- Autotropolis - Free automotive research website that includes information on car and safety ratings, top ten lists, financing and more.
- Autozone - For the Do it Yourselfer: Click on Repair Guides. Repair guides offer detailed information about your vehicle - everything from step-by-step repair instructions to wiring diagrams are included.
- NADA Guides - Online prices & reviews, links to road tests and safety information.
- Kelley Blue Book (New & Used Car Prices) - Includes precise retail and trade-in values, includes motorcycle prices.
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Links to safety problems & issues, test results, regulations and standards, R&D
- Amazon Books - Premier bookstore on the Internet, includes books, music, videos, electronics and e-auctions.
- Barnes and Noble - Another great Internet bookstore.
- Michigan Center for the Book - The Center draws from the Library of Michigan and its affiliate institutions to encourage and produce local and statewide programs and resources that promote books, reading, authors and libraries.
- Project Gutenberg - Classic texts online - Most comprehensive site on the web; can search by title or author of many classic books or works.
- OptOutPreScreen.com - Allows you to remove your name from "junk mail" lists.
- Annual Credit Report - Allows you one free credit report a year from each of the three major credit agencies.
- Better Business Bureau - Consumer information on businesses, charity reports, allows one to file a complaint on a company, a new car or charity electronically.
- Consumer Product Safety Commission - Safety information on consumer products.
- Consumer Information at FTC - Choose consumer protection link - wealth of information on consumer issues and items.
- Consumer Search - Allows you to find reviews of products much like Consumer Reports.
- Do Not Call Registry - Register for this national program to prevent unwanted telemarketing calls.
- gethuman - A website that will give you the phone number to talk to a real human at many companies, not a recorded message!
- ICCC (IC3) - Internet Crime Complaint Center.
- National Fraud Information Center - Toll free hotline with advice about computer .
- Network for Good - Helps people find opportunities to volunteer, donate money, and speak out about important issues in their communities.
- Insure.com - An insurance guide for the consumer and the professional.
Directories
- AnyWho by AT&T - Yellow & White Pages and reserve phone number lookup.
- Area DeCoder Lookup Service by Americom - Just type in your city or country and get your area code.
- The Escapeartist.com - Dialing Codes, Directories, Embassies, Voltages & Rates: Worldwide.
- Infobel.com - Allows you to search by address, name, reverse address and reverse phone number. Great for international addresses as well.
- Internet 800 Directory - Finds toll free numbers.
- Switchboard - Search for people, businesses, email.
- The Virtualgumshoe - This page has several links for Internet Investigators.
- The Whitepages.com - Find addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, zip codes and area codes of people and businesses. There are several different lookup options.
- Zip Codes (U.S. Postal Service) - Searches for national zip codes by city, state or by address.
Search Engines
- AltaVista - One of the more popular search engines.
- Dogpile - A metasearch engine.
- Google - The best search engine on the web.
- MetaCrawler - A metasearch engine.
- Yahoo! - Another popular search engine and much more.
- FindLaw - comprehensive legal site with links to legal forms, legal subjects, finding a lawyer and state and legal resources.
- The Law Engine - Information on federal courts and law, legal reference, law dictionaries, state law, courts and more.
- Michigan Legislative Information - Michigan Compiled laws, current bills, consumer information on state government.
- Oakland County Law Library - Searchable online catalog, great links and an "Ask a Librarian" email feature.
- State Bar of Michigan - Has a Michigan online legal self-help center under public resources.
- Thomas - Highly rated website with links to federal legislative information.
- Library of Congress - Catalogs, resources and services of our national library.
- Library of Michigan - Catalog and services of our state library.
- Michigan Electronic Library - MEL's 'virtual library' is selected and evaluated by librarians and is designed to be a comprehensive electronic information tool for the state's libraries, schools and citizens.
- The Library Network - Services and catalog of The Library Network, a library cooperative of 65 libraries in southeast Michigan.
- The Oakland County Library - Access to Legal & Governmental primary source information as well as books on tape from the Library of the Visually & Physically Impaired.
- How Far is It? - Using latitude and longitude calculates the distance between two locations as the crow flies.
- MapQuest - Maps, aerial photos (when available), driving directions & road trip planner.
- MapsonUs - This free service generates maps, driving directions and allows you to plan your route.
- PCL Map Collection - Excellent collection of online maps ordered geographically. Includes directions for resizing and printing of maps.
- Yahoo's Regional Maps - Search for maps by region.
- Amtrak - Routes, tickets, station locator and tours.
- Expedia.com - Comprehensive site to obtain tickets for any kind of travel.
- Greyhound Lines - Allows for ticket purchases, travel planning, charters and tours.
- Passports - Includes when and where to apply for a passport.
- Travelinformation.com - Free travel brochures, vacation guides, maps and travel planning kits.
- Travelocity - Comprehensive site to obtain tickets for any kind of travel.
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