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Free E-mail
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CoolToad
A full service site providing email, web hosting, and a
web directory. |
Gmail
To sign up for a Google email account, you must be invited by
another user or get a registration code sent to your mobile phone. |
Hotmail
MSN Hotmail is the world's
largest provider of free Web-based e-mail. |
Lycos
A free service offered through Lycos, this
is a simple to use web mail program. |
Mail.com
On this site, you can select from many different domain
names for your own personal email. |
My Way
No banners. No pop-ups. No
kidding. Introducing My Way. |
SAFe-Mail
SAFe-mail is the secure
e-mail system that permits users to exchange information
over the Internet in complete privacy. |
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Mail is one of the Internet's most popular free
e-mail services. |
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Directories |
Argus
Clearinghouse
Provides
categories of sites evaluated by librarians and dates
when the site was last checked. |
Google Directory
A directory of web sites offered by
the popular search tool. |
Information Please
This site includes an almanac, encyclopedia, and
dictionary. |
The
Internet Scout Project
Librarians
and educators weed out the worst sites to make
Internet surfing smarter. |
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. |
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Search
Engines
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Academic Info
Use this site to locate online college and research level Internet resources. |
Ask Jeeves
This tool
seeks to humanize the web by making it easy to find the
most relevant information, products and services. |
Beaucoup
This
site links directly to the search tools of thousands
of specialized sites. |
Biolinks
Designed by scientists for scientific research. |
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. |
FindLaw
Use this site to locate legal information. |
Google
The largest
search tool on the web. It allows users to find web
pages and images, supports a web directory. Are you
feeling lucky? |
Google: Unclesam
Search for government information on this specialized tool offered by Google. |
HotBot
HotBot.com is an award-winning search
engine with more than 40 tools to help users better
articulate their searches and get relevant results
quickly and easily. |
Lycos
Lycos.com offers
Internet users a fast, easy and efficient way to make
sense of the Internet and manage its vast resources. |
Vivísimo
Vivísimo web search clusters the results of different
search engines into a set of easy to read and useful
results. |
WebCrawler
A simple,
straightforward search engine that allows searches look
for web pages, photos, and news. |
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The Web
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10 Cs for evaluating
Internet content
The "Ten C's" provide
criteria to consider in evaluating Internet resources.
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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. |
webTeacher
A training
tool useful for anyone, this tutorial addresses those
things which would help you to use the Internet. |
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. |
The following Internet sites have been selected for
their value as reference sources. Although reviewed by library staff
at the time of inclusion in this list, the Palm Beach County Library
System is not responsible for their contents.