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Executive Speech & Business Writing
Speechwriter's Web Site Directory
Among the selections are
top search engines, leading research tools, cheap-fair
airline sources, people-locator sites, jokes, maps, medical info, E-greeting
cards, and a host of other categories.
You can also forward a link for this page to your friends and associates. |
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Section I - Sandy's Favorite Search Engines (Best Engines in Red) | |||
| Name of Engine | Address of Engine | Market Share of Engine | Millions of Searches | |
| http://google.com | 46.47 | 24,454 | ||
| Yahoo (Yellow pages type engine) | http://www.yahoo.com/ | 17.16 | 10,505 | |
| Baidu (Chinese Engine in Chinese) | Http://www.baidu.com | 13.76 | 8,428 | |
| MSN (Microsoft) | http://www.MSN.com | 12.87 | 7,880 | |
| NHN (obscure) | http://www.NHN.com | 04.71 | 2.882 | |
| eBay | http://www.eBay.com | 03.90 | 2,438 | |
| Mamma (All engines) | http://www.dmoz.org | |||
| Altavista | www.altavista.com | |||
| SavvySearch (several key engines at once)) | http://www.search.com/ | |||
| Goto (mobile site for local info) | http://www.goto.com/ | |||
| Hotbot (several key engines at once) | http://www.Hotbot.com | |||
| Infoseek | http://www.Infoseek.com | |||
| Lycos | http://www.Lycos.com | |||
| Webcrawler (multi search engine) | http://www.Webcrawler.com | |||
| Netscape | http://www.Netscape.com | |||
| Power Search | http://www.powersearch.com | |||
| Northern Lights (research portals) | http://www.northernlight.com/ | |||
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Section II - Sandy's Favorite Buying Sites
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| Ebay Buy and Bid Site | http:www.Ebay.com | |||
| Itunes CDs DVDs Music Best | www.itunes.com | |||
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Section II - Sandy's Book Sites
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| Amazon Book and Record site | www.amazon.com | |||
| Books a Million | www.booksamillion.com | |||
| Barnes and Noble | www.barnesandnoble.com | |||
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Section IV - Sandy's Favorite Research Tools |
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| Charlotte Public Library (Great Source) | http://www.plcmc.lib.nc.us | |||
| Intelligence Resource | http://www.fas.org/irp | |||
| Universe-space science | http://www.windows.umich.edu | |||
| New York Times | http://nytimes.com | |||
| Research it (Really Great Site) | http://www.iTools.com/research-it | |||
| Scientific Phenomena | http://www.sciencefrontiers.com/sfonline.htm | |||
| Websters Dictionary | http://www.merriam-webster.com | |||
| Atlas of the World | http://atlasoftheworld.com | |||
| Britannica Online | http://www.eb.com/ | |||
| Britannica Internet Guide | http://www.ebig.com | |||
| CIA Fact Book (Great Source) | http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html | |||
| National Geographic | http://www.nationalgeographic.com | |||
| Better Business Bureau | http://www.bbbonline.org | |||
| Internal Revenue Service | http://www.irs.ustreas.gov | |||
| The Library of Congress | http://www.locgov/index.html | |||
| Research Museums | http://www.si.edu | |||
| Information Please | http://www.infoplease.com | |||
| Consumers Digest | http://www.consumersdigest.com | |||
| Charlotte Observer | http://www.charlotte.com | |||
| Analysis of Current Issues | http://www.gorillanews.com | |||
| Replace missing .dll files | http://www.afreedll.com | |||
| Fastest meaning search for words | http://ninjawords.com | |||
| Research Sources (America) | http://www.footnote.com | |||
| Charlotte Chamber | http://www.charlottechamber.com | |||
| How Stuff Works | http://www.howstuffworks.com/big.htm | |||
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Section IV - Picks for Best Sites of '99 |
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| How to do anything | http://www.how2do.com | |||
| Useful site of the day | http://www.useful.com | |||
| Ticketmaster Online | http://www.ticketmaster.com | |||
| Restaurant Surveys | http://www.zagat.com | |||
| City Guide Networks | http://www.sidewalk.com | |||
| City Search | http://www.citysearch.com | |||
| Worlds Healthiest Foods | http://www.whfoods.com/ | |||
| Recipies for fast-food and others | http://www.topsecretrecipies.com/home.asp | |||
| City Search (Charlotte Events) | http://charlotte.citysearch.com | |||
| Go Network (Charlotte Events & Teams) | http://www.go.com/Titles?qt=charlotte | |||
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Section V - Selection of Unusual Sites |
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| Gaze at the future | http://www.word.com | |||
| Techno-rich-Fun | http://www.cnet.com | |||
| For News Junkies | http://www.pointcast.com | |||
| Nifty Ideas on anything | http://www.learn2.com | |||
| Stats, Scores, Stories | http://www.espn | |||
| Radio on your PC | http://www.audionet.com | |||
| Move over Jepardy | http://www.berzerk.com | |||
| Decide what to do | http://www.citysearch.com | |||
| Jobs | http://www.monster.com | |||
| Nearly free software | http://www.shareware.com | |||
| Eclectic Assortment of Movies | http://www.youtube.com | |||
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Section VI - Automobile Pricing |
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| Edmonds | http://www.edmond.com | |||
| Tire Rack (low-prices on tires) | http://www.tirerack.com/index.jsp | |||
| Carsmart | http://www.carsmart.com | |||
| Carpoint | http://www.carpoint.msn.com | |||
| Kelly Blue Book | http://www.kbb.com | |||
| Auto-by-tel | http://www.autobytel.com/ | |||
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Section VII - Favorites for Maps, Driving |
