Reference Guide
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Spam URLs
• URLs found in spam, including these topics:
- Computing
- Finance & Stocks
- Entertainment
- Games
- Health & Medicine
- Humor & Novelties
- Personal & Dating
- Products & Services
- Shopping
- Travel
Infrastructure
• Content delivery networks
• XML Reference Schemas
• Web analytics and statistics services
• Transaction servers
• Corporate image servers
News
News
• Newspapers online
• Headline news sites, newswire services, and personalized news
services
• Weather sites
Blogs & Forums
• Weblogs (blog) sites
• Newsgroups
• Opinion or discussion forums
Search
Photo Searches
• Sites that provide resources for photo and image searches
Search Engines
• General search engines (Yahoo, AltaVista, Google, AOL)
Research
Finance &
Investment
• Stock quotes, stock tickers, and fund rates
• Online stock or equity trading
• Investing advice or contacts for trading securities
• Money management/investment services or firms
• General finances and companies that advise thereof
• Accountants, actuaries, banks, mortgages, and general insurance
companies
Government
• Government services such as taxation, armed forces, customs
bureaus, and emergency services
• Local government sites
• Political debate, canvassing, election information, and results
• Local, national, and international political sites
Health &
Medicine
• General health such as fitness and well-being
• Alternative and complementary therapies
• Medical information about ailments, conditions, and drugs
• Medical reference
• Hospital, medical insurance
• Dentistry, optometry, and other medical-related sites
• General psychiatry and mental well-being sites
• Promoting self-healing of physical and mental abuses, ailments,
and addictions
• Psychology, self-help books, and organizations
Reference
• Personal, professional, or educational reference
• Online dictionaries, maps, and language translation sites
• Census, almanacs, and library catalogues
• Topic-specific search engines
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