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Search Engines

• About.com
  Better than its search engines are its forums with guides for just about any subject that might interest you.

• alltheweb.com
  This is a very nice search engine, well worth a look.

• AltaVista
  This is very nice search engine, with advanced search features. The news search engine is excellent - you can search for news based on any keywords that interest you.

• Ask Jeeves
  This engine is nice if you like the feeling of having a butler in your browser.

• Beaucoup
  "Beaucoup" means "many" in French. This engine will give you many results!

• direct search
  Here are lots of resources to search the "invisible web" by research librarian Gary Price.

• Dogpile
  This engine searches multiple leading search engines and returns the best results from each.

• Excite Meta-Search
  This engine returns results from a lot of engines, but the ads seems to appear at the top of the list of what gets retrieved.

• Froogle
  Find products for sale across the Net.

• Google
  This search engine is the best of them all, with lots of advanced search options.

• Hotbot
  This is a nice little engine, but it does list sponsored results first.

• Kanoodle
  Here's a nice little engine that's worth a look.

• LookSmart
  This is a very nice engine; it does list advertisers first.

• Lycos
  This is a very good search engine; it does list advertisers first.

• Mamma
  This site claims to be the mother of all search engines. It is pretty good.

• Metacrawler
  Here's another meta-search engine that can turn up some useful sites.

• MSN
  The MSN engine turns up some interesting results, but the paid advertising appears to get listed first.

• Pretrieve
  Here's a very interesting public record search engine.

• Pro Fusion
  This is a nice meta-search engine that might bring you some different results.

• Refdesk
  This is a great site with lots of quick links to facts on the Net.

• Researchville
  Here's an interesting little engine that comes up with some unique results.

• SearchBug
  Investigators love this search engine. Find everything from web sites to people. Find out if a social security number is valid. Find out if a telephone number is a landline or a cellular. Search death records. You really have to check this site out to see all the good stuff that is there!

• Sherlock Hound's Ungoogle
  Spies Online loves Google, and this engine claims to search all the major search engine except for Google in the meta-search. Very cute, but what is amusing is that Google provides results to some of the other engines!

• Teoma
  Here is another major search engine you can try.

• Vivísimo
  Here is an interesting "clustering" engine you can try.

• Wondir
  This is an adorable search engine. You can do a Web search or you can choose to post your question in a moving question ticker where other surfers will have the opportunity to answer your question.

• Yahoo!
  No list of search engines would be complete without Yahoo!, but sponsored results are listed first.

Spy On What Other People Are Searching

• InfoTiger Voyeur
  Watch what people are searching for at InfoTiger. A "filtered" version is available to weed out sites which might be offensive if you desire.

• Kanoodle Spy
  Watch what people are searching for at Kanoodle.com; page automatically refreshes every 10 seconds.

• Metaspy
  Take a peek at some of the searches being performed on MetaCrawler; the page automatically refreshes with new searches every 15 seconds. A "filtered" version is offered for those who might find certain types of sites offensive.

Monitor Search Engine Results

• GoogleAlert
  This site allows you to monitor the search results for topics that interest you and get daily results by e-mail.

Software For Searching

• SiteDigger™ v1.0
  From the authors (Foundstone.com): "SiteDigger searches Google’s cache to look for vulnerabilities, errors, configuration issues, proprietary information, and interesting security nuggets on web sites. This is a zip file. You will also want to read the associated white paper called Foundstone SiteDigger™ - Identifying Information Leakage Using Search Engines, a PDF file.

Usenet Search

• Usenet Search
  Find out what someone has been saying on Usenet.

Blog And FOAF Search Engines

• 2RSS.com
  There's a blog directory here - worth a look.

• Blogarama
  Here's a very nice blog search engine.

• Blogdigger
  Blogdigger is simply a search engine for blogs.

• BlogHop
  Search blogs by name, URL, description, and keywords.

• Bloglines
  This is a free service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content.

• Blog Search Engine
  Here's another blog search engine to try.

• Blogstreet
  Blogstreet is a blog search engine and directory.

• Blogwise
  Blogwise is another nice blog search engine and directory.

• Bloogz
  Bloogz is a blog search engine.

• Daypop
  Daypop is a current events, weblog, and news search engine.

• Eatonweb Portal
  Here's another place to search for blogs.

• FoaFSpace
  FoaFSpace is a search engine for FOAF documents; you can search by name, nickname, instant messaging id or mailbox.

• Globe Of Blogs
  Globe Of Blogs offers all sorts of interesting ways to search for blogs and information about blog authors.

• Technorati
  This is another really nice blog search engine.

• Waypath
  This blog discovery engine lets you find blogs that you'd like to read.

Related Articles

• "I'm jOhnny. I hack stuff."
  Learn how to find things on Google the way hackers do.

• Google Stuff from JoatWiki
  Here are some nice tips for Google searches.

• Seven Ways To Save Time Searching
  Here is an informative article from Tara Calishain, author of Web Search Garage. This is a PDF file.

• Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher
  If you're not sure how to search for a particular topic, this site by the American Library Associaton is the place to go!

• Search 101: A Beginner's Guide to Web Search
  If you are new to search engines, here's a place to start.

• Searching The Invisible Web
  Find out how to search the invisible web (those sites that aren't indexed by search engines).

• The Invisible Web by Chris Sherman
  Find out how to search the invisible web from Chris Sherman.

• Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity
  UC Berkeley has put together this great guide.

• Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed
  Robert J. Lackie, Assistant Professor-Librarian, Rider University, has put together this informative guide.

• Googlefight
  Just for fun, you can use this site to compare search engine results between two different keywords.

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