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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Top 100 Websites for Reference (1-33)

Sites in this category were ordered by popularity. We received no compensation from the sites listed here.

Wikipedia

wikipedia.org/

An online collaborative encyclopedia.

Yahoo! Answers

answers.yahoo.com/

Ask questions and get answers from other people in the community.

Google Maps

maps.google.com/

Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United States. Can also search by keyword such as type of business.

WikiAnswers - Q&A wiki

wiki.answers.com/

Questions and answers in a shared, wiki format.

Thesaurus.com

thesaurus.reference.com/

Online version of Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd edition.

From the site: Would you like to search the dictionaries , search the encyclopedias , or search the Web for about+town ? For better results, try our search tips . More...

Internet Archive

www.archive.org/

A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Includes a text archive of digitised books from Canadian libraries, Carnegie Mellon University, and Project Gutenberg.

From the site: Internet Archive Challenges F.B.I.’s Secret Records Demand ... Nasa and Internet Archive Team to Digitize Space Imagery ... The Archive s purpose is to provide free access to the research and academic communities. It does not charge for access to the collections. Read about how we are using the collections . ... More...

StumbleUpon

www.stumbleupon.com/

A web browser plugin that allows users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles.

From the site: Join StumbleUpon & give it a thumb up > ... Click here to install the StumbleUpon toolbar and create a profile. It only gets better as we get to know each other. Pretty soon we'll show you all sorts of sites, video, and photos you'll love! We'll make the web feel new again. ... Check out this cool site I found using StumbleUpon! More...

LEO English-German Dictionary

dict.leo.org/

Allows two-way searches for over 400,000 words and phrases. Several options available.

The Free Dictionary

www.thefreedictionary.com/

English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!

MapQuest

www.mapquest.com/

Find directions for and explore towns and cities worldwide. Display addresses on a map, view nearby businesses, get driving directions and maps, and plan a trip with city information. Also includes aerial photographs of selected areas.

From the site: You must have Cookies turned on to view all MapQuest features. ... You must have JavaScript turned on to view all MapQuest features. More...

WordReference,com

www.wordreference.com/

Dictionary containing English to/from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, and a language forum.

From the site: I do appreciate them! If you have general questions that other WordReference visitors might be able to answer, it is probably best to ask them in the More...

Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

An online collaborative encyclopedia.

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium

www.w3.org/

International industry consortium founded in 1994 whose purpose is to develop specifications, guidelines, software, and tools to promote the Internet's evolution and ensure its interoperability.

From the site: Please send feedback to site-comments@w3.org ( public archive ).

Stack Overflow

stackoverflow.com/

A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers. Questions and answers displayed by user votes and tags.

WhitePages.com

www.whitepages.com/

WhitePages.com allows you to find people, business listings, phone numbers, addresses, area codes, ZIP codes and postal codes.

From the site: Free searches for people and businesses in the U.S. and Canada....

National Library of Medicine

www.nlm.nih.gov/

Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries.

Merriam-Webster OnLine

www.m-w.com/

A free, searchable on-line dictionary and thesaurus, word games, a word of the day, and many other English language and vocabulary reference tools and resources.

From the site: Get instant results from Merriam-Webster in any desktop application in a single click! ... Classic Merriam-Webster content is now available on classic mobile platforms. ... From Noah Webster to Merriam-Webster: A Timeline Merriam-Webster Continues Noah Webster's Legacy More...

Urban Dictionary

www.urbandictionary.com/

A veritable cornucopia of streetwise lingo, posted and defined by its readers.

YELLOWPAGES.com, Inc.

www.yellowpages.com/

Offers searching United States and International business listings and includes business and consumer centers. We wrote the book on local search.

How Stuff Works

howstuffworks.com

HowStuffWorks.com is an award winning site covering thousands of topics within its own 10 channels: Auto, Computer, Electronics, Entertainment, Health, Home, Money, People, Science and Travel.

