Are you lost on the information highway?  In the beginning, I thought "surfing the Web" was absolutely pointless and a big waste of time.  I remember feeling totally overwhelmed until Debby told me about search engines.  After I learned how to search, I could find what I needed to know. 
 
Each search engine has a different way of searching.  My favorites are listed here.  If I don't find what I'm looking for with Google, then I'll look in another one.  So you can always find this page, click on the "Add bookmarks" or "Add favorites" at the top of your Internet page.

Type your search word or words into the white box to the right of "Google", and then click "Google Search".   Government Search   University Search   New! Search Help   Add your URL to the Google index.

The Open Directory

• How to add your URL to the Open Directory Project index.
  I use to volunteer in the Alaska and Aviation sections of the directory.
  You can volunteer, too.

Search the Web for

infoplease.com Search for in All Sources All Almanacs   General   Entertainment   Sports Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia

Search:

Searchhound provided the least helpful results of the search engines on this page.

 

• Add your URL to the Search Hound index,
  requires name, e-mail, keywords, title, and description.

 

• Add your domain to the fast search index, requires name and e-mail address.

• Paid site submission only.

• Suggestions how to add your page to the Yahoo index

Specialty Search Engines
• Alcan Seek - Alaska and Canada travel, business, and personal sites.
• AMA Online Doctor Finder - Find a doctors in the United States, the schools they attended, and their locations.
• Arin Who-Is - Find the domain behind the IP number.
• Ask Jeeves - Have a question?  Ask Jeeves.
• CNet Download.com - Search for downloadable freeware, shareware, and trial versions of software.
• Direct Search - Information not available to regular search engines.
• Domainator - Find a domain's availability, rhyming words, language translation, dictionary meaning, and whether it is trademarked.
• Find Law - Search for lawyers, attorneys, and legal resources.
• High Beam Research - Former eLibrary.  Search documents, newspapers, magazines, journals, transcripts, books, images, maps, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs.
• Journalist's Toolbox - Resources for the researcher.
• Jumbo - Free and shareware MP3 files, games, screen savers, and computer software.
• Lists of Lists
• Lookup Directory - People, zip codes, street names, Canadian addresses, business lists, statistics, post offices, advertising, direct marketing, and copywriting tips.
• MedHunt - Medical Document Finder
• Science.gov - Gateway to science resources provided by the U.S. government.
• Scirus - Science, biology, medical, physics, economics, and math resources, journals, and books.  Keyword suggestions after first search.
• Search Systems - Free public records directory.
• Tucows - Download software, services, and games.
• U.S. Trademarks