal involving hackers obtaining credit card information on customers; now affiliated with Amazon)
www.bibliofind.com/

Biographical Dictionary (quick summations of famous people)
www.biography.com/search/

Biography Find (search for short bios)
www.s9.com/biography/

Biography Resource Center (search by birth/death date, nationality, and more)
www.galegroup.com/BiographyRC/

Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, 1774-Present (just what it says)
bioguide.congress.gov/

Boardreader (search various message boards for topical posts)
www.boardreader.com/

Britannica Online (entire contents of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, free, plus lots more info, including magazine and news articles and a searchable dictionary)
www.britannica.com/

Business.com (search site for business resources of all kinds)
www.business.com/

Can Do (web site dedicated to the online community of the differently abled and their families, friends, and caregivers)
www.cando.com/

Celebhoo (large site of celebrity info and gossip, lots of e-mail addresses of varying reliability)
www.celebhoo.com/

Celebrity Baby Names Index (find the names of your favorite celebrity's offspring, or just browse the weird ones)
www.celebnames.8m.com/

CEOExpress (executive-business oriented search site)
www.ceoexpress.com/

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (go here to find out who holds what position in what country)
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html

Classic Car Source (online site for classic car enthusiasts)
www.classicar.com/

Click TV (up-to-date, interactive TV listings)
listings.clicktv.com/

Companies Online (over 100,000 listings; useful for tracking online businesses)
www.companiesonline.com/

CompletePlanet (large listing of specialized search engines and databases
www.completeplanet.com/

Computer Magazine Archive (database of 200,000+ computer articles)
cma.zdnet.com/

Consumer Insurance Guide
www.insure.com/

CyberAtlas (source for a wealth of Internet usage and e-commerce stats)
cyberatlas.internet.com/

Dictionary.com (large online dictionary, thesaurus, and style book, with links to other dictionary sites)
www.dictionary.com/

Diggit (find graphics and images)
www.diggit.com/

The Digital Dog (all things canine)
www.digitaldog.com/

Directory of Associations (central source of thousands of different associations, on and offline)
www.marketingsource.com/associations/

Directory of ISPs (lists ISPs, access providers, and BBSes in 160 countries)
www.thedirectory.org/

Ditto (search for online graphics)
www.ditto.com/

Donde? (an online directory in Spanish)
donde.uji.es/

eBiz Search
gunther.smeal.psu.edu/index.html

eHobbies (online portal for hobbyists of all stripes, but best for model train, rocketry, and model enthusiasts)
www.ehobbies.com/

eLibrary (searchable database of books, newspapers, transcripts, maps, and more)
www.ehobbies.com/

Encyberpedia (online source of computer terminology)
www.encyberpedia.com/

Entertainment Sleuth (daily updates on the celebrities that interest you most)
www.entertainmentsleuth.com/

ERIC (huge database at the Educational Resource Information Center)
www.eric.ed.gov/

EuroPages (directory of over 50,000 European businesses in 30 nations)
www.europages.com/

Everyrule (rules for everything from beach volleyball to warfare)
www.everyrule.com/

FAST Multimedia Search (hunt for images, audio, or video files)
multimedia.alltheweb.com

FedStats (huge compendium of Federal statistics)
www.fedstats.gov/

Festivals (find out what festivals are taking place where)
www.festivals.com/

Financial Records (checklist helping you identify needed financial and legal documents)
www.bankrate.com/brm/news/bank/19990714a.asp

FindArticles (over 300 sources of published articles)
www.findarticles.com

FirstGov (extremely comprehensive site for U.S. government documents)
www.firstgov.gov/

Forum One (a listing of Web discussion groups)
www.forumone.com/

Francite (a French directory, in French)
francite.com/

FreeAdvice (legal site combining law advice from firms all over the country)
www.freeadvice.com/

Go Critique (free expert critiquing of your Web site; currently unavailable)
www.gocritique.com/

Goo (a Japanese site, in Japanese)
www.goo.ne.jp/

Government Information Xchange (go here to access federal yellow pages or find out about government jobs, selling savings bonds, buying surplus property, etc.)
www.info.gov/

GPO Access (catalog of U.S. government publications)
www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/multidb.html

Grassroots (a political activism site that doesn't care what you're active about, it links to just about everything on the political and social setting to give you the chance to air your opinions or get involved)
www.grassroots.com/

Great Buildings Collection (site compiling info and photos of a thousand of the world's greatest buildings)
www.greatbuildings.com/

Guitar (huge, authoritative site for guitar aficianados)
www.guitar.com/

Ham Radio Supersite
www.qrz.com

Hekman Digital Library - AlphaSearch (directories subdivided by categories)
www.calvin.edu/library/searreso/internet/as/

HighWire (over 12 million articles in the Medline journal base; think science and medicine)
highwire.stanford.edu/

Hollywood.com (everything you need to know about the happenings in Tinseltown)
www.hollywood.com/

