Directories
About.com, Family Friendly, Looksmart, Non-Commercial, Open Directory Project, Regional, Volunteer-Edited, Yahoo, 123World, 1st Spot, A Perfect Search, Aeiwi, All.info, Andilinks, Blakkat Station, Chiff, Common Content, Consumer2.com
Help and Tutorials
11 Steps to Effective Searching, A Web Search Tutorial, alt.internet.search-engines FAQ, AskScott, BrightPlanet Search Tutorial, Find it on the Internet, Finding Information on the Internet, Fravia's Web Searching Lore, How Stuff Works: Internet Search Engines, iNet Investigation
Mailing Lists
Free Pint, Internet Resources Newsletter, ResearchBuzz, The Internet Tourbus, The ResourceShelf
Metasearch
InfoSpace, Mamma.com, Academic Index, Answers.com, Babieca Metasearch, BrainBoost, Clusty, Fazzle, Geoswitch, Gimenei, Gnome, iBoogie
Multi-Search
A9.com, Acme Search Forms, All Searches, Dan's Web Site, Dr. Seek, Emm, Engines2go, Fleiner, Freddo'Search Page, Geoffrey's Search Center
Reviews
BBC: Search Wars - Which is the Best?, DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation, How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory, InFoPeople: Best Search Tools Chart, PPC-Search Engines, Precision Among World Wide Web Search Services, Search Engine Challenge, Search Engines for the World Wide Web: A Comparati, SEOSurvey: MSN's Beta Search vs. Yahoo! and G, The Search Lounge
Search Engines
Family Friendly, Google, Providers, Regional, Robots, Specialized, Amfibi, Ask Jeeves, Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search En, Creative Commons Search, Entireweb, Gigablast, Infosniff, Mojeek, MSN Search, NPR : The Search Engine Wars
Age of Dot Com
Links to search resources including start pages, integrated search forms, portals, engines, guides, and directories. Offers both a simple links page and a directory with descriptions and ratings.
Aleph Search
A directory of directories. Links to selected information rich web resources, both unspecialised and specialised, with a strong emphasis on United Kingdom based sites.
Beaucoup
A directory listing thousands of search services includes engines, directories, and indices, with descriptions and metasearch tool powered by Findtarget.
Big Search Engine Index
Directory listing hundreds of search engines, categorized, described and rated.
Complete Planet
Directory of databases and specialty search engines from Bright Planet.
CyberTimes Navigator
The starting point that New York Times reporters and editors use for their explorations of the Web. A straightforward list of some of the best sources on the Web for all types of information.
Direct Search
Gary Price's compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools.
Fetchfido
A graphical interface of links to search engines. Multi-layered, with universal, United Kingdom, United States, European and worldwide sections.
FinderSeeker
Find the search engine you want by selecting a thematical category and/or country, or search by keyword.
FTP Search Engines
Rated links to ftp and mp3 search sites.
Geniusfind
Categorizes thousands of the most useful topic-specific directories and databases, with descriptions.
Indexing the Internet
An essay by John Hubbard analyzing the question of what is the best way to index the Internet, with references.
ISEDB
A directory of search engines and directories worldwide, organized by geographical area and subject, includes articles on site submission, marketing, and optimization.
Pandia Powersearch
List of search engines and directories. Also includes a metasearch engine, search tutorial, and a free newsletter.
Search Ability
A guide to directories of specialized search engines. Each directory is reviewed and classified in some detail.
Search Engine Colossus
Directory of hundreds of search engines, organised by country and topic.
Search Engine Relationship Chart
Bruce Clay's pictoral view of how search engines provide data to partner engines and directories. Requires Acrobat Reader.
Search Engine Showdown
A user's guide to Web searching with features, comparative analysis, strategies, discussion, news and reviews.
Search Engine Watch
Danny Sullivan's comprehensive coverage of the search engine world. Forums, reviews, articles, ratings, and frequent newsletters. Paying members receive access to extra content.
Search Engine Watch
Danny Sullivan's comprehensive coverage of the search engine world. Includes submission tips, better use of search engines, reviews, and articles.
Search Engines Worldwide
Search engines sorted by geographical location.
Search Tools for Web Sites and Intranets
Provides information, news and advice about web site searching technology. Includes a guide, search tools list, glossary, and opportunity to compare searches of its own site by different tools. Offers a free monthly email newsletter.
Searchenginez
Search forms for the most effective engines in dozens of categories from Robert Skelton. Includes reviews, ratings, webmaster tools, and tutorials.
The Ultimate Search Engine Links Page
A directory of search engines: general, metasearch, pay-per-click, children's, subject, country and people search. All are described and can be rated.
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Reveal
Librarian Robert J. Lackie provides annotated links to directories, searchable sites, databases, and search engines useful for uncovering content that the general search engines fail to disclose.
Topix: Search Engines News
News on the search engine industry continually updated from thousands of sources around the Net.