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All Search Engines and Google Directories Links
All Search Engines and Google Directories Links
- Web Directory Top Sites Free
- Aeiwi - A keyword-driven directory includes a search box and submission form.
- All.info - Directory of informational websites, including producer-supplied information to aid users in evaluating website credibility.
- Andilinks - Categorized links with an emphasis on business and technology sites.
- BBC Webguide - Guide to the best sites as chosen by the editors of BBC Online.
- Blakkat Station - Directory organised into topics. Within each topic links are arranged into sub-categories all on the same page.
- Chiff - A directory of sites selected for good content, design, navigation, and absence of pop-up ads. Also offers a selection of newsletters.
- Common Content - Directory of web sites and resources licensed under Creative Commons licenses, sorted by subject.
- DateDex - Directory of event calendars of key organizations, countries, sports and groups throughout the world, provides upload of event details to your PC via iCalendar format
- Earth Station Nine - Categorized sites, newsgroups and webrings covering general and specialized topics.
- E-lynks - A directory of links organised into categories sorted alphabetically.
- Fetch Dog - A directory of paid submissions organised in a shallow hierarchy, creating large categories divided into several pages.
- Gimpsy - Holds reviewed, interactive sites, classified by the activity the user is aiming at, and provides a Natural Language search interface. Free site submission.
- Got That Online - Organized in 24 categories searchable directory founded by Rob Mcleod provides paid inclusion to their database.
- Hoppa - A web directory which is classified both on location and subject and ordered by popular demand, resulting in a three dimensional hierarchy that can be navigated in all directions.
- iMarvel - A guide to popular sites. Daily tips cover personal finance, consumer news and web freebies.
- 7in1 Web Directory - 700 hand-picked sites in 26 categories.
- The Invisible Web Directory - Chris Sherman's writings and a directory of resources available on the hidden internet.
- Josh's Sanctum - A hierarchical directory of links from all over the globe.
- La Toile des Toiles - Provides collection of governmental, financial, commercial, Web, and educational links for each country. Interface in English and French.
- Leon's Web Brain - Database-driven Web directory that tracks popularity of links.
- Linkopedia - Over 300 categories including news, weather, financial information, online games, and travel deals.
- Nations Online - A list of virtual gateways to the countries of the world.
- A Perfect Search - A selection of links with descriptions in some popular home user search categories, together with a metasearch option.
- Ranks - Approximately 5,000 of the top internet web sites organized within popular categories, with concise descriptions.
- Re-Quest dot Net - Online library of internet and reference resources.
- Rex - The Internet Resource Exchange is a Web directory from Skyline Network Technologies.
- Sight Quest - Searchable directory with approximately 2,000 categories. Pride of place is given to paid listings, and it also carries advertising in a side panel with text and images.
- Smart Internet Guide - Listings in a variety of categories.
- Smart Links - Easy access to categorized search engines, directories, and a select collection of web sites.
- Somuch - Links on various topics, mostly focussed on computers and Internet.
- 1st Spot - A directory of web sites selected on the basis of their informative value.
- Starting Page - A reference guide to websites by subject, with emphasis on entertainment sites.
- Surfpoint - Directory of sites which are member of the LinkExchange banner exchange network.
- Wealth24.com - Directory of luxury shopping and wealth management. Includes categorization by country.
- 123World - Directory of official sites of the world.
- Yakeo - Directory organized into categories by topic and region, plus a Web search with a drop-down menu giving a choice of engine. French, English and Turkish language versions.
- Aesop Search - The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site.
- All Academic - A searchable database of academic publications: journals, working papers, convention papers and magazine articles. Also has an A-Z list of links to online journals.
- AllTheWeb - Search with a simple interface and huge database. Also offers news, picture, video, MP3 and FTP search. Uses the Open Directory category structure to create the 'Fast Topics' option in search results.
- Amfibi - General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has a web directory using the Open Directory.
- Ask Jeeves - The polite butler answers questions asked in plain English. Search the web, news or shopping. If there is no good match in its own database, Jeeves offers top Looksmart results. There is also an option to browse the Open Directory.
- DeepIndex - European search engine offering interfaces in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
- Entireweb - The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.
- Gigablast - A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search options including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature. Includes PDF documents in its index.
- Infosniff.com - A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising.
- Objects Search - An uncluttered interface offers options to search the web, news and blogs, or the UDDI Business Registry. The websearch includes cached pages and 'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open Directory.
- Official Search - Searchable directory of the authorized web sites of companies, organizations, celebrities, government and sports.
- Scrub The Web - Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
- SearchHippo - Indexes the sites listed in the major Internet directories. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites.
- Teoma - Using the same database as Ask Jeeves, it ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity. Clusters results into subject groups, and lists related link collections by experts and enthusiasts where appropriate.
- TrueSearch - A search engine with a simple interface.
- Walhello - Search engine developed in the Netherlands, with a novel feature - results show if a site contains multimedia. It has a directory using ODP data and results include ODP categories.
- Wayback Machine Recall - Search archived pages starting from 1996. Shows term popularity across time and allows searches for periods of time on the web.
- WiseNut - Index of 1.5 billion pages. Search results are clustered into categories. Preferences settings include search by language and a filter to remove adult content.
- Wotbox - Search engine with country specific searching. Options to display country flags, and include preview and translation features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the main results.
- Zerx - You can view sites related to another site, or refine your existing search using that site.
- Search Engines and Editorial Integrity - Article from the USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their users. (April 2, 2002)
- Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads - A complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service, which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads. (July 16, 2001)
- The Evolution of Web Searching - David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies. (March, 2000)
- Google
- Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology.
