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Search Engine Watch - http://searchenginewatch.com/
A guide to search engine marketing and search engine optimization. Forums, reviews, articles, ratings, and frequent newsletters. Paying members receive access to extra content. |
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Search Engine Showdown - http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
A user's guide to Web searching with features, comparative analysis, strategies, discussion, news and reviews. |
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Search Engine Colossus - http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
Directory of hundreds of search engines, organised by country and topic. |
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Complete Planet - http://www.completeplanet.com/
Directory of databases and specialty search engines from Bright Planet. |
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OpenSearch - http://www.opensearch.org/
A collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results. Includes specifications and frequently asked questions. |
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Direct Search - http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm
Gary Price's compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools. |
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CyberTimes Navigator - http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/technology/cybertimesnavigator/
The starting point that New York Times reporters and editors use for their explorations of the Web. A straightforward list of some of the best sources on the Web for all types of information. |
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Alt Search Engines - http://altsearchengines.com/
Charles Knight maintains a list of the top 100 alternative and niche search engines. Includes news, reviews and debates on search engines. |
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FinderSeeker - http://www.finderseeker.com/
Find the search engine you want by selecting a thematical category and/or country, or search by keyword. |
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Search Tools for Web Sites and Intranets - http://www.searchtools.com/
Provides information, news and advice about web site searching technology. Includes a guide, search tools list, glossary, and opportunity to compare searches of its own site by different tools. Offers a free monthly email newsletter. |
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Big Search Engine Index - http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/
Directory listing hundreds of search engines, categorized, described and rated. |
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Geniusfind - http://www.geniusfind.com/
Categorizes thousands of the most useful topic-specific directories and databases, with descriptions. |
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Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed - http://www.robertlackie.com/invisible/index.html
Librarian Robert J. Lackie provides annotated links to directories, searchable sites, databases, and search engines useful for uncovering content that the general search engines fail to disclose. |
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Search Engine Relationship Chart - http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginechart.pdf
Bruce Clay's pictorial view of how search engines provide data to partner engines and directories. |
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Topix: Search Engines News - http://www.topix.com/business/search-engines
News on the search engine industry continually updated from thousands of sources around the Net. |
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Pandia Powersearch - http://www.pandia.com/powersearch/
List of search engines and directories. Also includes a metasearch engine, search tutorial, and a free newsletter. |
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Searchenginez - http://searchenginez.com/
Search forms for the most effective engines in dozens of categories from Robert Skelton. Includes reviews, ratings, webmaster tools, and tutorials. |
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The Ultimate Search Engine Links Page - http://www.searchenginelinks.co.uk/
A directory of search engines: general, metasearch, pay-per-click, children's, subject, country and people search. All are described and can be rated. |
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Search Engines Worldwide - http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/
Search engines sorted by geographical location. |
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Aleph Search - http://www.alephsearch.co.uk/
A directory of directories. Links to selected information rich web resources, both unspecialised and specialised, with a strong emphasis on United Kingdom based sites. |
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ISEDB - http://www.isedb.com/
A directory of search engines and directories worldwide, organized by geographical area and subject, includes articles on site submission, marketing, and optimization. |
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Age of Dot Com - http://www.ageof.com/
Links to search resources including start pages, integrated search forms, portals, engines, guides, and directories. Offers both a simple links page and a directory with descriptions and ratings. |
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Indexing the Internet - http://www.tk421.net/essays/babel.html
An essay by John Hubbard analyzing the question of what is the best way to index the Internet, with references. |
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Fetchfido - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fetchfido2/interface/search_engines_universal.htm
A graphical interface of links to search engines. Multi-layered, with universal, United Kingdom, United States, European and worldwide sections. |
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FTP Search Engines - http://www.ftpsearchengines.com/
Rated links to ftp and mp3 search sites. |