Hoover's Online (a pay-to-use resource for corporate info)
www.hoovers.com/

Incy Wincy (crawls through the Open Directory's Invisible Web)
www.incywincy.com/

Information Please (online almanac; good start for fact-finding missions on just about any topic)
www.infoplease.com/

Infomine (scholarly research search site)
infomine.ucr.edu/

Internet.com Search (formerly Netsearcher; search engine for Webmasters, IS managers, e-commerce pros, etc.)
search.internet.com/

InvisibleWeb (catalogs over 10,000 "special interest" search engines)
www.invisibleweb.com/

International Database (demographic and socioeconomic stats on countries around the globe)
www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html

Internet Archive (huge project attempting to archive everything on the Web, past and present)
www.archive.org/index.html

Internet Movie Database (everything you ever wanted to know about movies, in general [what's a key grip, anyway?] or in specific [who played that oozy fellow in Dick Tracy?])
www.imdb.com/

IPL: Internet Public Library
www.ipl.org/

JoeExpert (search engine devoted to HTML and Web design only)
www.joeexpert.com/

Journal of Mundane Behavior (site focusing on aspects of our daily lives which usually go unnoticed -- see for yourself)
www.mundanebehavior.org/

Journalist Express (excellent site for general research)
www.journalistexpress.com/

JSTOR (academic journals galore; only accessible through an educational institution)
www.jstor.org/

Kasparov Chess (fascinating site dealing with the many aspects of chess, with plenty of input from Grandmaster Kasparov and an online gaming section)
www.kasparovchess.com/

KnowX (public record database including criminal records, witness relocations, bankruptcy proceedings, etc. It'll cost you 50 cents to go hunting between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., or do it free during the off hours)
www.knowx.com/

KymiNet (a Finnish search directory, formerly in English but being restructured in Finnish)
www.kymi.net/

Lawcrawler (legal search engine)
www.lawcrawler.com/

Legaldocs (site that lets you prepare simple legal documents yourself for free)
www.legaldocs.com/

Lexis-Nexis Academic (tons of articles indexed by keywords, must pay to use)
www.lexis-nexis.com/universe/

Lib-web-cats (over 4000 library web pages, online catalogs, and system profiles, all searchable)
staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/Breeding/libwebcats.html

Librarians' Index to the Internet (excellent jumping-off point)
www.lii.org/

Library of Congress Country Studies (info on over 100 countries)
lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/

LibrarySpot (directory of encyclopedias, almanacs, databases, online calculators, and more)
www.libraryspot.com/

Libweb (huge compendium of online libraries)
sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/

List-Universe.com (comprehensive listing of e-mail lists, e-zines, etc.)
www.list-universe.com/

Liszt (lists over 100,000 mailing lists)
www.liszt.com/

LiveLink Pinstripe (primarily for business-oriented Web sites)
amillionlives.com/

Loislaw (site that collects data and links from over 1300 legal databases; 10-day free trial)
www.loislaw.com/

LookSmart's Find Articles (hunts for articles through 700+ publications, though most of the articles are several months old)
www.findarticles.com/

MapPlanet (global search engine that has you zero in on a particular part of the globe, then reveals info and links related to that area of the world)
www.mapplanet.com/

MapQuest (collection of maps and map resources, routing tools, and travel resources)
www.mapquest.com/

Mensa Workout (go here for brain-stretching activities and teasers)
www.mensa.org/workout.html

Mergent Online (integrated databases)
www.mergentonline.com/

MetaIQ (a shopping search site)
www.metaiq.com/

Michigan Electronic Library (library resource and Internet portal)
mel.lib.mi.us/main-index.html

The Motley Fool (famous Web source for investment and stock tips, strong how-to and beginner sections)
www.fool.com/

MP3.com (the source for MP3 downloads, locating hard-to-find files, and breaking information)
www.mp3.com/

Movie-A-Minute (sums up most major movies in a few dozen words)
rinkworks.com/movieaminute/

Myria.com (large online site for mothers and mothers-to-be)
myria.com/

Nanpa (provides current area code maps)
www.nanpa.com/

NatureServe Explorer (searchable database of info about nature's wonders)
www.natureserve.org/explorer/

New Hacker's Dictionary (online translations of geekspeak)
www.jargon.org/

Noodlequest (refine academic and research searches)
www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/

OANDA Currency Converters (a site that provides you with up-to-date currency conversions and exchange rates; you can enter in a dollar figure and find how much that amount is in euros, lira, yen, or what have you)
www.oanda.com/

OneLook Dictionary (an online dictionary)
www.onelook.com/

OneSeek (news and search site for Web developers and IT pros)
www.oneseek.com/

On-Line Books Page (over 11,000 books online, with less emphasis on books by dead European white males but still mostly books in the public domain)
digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Pandia Search Central (a directory of search engines)
www.pandia.com/

PCBeacon (new search engine slanted towards business users)
www.pcbeacon.com/

Perseus Digital Library (search, resource site for ancient Greece and Greek culture)
www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Philosophy Research Base (all things philosophical; the search engine is affiliated with Amazon)
www.erraticimpact.com/