- Google Weblog
- Amalgamation of current news and related links.
- Best Practices Search Engine Forums: Google Search Engine - Webmaster message board.
- Boycott Google - Calls for a boycott of Google over their policy which prohibits advertisements of "knives or weapons with an intended violent use."
- Constructing and Refining Searches In Google - Tutorial covering advantages of the search engine, and a table of features with corresponding examples of their use.
- Elgoog.nl - Categorised collection of links.
- Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch - Results of research conducted by Benjamin Edelman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School.
- Exploiting the Google Toolbar - Security advisory documenting multiple vulnerabilities in the software. The problems have been fixed in versions after 1.1.58.
- Froogle - Google's product search engine and shopping directory. Presents photographs of products and links to the stores that sell them online. Options to narrow search by price range, and view results as a grid of images.
- Google and Dmoz - Are They in Love? - Jean Manco considers the relationship between the Web's most popular search engine and its largest, most comprehensive, human-edited directory.
- Google and Search Engine Optimization - SEO site that discusses Google features and utilities.
- Google Daily Menus - Posted by an employee.
- Google Dance - Describes in some technical detail how Google updates its index.
- The Google Dance Syndrome, Part 1 - Examines Google's update process and its effects on search engine optimization.
- Google Guide - Interactive online tutorial on using the search engine, with search tips and information on new services and features.
- The Google Page Rank Algorithm and How It Works - Ian Rogers attempts to explain how PR is calculated and includes example source code to illustrate his arguments.
- Google Refuses Business from Gun and Knife Advertisers - Details of grievances against Google AdWords for its refusal to run advertisements for Body Shop founder Anita Roddick's weblog and retailers of guns and knives.
- Google Results - Bare-bones interface which returns only page titles.
- Google Review - Review and analysis of the search and display features by Greg R. Notess from search Engine Showdown. Includes information on un-indexed URLs and Boolean operators.
- Google Toolbar For Mac - Petition website for a Macintosh compatible Google Toolbar.
- Google Watch - A criticism of Google; argues that Google's privacy policies are undermining the Web.
- Google Watch Watch - A criticism of the Google Watch site; argues that it was founded after its author failed to obtain a good PageRank for one of his websites.
- Google World - A categorized directory by Indicateur of links to information on Google, some to pages on Google.com itself, others external.
- Google Worldwide - Index of countries and languages made available by Google.
- GoogleGuy Says - Weblog collecting advice and comments from the Google spokesman.
- Google's Image Search - Overview of the service, along with tips and tricks.
- Google's Integrity - Covers Page Rank and how it's affected by page recency, the skewing of results by Web logs, and Google's marketing.
- Google's Pagerank Explained - Paper by Phil Craven, in which he provides theories on how PR is calculated and the importance of internal, dangling, inbound, and outbound links. With PR calculator.
- Googlewhack - Using Google to find fewer results, or exactly one result. How the craze began and how to do it. A list of the most recent successes.
- The gooGuide - Includes news, how-to articles, and a listing of tools and utilities.
- The Handy Dandy Google Page Rank Figurin' Guide - Graphical explanation of PR, showing the width of the graphic on both the Google Directory and Toolbar, and comparisons between each.
- How Google Toolbar Works - Technical explanation of how the software works and the privacy implications associated with its usage.
- Intel: Google Snapshot - Explains how thousands of Intel Architecture servers power the Google search engine.
- Jeremy Zawodny's Blog: PageRank is Dead - Asserts that the act of Google trying to "understand" the web caused the web itself to change. Sites can't be accurately ranked because the linking system isn't as "natural" as it once was.
- LawMeme: Google Replies to SearchKing Lawsuit - Analysis of the case and copies of relevant legal documents.
- Net Art: AdWords Happening - The author describes his attempt to use AdWords as a means to distribute poetry and how he was eventually thwarted.
- NetNose - Results voting system allows personalization and customization of search results.
- OddGoogle - Weblog featuring Google queries of interest to the author, many of which have been submitted by site visitors.
- The Original Google Computer Storage - Photographs of the hardware used in Page and Brin's research, and an article explaining the search engine's history.
- PageRank Explained - Paper by The Black Box Group detailing their interpretation of how PR works and how pages can be best optimized to utilize it. In PDF and HTML format.
- Secrets of Google Revealed - Presents explanations of thirteen "unique features".
- Something Awful: New Logos for Google - Collection of spoof / parody Google logos, produced by a variety of artists.
- Splode.com: Old Browsers - Collection of screenshots of Google in browsers such as Mosaic and WorldWideWeb.
- Survey on Google´s PageRank - Information on the algorithm, how to increase PageRank, what diminishes it and how to distribute PageRank within a website.
- TechTV: First Look - Teoma Vs. Google - Three-part comparison between these search engines.
- TechTV: Use Google Better - Tips and tricks from Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder and president.
- Using Google - A Tutorial - Interactive tutorial for multiple features, including the "Uncle Sam" database, and searches restricted by domain.
- Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture - Technical article explaining how Google responds to user queries.
- WebmasterWorld: Google - Pre-moderated discussion board that is frequented mainly by SEO professionals.
- Yahoo Groups: Google-Friends - Announcement list which is sent out monthly. Includes archives and subscription information.
- Yahoo Groups: GooglePress - Email distribution list for Google press releases and promotional events. Archives and subscription information.
- Aaron's Photos: Trip to Google - Collection of thumbnailed photographs from an enthusiast's trip to the GooglePlex. (May 13, 2002)
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