The MOST detailed search
links page on Planet Earth.
(currently
links to, at least,
298
different search tools)
Catalogs
City Searching Communities
Classifieds
Company Researching
Databases You're Likely to Need to Visit a Library to Access
Deep Web Searches
E-mail Addresses
For Kids
FTP File Searching
General Resources
Guides
Helpful Search Articles
IP Reverse Lookup (Anti-Spam)
Legal Searching
Library Book Search Sites
Natural Language Searches
News
Niche Searching
Parallel Meta-Search Engines
People
Public Record Search
Researching Articles
Reverse Phone Number Lookup
Robot Compiled Search Engines
Search Many Engines Individually from one page
Seattle
Software
Specialty Searching
Technical Information
White Pages
Yellow Pages
3D Searching
Legend
| (% of Web), A=FTP, B=Email, C=Boolean, D=(+& -) switches + for has to be and - for cannot be present, E=help page, F=Indexes Whole Page, G=phrase search, H=accepts the "*" wildcard, I=further limit your search by domain type (ie: .com, .edu, etc.), .J=returns a description, K=has an option to find more similar pages, L=case sensitivity, M=phrase searching, N=has free classified ads, O=find a roommate,P=indexes email addresses,Q=indexes FAQ lists,R=relevancy rankings returned, S=words in "quotes" are treated as a phrase, T=Telnet, U=A "t:" in front of a search term limits the search to titles, V=Very Fast, W=searches "Usenet by author, subject, group name, summary text, and keyword text.",X=Usenet News Groups, Y=Gopher, Z=Wildcard |
Audio
Talk Miner searches inside 17239 video lectures and talks
Main Search Engines
Google Help Central
Add Your URL to Google
Interview - tells everything you want to know about google.
Google Blog Search
Google Book Search
New Search Engines
True Knowledge: The Internet Answer Engine contains more than 300 million facts.
Real Time Search Engines
Tweet Meme
Collecta
The Symantic Web
Semantic Web Search Engine Roundup
Further Information on what the Symantic Web is:
The Semantic Web: An Introduction
The Semantic Web (5/17/01: Scientific American) - is probably the best place to start when trying to understand this topic
Others
Clusty
Lycos (Over 3.4 Million web pages)(Y,A)
My news reader is a news search engine.
All The Web indexes over 2.1 billion pages.
Ask combines all of its types of searches into one.
Mahalo is a "human-powered search
engine" that uses freelancers and volunteers, overseen by editors, to
compile results.
Chacha offers live guides to assist
users with their queries via a chat window.
Squidoo pays users to build
link-rich "lenses" on topics of interest.
c4.com, not unlike Google, is
another parallel search engine. If you go to its advanced page and
search for files it does a superior query drilling down into the
other search engines.
Excite (help page) (50 Million+ Pages) gives you
the option to find
"more sites like
this one".(28%,D,R) Recently I found
several pages with Excite, that I couldn't find with Alta
Vista or HotBot.
Alta Vista
(help page) (over 50 Million pages)
will translate
any page from another language. (28%,C,D,F,V,W,I) -
Search AltaVista: Find What You Need
Infoseek (help page) (1
million+ pages) - Internet World tests also show it to provide the most
relevant results (Venditto, 1996)."(A,Y,X,R,J,K,F,L,M,N,O,P ,Q)
Webcrawler (500,000
web pages) (owned
by America Online) is good for simple searches, has some
customization capability. (A,C,Y)