Knowledge: searching
See Also:
- computers → internet → on the web → web portals
- computers → internet → web design and development → promotion
- reference → knowledge management → knowledge representation → semantic web
Links
- 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.
- 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.
- Big Search Engine Index
http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/ - Directory listing hundreds of search engines, categorized, described and rated.
- 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.
- Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/ - Danny Sullivan's comprehensive coverage of the search engine world. Forums, reviews, articles, ratings, and frequent newsletters. Paying members receive access to extra content.
- Geniusfind
http://www.geniusfind.com/ - Categorizes thousands of the most useful topic-specific directories and databases, with descriptions.
- 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.
- 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.
- FinderSeeker
http://www.finderseeker.com/ - Find the search engine you want by selecting a thematical category and/or country, or search by keyword.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pandia Powersearch
http://www.pandia.com/powersearch/ - List of search engines and directories. Also includes a metasearch engine, search tutorial, and a free newsletter.
- Search Engines Worldwide
http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/ - Search engines sorted by geographical location.
- Search Engine Relationship Chart
http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginechart.pdf - Bruce Clay's pictoral view of how search engines provide data to partner engines and directories. Requires Acrobat Reader.
- Complete Planet
http://www.completeplanet.com/ - Directory of databases and specialty search engines from Bright Planet.
- Search Engine Colossus
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/ - Directory of hundreds of search engines, organised by country and topic.
- Search Engine Showdown
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/ - A user's guide to Web searching with features, comparative analysis, strategies, discussion, news and reviews.
- 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.
- 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.
- CyberTimes Navigator
http://tech.nytimes.com/top/news/technology/cybertimesnavigator/index.html - 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.
- FTP Search Engines
http://www.ftpsearchengines.com/ - Rated links to ftp and mp3 search sites.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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