About Search Engines
About.com Web Search
Take a look at About.com's extensive categorized
links by the Web Search guide.
How Search Engines Work
A good overview of search engine concepts, by The Spider's Apprentice.
Meta Tags and Search Engines
How to use Meta Tags to help search engines classify your site,
from SearchEngineWatch.com.
SavvySubmit
SavvySearch's URL submission page lets you submit your URL to the
top search engines all at once.
Search Engine Design Tips
Some good advice on how to design your web page so that
it shows up better in search engines, from SearchEngineWatch.com.
Search Engine Report
News and articles about search engines, from Internet.com.
Search Engine Stats
Ranking of the size of search engines, overlap, dead links.
Search Engine Update
Loads of excellent information about search engines, search technology,
and news written by and for webmasters. Find out how search engines rank your page.
SearchTerms.com
What are the most popular search terms? Find out here.
Search Tools Chart
U.C. Berkeley's InfoPeople project provides a chart of the
query features available on major search engines.
Web Analysis
Technical academic papers on web search by noted NEC researcher
Steve Lawrence.
Search Engine Reviews
Introduction to Search Engines
A nice article with reviews of the major search engines from
the Kansas City Public Library.
PC Magazine Portal Reviews
A good review comparing web portals.
Search Engine Ratings
A nice review that compares and rates the most popular search engines,
from The Spider's Apprentice.
Search Engine Showdown
This is a great site describing and comparing search engines.
Searching the World Wide Web
Tables comparing the features of major search engines.
Traffick.com
Reviews of all the major portals and search engines.
Search Engine Sites
AltaVista
One of the most popular search engines.
Debriefing
A nice meta-search engine.
Dogpile
A popular meta-search engine.
Excite
One of the most popular search engines.
Google
One of the best search engines out there.
HotBot
One of the most popular search engines.
Infoseek
One of the most popular search engines.
Lycos
One of the most popular search engines.
MetaSearch
Go2Net's meta-search engine, searches using several popular search
engines.
Yahoo!
A popular directory-based site, classified by people.
Specialized Search Engines
Expedia Maps
Microsoft's mapping web site. Get maps and driving directions here.
InfoSpace.com
Find people and businesses by name.
MapQuest.com
Search for the location of places in the real world. Plus get
driving directions too.
Reverse Phone Directory
Find a person or business by typing in their phone number.
TerraServer
Find the satellite map to almost any place on earth.
Yahoo! People Search
Find addreses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of people you know.
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