Computers - Internet - Searching Indexing the Internet - Essay analyzes the question of what is the best way to index the Internet. ILor - Allows users to create annotated comments on top of search results powered by Teoma. Offers a downloadable search toolbar. 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. SearchKing - Search engine getting most of its data from its network of people who use SearchKing software and hosting to build a topic specific or "hometown" portal. 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. Any Search Info - Offers search engine, and a directory using ODP. Permits users to submit their web site for instant inclusion in their index via internet spider. Also using Kanoodle.com's paid listings. 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. All Academic - An academic search engine offering access to journals, working papers, convention papers and magazine articles. SearchHippo - A spider-based web search. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites. AltaVista - The default search results consist of Overture and results from the Altavista spider. Displays related searches. Offers translation services and multimedia searches. 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. Zerx - You can view sites related to another site, or refine your existing search using that site. PageSeeker - Search engine with an interactive interface. [Requires Flash] Aesop Search - The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site. Entireweb.com - The English-language version of a Swedish search engine. TrueSearch - A search engine with a simple interface. Northern Light - A search engine for professional web users. They have a general search engine, and a "Special Collection" of 4M journals/books/mags which are accessable on a pay-per-view basis. Yuntis - A next-generation search engine being developed as a research project at the Experimental Computer Systems Lab, Computer Science Department, SUNY at Stony Brook. Search Engines and Editorial Integrity - Article form the USC Online Jouralism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their users. 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. Openfind - Taiwan-developed engine with a huge database. Users can rank results by relevance score, date or size, or search only newly crawled pages. Choice of English and Chinese interface and 22 languages. Gigablast - A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search option including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature. Deltis - A search engine with a clean interface and large index. Provides extra results from six other sources and filters them to provide the most relevant sites. Estimating the Relative Size and Overlap of Public Web Search Engines - Research paper by Krishna Bharat and Andrei Broder of HP Systems Research Center. HotBot - Offers a search powered by a choice of Google, Fast, Inktomi or Teoma. There are options to block offensive language, customize search results, and skins. Inktomi - Offers searching technology for web content and portal services. Aaron's Photos: Trip to Google - Collection of thumbnailed photographs from an enthusiast's trip to the GooglePlex. About.com: Google - Includes tutorials, how-to articles, and links to related resources. Constructing and Refining Searches In Google - Tutorial covering advantages of the search engine, and a table of features with corresponding examples of their use. Free Search Engine Discussion Forums: Google Search Engine - Webmaster message board. Google Results - Bare-bones interface which returns only page titles. Google Review - Review and analysis of the search and display features. Includes information on un-indexed URLs and Boolean operators. Google Weblog - Amalgamation of current news and related links. Google's Image Search - Overview of the service, along with tips and tricks. Intel: Google Snapshot - Explains how thousands of Intel Architecture servers power the Google search engine. MasterMind: Secrets of Google Revealed - The author presents explanations of thirteen "unique features". Net Art: AdWords Happening - The author describes his attempt to use AdWords as a means to distribute poetry and how he was eventually thwarted. OddGoogle - Weblog featuring Google queries of interest to the author, many of which have been submitted by site visitors. 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. WebmasterWorld: Google - Threaded 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. Google's Pagerank and How to Get the Most From It - 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. 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. The Google Page Rank Algorithm and How It Works - Ian Rogers' paper attempts to explain how PR is calculated, and includes example source code to illustrate his arguments. 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 Worldwide - Index of countries and languages made available by Google. Survey on Google´s PageRank - Information on the algorithm, how to increase PageRank, what diminishes it and how to distribute PageRank within a website. How Google Toolbar Works - Technical explanation of how the software works and the privacy implications associated with its usage. 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. Splode.com: Old Browsers - Collection of screenshots of Google in browsers such as Mosaic and WorldWideWeb. Google Watch - Argues that Google's privacy policies are undermining the Web. Boycott Google - Calls for a boycott of Google over their policy which prohibits advertisements of "knives or weapons with an intended violent use." 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's Integrity - Covers Page Rank and how it's affected by page recency, the skewing of results by Web logs, and Google's marketing. Exploiting the Google Toolbar - Security advisory documenting multiple vulnerabilities in the software. The problems have been fixed in versions after 1.1.58. Something Awful: New Logos for Google - Collection of spoof / parody Google logos, produced by a variety of artists. 