Search
engine usage can be quite confusing even for the
initiate. Casual surfers can usually get by with knowing
a few search sites and some basics on entering keywords,
but if you're hunting for more obscure data, you're
trying to refine searches to narrow down the yea zillion
useless results you always seem to get, or if you're a
Webmaster trying to get your site listed on the top of
the various search engines' listings, you should find
out more about how the search engines work. Start by
checking some of the sites below.
All Search Engines (a
listing of pretty much every search engine and directory
on the Internet)
www.allsearchengines.com
Beaucoup
www.beaucoup.com/
Berkeley Internet
Guide
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/
Berkeley MetaSearch
Guide
library.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html
The Clever Project
(IBM-sponsored investigation into the future of search
engine technology)
www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/k53/clever.html
Helpful Guide to
Search Engines
www.monash.com/spidap.html
How To Choose a Search
Engine or Directory (very useful, with lots of links to
specific sites)
library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html
Invisible Web (lots of
info on finding "hidden" Web sites)
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
Lycos Searchable
Databases (connections to lots of online databases that
don't show up in ordinary searches)
dir.lycos.com/reference/searchable_databases/
ResearchBuzz
www.researchbuzz.com/
Search Engine Forum
(ask your questions here)
www.searchengineforum.com/
Search Engine Showdown
searchengineshowdown.com/
Search Engine Watch
www.searchenginewatch.com/
Search Engines
Worldwide (lists nearly 3200 search engines from 211
countries, with lots of info to go with the links)
home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/search.html
SearchAbility
(directory of search engine directories, ahem)
www.searchability.com/