Pandia Powersearch - List of search engines and directories.
Also includes a metasearch engine, search tutorial, and a free
newsletter.
Age of Dot 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.
Aleph Search - A directory of directories. Links to selected
information rich web resources, both unspecialised and specialised,
with a strong emphasis on United Kingdom based sites.
Alt Search Engines - Charles Knight maintains a list of
the top 100 alternative and niche search engines. Includes news,
reviews and debates on search engines.
Big Search Engine Index - Directory listing hundreds of
search engines, categorized, described and rated.
Complete Planet - Directory of databases and specialty search
engines from Bright Planet.
CyberTimes Navigator - 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.
Direct Search - 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.
Fetchfido - A graphical interface of links to search engines.
Multi-layered, with universal, United Kingdom, United States,
European and worldwide sections.
FinderSeeker - Find the search engine you want by selecting
a thematical category and/or country, or search by keyword.
FTP Search Engines - Rated links to ftp and mp3 search sites.
Geniusfind - Categorizes thousands of the most useful topic-specific
directories and databases, with descriptions.
Indexing the Internet - An essay by John Hubbard analyzing
the question of what is the best way to index the Internet,
with references.
ISEDB - A directory of search engines and directories worldwide,
organized by geographical area and subject, includes articles
on site submission, marketing, and optimization.
OpenSearch - A collection of simple formats for the sharing
of search results. Includes specifications and frequently asked
questions.
Search Engine Colossus - Directory of hundreds of search
engines, organised by country and topic.
Search Engine Relationship Chart - Bruce Clay's pictoral
view of how search engines provide data to partner engines and
directories. Requires Acrobat Reader.
Search Engine Showdown - A user's guide to Web searching
with features, comparative analysis, strategies, discussion,
news and reviews.
Search Engine Watch - Comprehensive guide to search engine
marketing and search engine optimization. Forums, reviews, articles,
ratings, and frequent newsletters. Paying members receive access
to extra content.
Search Engines Worldwide - Search engines sorted by geographical
location.
Search Tools for Web Sites and Intranets - 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.
Searchenginez - Search forms for the most effective engines
in dozens of categories from Robert Skelton. Includes reviews,
ratings, webmaster tools, and tutorials.
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed - 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.
Topix: Search Engines News - News on the search engine industry
continually updated from thousands of sources around the Net.
The Ultimate Search Engine Links Page - A directory of search
engines: general, metasearch, pay-per-click, children's, subject,
country and people search. All are described and can be rated.
Search Directories
Big Guide Web Directory - Searchable directory featuring
more than 600 categories with all submissions individually reviewed.
Chiff - A directory of sites selected for good content,
design, navigation, and absence of pop-up ads.
Earth Station Nine - Categorized sites, newsgroups and webrings
covering general and specialized topics.
E-lynks - A directory of links organised into categories
sorted alphabetically.
eWebPages Web Directory - Searchable index of Internet resources,
categorized for browsing.
Gimpsy - Sites classified by the activity the user is aiming
at, providing a natural language search interface.
GoGuides Directory - Directory started by former go.com
editors and maintained and operated by contributors who pay
a membership fee. Includes an image search and updated news.
GoRexxie Web Directory - General human edited web directory
organized by category.
Intel Seek - Searchable web directory organized in a comprehensive
category structure.
Linkopedia - Over 300 categories including news, weather,
financial information, online games, and travel deals.
LoadzaLinks - Searchable categorized directory of websites
with thumbnails, accepts submissions.
Massivelinks - Strongly commercial directory which allows
users to review sites.
A Perfect Search - A selection of links with descriptions
in some popular home user search categories, together with a
metasearch option.
Re-Quest dot Net - Online library of internet and reference
resources.
SearchMonster - Paid inclusion directory that offers human
edited entries within 48 hours.
Seven Seek - Offers a professionally edited Internet directory,
organized by subject.
Site Sift Web Directory - General web directory with selected
site listings sorted by category.
Some Random Directory - Provides resources on hundreds of
topics, relevant links and weblog entries.
Somuch - Links on various topics, mostly focused on computers
and Internet.
Uncover the Net - Search directory, lyrics, news and image
search and how-to articles on varied topics.
VisioBrand - Directory of brand names. Lists only official
sites, including those of business brands and celebrities.
Web World Directory - A searchable web directory of sites
categorized by topic, offering free and paid listings.
Search Engines
Amfibi - General search engine with an uncluttered interface
in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has
a web directory using the Open Directory.
ChaCha - This search engine is a fusion of computer technology
and human intelligence. Live human guides are available to provide
additional assistance in finding relevant results.
Entireweb - The English-language version of a Swedish search
engine with a clean interface and large database.
FactBites.com - A cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia.
The results return complete, informative sentences about the
search topic. Related topics are suggested.
Gigablast - A search engine with a clean interface, advanced
search options including sorting by date, and a real time url
submission feature. Includes PDF documents in its index.
Lexxe - Processes natural language queries and delivers
results in clusters by topic. Queries can be keywords, phrases
or short questions.
Live Search - Offers general web search and various verticals,
including images, news, classifieds, maps and local. By Microsoft.
Mojeek - Search engine with a simple interface and no advertising.
Offers the ability to create a customized topical or personal
search index.
Mozdex - Uses open source search technologies and an index
seeded from the Open Directory.
Ms. Dewey - Search engine with a touch of humor that plays
prerecorded movie clips of a female actress to entertain you
while searches are being performed.
Objects Search - An uncluttered interface offers options
to search the web, news and blogs, includes cached pages and
'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open Directory.
Scrub The Web - Search engine with sponsored links at the
top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
Search 2.0 - Blog dedicated to coverage of the next generation
of search engines and new technologies from the original players
with tips, tricks, and tutorials on how to search more effectively.
SearchHippo - Indexes sites listed in the major internet
directories. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar,
and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites.
Searchles, Inc - Offers social search features (allowing
others' opinions to influence your results) and allows users
to tag, group and save links.
ThreeMice - Natural-language answer engine, which queries
the internet in real time, and will serve up full text from
selected sites.
Ulysseek - A straightforward search engine with a simple
interface.
Wikipedia: Search Engine - Article in the online collaborative
encyclopedia, describing the history and mechanisms of Web search
engines.
Wotbox - Search engine with country specific searching.
Options to display country flags, and include preview and translation
features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the
main results.
ACM Queue: Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard -
Anna Patterson explains the problems of search engine design
in practical terms in this lengthy article. (April, 2004)
NPR : The Search Engine Wars - In a five-part series, NPR's
Rick Karr takes a look at the business of search engines. (April,
2004)
Search Engines and Editorial Integrity - Article from the
USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major search
engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices
at the expense of editorial integrity and their users. (April
2, 2002)
Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for
Deceptive Ads - A complaint filed with the United States
Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service,
which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements
in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads
are ads. (July 16, 2001)
The Evolution of Web Searching - David Green's paper from
Online Information Review explores the development of search
engine technologies. (March, 2000)