Phone Links (metalisting of phone listings)
www.ci.eugene.or.us/library/staffref/telephon.htm

PhoneSpell (enter the digits of your phone number and it cranks out all the possible spellings of the digits -- i.e. 827-7877 becomes "TAR-PUPS")
www.phonespell.org/

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (large site devoted to keeping you abreast of privacy issues)
www.privacyrights.org/

Project Gutenberg (large, well-established site that makes older texts available on the Web)
www.gutenberg.org/

Project Vote Smart (national nonpartisan political info site)
www.vote-smart.org/

PublicLibraries (search out your local library, or others -- Presidential, university, more)
www.publiclibraries.com/

Realtor.com (find a house)
www.realtor.com/

Research Buzz (good place to start in researching topics of interest)
www.researchbuzz.com/

Research Discovery Network (source site for research materials directed at the academic, scholastic, technical, and scientific communities)
www.rdn.ac.uk/

Research-It (large site for researching listservs and other e-mail discussion groups; also has a biographical search section)
www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html

Researchville (good starting place for heavy research)
www.researchville.com/

Roadside America (large site featuring the gaudier, less famous roadside attractions America has to offer)
www.scirus.com/

Scirus (scientific and medical information search engine)
www.roadsideamerica.com/

Scorecard (public service site that makes it easy for you to access local environmental info from dozens of government and scientific databases)
www.scorecard.org/

SearchEBooks (find electronic publications)
www.searchebooks.com/

Seeing Stars in Hollywood (tremendous site for virtual star stalking)
www.seeing-stars.com/

Scour (large compendium for multimedia files; the Advanced option lets you search by file type and location. Results give you thumbnail images and direct links to sound and video clips)
www.searchebooks.com/

Search Engine Colossus (search for the engine of your choice)
www.searchenginecolossus.com/

Searchebooks (search the contents of thousands of e-books)
www.scour.com/

Searchedu (search the .EDU domain)
www.searchedu.com/

Searchgov (search the .GOV domain)
www.searchgov.com/

Searchmil (search the .MIL domain)
www.searchmil.com/

Sedo.co.uk (large search site for domains -- who owns them, who wants to sell them, etc.)
sedo.co.uk/

Search.Internet.Com (search engine affiliated with the computer/techie site Internet.com)
search.internet.com/

SearchSystems (large public records database -- find out all the publicly held info on anyone)
www.searchsystems.net/

Shine (large online compendium of charities)
www.shine.com/

Six Billion Human Beings (Shockwave-heavy site filled with information about the world's ever-expanding population)
www.popexpo.net/english.html

Soon to Be Released (if a movie, CD, DVD, or software release is coming out soon, it's probably listed here)
www.soontobereleased.com/

Speeding Ticket (online directory of information about each state's traffic laws, along with lots of listings for bail bondsmen, lawyers, etc.)
www.speedingticket.net/

SpyOnIt (site that says it will keep an eye out for whatever info you want, and when it appears on the Web, it will notify you)
www.spyonit.com/

Station Wagon (for fans of the station wagon, past and present)
www.stationwagon.com/

Technocopia (guide to the technological life)
www.technocopia.com/

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet (huge source of info about domestic legislation)
thomas.loc.gov/

Urban Legends Reference Pages (large, well-researched site debunking the urban legends we hear so frequently)
www.snopes.com/

U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory (listing of the Web sites of all Federal agencies)
www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

U.S. House of Representatives
www.house.gov

U.S. Postal Service Zip Code Lookup
www.usps.gov/ncsc

U.S. Senate
www.senate.gov

U.S. State Department (lots of info on foreign countries)
www.state.gov

Volunteer Match [USA] (links to volunteer sites across America)
www.volunteermatch.org

WebArrow Chat Directory (links to tons of Web chats, including Java chats, IRC, ICQ, and chats organized by topics)
www.webarrow.net/chatindex/

WebCam Search (listing of the myriad WebCam sites currently available)
www.Webcamsearch.com

webCats: Library Catalogues on the Web
www.lights.com/webcats/

Webring (Web rings are groups of sites with similar themes or focuses (i.e. the Rolling Stones web ring, the Rush Limbaugh web ring, the I Hate Rush web ring, etc.), all linked together in a "ring." This site, now part of the Yahoo! conglomerate, manages and lists many of the rings, and provides the coding you'll need to link your site into the proper ring)
dir.webring.com/rw

What Time Is It? (provides accurate time in any city around the globe)
www.what-time-is-it.com

WWW Virtual Library of International Resources (over 1700 links to a plethora of international resource sites)
www.etown.edu/vl

XRefer (allows you to search a database of over 300,000 entries about facts, quotes, and words)
www.xrefer.com

Yesterland (neat fan site of yesterday's Disneyland, with lots of trivia and historical info)
www.yesterland.com/yester.html

Zagat (online version of the world-famous directory of restaurant reviews, lots of info and features)
www.zagat.com