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GUIDES TO SEARCH ENGINES * MISC. * META & PARALLEL SEARCH ENGINES * PHONE BOOKS * USENET, LISTSERVS, FORUMS SEARCHES * WEB PORTALS, CATALOGS, BOTS
About Guides & ex-Guides - Personal Contact Information & Domains
Finding Images and Sounds on the Web - a presentation by Marylaine Block for River Bend Library System , December 4, 2002
Guides To Specialized Search Engines (with Descriptions)
Internet Search Engine Help & Tutorials - Searching for the Right Search Engine
Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity
Pandia Search Central, your guide to searching the Internet
SearchDay - free newsletter from Search Engine Watch featuring web search news, reviews, tools, tips, and search engine headlines from across the web.
Search Engine Comparison Chart: (University of Minnesota Duluth) - search options/features for Hotbot, NorthernLight, Altavista, Infoseek, Yahoo, Excite and Magellan
Search Engine Guide - The Guide to Search Engines, Portals, and Directories - more than 2000 specialized indexes, subject directories, and search engines. Links to newsletters, headlines, USENET newsgroups, and other information about search engines
Search Engine Showdown (Greg R. Notess) - The Users Guide to Web Searching - Comparing Internet Search Engines and Finding Aids
Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and More About Search Engines
Searching the Invisible Web - Jackie Knowles
Those Dark Hiding Places: The "Invisible Web" Revealed (Robert J. Lackie, Rider University)
AllSearchEngines.com - search engine index - (Harold A. Meyer, III) - sponsored site has international and topical search engines, and links to pages about search engines. There is also a glossary and a listserv.
Beaucoup! 2,000+ Search Engines, Indices and Directories - guide to major web indexes and directories by subject.
C/Net SEARCH.COM (uses SavvySearch technology) highly recommended - - search boolean AND, or phrase. Alternately search group of sources by subject. Large number of reference sources. Test of exact search failed to turn up results, however general search succeeded.A-Z List of Sources
CUSI searches - CUSI is a single interface to many different search tools (developed by Martijn Koster at NEXOR)
Dogpile, the Friendly Multi-Engine Search Tool - Searches multiple search engines and catalogs but does not integrate them into one list
FindSounds.com - Search the Web for Sounds
fossick.com - The Web Search Alliance Directory - a selective collection of over 3,000 specialist search engines and topical guides.
Google - Fast search of several major indexes, results are ranked. Can also search PDF files, phonebooks, and find what sites link to a specific site
Ixquick Metasearch - Ixquick assigns a star for each time a listing appears in the top ten of the engines indexed. Thus, a result that appears anywhere in the top ten of numerous engines will always be ranked higher than one that sits at the top of just one or two. Ixquick also offers metasearches of selected news, .mp3, and image resources. European language support (German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese) Power Search Techniques
Little-red-schoolhouse library: specialty search engines
Locate.com all-in-one search page - Web, News, People, Maps - search major search engines singly or together.
Mamma: Mother of all Search Engines - searches multiple major search engines using plain text question and ranks results.
Matisse Search Page - direct search several major search engines and catalogs
METAEUREKA - text based metasearch engine - FAST, searches major search engines, returns 10 or 20 from each.
Metaplus - An impressive starting point for finding International Internet resources. Has gateway to major International search engines, links to catalogs of sites.
ProFusion - META search engine - searches group of search engines that you choose, simultaneously
Search Online - meta search engine site with some unique capabilities. Register free to access some advanced searching capabilities
Search Tools and Directories (Gary Price) - compilation of DIRECT LINKS to the search interfaces of resources that are not easily searchable from general
The SPIR search page - (David Novak) - trying to be a comprehensive site for research, includes an international newspaper search page.
Try the Systran translator with caution (it takes a stab at translating a web page from and into several European languages) Metaplus include directories and essential sites. Especially good for media and information professionals.
Teoma Search -- Search with Authority
Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher (Pat Ensor) - Search engines, metasearch engines, subject guides, global search engines, invisible web tools and more.
Top stories - Moreover news headlines: free news content provider - excellent search engine for finding hard to locate articles. results can be refined and sorted.
W3 Search Engines - W3 guide to all things web search (Univ. of Geneva)
411 Locate (WDIA) mixed searches include white, yellow and blue (government) telephone directories, public records (for a fee via KnowX), ... has REVERSE Phone number search.
800 and 888 Number Phone Directory - lists business numbers from all long distance carriers.