From the site: HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site is now an online resource for millions of people of all ages. From car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem cells, and thousands of subjects in between, HowStuffWorks has it covered. ... More...


Experts Exchange

www.experts-exchange.com/

Premium content subscription site where users collaborate with each other to solve their technology problems.

From the site: Our patented knowledge sharing process, combined with the advantages of the internet, allow us to change the way people of the world solve their technology problems, gather information and share knowledge. The Experts Exchange Team is united in one vision: to build the world's best collaboration and knowledge sharing solutions. ... More...

Classmates

www.classmates.com/

Reconnect with past friends and classmates. It's free to register.

From the site: Classmates Online, Inc., founded in 1995 and based in Renton, WA, is a leader in online social networking. The company operates Classmates.com ( www.classmates.com ), connecting millions of members throughout the U.S. and Canada with friends and acquaintances from school, work and the military. ... More...

Wiktionary

wiktionary.org

Collaborative project for creating a free lexical database in every language, complete with meanings, etymologies, and pronunciations.

Dict.cc

www.dict.cc/

Two-way lookup with over 630,000 keywords. User contributions are encouraged. Includes user recorded voices, vocabulary trainer and translation forum.

From the site: Unter folgender Adresse kannst du auf diese Übersetzung verlinken: http://www.dict.cc/?s=englisch-deutsch%2Fabout-%3Cb Tipps : Doppelklick neben Begriff = Rück-Übersetzung — Neue Wörterbuch-Abfrage mit ctrl + Suchzeit: 0.086 Sek. More...

AllExperts Questions & Answers

www.allexperts.com/

A directory of subjects with volunteer experts to answer posted questions.

From the site: Allexperts, created in early 1998, was the very first large-scale question and answer service on the net! We have thousands of volunteers, including top lawyers, doctors, engineers, and scientists, waiting to answer your questions. All answers are free and most come within a day! ... AllExperts is a property of About, Inc. The About logo, About and About.com are registered trademarks of About, Inc. More...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

www.mit.edu/

Admissions information, events calendar, visitor's information and news items.

From the site: The mission of the MIT Egyptian Club is threefold: ... Egyptian culture and civilization on the MIT campus and the greater More...

SuperPages

www.superpages.com/

United States white and yellow page listings. Includes links to directories for other countries.

From the site: Superpages.com is the local expert, and a top online resource for finding information and insights on businesses and retailers. Every month we help millions of consumers find valuable local business information from driving directions and hours of operation to Web links and customer reviews. ... Add Superpages.com to your browser and make it easier to search anytime! More...

Stanford University

www.stanford.edu/

General information about the departments and contacts.

From the site: Dean of Research and Graduate Policy at Stanford , take a look at these web pages (each was produced with the assistance of Wired ... Fellow at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. In May, 2006, Mike was awarded NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal . More...

Time and Date

www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Lots of time and date related information, such as yearly and monthly calendars, counters, countdown, and the world clock which shows the current time in

From the site: More features will be available later - if you have any suggestions, please feel free to send them to webmaster@timeanddate.com More...

Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions.

maps.yahoo.com/

Yahoo!'s map facility. Street maps and driving directions for US cities

HighBeam Encyclopedia

www.encyclopedia.com/

Offers articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia.

From the site: As the Internet's premier collection of online encyclopedias, HighBeam Encyclopedia provides you reference entries from credible, published sources like Britannica , Oxford University Press , and Columbia Encyclopedia . At HighBeam Encyclopedia, you get free access to nearly 200,000 reference entries from sources you can cite. Plus, more than 50,000 topic summaries feature related pictures , videos , topic summaries , and newspaper and magazine articles from around the world. ... More...

Med Terms

www.medterms.com

Features news, clinical trial and articles.

MyLife

www.mylife.com/

Lists US and Canadian high schools. People search available as well. Free registration to see who is listed. An annual fee is required to send personal email and use other features. Claims over 22 million members.

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