Web Search

The following are some useful search pages that assist in locating other network resources. I've placed them here mainly because I could never find them in my bookmarks list.

Google Groups. A tool for searching Usenet news archives.

FTP search. Archie Server Gateway running under FreeBSD

Here are some other neat search engines that look up non-web stuff.

Translations by Bablefish. Not essential but fun.

Flight Tracking. You can find out about current flights between major cities within the United States.

Switchboard. Search for people, businesses and other things on the net.

WorldPages. A search page to locate businesses, people, and goverment offices.

THOMAS: Legislative Information. Full text access to current bills under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

Color Landform Atlas of the United States. A state by state collection of relief maps. Many more map reverences can be found at CGRER NetSurfing: Maps and References.

U.S. Census Bureau FactFinder. Your source for population, hoousing, economic, and geographic data.

U.S. Gazetteer. This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and the 1990 Census Lookup