Search Engines, Directories and More

AltaVista CANADA
The best Canadian Search Engine

Excite
Good for basic searches - categories and topics.

MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler queries other search engines, organizes the results into a uniform format, ranks them by relevance, and returns them to the user.

Google
Innovative search engine with very refined results! Give it a try.



Excite Power Search

If you would like to do a more precise global search without knowing all the tricks try Excite's search-option page.

HotBot
If you need to refine your search the easy way try HotBot!

Ask Jeeves
Ask a question to this search engine and it will query other search engines to get you your answer.

Yahoo! CANADA
A directory of Canadian sites that have registered with Yahoo.

Yahoo!
Yahoo is not a search engine but a comprehensive list of links organized by subjects.

Search BC
The SearchBC directory is completely concerned with British Columbia. It is a new directory so try it out and if you have BC site - don't forget to register.

About.com
About.com relies on outside experts to compile lists of sites that deal with their areas of expertise. This directory is powered by people not machines.

Canada Post
Look up a postal code.

Canada411
Looking for a Canadian phone number or address? Try here.

BC Yellow Pages
This is not your regular phone book! It is a magazine, a newspaper, an entertainment calendar...and of course it has telephone listings.

AltaVista Translator
Is your first language French or German but the page you want to read is in English? Or did you find a Spanish page that you would love to read in English? Use the AltaVista translator.

Roget's Thesaurus
Need something other then the word "good" on your resume. Use this online thesaurus.

Websters Dictionary
A dictionary and a thesaurus which includes fun stuff like word games, vocabulary builder, word of the day and much more.

Stowaway Adventures
Imagine cruising in world class sailing destinations near Vancouver Island like Desolation Sound, Gulf Islands, Robson’s Bight in Johnstone Strait, the Sunshine Coast, or on the West Coast. You can get certified to charter a bareboat, learn the ‘ropes’ of how to sail safely, and have a great vacation at the same time. Explore beautiful BC beaches and coastlines, watching for whales and wildlife, having a good time relaxing with your family and friends, or making new ones. Stowaway Adventures, based on Vancouver Island, specializes in Cruise and Learn sailing holidays. Graham Evans, your sailing instructor, is an ISPA (International Sailing and Power Association) certified instructor with a lifetime of experience spent on the water.

A Web of On-line Dictionaries
Links to on-line dictionaries in many languages, multi-lingual dictionaries, grammars, on-line rhyming dictionaries and so much more. If you like words you will love this site.


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