The internet contains incredibly useful resources, often free of charge. However, to find these can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. We would like to introduce you to some of these resources in order to help you enrich your internet experience. We also welcome suggestions for improving this feature of our website, for the benefit of all.

Useful search engines:

• Ask Jeeves
  
• Dogpile – use several top search engines and return combined results
  
• Factbites – return relevant information
  
• Google – the world’s most popular search engine
  
• Googles playground
  
• SpeechBot - search for audio and video content
  
• Kartoo - Visual meta search
  
• Teoma - returns results and further resources
  
• Vivisimo - returns results in clustered format for efficient evaluation
  

Search engines for KIDS:

• Onekey – the kids safe search engine
  
• Yahooligans - the web guide for kids

Downloads:

• http://www.download.com/
• http://www.tucows.com/
• http://downloads-zdnet.com/
• http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/
• http://www.microsoft.com/
• http://www.hotscripts.com/
• http://sourceforge.net/index.php

Internet chat, telephony and video conference:

• http://www.skype.com
• http://www.imagine-msn.com/messenger/
• http://messenger.yahoo.com/
• http://www.dialpad.com/
• http://www.pc-telephone.com/
• http://www.freeworlddialup.com/
  

Information Portals

• http://www.yahoo.com
• http://www.mweb.co.za
• http://www.msn.co.za

News & Finance sites

• http://www.iol.co.za - South Africa's independent newspapers groups (Argus, Cape Times, Star etc)
• http://www.cnn.com
• http://www.m&g.co.za - Mail & guardian
• http://www.businessday.co.za
• http://www.finance24.com
• http://www.news24.com

Sports sites

• http://www.espn.com
• http://www.supersport.co.za

Auction sites

• http://www.e-bay.com
• http://www.bidorbuy.co.za
• http://www.aucor.co.za