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. Froogle - Google's product search engine and shopping directory. Assists consumers with locating products for sale online by presenting photos of relevant products and links to the stores that sell them. LawMeme: Google Replies to SearchKing Lawsuit - Analysis of the case and copies of relevant legal documents. The gooGuide - Includes news, how-to articles, and a listing of tools and utilities. Elgoog.nl - Categorised collection of links. Panida: Google Groups Opens Up for Posting Usenet Messages - Finally, you can post Usenet messages at Google. NewsFactor: Google Puts Blast from Internet's Past Online - Jay Lyman's article: "The Google Groups Usenet archive takes surfers on a two-decades-long ride through the early history of the Internet - before there was a World Wide Web." Google Groups Simplifier - Simplifies Google Groups' URLs for easier inclusion in e-mails/posts/web pages. With bookmarklet. The Write News: Google Provides Access to Full Usenet Archives - Google, a provider of search technology, announced that it has integrated the full Usenet archive formerly maintained by Deja.com with recent posts to provide complete access to Usenet data since 1995. Internet Magazine: Google Archive Opens Up Internet History - "In what equates to a fascinating history of the Internet, Google has just finished integrating 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups. That's 700 million messages. And what an interesting collection of articles it is!" Gulp! Early Archive of Net Rants and Raves Restored - "A virtual treasure chest of over 700 million message postings, chronicling everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Pee Wee Herman jokes, has been restored on the Internet, much to the delight of Net fans." From CNet, via Reuters. CNet: Deja.com Struggles After Google Buyout - Stefanie Olsen's article: "Deja.com, a popular newsgroup search service, has been hit with glitches after its buyout this week by Web search provider Google, ruffling the feathers of some longtime customers." Silicon Alley News: Deja Usenet Archives Restored on Google - "To the delight (and possible consternation) of old-school Usenet fans, Web search site Google has restored more than 650 million individual messages dating back to 1995 that were acquired from New York-based Deja.com." New York Times: Privacy Concerns for Google Archive - Susan Stellin's article: "Being able to search archived postings online raises questions about the implications of increasingly sophisticated search technology." NewsBreaks: Google Seeks to Restore Deja Functionality - Richard W. Wiggins' article: "Since the February acquisition, Google has restored some of the lost searching functionality, and the company also says that by mid-May users of the Google Usenet index will have the ability to post new messages." Wired News: Google's Gaggle of Discussions - "Geek-beloved search site Google has fully recovered from last year's public relations gaffe by giving Internet historians exactly what they wanted and more: the most comprehensive collection of Usenet posts available on the Internet." Google Groups - Enables users to search and browse the Usenet archives which consist of over 700 million messages, and post new comments. BBC News: Digital History Saved - "Millions of messages posted on electronic bulletin boards over the past 20 years have been saved from digital oblivion." WebReference.com: Google Web APIs - Tutorial on using the APIs with XML. PHP Implementation of the Google Web API - Sample code for accessing the Google Web API via PHP. Sebastian Bergmann: SOAP_Google - Source code for a class-based PHP Google web API interface. How to Use the Google API in Movable Type - Features sample source code. SoapWare.Org: Google API - Links to implementations and applications. Google Web APIs - Official site. Includes developer's kit, terms and conditions, and FAQ. CapeScience: GoogleMail - Allows access to Google via e-mail. Built using the Web APIs. O'Reilly Network: Google Web API - Technical explanation and sample code in Java and Perl. CNet: Developers Dig in to Google's Toolbox - Stefanie Olsen's article: "Imagine retrieving up-to-the-second results for all of your Web searches, or personalizing a high-powered navigation system for your desktop." GoogleSearch.pl - Perl code demonstrating the use of the doGoogleSearch method on the Google API. Radio UserLand: Using the Google API with Radio and Frontier - Overview and sample code. DaveNet: What's Next After the Google API? - Opinion piece by Dave Winer. XML.com: Google's Gaffe - The author attempts to show that a Google API based on XML, HTTP and URIs can be simpler to use, more efficient, and more powerful. Ruby/Google - Library aiming to make the API more accessible to Ruby programmers. Includes source code, demonstrations, and a copy of the API Reference. GoogleAPI JS Class - Code for a JavaScript Class for Mozilla. Google Web API Example - Provides a platform independent and an easy-to-use C and C++ interface to the API. Includes sources and instructions for use. Patch For Google APIs to Handle Proxy Settings - Unofficial patch that allows the API to be used in conjunction with proxies. The Google API Is a Two-Way Street - John Udel's article about the API's uses, how it fits in to the 'bigger picture' of Web services, and the importance of metadata. Mozilla SOAP/Google API Demos - Demonstrations of Mozilla's built-in SOAP tools in conjunction with the API. Enterprise News: Google Continues Flirt with Web Developers - Ryan Naraine's article: "With eyes firmly fixed on winning the approval of the Web developer community, search technology favorite Google has launched a Web API service using the SOAP and WSDL standards." Googlebox js - Create a GoogleBox on your own site using javascript. Requires a developer license key. Flash MX API - Tutorial on accessing the Google API with Macromedia Flash MX. PyGoogle - Python wrapper for the Google Web API. Google2RSS - .NET framework based command-line tool that transforms a query using the Google Web API to RSS 0.91. Building a J2EE Web Services Client Using WebSphere - Part 1 of a series for J2EE developers using WebSphere Studio Application Developer to access the Google Web Api. Focus is on setting up and generating Java proxy and data classes. Quasimondo - Flash Based Google Widget - Sourcecode for a banner-sized flash file based on Flash and PHP that uses the Google API. Google API client for ColdFusion - A ColdFusion CFX tag to access the Google web API. The Register: Google