The Network Navigator is a set of links that can be starting point for treks into darkest reaches of Web that may be difficult to find by sifting through thousands of search engine results.
Improved results can often be discovered by searching sites about specific subjects. The Network Navigator can be your starting point for a wide range of topics. We hope it will help you find a set of bookmarks all your own. Bookmark this page or click the link to get a copy deleivered to your inbox.
The Navigators: Business | Consumer Protection | Health | Internet | Politics |
Topics Found Here: Net Search | Journalism | Reference | Directories | Publications | Politics | New York Region | Commerce | Travel | Entertainment | Sports | Miscellany | About
Search
- Google Search, free mail, maps and more. It includes a search of Usenet discussions and image search, maps, local listings and Google Scholar for scholarly literature. An alternative to Google's discontinued Uncle Sam, try https://www.usa.gov/, the government's official web portal.
- Yahoo! Search, news, free email, shopping, and many other services
- Alta Vista now defaults to Yahoo search.
- The Open Directory Project aims to become the largest Web directory edited by (volunteer) humans
- All the Web, was quick and simple. It now defaults to Yahoo Search
- Ask.com has Web search and several other useful search features .
- Ixquick, Excite, Dogpile, CNet Search.com and Metacrawler simultaneously search different combinations of wweb search engines. Metacrawler now defaults to excite.com
- Reporter's Desktop conveniently consolidates many ways to find people and things.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet The site works but is no longer updated by librarians.
- About.com has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
- Searchmil.com searches for information in military (.mil) computers
- The Hardin Meta Directory catalogs health-related sites
- Tile.Net will help you find Internet lists delivered by email
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Collections for news
Government
- The White House
- The U.S. House of Representatives
- The U.S. Senate
- Thomas, the Library of Congress information service. Also see its Portals to the World for country-by-country information
- The Supreme Court
- Federal District and Appeals Courts
- GovEngine.com organizes federal, state and local government links cleanly and well.
- FirstGov The government's official portal gives organized access to a variety of government web sites and services.
- GPO Access searches the Federal Register, U.S. Code, Congressional bills and other Government publications
- Fedstats collects and organizes statistics from 70 agencies
- National Archives and Records Administration catalogs records held by Government agencies
- DefenseLink News and live briefings from the U.S. Department of Defense
- Census Bureau home page,1990 Census tables and Ferret, for recent population and income data. Also see Social Explorer, in Non-Government, below.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics A wealth of economic information
- Centers for Disease Control
- National Hurricane Center
- United States Geological Survey,current earthquake information and Earthquake Information Center
- Federal Aviation Administration databases of airline safety reports
- State and local government websites from Piper Resources
Non-Government
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Criminal justice links assembled by Cecil Greek at Florida State University
- Terraserver USA Topographic maps and aerial views of the United States
- United Nations andU.N. Web locator
- Newsahead upcoming scheduled news events around the globe
- FindLaw has an extensive collection of legal links
- KnowX Free and low-cost information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and other public filings for businesses and individuals
- Virtual Gumshoe has a variety of useful investigative links
- Landings Comprehensive aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports, pilot certifications
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has links and information, including a fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request. (This list of federal freedom of information officers may be useful, as well as thisNew York State FOI page and these links to state FOI laws )
- Center for Public Integrity tracks various aspects of public life and has useful research tools
- Social Explorer, from Queens College, helps you visualize United States demographic information with maps.
- The Freedom Forum Journalism, journalism education and first amendment issues
- The Smoking Gun presents (undigested) documents obtained from court files and through freedom of information requests
- John Makulowich's Awesome list of web resources, alphabetically, but not updated for a while.
- Power Reporting is Bill Dedman's well-organized list of resources for journalists.
- The Wayback Machine archives many Web pages back to 1996.
- Business & Finance references are available from Business Navigator
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The Reference Desk
- Research It all-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators, more
- LibrarySpot Extensive guide to online reference works
- YourDictionary.com and Onelook give access to hundreds of dictionaries, specialized and general
- Encyclopaedia Britannica The one and only. (Now with a fee for full articles.)
- Refdesk leads you to a world of reference materials.
