Alexa, a web navigation service, has compiled some interesting information about the Web: number of domain names, number of unique host machines, number of intermittent sites, etc. See: http://www.alexa.com/

Network Wizards conducts an Internet Domain Survey survey that gives the total number of Internet hosts on a semi-yearly basis. See: http://www.nw.com/

Internet Systems Consortium sponsors an Internet domain survey survey that gives the total number of Internet hosts on a quarterly basis. See: https://www.isc.org/

Van Locator Online discusses: "The effect the Internet has had on transport in the UK." It contains two timelines: one lists important Internet events. The other estimates the percentage of the world's population that has access to the Internet. See: https://www.locator.co.uk/

Individual Search Engines: These are like gigantic indices of the Internet. You supply a phrase or one or more words which describe the topic that you are interested in and click on the submit key. The search engine then scans its data base and responds with "hits." These are web sites which may have useful information on your topic of interest.

The four most popular search engines as of 2014-AUG are Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.

Google has a service to "search specifically for scholarly literature including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. See: http://scholar.google.com/

Meta Search Engines: These submit your phrase or words to a group of search engines and report the results. Some useful ones are:  Dogpile, WebCrawler, Metasearch.

Also, AllinOne Search finds American businesses in a specific area (by zip code, city, or state).

Geographical search engine: Variety Search is a directory of web sites sorted geographically. See: http://www.varietysearch.com/

Internet-Web Directory is a fully searchable and frequently updated directory of web sites. See: http://www.internet-web-directory.com

WayBackMachine has stored more than 10 billion pages -- over 100 terabytes of data -- in its archives. Their goal is to build a digital library and other cultural artifacts in digital form for public access. You can view web sites, frozen in time as they existed as early as 1996. See: http://www.archive.org 

US Naval Observatory time can be accessed at: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ This shows Universal Time, and Eastern Time, Central Time, through to Hawaii-Aleutian Time at the time that their page first displayed. An updating time display, in Universal Time, shows the current time in the upper right corner of the Naval Oceanography Portal at: http://www.usno.navy.mil/

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