Labs Passes Borges Test - Andrew Orlowski's article: "Google has opened its kimono on some new labs work, soliciting feedback for four experimental features." CNet: Google Ushers Web Surfers Into Its Labs - Paul Festa's article: "Popular search engine Google on Tuesday launched two sites for developing experimental search and browsing technologies." ResearchBuzz: Google Opens Up Google Labs... - The author provides opinions on four exhibits, and then concludes with "This is a lot of fun. Go play in the lab." eCommerceBase: Do You Need Google Answers? - Paul Bruemmer presents a detailed investigation into the "ask the expert" service. USA Today: Thrill of Hunt Lures Google Competitors - Jefferson Graham's article: "Even as Google keeps growing, competitors are taking aim at the Internet's top search service." USA Today: Google Hit With Patent Suit Over 'Paid Listings' - "Internet advertising company Overture Services said Friday it sued search-engine company Google, alleging that Google's system for featuring paid advertisements infringes an Overture patent". Google is Three Times Bigger Than the Experts Think - Article from Pressflex.com: "OK, guys, listen closely: Google processes at least three quarters of all Internet searches". ResearchBuzz: Another Undocumented Google Syntax -- Date-Based Searching - Explanation of how to use the 'daterange:' syntax, which allows searches to be restricted by Julian Dates. Ogling Google - "Jesus" is Bigger Than "The Beatles" - Explains how AdWords can be used to determine the popularity of given keywords From Pressflex.com. CNet: Google Protects Its Search Results - Gwendolyn Mariano's article: "Dimandja Emoungu got a surprise when he tried to search Google this month: Instead of a results list, he says, the company handed him a 'rude' note denying service." MediaGuardian.co.uk: How Google Got It So Right - David Teather's article: "The success of Google, the internet search engine, has come about through the old fashioned form of viral marketing: word of mouth." The Korea Herald: Computer Artist Doodles Oodles of 'Google's - Interview with Dennis Hwang, Google's logo designer. Web-heads Go Ga-ga for Google, With Good Reason - "You know the old saying: A picture is worth 1,000 blocks of text. That's why Google (www.google.com) - the geek di tutti geek search engine - recently launched a function to search for images." From the Boston Herald. BusinessWeek: Can Google's Prodigies Make a Search Tool Pay? - Neil Gross' article: "Sergey Brin and Larry Page insist that their math wizardry and magical search results can compete with the entertainment-heavy portals". CNN.com: Going Ga-ga for Google - Liane Gouthro's article: "Fickle Web surfers often switch from one search engine to another as if they were brands of soap. But one that has drawn a loyal following is Google, a search engine launched last fall with a different twist." DailyTish: Google's Serious Searching - "Three years ago the original competitive field of search engines staged a mass exodus, leaving behind the pursuit of better search results and entering a revenue desert in search of a promised land of sticky services. Now it's time for the experts". E-Commerce Times: UK Shopping Guide Turns to Google - Andy Wang's article: "UK-based entertainment and shopping guide Virgin Net announced today that it has selected upstart search engine Google to provide search services for its Web site." Forbes.com: How Google Is That? - Om Malik's article: "The reason why all these Valley hotshots are going gaga over Google is because the company has a search technology that is far better than anything else out there." How Weblogs Influence a Billion Google Searches a Week - John Hiler's article: "So even if you never visit a blog, you're being influenced by them. The collective votes of the weblog community are determining what sites you see on Google, the world's largest search engine." From Microcontent News. Internet Info for Real People: Google - Bob Brand's article: "From the hallowed sun drenched walls of Silicon Valley's Stanford University, two graduate students (Sergy Brin and Larry Page) have developed a new cyber-mousetrap." The Internet Newsroom: Getting BeGoogled - "Another new search engine has come out of the computer labs at Stanford University, underscoring the enormous influence the school has exerted on the evolution of the Internet search industry." The IPO Report: Google - Tom Taulli's article: "Who knows -- perhaps Google.com will be the next Stanford start-up to get its Nasdaq ticker symbol and multibillion-dollar market cap." Let's Get This Straight - Yes, There Is a Better Search Engine - Scott Rosenberg's article: "While the portal sites fiddle, Google catches fire." From Salon Magazine. Linux Gazette: Sergey Brin - Transcript of an interview with Google's co-founder. MSNBC: Can Google's Search Engine Find Profits? - "Google.com seems to have it all...But one thing Google doesn't seem to have -- or at least isn't answering questions about -- is a business plan." PCWorld.com: A Search Engine Worth Gambling On - "Developed by two Stanford Ph.D. candidates, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google is lightning-quick. And, while it's not completely on target, it's close." PCWorld.com: War, Music, Magic Sought in 2001 - "Inquiring minds searched the Internet on a virtual cornucopia of topics during 2001, stretching from war and terrorism to music, magic, and prophecy, according to a listing of top queries released by Google." Salon: From Beta to Bona Fide - Janelle Brown's article: "Google, a favorite search engine of the plugged-in crowd, uses its $25 million in venture funding to launch a site almost unchanged from the from the "test" version." The Search Engine Report: Google Goes Forward - "While I've considered Google a "major player" in the search space for some time, the deal with Netscape gives it a mass audience for the first time, along with its first business deal." Search Engine Reveals 2001 Fears, Foibles, Misspellings - Rachel Ross' article: "What were you searching for this year: inner peace, a life partner, or pictures of JLo? Google knows the truth." From Thestar.com. Sunday Herald: Billions Vote In World's Biggest Ever Poll - Stephen Naysmith's article: "As magazines and newspapers prepare annual end-of-year lists of the events