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Cyclo.ps let's you search a large number of stock photo sites in a single swoop. You can search Flickr, Shutterstock, BigStockPhoto, Fotolia, stock.xchng, Cutcaster, Photos.com, and stockvault at one time.

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Explor music (and movies). Liveplasma.com generates a bubble graph of other artists who are similar to your favorite band. Simply enter the name of a song or artist you like, and liveplasma will automatically find related artists.

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Big aggregator of links to online video. Be aware that some of the video sites featured seem to contain pirated video ripped from DVDs.

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BookFinder.com is a “one-stop ecommerce search engine” that indexes over 150 million books for sale from the catalogs of over 150 million sellers in 50 countries.

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CLN's directory offers "annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search."

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The complete backfile of The New York Times can now be searched from NYTimes.com, over 13 million articles in all.

The Times makes available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

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Search Newsweek by hot topic at its Newsweekopedia.

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DeeperWeb.com is an innovative search engine tool and an essential addon for Google users. DeeperWeb is integrated into Google web search results and is available for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers.

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OpenTable does one thing: help you make a restaurant reservation.

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Supercook: Open your fridge and pantry, type the ingredients you have into the site's search bar and stand back. Supercook will look through its database of 300,000-plus recipes and spit out the ones that match. The result? You can start cooking right away, using food that would otherwise spoil.

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Google has partnered with ProQuest who is supplying its microfilm vault newspaper content that can be delivered effectively in the less formal framework of the open web. News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives.

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Search for teaching materials produced by NASA.

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Google produced an initial set of nine search education lessons that cover everything from developing criteria to clicking on the right results to succeeding with the most challenging searches. The lessons will help students and educators alike to get the most of Google search in the classroom.

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Large collection of images with a wide range of search options. Note, however, that image rights must be purchased for use other than viewing.

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The U of M has put together OAIster ("oyster") and encourages you to "find the pearls" on the Invisible Web. OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. Provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their metadata (records) using OAI-PMH.

To find images, on the search page, choose "image" from the list below "Limit by resource type."

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iCityData is a simple site where you can get demographic information on cities throughout the United States,and also compare cities.

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Behind the Name: the Etymology and History of First Names

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By searching for a term in the upper left search window or using the alphabetical index, you can access information regarding medical disorders, including risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and prognosis.

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This is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers. Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality public domain pictures, easy to search,

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