A9 Search Engine Amazon.com’s highly user-friendly search tool that surpasses the basic yellow pages and internet search functionality of its competitors. 

CEO Express Although this site was imagined as an online Rolodex for busy executives, the media, business, travel and leisure sources so intelligently indexed here are useful for everybody.  

Child Statistics Government report on the condition of children living in America. Description to follow. 

Infobel International Phone Directory Infobel assembles a number of helpful search tools, such as white and yellow pages, reverse look-up (finding the name that matches the number), near address (finding people and businesses near a given address) and world telephone directories.  

Librarians' Internet Index This timesaving, publicly-funded site is a godsend for researchers and anyone else seeking reliable, trustworthy information on the ’Net. Users can do a search by topic (and subtopic) to get a listing of more than 20,000 quality Web sites that have been carefully chosen by a team of discriminating librarians. Topics include arts and humanities, business, computers, government, health, home and housing, law, media, people, ready reference and quick facts, recreation, regions of the world, science, and society and social science. Each entry includes a link to the site, a description of what you’ll find there, and an area where users can post their own comments about the site. Visitors to the Librarians’ Internet Index (LII) can also subscribe to a weekly e-mail of the librarians’ Best of the Web picks. 

Meta-People-Search A site that culls pertinent information from all the recognized “white pages” search engines and serves up personal addresses and much, much more. 

National Atlas The most comprehensive atlas of the US based on government statistics and departmental records. The first National Atlas was commissioned in the 1870, with the last print edition published in 1970. Now, the National Atlas is reincarnate as an electronic version. From one's armchair, one can draw and redraw maps to show the changing relationships of man and land based on criteria offered by twenty federal agencies. 

Nolo Do-it-yourself legal solutions for those who wish handle their own everyday legal matters. The site offers a wide variety of information, software and forms, but the pages on business, copyright and art will be of particular interest to photographers.  

Small Business Administration The U.S. Small Business Administration provides help to those millions of people who pursue the American dream: running their own business. Tapping into a vast network of private and public partnerships, the SBA compiled this substantial collection of free, on-line courses. Lessons start with the basics- business plans, target markets, and email marketing- and finish with taxes and retirement. This range of information will prove helpful to a wide spectrum of small business owners, from those who are first considering dipping their toes in the waters of entrepreneurship, to those who are already wet to their necks.