and people who captured the public imagination in 2001, the internet has already provided definitive answers." TechTV: Google Image Search - Mick Lockey compares Google's offering with Altavista's competing service. Will Weblogs Blow Up the World's Favorite Search Engine? - John Hiler's article explores the concept, ethics, and possible effects of "Google bombing" -- a technique used to improve a site's ranking for a given search term. From Microcontent News. Wired 9.10: I'm Feeling Lucky - Chip Bayers' article: "Google's built a no-nonsense path to profitability by treating advertising just like search. The secret? Three words, ranked by relevance: Results. Results. Results." Wired News: A Catalog to Catalog All Catalogs - "Google's catalog search combs the pages of more than 600 current catalogs -- 1,500 including back issues - to help both consumers and corporations find everything from apple butter to zipper doodles." FastCompany.com: How Google Searches Itself - Fara Warner's article explains how Google's R&D process works. Slashdot: Craig Silverstein Answers Your Google Questions - Google's Director of Technology answers questions set by Slashdot readers. Google Likes Directory Sites - Describes how Google can be used as a gateway to high-quality, subject-specific search directory sites. Pandia: PageRank For Sale - SearchKing has started selling text ads on its network of independent portals, with prices based on Google PageRank. Jono Craig asks Robert Massa of SearchKing if he really believes he can get away with it. Salon.com: Meet Mr. Anti-Google - "A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is 'undemocratic.'" Searching leads back to Google - A Henry Norr article on current issues facing Google. Google Tales - Peer-review popularity vs. dotcom popularity - A short explanation of Google's popularity. BBC News: China Blocking Google - Beijing bears down on Google, blocking access to the search engine. The Marcia Brady Of Search - Article by Danny Sullivan on the growing dominance of Google and their ability to draw attention to themselves. China Blocks Altavista - Following the decision by the Chinese authorities to block access to Google, AltaVista has now been given the same treatment. Google's loss spells gain for Web firms in China - The blocking of Google means increased traffic for Chinese based sites. Sites Blocked by China - Research article documenting specific web pages blocked in China. CNN.com: 'Google Blips' - Search Not Always Right - "It has been said that hell has many levels, and apparently some people see software giant Microsoft Corp. at its core." Google News Site - Googles new programmed news site shows editorial judgment. Google launches news search - Article on the launch of Googles news aggregator. Localized Google Search Result Exclusions - Harvard Law School researchers document sites filtered by international versions of Google. Google Innovations Withstand Downturn - Article and interview with Googles Eric Schmidt on Googles ability to shine while others are faultering. BBC News: Google Is 'Feeling Lucky' - "Seek and ye will find ... two entrepreneurial students with a $100k cheque in their pockets did just that, and founded the internet search engine Google. Peter Day, of BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, checks out a dot.com business that's far from failing". BBC News: Google Hit By Link Bombers - "Popular search site Google is being exploited by some net users to mount protests and play jokes on their friends." Fortune.com: All the Right Moves - Ed Welles' appraisal of the company and its future. NYTimes.com: Postcards From Planet Google - Discusses how Google organizes and analyses the collective searches of people worldwide. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.] NYTimes.com - Sites Become Dependent on Google - Many smaller merchants in specialized niches rely on their sites turning up in Google's free search results. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.] Computing Iceberg Queries Efficiently - By Fang, Min; Shivakumar, Narayanan; Garcia-Molina, Hector; Motwani, Rajeev; Ullman, Jeffrey D. Available in Postscript, PDF, and plain text formats. The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web - By Page, Lawrence; Brin, Sergey; Motwani, Rajeev; Winograd, Terry. Available in Postscript, PDF, and plain text formats. Dynamic Data Mining: Exploring Large Rule Spaces by Sampling - By Brin, Sergey; Page, Lawrence. Available in Postscript, PDF, and plain text formats. Efficient Crawling Through URL Ordering - By Cho, Junghoo; Garcia-Molina, Hector; Page, Lawrence. Available in Postscript, PDF, and plain text formats. Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web - By Brin, Sergey. Available in Postscript, PDF, and plain text formats. Finding Near-replicas of Documents on the Web - By Shivakumar, N.; Garcia-Molina, H. Available in Postscript, PDF, and plain text formats. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine - By Brin, Sergey; Page, Lawrence. Available in Postscript, PDF, and plain text formats. Efficient Computation of PageRank - By Haveliwala, T. Available in Postscript, PDF, and plain text formats. Topic-Sensitive PageRank - By Haveliwala, Taher H. elgooG - Provides a 'mirror' version of Google. Fagan Finder: Google Ultimate Interface - An all-in-one interface combining all of the Google tools with all of their options on one page. Geographic Search - This software, that won the 2002 Google Programming Contest, allows Google users to find web pages that are located within a specific geographic locale. Source code is distributed under the GNU GPL. Google Dance Machine - Facilitates searching of all Google servers simultaneously. Includes additional options for German speakers. Requires frames. Google SearchTool - Floating toolbar for Windows allowing you to conduct searches with Google. Includes an FAQ, screenshots and system requirements. Google Tool - Facilitates searching of all four Google servers (www www1 www2 and www3) simultaneously. Requires frames. Googlism - Finds Google's 'opinion' of a given topic. GooRoo Search - Accepts search queries in English, provides Russian translations, and allows users to search for the term at Google. Joogle - Interface which translates users' search queries into Japanese and then enables