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Web Traffic Report Every user knows the Internet varies in speed and reliability of connections. Although there probably isn't anything you can do about the quality of your connection, you can use The Internet Weather Report to verify problems and point to resources that aren't slow at the moment.
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Domain Name "WhoIs" Search See who owns an Internet domain name, i.e., dell.com, or if the name you want -- "yourname.com" -- is still available.
Inference Find Inference Find submits your search in parallel to AltaVista, Excite, InfoSeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, and Yahoo. After the allotted time, redundancies are eliminated and the results merged into a "clustered" presentation.
Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves a question in plain English. You'll get better results if you type a full question, focused on a single subject, rather than just a word or phrase. If Jeeves doesn't know the answer, he'll provide you with look-ups from several major search engines.
Open Directory Search
Yahoo Search
Google Search
Originally developed at Stanford University, Google uses weighted link popularity as a primary part of its ranking mechanism. It is the go-to engine for serious researchers.
Email Address Lookup Unfortunately, an equivalent of the commonplace telephone directory does not yet exist for Internet Email addresses. If the three searches on this page don't yield the Email address you're looking for, it's generally not worthwhile to keep trying.
Tips: Leave off apt or suite numbers. Use standard postal abbreviations (St, Rd, Ave, N, S, NW, etc.). To find all residents of a given street, leave the house number empty.
Telephone Numbers: Toll Free (800/888/877)
Tips: Fill in just the toll-free number do perform a reverse look up.
Use fields in combination to bring up lists, e.g., "computers" in "Brooklyn".
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