- Answers.com gives them to you, on an array of topics
- Wikipedia is the Web's increasingly popular (but not uniformly accurate) user-maintained encyclopedia.
- Trademark Checklist from the International Trademark Association helps stop brand abuse
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- Information Please Almanac Almanac, dictionary and the full Columbia Encyclopedia
- Biography.com offers brief, cross-referenced biographies of more than 25,000 notables.
- Travlang language-to-language translation dictionaries
- Babel Fish and FreeTranslation give basic (and sometimes amusing) translations of Web pages or text. (The latter offers human translation at a price.)
- The Elements of Style The 1918 version
- C.I.A. World Factbook
- Library of Congress, including Marvel and Locis
- The New York Public Library
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library
- National Library of Medicine and Medline
- Ingenta (formerly Carl Uncover) provides free citations from 26,000 publications; charge for full articles
- The Merck Manual guide to diseases
- RxList: The Internet Drug Index Extensive information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs
- Bioterrorism resources from the National Academies
- Nutrient database from the U.S.D.A.
- Law Guru gives access to hundreds of legal search engines and the Internet Law Library
- Lawoffice.com from West's Legal Directory and Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer Locator
- The U.S. Constitution
- U.S. Patents since 1971, from the Patent and Trademark Office
- The Bible Gateway lets you search the Bible, in many editions and languages.
- I.R.S. information and publications. For more tax sites, trytaxsites.com.
- National Geographic's Map Machine
- Google maps, Mapquest, Yahoo! Maps and MSN Maps give street-level maps, directions and in some cases satellite images for U.S. addresses
- Social Security death index
- Consumer World has consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
- Currency converter from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
- ConvertIt converts measurements, currencies, timezones and more
- Cost-of-living calculator and other useful tools
- How Far Is It? gives the distance between two cities
- U.S. Naval Observatory and National Institutes of Standards and Technology What time is it, exactly?
- Weather Underground The weather everywhere
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Telephone & email Directories
- Anywho from AT&T has fast, clear directory service, and a reverse directory
- Switchboard and InfoSpace offer nationwide telephone, address and reverse directory
- Superpages.com National business yellow pages and residential listings from Verizon
- ThomasNet from the Thomas Register of Manufacturers
- Yahoo People Finder can help find email addresses
- Network Solutions domain name database
- U.S. Postal Service Zip Code finder
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Publications on the Net
Breaking News & Daily Publications
- ABC News offers top news, including the current ABC radio report, and (large) video clips.
- Agence France-Presse world report from Yahoo Asia
- BBC News British Broadcasting Corporation
- CBS News
- CNN and CNN/Money
- Fox News
- MSNBC, from Microsoft and NBC News
- National Public Radio
- Boston.com, from The Boston Globe
- CNet combines technology news, reviews, software and services. Tech news is at news.com
- Christian Science Monitor
- SFGate.com, from the San Francisco Chronicle
- Los Angeles Times
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- San Jose Mercury News
- USA Today
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Post
- Al Jazeera English-language service, from the middle-eastern television network.
- The Electronic Telegraph from The Daily Telegraph of London
- Guardian Unlimited
- International Herald Tribune
- Pravda in English orRussian
- The Times of London
- Romenesko Jim Romenesko offers media news from everywhere
- IWantMedia and MediaBistro also cover media news
- NewsHub culls technology business headlines from major Web sites
- Google News tracks news from thousands of sources, mostly without human intervention.
- 1stHeadlines offers headlines from 50-some news organizations.
- Newspaper archives on the Web from the Special Libraries Association
- Wired News
Magazines & Features
- The Atlantic
- Comics.com A collection of comics from United Media
- The Drudge Report
- Law.com legal news from several sources
- National Enquirer The supermarket tabloid comes to the Web
- The New Yorker More and less than the venerable magazine
- The New York Review of Books Thoughtful criticism and commentary
- The Onion Comic relief
- Plastic Reader-filtered, intelligently moderated discussions of what's happening on the Web and in the world.
- Slate and Salon Two flavors of cyber-literary-trend publications.
- U.S. News
Collections of Many Publications
- Topix.net offers news from many sources, aggregated, categorized and localized.
