These search sites focus on very narrow categories, and are ideal when you need to find a specific fact quickly and without fuss.
| Searching For... | Best Bets: |
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| Dictionaries. | One-Look Dictionaries lets you search for definitions of more than 1.5 million words in 220 online dictionaries. |
| A thesaurus. | Plumb Design's Visual Thesaurus creates a map of related words. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations. Requires Java. |
| Famous quotations. | Search for quotations from classic authors using Project Bartleby, and from the ninth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. |
| Encyclopedia descriptions. | General Reference Resources. This outstanding reference work from Stanford has links to all kinds of solid databases on the net. Also, the Information, Please Almanac which evolved from the famous quiz show program, is now online, searchable and almost unbeatable as the resource for finding even obscure facts. |
| A biography of a famous person. | The Biographical Dictionary contains biographies of more than 22,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. |
| A calculator for just about anything. | Calculators Online Center has links to thousands of scientific, math, financial, engineering, hobby and a vast variety of other online calculators. |
| Statistics. | Statistical Resources on the Web is a comprehensive directory of statistics resources, arranged by topic. |
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