Life without Google is pretty smooth and wont affect Christy Kinnion’s life. The instructor from Raleigh, NC offers plethora of options to journalists and other writers and researchers (why only chosen few Christy, why not others like us and all) about different ways they can go and have an easy life without Google. Lets take a quick recap from her blog



News



1. Clusty Blogsearch http://clusty.com/

2. CNN http://www.cnn.com

3. World News Network http://cgi.wn.com/

4. Wired News http://www.wired.com (tech news)

5. Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/

6. Topix http://www.topix.net



Facts



1. Political fact Check http://www.factcheck.org/

2. Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/reference/

3. Virtual Chase http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/facts.shtml

4. American Fact Finder http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en.



Statistics



1. The Virtual Chase statistical resources page http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/statistics.html

2. Aging Stats http://www.agingstats.gov

3. AmeriStat http://www.ameristat.org/

4. FedStats is useful at http://www.fedstats.gov

5. The Bureau of Labor Statistics http://stats.bls.gov/



People Finders



1. http://www.argali.com/. Argali White & Yellow search

2. http://www.anywho.com/

3. http://www.icq.com,

4. http://www.switchboard.com,

5. http://infospace.com

6. http://www.yahoo.com



Maps



1. For directories http://www.yahoo.com/.

2. MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com/

3. Aerial photographs http://www.terrafly.com



Reports



1. emarketer http://www.emarketer.com

2. GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/

3. Entertaining reading http://www.consumerreports.org



Press Releases



1. http://www.ereleases.com

2. http://www.hoovers.com/



Local search



1. http://localsearch.aol.com

2. http://local.ask.com/local

3. http://search.msn.com

4. http://superpages.com





OK, Nice collection, seems straight down from her bookmark folder. It seems she is pretty inclined towards her theory but how does anyway Aol differs from Google, and also I don’t think for active and serious yellow directory or telephone directory search people use lot of Google. Statistics on Google, no specific services as of yet like Map, don’t know about future though, anything can happen.



Believe me I am not anti Google and use a lot of them from above.