- Newslink, a guide to newspapers, magazines and broadcast organizations.
- Newsdirectory.com and The Paper Boy offer quick and easy access to web sites of hundreds of publications by name, location or subject.
- The Newseum offers front pages from more than 200 newspapers each day.
- Newspaper Association of America
- Careerbuilder Classified ad service from many newspapers
- Project Gutenberg puts out-of-copyright literary works online
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Politics
- The Politico
- Project Vote Smart, a guide to candidates and issues
- The Empire Page links to major news headlines on politics each day, emphasizing New York
- Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions
- PoliticalMoneyLine Federal Election Commission and other campaign money and lobbying information in a useful format
- The Living Room Candidate Presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to 2000
- Politics Navigator, also from The Times on the Web, has many more political links
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The New York Region
- New York City Reference, a subject guide to sites on all aspects of the city (apparently not being updated)
- NYC Blue has New York web sites in easy-to-use tabular form
- CitySearch NYC, a guide to arts and entertainment
- Digital City New York from America Online
- Manhattan Users Guide offers tips on the best the city has to offer
- nymag.com from New York magazine
- Time Out New York
- NY.com has basic useful information
- HopStop has instructions to get around by subway and bus
- NYC.gov, New York City's official web site
- Guide to New York City Government Government contacts, from the Public Advocate's office
- The Official I Love New York State Tourism Guide
- M.T.A. has maps and schedules for subways, Long Island Railroad, Metro North
- New York City lobbyists As registered with the Office of the City Clerk
- New York City Culture Guide and Calendar from the Alliance for the Arts
- Playbill On-Line and Broadway.com will help you find Broadway, off-Broadway, national and international theater listings
- Internet Broadway Database does for Broadway what the Internet Movie Database does for movies.
- The New York Daily News
- The New York Post (or go directly to Page Six )
- Newsday
- New York 1
- The New York Observer
- The Village Voice
- papermag.com, virtual sister to the magazine of the Downtown scene
- NJ.com Everything New Jersey
- New Jersey Transit
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Commerce
- AddALL no-frills book price comparison service;AMusicArea for CD's;AMovieArea for DVD's
- Amazon The online megastore. Books, music, videos, games, electronics, food, sporting goods -- and ever growing
- Bankrate.com and E-loan can help find the best interest rates for a mortgage, auto, credit card or other loan
- Bizrate lets you see how fellow consumers rate online merchants and compares prices
- BizWeb: Internet commercial sites by category
- Buy.com good prices and service on electronics, books, music and video.
- Buyer's Index searches 19,000 Web sites and catalogs for the product you seek.
- Consumer Search Reviews of products from a variety of publications
- DeepDiscount.com has consistently low CD and DVD prices
- Ebay America's online atic, auction house and storefront
- Epinions has consumer reviews of many products, and price comparisons (now part of Shopping.com)
- PriceGrabber,PriceScan and Shopping.com let compare prices for computer hardware and software, electronics, movies, books and other goods.
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Travel
Reservations
- Travelocity,Expedia,Orbitz and CheapTickets have airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information
- ITA Software Clear, well-organized listings of flights and fares, domestic and international, with booking codes.
- Kayak and Sidestep search for travel fares and prices across multiple sites
- Hotels.com Hotels, vacation rentals, packages
- Quikbook Good rates for selected hotels in major destinations (mostly in the United States)
- Hotwire can help you find travel bargains if you're flexible
- Priceline lets you name your own price for travel (and mortgages), and see if anyone will bite.
- Site 59 Big discounts on last-minute travel packages
- Travelzoo collects special travel offers from many sites
- SeatGuru will help you figure out where (and where not) sit on your next flight.
