Michael Giberson
Around my house, when we resort to the internet to answer questions like “What was the name of that movie last year with William H. Macy?” or “Who recorded ‘Oh Carolina’ before Shaggy did?”, we call it “consulting the Oracle.”
Consulting the Oracle usually means Google, but for movie specific information I usually go straight to the IMDB. A cool story on the IMDB can be found online courtesy of the LA Weekly.
Music questions sometimes go to Allmusic, but they’ve revamped the website and I don’t like the new look. But if you just have to know whether Jimmy Cliff ever recorded “Rivers of Babylon,” it is one place to look.