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A Phone Number	BT's Directory Enquiry Service: bt.com/directory-enquiries/dq_home.jsp, where you can search for both people and businesses.
A Business	Businesses in a specific area: www.yell.com, the online version of the Yellow Pages.
A Postcode	Find postcodes online, or if you only know the postcode, the site will provide you with the address: http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm. (You now need to register for this.)
An E-mail address	Yahoo has a people finder facility to help you track down lost e-mail addresses: people.yahoo.com. Similar sites are www.whowhere.com; www.bigfoot.com; www.whitepages.com These are all rather US focused, for the UK try http://www.inforspace.com
A School Friend	Register and see if you can contact old school friends: www.friendsreunited.co.uk
A Dentist	Try Find A Dentist or Local NHS Services
A Map	Two of the best: Street Map www.streetmap.co.uk and Multimap www.multimap.com.
Travel Directions	AA Route Planner: www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp and RAC Route planner: http://rp.rac.co.uk/routeplanner
A Picture	In Google, click on the Images tab and search. In AltaVista, click on the Images tab and search, remembering the specify the type of picture you are after. Altavista will display the images as thumbnails. In Lycos click on the 'Advanced Search' link, use the 'Search For' and 'What catalog?' options. A review of image search engines - includes some tips.
An MP3	Several search engines now cater for MP3 searches: In AltaVista click on the MP3/Audio tab. In Lycos click on the 'Advanced Search' link, use the 'Search For' and 'What catalog?' options.
Song Lyrics	There is a specilist site for searching for song lyrics: www.lyricsworld.com/search. If this is unable to help, try using the 'word usage' techniques described above with "song" + Artist + Lyrics, and chances are you will find the information you want.
A Sports Result	Try www.sporting-life.com; www.sport365.com or www.sportal.co.uk
A Pub	Try www.goodguides.co.uk/pubs/search.asp or www.pubs247.com
A Hotel	Within the UK try http://www.theaa.com/getaway/hotels/hotels_home.jsp. Worldwide try http://www.all-hotels.com/
An MP (Minister of Parliament)	To find the sitting MP for a particular area, go to www.locata.co.uk/commons. In some cases you can e-mail them directly from the site.
Share Prices	For the current share price of a specific company, try www.teletext.co.uk/finance. Other sites with real-time share prices include www.freequotes.co.uk and www.marketeye.com
An Obscure Fact	Your best bet to find obscure trivia is probably www.google.com. Type in as many words as possible relating to the query, for instance 'oldest woman world' should bring up, within the first few results, the name of the oldest woman in the world.
The Source of a phrase or quote	Type in the quote, enclosed in question marks, in the search box, and a short list of results should be produced.
Free software to download	Try www.download.com

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