- Hertz,Avis,National and Budget will rent you a car
Guides
- Betterbidding.com helps you understand what kind of hotel bids succeed on Priceline and Hotwire
- Concierge.com from Conde Nast, publisher of Traveler
- Fodor's Online home of the well known travel books
- Forbes.com's travel area has an archive of useful city guides
- Frommer's Online home of the well known travel books
- Gorp Guide to adventure travel and outdoor recreation
- InfoHub Travel guide organized by specialties
- Lonely Planet Online home of the well known travel books
- National Geographic Travel and its Traveler magazine
- PlanetRider collects and rates more travel sites than we could list here
- Rough Guides Travel Online version of the travel guides
- This Is Travel British travel site
- Travel+Leisure from the American Express magazine
- Travelers' Health from the Centers from Disease Control gives health information for your destination
- Travelweb Hotel booking from the hotel industry
- TripAdvisor Well organized site, particularly strong for traveler feedback and multi-site hotel rate searching
- U.S. State Department Country background papers, passport and visa information, travel warnings and advice
- ViaMichelin Travel guides, hotel and restaurant ratings, directions from the venerable Michelin
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Entertainment, Culture and Pastimes
- The Internet Movie Database Everything you want to know about films
- Rotten Tomatoes is popular for its collections of movie reviews, previews and information.
- Metacritic gathers reviews of movies and DVDs, music, books and more.
- Movie Review Query Engine Find reviews from all over for the movie of your choice
- Reel.com helps you find movies it thinks you'll like
- Moviefone,MovieTickets.com and Fandango have theater times and advance ticket purchases
- Ticketmaster has information and tickets for music, theater and sporting events
- YouTube, Veoh, Vimeo, Atom Films and ifilm offer short films, animations and other video
- TV Guide Now includes an extensive movie database
- Zap2it provides customized TV listings (Gist is gone)
- PBS Online
- The Discovery Channel Online
- National Endowment for the Arts
- The Museum of Online Museums can guide you to some of the Web's best museum sites.
- World Wide Arts Resources
- NWHQ: Independent artists on the Web
- The Louvre More fun to visit in person, but you can see many exhibits without leaving home.
- Art on the Net, an exhibit by 80 artists, and links to other art sites
- mp3.com makes a wide variety of music available in its eponymous Internet format
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Internet Underground Music Archives
- Classical Music Archive An extensive collection of classical music to hear and download
- Epicurious, the Food Network,Allrecipes.com and RecipeSource will help you answer the question, "What's for dinner?"
- Wine Spectator has ratings and reviews of thousands of wines
- Wine Lovers' Page is full of wine ratings, questions and answers, information (and enthusiasm)
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Sports & Recreation
- ESPN.com
- Sportsline from CBS
- CNN/SI from CNN and Sports Illustrated
- Fox Sports
- Sporting News
- The Sports Network gives up to the minute news and results
- Allsports has news, scores, odds, audio feeds and more
- NBA.com from the N.B.A.
- NFL.com from the N.F.L.
- MLB.com from Major League Baseball
- GORP, the Great Outdoor Recreation Pages, has extensive information on parks and outdoor activities of all sorts
- The WWW Bicycle Lane A bit dated, but still a good collection of links
- The Tennis Server has news, schedules, rules and more
- GolfWeb,GolfDigest.com and PGA.com cover the golf world
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Demonstrations and Miscellany
- Cool Site of the Day
- Ghost Sites of the Web will guide you to some of the rusting hulks along the information superhighway.
- QuickBrowse lets you combine and fetch Web pages you frequently read into one long page.
- The F.B.I.'s Most Wanted and Most Wanted Terrorists
- eHow.com teaches you how to do useful everyday things
- How Stuff Works tells you just that
- Urban Legends Reference Pages. Avoid passing bogus chain emails to your friends.
- LivePlasma visually maps musical artists and movies you might like based on ones you already like.
- Dead People Server might answer the question, "What ever happened to . . ."
- Sites for parents and children from the American Library Association
- The Old Farmer's Almanac comes in a new electronic form.
- Internet virus myths and Virus hoax information Check here before you pass along that grave warning
- Sodaconstructor lets you make models of masses and springs -- and makes your time disappear
- Tarot Card Reader, I Ching and more
- Elvis Presley's Graceland, the ever more elaborate official site, andthe unofficial Elvis home page
- iVillage concentrates on women's interests.
- Gay.com,PlanetOut and Queer Resources Directory have news and information for gay people
- Earthcam has links to live cameras all over the Net
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About This Page
The links found here are based on the New York Times Newsroom Navigator.
