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Wikipedia
Encyclopedia of human knowledge written collaboratively by contributors around the world
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Google Finance
Get world financial markets' money news, charts, stock quotes, investment research, trends, currency exchange rates and bond yields
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Google Translate Web
Google's free online language translation service quickly translates web pages to other languages.
Use this web site translator to convert web pages into your choice of language: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese, Corsican, C…
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Google Maps
Street and satellite maps of our earth. View maps, locate an address or intersection, get walking or driving directions and find businesses in an area.
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Google Scholar
Search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources – peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant published research in academia.
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Google Translate Text
Google's free online language translation service instantly translates text to other languages.
Use this web site translator to convert a word, phrase, paragraph or whole text into your choice of language: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Ch…
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Google Usenet Newsgroups
Search the Usenet discussion forums. Find something written an hour ago or over 20 years ago. Over 700 million newsgroup messages are available
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Wikipedia Mobile
Encyclopedia of human knowledge written collaboratively by contributors around the world
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Yahoo Maps
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Ask Jeeves
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Scribd
Search for documents, books, presentations, and business, academic papers archived on Scribd's social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents.
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Thesaurus.com
Quickly find synonyms, antonyms, and related words with Thesaurus.com. Find words that mean the same (synonyms) in synonym dictionary and mean the opposite (antonym) in the antonym dictionary, with this free online thesaurus
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Dictionary.com lookup
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Urban Dictionary
Internet dictionary of slang words and phrases. More than 5 million street lingo words and expressions have been defined by the Internet community. The definitions on Urban Dictionary are meant to be those of slang or subculture words, phrases, and phenomena not found in standard dictionaries and tend to have the newest words. Entries are checked by volunteer editors and rated by site visitor…
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Wiktionary
Free lexical database of the English language, complete with meanings, etymologies, and pronunciations.
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Cambridge Dictionary of American English
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Wolfram|Alpha
Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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MapQuest Lat/Long Coordinates (deg)
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MapQuest Maps
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YellowPages.com
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
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About Topic Guides
Search through the About directory of over 50,000 specialized topics, each one managed by an expert on the subject
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Oanda Currency Converter
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Homophones
Find words and phrases that are pronounced exactly the same as another word or phrase
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Rhymes
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Synonyms
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Biography.com
Search the Biography.com database for over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present
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Bartleby Quotations
Bartleby combines the best of both contemporary and classic quotations collections (over 86,000 entries), the largest of its kind ever compiled.
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FreeTranslation Text Translator
Translate text from English into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese or the other way around
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FreeTranslation Web Page Translator
Translate a web page from English into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Norwegian or the other way around
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Canada411 People Search (Canada)
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OneLook Multi-Dictionary Search
Look in hundreds of general and specialized dictionaries at once. Great for obscure words or when you want to compare different dictionaries
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
Look up your word in this authoritative Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, with more than 215,000 definitions with pronunciations
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate Thesaurus
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ZabaSearch USA Person Search
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Law.com Legal Dictionary
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The Biographical Dictionary
The Biographical Dictionary contains information on more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
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FOLDOC Computing Dictionary
Get definitions for computer-related terminology from the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
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FindHow