Research: Resources for journalism and management

About.com: The fine directory on just about anything
Addresses.com: A reasonable utility to help locate
AllExperts: Volunteers help find information
AllTheWeb: A fast, simple search engine
AltaVista: A survivor in the search engine game, with audio and video searching now
Ask.com: A search engine and more
Bartleby: A superb resource of texts and reference works online
Biography: Text, audio and video accounts of lives lived
Britannica: A venerable encyclopedia that responded to the online challenge
Canada411: The Canadian phone directory
CanLaw: A premier resource for law reference in Canada
CIA Worldbook: An updated reference on geopolitics, demographies and economies
EHow:  A cleverly organized guide to doing things
Encarta:  Microsoft's often overlooked encyclopedic reference
Encyclopedia Mythica: A different reference work, in that it focuses on mythology and folklore
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: The strong work from the U.S. institute
Experts: A site with, well, experts
Facebook: The much-attended-to social networking site
Fedstats: The longstanding U.S. resource on government data
Geohive: A good resource on global statistics
Google: Of course
Google Maps: Of course, Google Maps
How Stuff Works: An accessible how-to resource
Infoplease: A strong resource on knowledge
Librarians'  Index to the Internet: A well-organized list of resources from U.S. librarians
MapMachine: National Geographic's excellent map resources
Mapquest: The definitive way to get from Point A to Point B
MediaLink: A solid resource that refers journalists to experts
Metacrawler: An engine that searches plenty of engines
MySpace: The gigantic social network
National Archives and Records Administration: The formidable U.S. directory of government data
National Security Archive: George Washington University's resource on government information
OneLook: A solid dictionary and word search tool
Open Directory Project:  A massive volunteer data-collection resource
Refdesk: One of the strongest online resources for data
Resource Shelf: Gary Price's outstanding collection of research links
Roget's Thesaurus: The name brand in word-finding
SocialThing!: A new aggregator of your social networking information
Silobreaker: A search engine that nicely organizes results in different formats
Sources: The online find-an-expert resource
Statistics Canada Daily: The weekday data resource
Thesaurus:  A resource to help you find the right words
Thomas: The Library of Congress and its gigantic database
Vivisimo: A very useful search tool
Wikipedia: The largest of the user-generated encyclopedias
Yahoo!: The gigantic directory and search engine
YourDictionary: An online word-defining resource