Places to Begin

Yahoo Directory

Google Directory

The Open Directory Project

Excite

Local Information

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

Searches

	An exceptional searcher.
	Another very good.
Search using Cuil	A very new one, and it has the largest search database of all. Said to be three times larger than Google! And possibly higher quality results. We will see. Pronounced "Cool".
	Mahalo. Something new and interesting. Does web-searching, and also has carefully selected sponsored content.
The Mining Co.	The Mining Co. is a very interesting site; it combines Internet searching with general research in a very useful way.
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.