searching for these terms with Google. Random Google Bounce - Selects a random page from the Google database and displays it in a frame. Random Google Image Finder - Generates random search queries for Google's Image Search. Users can specify the type of filtering they want. Random Google Page - Uses a given amount of terms to select a 'random' page from the index. Random Google Search Thing - Generates random search queries for a user-defined number of search terms. The PHP source code is available. Googlebar - Created to be used with Netscape 6/Mozilla, this unofficial software emulates many features of the Google Toolbar. Screenshots, downloads, and wishlist. DentedReality: XooMLe - Allows access to the API via a REST-like interface, with results returned in XML. Floogle - Uses the Web API to allow users to search through Google's entire database with results displayed in a Flash interface. Geoff's GoogleDuel - Takes two search terms and shows which one is the most popular according to Google. Implementation using PHP with source code available. Google API Proximity Search - Perl script uses the Google API to search Google for two search terms that appear within a certain distance from each other on a page. Includes source code. Google API Relation Browsing Outliner - Perl script that searches Google for pages that are either related to or linked to a given URL. Then, the same operations can be performed on the results. With source code. Google API Search Tool - Free standalone tool to search Google. Requires a license key. Google API Web Search by Host - Perl script that uses the API to search Google for a query string, and returns a list of the web hosts found in the set of results. Users can then expand any of these hosts and display only the results from that host. With source. Google Fight - Compare the number of results for two competing keywords. Google Index - Java program which uses the API to produce dynamic indices of two example sites. Includes documentation, downloadable source and binary. Google Relatedness - Calculates how related two given words are by using the API. Requires the Mozilla browser. Googolator - Displays 5 search results from Google via AOL Instant Messenger. Interconnected: Googlematic - Enables searching of Google via AIM or MSN Messenger. Displays the top five results for a given query. OnFocus.com: Google Smackdown - Takes two words or phrases as input, queries Google via its API, and receives the estimated total results for each word or phrase to show which one is most popular. RooDolF - Uses the API to return Google results in RDF format. The schema is available. TouchGraph GoogleBrowser - Java application that uses the Web API to produce graphs of related pages by running "similar-to" queries on Google. YIMGoogle - Java-based bot on Yahoo IM that searches Google for a given search term and returns the first five results. Google Poetry - Enter a query and it returns the titles of results into poetry. Boogle - Google with quotes. - Interface with the added benefit of daily quotes and scenic images. Page Rank Calculator - Webmaster tool for calculating the PR of a web site. Includes description of how PageRank works and related links. Googleware - Web application that enables users to specify multiple queries, and be notified by e-mail when new results are found. GooFresh - Interface for restricting searches to sites added recently to the Google index. Mangle Random Link Generator - Displays a random web site from Google's archive. Powered by the Web API. Google Dance Tool - Updates backlinks of Yahoo, CNN and BBC ever 60 minutes to check for the start of the dance, plus enables simultaneous searching on www, www2 and www3. An alert mailing list is also available. Google Dance Tool - Checks Google servers to determine if there is an update in progress. Google ranking report - Discover your domain's page ranking in the results of a particular keyword search. Random Web Search - Generates random words, then allows searching for them on Google. Googlert - An experimental service which performs regular Google searches and sends an email alert whenever new results appear. FroogleFeeder - Froogle data feed generator tool. Includes articles, news & free custom advice to merchants. BoardReader - Searches a variety of message boards and forums in 14 different categories. Go2.com - Localized directory allows you to search for nearby businesses from your PC or from a PDA. Requires free registration. Message King - Search for specific discussion topics on message boards and forums from hundreds of web sites on the internet. IS - A search engine that indexes UK web sites allied to the building and construction industry. FindArticles.com - A searchable online archive of magazine and journal content. Aardvarktravel.net - A search engine listing thousands of travel Web sites from around the world. Argos - Limited area search provided by the University of Evansville of ancient and medieval Internet resources. Who Built It - Reverse search - enter a URL to find out what designer, developer or interactive agency created a website. FindSounds - Search for sample sounds and sound effects at this file search engine. Offers directory, keyword and sonic similarity search functions. Rolist - Rolist rotates through result sets giving each relevant site different placement within the results for each query Worldhealthcare.net - A UK based medical search engine providing informative resources from around the globe. Mirago Health - Offers a comprehensive medical search engine for the UK and Ireland. Med411 - A medical search engine and portal. Med Help International Search - Consumer medical search engine comprising articles, patient support groups, glossary, and Q&A. Medic8.com - Directory and medical search engine for healthcare professionals. U.S. Medical Search Engines on the Web - US government medical search engines. Jabuti - Provides directory search for children. Parents can rate and add links to the directory. AO-Soft - Offers a Christian-friendly, family-friendly, and kid-safe way to search the Internet. AnimalSearch - Search for family safe, animal related web sites. Family Friendly Search - Family Friendly Search allows you to search all the best family friendly search engines with just one click. FamilySeek - Directory and search engine for family-friendly sites, focusing on parenting, pregnancy and education. Land of Links - A family-friendly search engine with no adult content. Surfsafely.com - Family friendly web directory open to all PICS rated sites enabling content selection without censorship. PeaKaBoo.Net - Family friendly and ethics conscious safe shopping search engine. Kids welcome. Net About Town - G-rated search engine based in Newcastle, NSW, Australia ForParentsOnly.com - Search engine dedicated to parents and parenting information on topics like adoption, family, pregnancy, baby names and home schooling. 