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Getting Started --

This site has a comprehensive overview of everything you wanted to know about searching on the Internet.  It can link you to about anywhere you want to go and tell you the basics as well.
 http://www.searchengineguide.com/

Very general.  Very basic.  Nice place to start -- you can go from beginner to advanced. Also has a newsletter to keep you up on new search trends.
http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/

All Search Enginges has a full listing of search engines, some can be very narrow in focus.
 http://www.allsearchengines.com/

University of Albany Libraries by  Laura Cohen (Network Services Librarian).
Excellent place to click and get an overview of Internet searching -- also discusses where to go for academic and scholarly sources of information.
 http://www.albany.edu/library/internet/
 
 

I like Google, just for fun.  Especially like the "search within" option at the bottom of page.
 http://www.google.com/

For Super Quick research overview

 http://www.bos2.alltheweb.com/ -- I like this for very quick reference, also gives timed search

 http://mamma.com/ -- the "mother of all search engines"

Infosurf - maintained by the University of Santa Barbara -journals, organizations, links
 http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/

INFOMINE - maintained by Unviersity of California libraries -- scholarly and selective
 http://infomine.ucr.edu/

The Internet Public Library - maintained by University of Michigan -- large collection
 http://www.ipl.org/

Infotiger -- good sources, sound academic
 www.infotiger.com

The WWW Virtual Library - sponsored by W3 Consortium -- guides to academic subjects
 http://www.vlib.org/

About.com has editors that group quality material into different categories.
 www.about.com

AlphaSearch is an extremely useful directory of  "gateway" sites that collect and organize web sites  that focus on a particular subject.
 http://www.calvin.edu/library/searreso/internet/as/

Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web. Links & directories.  Good for browsing.
 http://www.digital-librarian.com

Open Directory Project (ODP)
20,000 volunteers categorize web pages.  Good for links to research.
 http://dmoz.org/

Search engines by regions and countries
 http://www.searchengineguide.com/pages/Regional/

 Links to Search Engines by region (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin Am., Mideast, Oceania)
 http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/msub12-m02.htm
 

Communication & Just for Fun

Quick reference for public relations - organizations, publications, links
 http://www.prplace.com/

International media outlets - favorite -- E&P Media Links, Online Media Directory, contains media profiles for individual countries
http://emedia1.mediainfo.com/emedia/

All around help for journalism, from searching tips to direct links -- Journalism Net
 http://www.journalismnet.com/