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Links

This page will host general articles relating to search engines, notably sites dedicated to search engines and links to smaller search engines..

Top site to visit

• Own a search engine Yes, you can own your own search engine.
  
  
• Search Engine Guide - Lists all the special purpose search engines. HIGHLY recommended
  
  
• Search Engine Watch - - HIGHLY recommended.
  
  
• Search Engine Watch ~ Resources
  
  
• One site with lots of interesting stuff and a fair decent forum is HighRankings.com
  They offer "Search Engine Optimization Site Analysis, Custom Reports and Phone Consultations"
  As well as this they have a great forum. Worth a good look, certainly.
  
  
• I Help you Sevices: Forum is another good forum for web designers and our ilk and is dedicated to improving your search engine optimizimation (SEO) ranking.
  
  
• Association of Independent Information Professionals - Hire professional researchers here
  
  
• Sources and Experts - compiled by news researcher Kitty Bennet, it is a list of recognised experts in various fields
  

NB:
If you want to become a professional researcher, an essential read is said to be:

The Information Broker's Handbook : Third Edition by Sue Rugge & Alfred Glossbrenner

It's now out of print so you will have to hunt around to find it...

Smaller Search Engines

• Enhance Intereactive
  ... paid search listings ...
  (Previously Ah-ha search engine (www.ah-ha.com)
  
  
• ANZWERS
  
  
• BUBL Information Service
  Free User-Friendly Access to Selected Internet Resources Covering all Subject Areas, with a Special Focus on Library and Information Science.
  Hugely recommended!
  
  
• FirstStop WebSearch. Main Page
  
  
• Galaxy - search engine
  
  
• Galaxy Vertical Search Engine
  Did you know that Galaxy was the first directory on the Internet, online before Open Directory, LookSmart, and yes even Yahoo!
  Did you know that Galaxy is one of the Web's largest and most robust directories, with over 3.2 million listings, across 680,000 plus categories.
  Did you know that, in addition to driving traffic to your site, a listing in Galaxy can help improve your ranking at full-text search engines like Google and MSN. Are you listed yet?
  
  
• Gigablast - Apparently a one man operation.
  Well recieved in a recent (2003) SearchEngineWatch interview.
  
  
• Infoseek Guide
  
  
• Jayde.com
  Jayde is a search engine that contains only the best and most relevant sites on the web! The Jayde newsletter focuses on improving and popularizing all web sites in our directory.
  
  
• Starting Point
  
  
• LOOK - The Search Engine of Search engines. Cluttered, but good
  
  
• Mamma The mother of all search engines
  Searches includes by web, images and kids.
  Good logo too
  
  
• REX - at Skyline.Net - search engine
  
  
• Search 411 (Used to be as Raging Search)
  
  
• Teoma Search
  
  
• WISEnut
  
  
• UK Plus - Dedicated to the UK, strangely enough
  
  

Others of interest

• LinkPopularity.com
  The Free Link Popularity Service
  
  Quite useful really, give it a try!