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Directories and Information Services

Contents

• Dictionaries and the Real Web
• Information Services: Timetables, Phonebooks, Patents, Software, etc.
• Virtual Libraries and Search Tools
• WWW Servers geographically
• Information on Conferences --> "Conferences"

Dictionaries and the Real Web

• Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster
• Web of Online Dictionaries

Information Services

• Newspapers --> "Something" page
• Phonebooks
• German phone book
• Switzerland: Swiss Phone Book and Yellow Pages
• Dial numbers for cities in Germany and outside
• AT&T 800 Directory on the Internet
• Timetables
• Swiss SBB Timetable (SBB Fahrplanauskunft, not only for Switzerland)
• German DB Timetables
• German Timetables for Palm Organizers
• Postcodes
• German Postcodes
• Yellow Pages
• Magellan (Annotated web pages)
• SuperPages
• Patents 
• Where to find patent information on the Internet? (by the EPO)
• Internet Patent Search System
• Search in espacenet DB (>30mio documents)
• European Patents
• European Patent Office
• PATLIB -- European online patent libraries
• Patentserver des Deutschen Patent- und Markenamts
• European Patent Office
• US Patents
• US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
• USPTO's database of US patents
• Delphion database of US patents
(formerly the IBM patent database)
• Maps
• Switzerland: Area of Zurich
• Germany: Cities and Streets
• USA
• Zurich
• Map of Zurich (w/ streets) and area
• Cinema
• Restaurants, and  more Restaurants (by NZZ)
• City of Zurich
• Car Sharing in Switzerland
• SwissClick (buying/renting a house, cars, etc.)
• Others
• Finding People, also their PGP Public Keys
• Host information (similar to dig / nslookup)
• Currency Converter
• Find Software with ARCHIE or the Shareware Search Engines
• Nasdaq
• World Wide Weather and an animated weather map of Europe

Virtual Libraries and Search Tools

• Most favorite, for the moment
• Yahoo Virtual Library (categories)
• Digital's Altavista: Web Search Tool (plain search)
• Deja News: Interface to Usenet News
• Virtual Libraries
• EINet
• Excite Suggests categories to structure the web.
• GNN -- Global Network Navigator
• IBM's Infomarket (or the advanced form)
• Internet University
• Lycos
• W3
• W3 Virtual Library Subject Catalog
• A list of Virtual Libraries on the Web
• Yahoo Virtual Library (categories)
• Search Tools
• Interfaces to >1 Search Tools (Meta Search Tools)
• All-in-One (includes e-mail addresses)
• Meta-Index
• Digital's Altavista: Web Search Tool (plain search)
• Infoseek Guide to the WWW
• Savvy Search Very Comprehensive, scans 19 engines in parallel.
• WorldWideWebWorm
• Webcrawler
• Some "German" Search Tools
• Dino (Searches 15,000 German Pages)
• Flipper (Searches 100,000 German pages)
• Web.de (Searches 10,000 German pages)
• Not sorted yet
• InterNIC (Internet Network Information Centers)
• Information Services
• Directory and Database Services
• Registration Services
• NCSA
• Internet Resources Meta-Index
• Experimental Search Engine Meta-Index
• Starting Points for Internet Exploration
• What's new
• NEXOR
• The CUSI Configurable Unified Search Interface for many WWW resources
• The Macintosh Archive hypertext interface
• The ALIWEB Archie-Like Indexing system for the Web

WWW Servers geographically

• WWW Servers ...
• in Germany and Austria
• in Switzerland
• on Earth
• Some Specific WWW Servers
• FU Berlin
• Univ. Dortmund
• Univ. Eindhoven
• Univ. Karlsruhe
• Swiss Academic & Reserch Network
• Index of Swiss Research Teams