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Local Information

Weather at AccuWeather.com	TV listings guide by zap2it.com. Much better.	Yahoo! Local lots of good local information sources here
WeatherBonk is an interesting feature-filled alternative.	Movie Listings by Fandango	City-Data.com all sorts of local info, including cities, towns, and villages

Searches

	An exceptional searcher.
	Possibly the best searcher on the web today.
	Mahalo. Something new and interesting. Does web-searching, and also has carefully selected sponsored content.
	Bing is a new search engine from Microsoft. Looks good so far.
Google Groups	Formerly DejaNews. Really good searcher of USENET news.
elmundo.es FTP search FileSearching AMUN Public FTP Indexer	Use these to search for filenames.