Catherine
Johnson
Best of Search Engines
Travel Search Engines
#1 Expedia.com.
Pretty much anything anyone ever needs to travel
anywhere. http://www.expedia.com/ Date visited: 9/15/05
#2
Search Engines.Com.
Complete with links to rail, air, greyhound,
http://www.searchengines.com/reference_travel.html. Date visited: 9/15/05
Medical Search Engines
#1 WebMD. Do
everything from finding a doctor to reading messageboards,
to reading up on different medical conditions.
http://www.webmd.com/. Date visited:
9/15/05
#2 Medline Plus. Health topics, drug information, medical
dictionary, find doctors, read about health in the news. http://medlineplus.gov/
Date visited: 9/15/05
Shopping Search Engines
#1 Amazon. I don’t even know where to start, this site
has everything! Books, CDs, DVDs,
magazines, electronics, Kid & Baby, Home & Garden, Yellow Pages,
Wedding Registry, and used. I list this
as #1 because it’s what I personally have ordered dozens of things from,
without any problem.
www.amazon.com.
Date visited: 9/15/05
#2 Bizrate. Shop through home & garden, computers, clothes, electronics,
jewelry, sports, appliances, musical instruments, travel.
www.bizrate.com
Date visited: 9/15/05
News Search
Engines
#1 News & Media
on Yahoo! My favorite—links to everything, on every topic!
http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/
Date visited: 9/15/05
#2 Total News. Includes links to the main news cites, plus
topics such as business, sport, entertainment, Weather. http://totalnews.com/ Date visited: 9/15/05
Literary Search
Engines
#1 The Literature Network. Searchable online
literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. http://www.online-literature.com/
Date visited: 9/15/05
#2
Suite 101—is an online publishing community of
writers, readers, and educators. Search
for most any literary work. Includes
free e-courses!
http://www.suite101.com/ Date visited:
9/14/05
2 Overall Best:
Google! It’s the one I use for almost everything! (Or Yahoo!)
www.google.com. Very easy, and includes a lot of good
results.
http://www.alltheweb.com/ Pretty much the same results that Google
has…just a different name.