NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER NET SEARCH LINKS

Searching the Net? Here Are Places to Start
This is the list of search sites and descriptions of the sites that the New York Times
 provides to its reporters.

  • Google gives terrific results by analyzing a page's popularity. It now includes the search of Usenet discussions as well as a government search and an image search. (Maine AFL-CIO Note: this site also has a "news" tab at the top of the home page. In the news search box type in "labor unions AFL-CIO" and you will get thousands of hits of labor news stories).
  • Alta Vista offers efficient Web search; its no-frills text search loads faster.
  • Yahoo: Subject guide and free-text searching of the World Wide Web, and many other services
  • All the Web, from Fast Search, is quick and simple
  • Ask Jeeves searching with a human touch
  • Ixquick searches multiple search engines and quickly returns filtered results.
  • ProFusion, Excite, Dogpile, CNet Search.com and Metacrawler simultaneously search different combinations of multiple Web search engines
  • Hotbot now comes to you from Lycos
  • Looksmart searches selected sites reviewed by humans, but emphasizes those who pay for placement.
  • About.com has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
  • Britannica adds human judgment to searching, and presents the results in an unusually effective way
  • Searchmil.com searches for information in military (.mil) computers
  • Achoo and The Hardin Meta Directory catalog health related sites
  • Topica and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists Guide to live events on the Web