7 Steps - A resource both for parents and children. Include topics such as adoption, child support, kids activity and games. Concert Finders - Concert Finders is a search engine for concerts, music festivals and live performances. Ditto - The visual search engine that provides a unique way to visually search the web for pictures, images and photos. Picsearch - Image search engine that is family friendly, simple to use and informative, for finding images, pictures, photographs or animations on the web. The search interface is available in English, German and Swedish. Lockheed Martin Digital Photo Collection - Image base of aviation images. Approximately 1000 images in this collection, images are free for educational or editorial use. PicturesNOW! - A powerful visual search engine and content solution for browsing and searching the webs largest free picture network. Still and streaming media includes sports, entertainment, autos, fine art, animals. Lair - A searchable database of various catalogued landscape images, that are available for educational purposes. Fagan Finder - Search for graphics, photos, and clip-art, with the Internet's largest picture search tools, all on one page. Animation Library - A large directory of free animations containing around 14000 animated graphics. MediaCrawler - Allows for wide variety of searchable file types. Hall MP3 - Searches Multiple Engines for Multimedia. Find MP3, MPEG, Images, Midi Files, Webcams. Singingfish - Comprehensive search engine for audio, video, and MP3. Scirus - Scientific search engine, covering only scientific websites. Netword - Search with keywords and netword will help you find the site you are looking for. Keyword.com - A free internet keyword service and multi-search engine that sends users directly to websites. Official Search - Searchable directory of the authorized web sites of companies, organizations, celebrities, government and sports. Internet Keyword Finder - Search combined data from four search engine spies and compiled keyword lists. Keyword Category Finder - Software for Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP to find the most suitable categories at search engine directories like Yahoo and Open Directory. CleverSearch - Searches the major meta search engines in parallel, throws out duplicates and summarizes the results. You can ask CleverSearch a question. InfoZoid - Web search (major engines and Thunderstone), Usenet and FTP search. Ixquick - Searches the web, MP3s and news archives. Finds sites rated best by multiple engines for your search. Regular, boolean and natural language searching. MetaGopher - Searches Yahoo!, AltaVista, Go Network, Hotbot, LookSmart, GoTo and WebCrawler. Monster Crawler - Searches Yahoo, Excite, AltaVista, Infoseek, FastSearch and OpenDirectory in one click. Search n Seek - Metasearch tool for finding webpages, books, music, MP3s, videos, toys, jobs, auctions and posts within forums. Also links to local yellow pages. ProFusion - Highly customizable metasearch tool. Select any of 9 major search engines or let ProFusion choose the best or fastest three for you. Optional link validation. There are specialized metasearch pages for entertainment, health, kids, MP3 and Usenet. Debriefing - Queries the major search engines, collates results and gives a list of relevant results, without page descriptions though. Debriefing is very fast, and displays the relevancy score alongside the page. Savvy.com - Very simple but fast meta search engine utilizing Yahoo, Excite, Altavista, & Hotbot. dataMonster - Queries up to 13 search engines. Has a thirty second time-out. Search37.com - A meta-search engine that obtains its search results from 37 other search engines. (use megaspider.com) Family Friendly - Searches family friendly search engines: Yahooligans, AOL Kids, Kids Click and Saluki Search. HeyPete.com Metasearch - Web and usenet metasearch C4 TotalSearch - A parallel search engine which queries 12 search engines, just one query. Also health, family, (financial) news, career, MP3 and sports search. Vivísimo - Document clustering technology provides ordered grouping of search results. McFind - Searches multiple sites and performs 12 other multiple site searches. OmniCrawler - Searches many of the web's top search engines all at once. Fuzzy Crawler - Advanced metasearch engine using fuzzy logic, natural language processing, and link verification. Starting Page - Uses 10 search engines, including Fast Search, AOL, and MSN. Ithaki Metasearch - Accesses more than 500 search engines grouped in search channels. Zworks - Search seven popular search engines simultaneously or individually with clean, filtered results. Metasearch results are collated and ranked for relevancy with redundancies removed. Seek123.com - A highly customizable multi-search tool. You can choose engines within search engines in various categories. You can choose your favorite search engines in those categories to create a custom metasearch. Ipile - Search over a dozen search engines, auctions, jobs, mp3, the bible, and various other sites. Zygit - Search everything from directories, to MP3s, to Usenet. OneCenter - Offers free discussing forums and homepages. WebInfoSearch - A meta-search engine with over 50 search engines, and a large peoplefinder. Find people by name, business name, reverse telephone or reverse address. metaEUREKA - Search at once more than 40 search engines, and get a freeware toolbar with 20 useful tools. WorldLight - Searches AltaVista, Excite, Fast and Webcrawler. Also image search, news, and special online videos and finance sections. NetDepot - Lets you select which search engines to use, and then displays results in individual windows for each search engine. DugDugi - Searches the databases of other