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INFORMATION SUPPLIERS
Internet Directories, Databases, and Compendia of Info
Bulk information can be got from some of these sources...
Google, Altavista, Lycos etc - See list of SEARCH ENGINES
Touch Local - get your business included
Questia - digital library
www.yell.com (British Yellow Pages
online)
www.192.com <= UK Electoral Roll + Phonebook!
www.ChangingLINKS.com - interesting compilation/directory of websites
Portal.Wikinerds.org - online portal !
FreePhone Local Directory (0800 numbers) - was www.freephonelocal.co.uk
Dmoz - open directory project - as far as we know, they've been boycotting this site for six years now and have never answered e-mails we have sent.
Bartholds - was http://www.bartholds.com
CIA World Factbook - also available from http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
www.faqs.org - FAQ Archives - loads of useful stuff!
UK Census (from over 100 years ago) - was www.census.pro.gov.uk
www.scoot.co.uk (Scoot can also be phoned FREE on 0800 192 192 UK) <= Oh no! It's surely not becoming an EXPENSIVE NUMBER?! More about this here
Talking Pages (could be phoned on 0800 600 900 UK) - now that's GONE too! Shame!
At Hand Network Yellow Pages - was http://www.athand.com/
Internet Directory Enquiries - was http://www.askide.com/
Netscape White Pages people-search - gone - was http://wp.netscape.com/netcenter/whitepages.html - just redirects to AOL
4anything.com Directories - was http://www.4anything.com
BellSouth RealPages - was http://yp.bellsouth.com
Find Celebrities - seems to have been taken over by http://www.propeller.com/
Netscape White Pages - gone - was http://wp.netscape.com/netcenter/whitepages.html - just redirects to AOL
Yahoo! (was ok a while ok)
H2G2 (Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy) (also see H2G2 links)
411web fault?
Online Encyclopaedias - for example Britannica
allrefer.com - an Online Encyclopaedia
And this, which is especially of note: www.archive.org
loads more to add here, e-mail
These were last checked 2009/12/21 to make sure there were no bad links