Links to More Information on Search Tools

Current News about Search Sites

• Search Engine Watch Blog - Current news on the search world.
• SearchDay - A daily guide to internet searching from Search Engine Watch.
• MagPortal.Com - Current full-text, online articles about search engines and research tools.
• Search Engine News - From Search Engine Guide.
• Free Pint - An e-zine which provides handy searching tips.
• Research Buzz - Newsletter with information about what is new in Internet research sites.
• Web Search - The About.com guide to searching the net.
• Searcher - A monthly magazine for database professionals. Some full text articles are available on the web.

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Search Engine Information and Guides to Searching

• Search Engine Watch - Information on search engines, tips for searching and for promoting your web site, and links to search engine resources. This site includes the WebMaster's Guide to Search Engines which is must reading if you want to understand how search engines work.
• Search Engine Showdown - News, statistics, comparisons of general and specialized search engines, and tips for searching.
• The Spider's Apprentice - An introduction to how search engines work, comparative analysis of search engines, and tips to improve your searching.
• Web Search Engines A-Z - collection of articles, reviews and search how-to's from About.Com.
• Bare Bones 101 - A basic tutorial on searching the web. By the University of South Carolina, Beaufort.
• The Virtual Training Suite - Tutorials on internet searching for students, professors, and researchers. This site is an excellent way to learn the best web sites in your field.
• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial - A guide to searching from The University of California at Berkeley

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Lists of Search Tools and Specialized Search Engine Sites

General collections of search sites

• Beaucoup - A well organized site linking to over 2000 search sites in many subject categories.
• Genius Find - Lists of search engines and subject directories.
• Pandia - Searches the Open Directory project and also has a metasearch site, search news, and links to other search engines.
• Search Engine Colossus - Huge listing of US and international search engines - both general and specialized.
• The Search Engine Guide - Links to many search engines, portals, and directories.
• Search Engines 2 - Collections of specialized search engines. By topic or by country
• Yahoo!'s list of tools for searching
• Finding Data on the Internet - A guide to locating statistical and numerical data.
• Direct Search - This site lists over 1000 databases which may be difficult to find otherwise.

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Tips on writing your web pages so that search engines will find them

• Search Engine Submission Tips - by Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch.
• 131 (Legitimate) Link-Building Strategies - How to bring visitors to your web site. Article from Search Day, July 11, 2002.

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Sites with information about bots, spiders, worms, and robots

• A History of Search Engines- An interesting introduction to the history of searching the Internet.
• The Web Robots Page - FAQ on robots and a database of known web robots.
• UMBC AgentWeb - Links to web sites dealing with agents, infobots, knowbots, etc.
• The BotSpot - Information on all types of bots currently wandering the web. There is a bot of the week, bot faq's, and a listing of new bots.
• Yahoo!'s list of Robots and Spiders

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All-in-One Pages | Specialized Engines and Indexes | International Search Sites | Links to More Information |

Please address any comments, additions, or corrections to Linda Bertland, school librarian at info@sldirectory.com.