search engines and combines/ranks the information to provide the most accurate results. Bytedog - Quick, powerful metasearch engine with a great user interface. MainSeek - Parallel multi meta search engine for finding web pages, news, pictures or MP3s. Search66 - Australia's first meta searcher. Search Australia (or the world) comprehensively in one pass using the most powerful engines. searchspell - Spell checks your query before sending it to a variety of search engines. OneSearch - A great way to search the internet and promote your site. xrefer - Reference engine. Search for free across a wide range of encyclopedia, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations and biographies. MetaIQ - All in one meta search engine and search engines directory, search hundreds of search engines all from one website. ArborSearch! - Search over 20 popular search engines, check your POP email, and access an index of over 500 Ann Arbor, MI web sites. Metapro - Meta searches the top search engines, including FTPSearch, Yahoo!, Excite, AltaVista, Lycos, Infoseek, Hot Bot, Webcrawler, About.com, Looksmart, Newsgroups plus ODP. Ariane - Searches 15 French and English engines. Search interface in French, English, Italian, and Swedish. Kaboo.com - This powerful meta engine. Searches over 1 billion web pages and gets you only the most relevant results in seconds. SparkSearch - High quality UK meta search engine. Beaucoup - More than 350 search engines in categorized tables. Also in 6 languages, all-in-one searches, and forms. 1Blink - Meta search Engine for infoseek, AltaVista, HotBot, Alcanseek Yahoo, Northern Light, Excite, Lycos, Thunderstone, Euroseek, Planet Search. SurfWax - Meta-search engine that provides real-time page summaries. WebTaxi - A single interface for searching multiple sites. MyProwler - Meta-search the web, plus specialized categories for news, auctions, MP3s, downloads, kids sites, genealogy, images, home and garden. SearchAddict - Metasearch the top search engines. Citibay - Metasearch and popular city destinations. Metengine Multisearch Service - Meta search which queries 12 search engines, free home page, news, web portal, and submit service. SiFMuG - Unified of more than 234 universal search engines and tools, all in one customizeable Form interface. Interesting design. ImproveMySearch.com - A meta-search engine that doesn't use distracting banners. IcySpicy - Finds relevant results from various search engines. Metasearch Tools - Organized by topic. 4000 searching index so that you can look for or to add your it to web pages. Easy handling. Really interesting. ExpressFind - Search the best search engines or use the web directory for quick access. Infonetware Web Researcher - Advanced search engine constructs a "back-of-book" index of up to 1000 search results and presents them to users so they can "drill-down" to find the right documents. MP3 index - MP3 meta-search engine. Shopping Ln - The largest Meta Shopping Search of Comparison Shopping Guides, Shopping Bots, Online Shopping Malls, B2B Business to Business Vertical Marketplace Portals and E-Commerce Services on the internet. Better Brain - Search 10 major search engines, MP3s or the Open Directory. PlanetSearch - Searches multiple sites simultaneously. MetaMule - The site to resource all the major search engines. BlueBall - Utilizes all major search engines. Searchworld.com - Providing a variety of major search engines to choose from to find the results you are looking for. Lets Find It Now - Provides a fast and accurate search facility. Add a URL to the database. Researchville - With a minimalist design, it provides self-directed access to dozens of categorized search sites from one central location, and allows the user to organize Favorite Searches to be used again as needed. ADutopia Classified Ad Search Engine - Adutopia is a metasearch engine and classified ad search engine. You can search numerous classified ad sites or your can search the web with a metasearchengine that uses the major web search engines. BOTBOT - Metasearch the web, news, video, pictures, stock quotes, city guide and weather. Multimeta.com - Simultaneous metasearch in the major international search engines. Free URL submission, Meta Tag Creation. Oloplan.com - Smart meta search from Slovenia. Search Fido.com - An advanced metasearch search engine with links to other search engines, also classified and discussion bulletin boards and links to DMOZ categories. 3MN Meta Search - Meta Search Engine with intelligence. Search for Web, MP3, FTP, Auctions, Headlines, News, Weather. Library Reference Search - Retrieves results from dozens of sources including Yahoo and Goto. Also offer e-mail at yourname@libraryreference.org. Hunt24 - A new meta search engine. Solay - Something OnLine And You. MyNetCrawler - Find results from the leading search engines and auctions in one place. Karnak - Compiles information from multiple sources, weeds out obviously bad information, stores findings in a personal library, and provides a summarized, condensed, and highlighted report. Offers both free and for-fee services. Query Server - A meta search tool that broadcasts a single query across a set of Web-enabled search engines. One query returns a single merged, ranked and conceptually clustered list. DipBox.com - Searches Altavista, Fast and Yahoo. No banners. Advanced search options available. Search.com - Customizable metasearch. Provides directory channels and news. Chubba - A meta search engine. Search the web, Usenet, dictionary or encyclopedia. Search Online - Multifeatured metasearcher. Free registration gives access to additional functions. Works best with the newest browsers. WebCrawler - Metasearch engine using Dogpile and web directory from ODP. Displays matching categories first. Dogpile - A multi engine semi-parallel search interface automatically searching 20+ search engines. Allows for continued searching options and Boolean/proximity operators. SgtSearch - Returns only UK-based results. Metabear - Searches the Web and FTP, the entire World and Russia. iBoogie - Clustering metasearch engine, which supports multiple languages and deep web (invisible web) search, plus directory using ODP. Sherlockhound - Links to several major search engines. Entirewww.com - Meta search. Advanced search options available. SoftCrawler - Categorized