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| Best Scenic Drives | http://www.byways.org | |||
| Maps and Directions | http://mapquest.com | |||
| Sattelite Views of any world location | http://earth.google.com/ | |||
| World Travel Information | http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page | |||
| Maps and Directions | http://www.maps.google.com | |||
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Section VIII- People Locators & Yellow Pages |
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| Bigfot Directory | http://www.bigfoot.com | |||
| Hotmail | http://www.hotmail.com | |||
| Look up a Person | https://www.netaddress.com/tpl/Door/Login?Domain=usa.net/ | |||
| Finding People on the Net | http://www.theultimates.com | |||
| Nova people search | http://www.nova.edu | |||
| Free People Search | http://wink.com | |||
| Hard to find 800 numbers | http://www.hardtofind800numbers.com/listings/a.htm | |||
| People Search | http://www.whowhere.com | |||
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Section IX - Greeting and E-mail Cards |
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| World's Best Animated Cards | http://www.jacquielawson.com | |||
| Mountain Arts | http://www.bluemountainarts.com/ | |||
| Marlo | http://www.marlo.com | |||
| Card Central | http://www.cardcentral.net | |||
| Greeting On Line | http://www.greetingsonline.com/ | |||
| My Post Cards | http://www.mypostcards.com | |||
| Hallmark | http://www.hallmark.com | |||
| Really Great Christmas Cards | http://www.1st-class-christmas-cards.com | |||
| Greeting Inc | http://www.egreetings.com | |||
| Wild Clips for Greetings | http://www.vidigreet.com | |||
| Party Planning | http://www.1800partyshop.com/ | |||
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Section X - Travel and Airlines |
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| Fare Checkers | http://www.flifo.com | |||
| Fare Checkers | http://www.travelocity.com | |||
| Fare Checkers | http://www.bestfares.com | |||
| Fare Checkers | http://www.flightdiscount.com | |||
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| Fare Checkers | http://www.flymetrojet.com | |||
| Flights and trip savings | http://www.travelzoo.com | |||
| Ticket Auction | http://www.priceline.com | |||
| Flight Tracking | http://www.flytecomm.com/cgi-bin/trackflight | |||
| Checks before leaving | http://upl.codeq.info | |||
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Section XI - Medical Information |
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| Best Med Info and Advice Site | http://www.webmd.com | |||
| Columbia Education | http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/texts/guide | |||
| Mayo Health | http://www.mayohealth.org | |||
| American Medical | http://www.ama-assn.org | |||
| BH&G Cold and Flu Guide | http://www.intelihealth.com | |||
| Family Medicine | http://mir.med.ucalgary.ca:70/1/family | |||
| Family Medicine | http://www.intelihealth.com | |||
| Medical Info by Subscription | ||||
| Medical search | http://www.medscape.com | |||
| Drug Index | http://www.rxlist.com | |||
| Senior Medical Sites | ||||
| Elderly health care | http://www.seekwellness.com | |||
| Healthy Living, & Finances | http://www.thirdage.com | |||
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Section XII - Humor and Jokes |
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| Political Humor | http://www.theonion.com | |||
| Laugh of the Day | http://www.laugh-of-the-day.com | |||
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Section XIII - Finding Classmates |
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| Find Classmates | http://www.classmates.com | |||
| By registering you can look up others who have registered in any school in the country. By subscribing, you can get information on same people. Great info on old friends | ||||
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Section XIX- Stocks and Mutual Funds |
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| Stock Watch | http://www.stockstowatch2.com | |||
| Fortune Magazine | http://www.money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune | |||
| Ethical Stocks | http://www.goodmoney.com | |||
| Co-Op America | http://www.coopamerica.org | |||
| Highest CD rates | http://www.bankrate.com | |||
| EE Bonds | http://www.savingsbonds.gov | |||
| Stock Market news | http://www.thestreet.com | |||
| Kiplinger (Business News) | http://www.kiplinger.com | |||
| Quicken Stock Search | http://www.quicken.com/investments/stocks/search | |||
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Section XV - Sources for Learning Net |
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| Learning the Net | http://www.learnthenet.com | |||
| Internet Terms | http://www.netlingo.com | |||
| Browsing the Web | http://www.iquest.net. | |||
| Internet Reference (Great Resource of all Web) | http://www.refdesk.com/ | |||
| Providers/ISPsSearch Web | http://www.einet.net | |||
| Great MBA Programs | http://www.guideforgrads.com/MBA-Programs.htm | |||
| Freelance Work Exchange | http://www.gofreelance.com | |||
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Section XVI -- Fun and Interesting things to do
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| Fun Trip to Greece | http://www.athens-greece.us | |||
| Mediterranean Cruise | http://www.royal-olympic-cruises.com | |||
| Silly, Fun & Interesting Videos | http://dabble.com/ | |||
| Television Listings and Writeups | http://www.meevee.com | |||
| Community TV Guide | http://www.communitytvguide.com | |||
| Honest Info on City Travel | http://www.city-data.com | |||
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