AllAreaCodes.com - area codes on-line resource, area code listings for the US and Canada, area codes directory by state or in numerical order
All Nations Telephone Search Engine - Find dialing code, then search directories. Language of directories is noted.
AnyWho: Find People - Search STREET NAME!; or reverse phone number (AT&T)
Area Code Changes ( BellSouth Information Center) - has other states, and dates effective; shows map with changes on new codes
Area Code Listing, by Number - also has listings by state/country
Area Decoder - Area Code Lookup Service - quick area code search; put in city, state, or country or reverse search of country and area codes. (provided by long distance provider AmeriCom)
At Hand Quick Search - Yellow pages - Joint venture of several regional "baby bells"
Canada411 - White & Yellow Pages
Electronic Yellow Pages (UK) - If you need a list of numbers on a particular business type in Britain this works well
Freeality Reverse Lookup - Find E-mail Addresses
Reverse Email Search - Email Address Search - Find Email Addresses
GTE superpages.com (formerly Bigbook.com) - Business directory with zoomable maps; Search by category, city, state, business name. Unique resource: search by distance from specific location.
Infobel World - International Telephone Directories, services vary by country, may include Yellow & White Pages, Fax, reverse lookups, and links to various email searches
InfoSpace - In among the general web directory is search email, US and international phone directories etc has ADDRESS/STREET NAME search and REVERSE phone number search (Very Nice!)
InfoUSA (formerly, DatabaseAmerica) - Information from White & Yellow Pages, REVERSE search.
Internet Address Finder - search by name, or email address.
Long distance telephone PIC codes ("Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier") - 7-digit prefixes which identify US long distance carriers - table listed by PIC number or carrier name.
Phonebook Server Lookup - Link to College & institution directory searches
Reverse Email Search - Email Address Search - Find Email Addresses
Reverse Phone Directories - meta search page for reverse phone directories.
Street Address Locator - meta page of STREET NAME search engines. A Lycos affiliate.
ThinkDirectMarketing.com - Residential and Business telephone and REVERSE phone number searches, & ADDRESS search searches
WhoWhere? / Lycos - residential, business, government, international and toll free Phone Numbers & Addresses, EMAIL search is the BEST of those tested. International directories. Government numbers searched by one or more fields, eg. enter just city name. No reverse searches available.
Yahoo! People Search - Searches by name only; Has the second best EMAIL search. Advanced search allows limiting by type of organization.
Free ZIP Code Lookup Services with City, State, County, Area Code - Tools for looking up zip codes and related data, including zip codes in a radius, zip codes by county, and occupant and business counts by zip code. Also includes a program to calculate the distance between two zip codes, and a lookup for "the location of phone numbers or the cities covered by an area code." 
BoardReader.com: Homepage - Searches Web forums and message boards. Founded by engineers and students from the University of Michigan.(search)
Google USENET News search engine (Google bought the Deja service)
Forum One - search webpage forum discussion groups
About.com Closed Guide Relocation Directory and Assistance Links - About.com has discontinued more than 300 of its sites, sites that functioned as guides to particular topics, maintained by individuals. This page is designed to help editors relocate their pages and users find the pages that have moved.
AlphaSearch - Gateway sites "gathering into one place all relevant sites related to a discipline, subject, or idea" - Browse by Discipline
BoardReader.com (Univ of Michigan engineers & students)- Searches multiple message boards simultaneously and displays "information contained on the Web's forums and message boards." Sites must request inclusion.
CompletePlanet the Source of all Search - searches "deep Web" databases, which regular Web robot searches do not penetrate.
Country search engines and Regional Search Engines - (Phil Bradley)
FAST Search - a search engine with the ultimate goal of searching "All The Web, All The Time". VERY IMPRESSIVE results. Test search even found entries in webpage guestbooks.
HotBot / Lycos affiliate - Fast, flexible, can be personalized. Advanced search has
Infoseek / GO - Directory of reviewed web sites
Internet Collegiate Reference Collection -
Lycos - Search engine and catalog. Has a multimedia search.
MetaCrawler search - Has audio search. relevance ranking
Northern Light Search - Searches news and other major resources in their Special Collection. This is a fee based service, that provides free searches. Supports natural language, fielded and Boolean (AND, OR, NOT) searches. Has experimental alert service (sends you email when their database updates include a hit on your saved search)
Open Directory Project (ODP) - comprehensive directory of the web, relies volunteer editors.
Yahoo - Web site catalog
