Did you say Goggle? Oh, Google...what's that?

Lets imagine a world without Google. If a journalist (or other researcher) was looking for information (and Google was not an option), where would he or she go to find complete and accurate info? I've compiled a tentative list which I will explore and detail as the semester progresses. I've decided to break my list into two categories: need and strategy as shown below. I haven't quite decided on a format yet; tried a table, but that wasn't working well.

Need:Strategy

1. Decent results fast: Yahoo!Search http://search.yahoo.com/
2. Answer (facts, calculations, etc.) : MSN Search http://search.msn.com/ or Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com/
3. Organized info: Clusty http://clusty.com/
4. Focused search: Teoma http://www.teoma.com/
5. Relationships: KartOO http://www.kartoo.com/
6. Expert: Virtual LRC http://www.virtuallrc.com/ or WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org/
7. Biographical: Biography.com http://www.biography.com/search/index.jsp
8. Breaking News: Clusty Blogsearch http://clusty.com/
9. Full News Coverage: Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/or World News Network http://cgi.wn.com/
10. Encyclopedia: Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/or Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/
11. Statistics: FedStats http://www.fedstats.gov/
12. Results from databases: Invisible Web http://www.invisible-web.net/
13. Multimedia: AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/
14. Virtual Librarian: 24/7http://www.247ref.org/portal/access2.cfm?lib=Public or Ask a Librarian http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/
15. Grasp of topic: Librarian's Index to the Internet http://lii.org/ or Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/
16. Verified Resources/educational research: Print sources. A real library! http://www.mapquest.com/
17. New Sites: Scout Report http://scout.wisc.edu/ or Librarian's Index to the Internet http://lii.org/

I’ll also be adding details and navigation/user suggestions for each resource. Tips that I’ll include will focus on research methods for speed and accuracy as well as verifying information. How does a journalist know if a resource is trustworthy? What are the ways you can check info for validity? What are signs that suggest a resource is questionable?