Six Seven Cool Sites No One Knows About

Here are seven cool internet applications no one knows about ranked by usefulness and entertainment value:
1.	START – This is MIT’s online natural language search engine. It knows everything there is to know about geography, science, movies, and a host of other questions. Unlike other search engines that return a list of documents that you must then search yourself for the answer, START returns the answer to your question. Try questions like Which movies has Tom Cruise been in? or Show me a picture of the sun. or How far is Jupiter from Uranus? - Try your own.
2.	Froogle – Doing online shopping? Froogle is a service of Google. Type you desired item into Froogle to get prices from thousands of sites.
3.	Google Catalogs – Another service of Google, they have scanned in every page of every catalog published and made it searchable. Very cool.
4.	Yahoo Buzz Index – A lot of search engines give you some insight into what’s popular but yahoo puts a little bit of effort into editing the results to make them meaningful. See who hot and getting hotter or see what the French are really interested in. The poll is hardly scientific but it is interesting.
5.	Google Sets – Type in the first few items in a list and get the rest of the list. For example type in Ford and BMW and get all the other car makers. Great for researching a company’s competitors.
6.	Wikipedia – This is an open source, freely editable, highly used and updated encyclopedia. Using the WIKI format which allows any one to edit any page, the site relies on user input to self regulate. Very useful for those looking for content that is not protected by copyright.
7.	Archive.org – The goal of providing free universal access to all human knowledge may seem a bit lofty, but with a fairly complete archive of the entire internet going back to 1995, over a million books, 1000's of movies, and partners like the library of congress - this is definitly a cool site.