metasearch for software, freeware and shareware. Additional options include advanced search, personalization, filters for collated results and a multilingual interface. Moonmist - Metasearcher that also supports math, boolean and field searching. Husain Web - Has preset listings for many popular searches, as well as the ability to do new searches. Ceeby.com - Indian site. Some popular searches can be done in one click. Registered users also have access to job listings, classifieds, and matchmaking. GooseMoose.com - Free email, message boards and chat. Seems to be targeted at teenagers. Everyone.net - Helps web sites succeed with plug-in-portal services like e-mail, search, discussion forums, and ad sales that are free, customizable, and fast to set up. One Stop Portal - Free Cards, Chat, EMail, Search, News, Personals, and more . . . Ashoppe.net - Metasearches engines that have been grouped into specific categories. BullsEye - A comprehensive Internet search utility for finding, managing, and tracking search engine results. Copernic - Customizable free metasearch tool which queries many engines, removes duplicates, and validates the results. All Bots on the Net - Comprehensive information on intelligent software agents and many links to sites on specific agents. Tennyson Maxwell Information Systems, Inc. - From the most widely-distributed offline browser, to large-scale data retrieval services, we offer a broad range of webspider applications. Turbo Start - A free Internet search utility that gives you access to 150 of the web's most popular search engines from your browser. aTerra - aTerra builds category specific search engines for web sites who don't want to build it themselves. Also develops autonomous intelligent search agents. SearchCube SearchRocket - SearchCube SearchRocket software, a free fast Internet search utility that simultaneously retrieves search results from multiple search engines. Supports filtering, saving results to XML and HTML file formats, e-mail, user notes, and bookmarks. miner3D for web - Next generation tool for visual web searching and information-immersioning. Makes internet searching faster, more efficient and easier. ActivatorDesk - Searches news and information from news sources, search engines and directories, usenet news forums, and big internet auctions and vendors. Results displayed in a multiwindow browser interface. NetCaptor - Internet Browser with integrated search tool. User's may select and search multiple search engines simultaneously. Each selected engine is searched on a new browser tab. Subject Search Suite - From Kryloff Technologies. A software developing company which specializes in full-text search and retrieval technologies. Products incorporate leading-edge search solutions which perform reliable and flying searches in more than 36 languages. Strategic Finder - Strategic Finder queries simultaneously 1000+ search engines and databases on the internet. LexiBot - Lexibot searches hundreds of databases and engines at once, then provides powerful tools to refine and manage results - all from your desktop. Advanced MP3 Search - Helps you find and retrieve MP3 and WAV files on the World Wide Web. Infonoia Web Monitoring - Fully browser-based, intelligent agents e-mail search results at your schedule. Subscription-based, but free trial available. Atomic File Finder - A meta http file-oriented search engine. Scans web pages in order to find files links: They are tested, and relative information presented. The search is categorized. WolfBot - [Win] Shareware. 21-day free trial. Perform searches on over 100 pages at the same time. SeekItFast Personal Edition - [Win] Application. Just type in a query, select a search engine and press the Search button. Geowhere - [Win] Multifeatured freeware that queries multiple search engines at once. FirstStop WebSearch - [Windows 95/98, NT, ME, 2000] Customizable desktop software that searches multiple search engines and websites simultaneously. Freeware and trialware versions available. Agentland - Discover metasearch agents and learn how they can improve a search. Describes characteristics of these different tools. eXtended Search Java Meta-Search Engine - An experimental Java Meta-Search Engine. It is built in Java, has a web (servlet + JSP + HTML) based interface and it can search in real time any information source, anywhere. WideSource - [Windows 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP] A "peer to peer" program with a search engine to find web pages. Includes multiple criteria such as page size, opinion, date, language, keywords, connection speed, and other specifications. Runs as an icon in the System Tray area of the Windows taskbar. TracerLock - Monitors significant news sites and e-mails an alert within as little as 15 minutes of the publication of new articles that match preselected search terms. Free and paid versions of services available. Digitalwindmill Instant Metasearch - Add a metasearch directly to your site. Lexibot - Software tool geared towards finding material on the deep web. Personal Web Digest - Meta search tool with offline reports. Generates reports with short digests of pages found. Shareware [Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000] WebHunt - Search and browse multiple sites at the same time. Demonstration version available. [Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP or later.] WebFerret from Ferretsoft - [Win 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP] Queries popular search engines and will return an unlimited number of hits. Validate selected results, save a search history, and filter out pornography and foul language. Shareware version has some additional features compared to the free version. Urbanstar - Links on various subjects. Mamma.com - Metasearch tool for finding web pages, news, pictures or MP3s. RoutineSearch.com - Page with categorized links to popular sites. Surf2it - UK and international news and links to online stores. Surf Fast.com - Search forms for the major search engines, links to free email providers, search engines and web portals. All SearchEngines - Listing of UK search engines and directories. Search.onestop.net - Links to free CDs, e-books, Java applets and catalogs. Exact Response - Shows the site of one of their partners first, if they match your search criteria. Aribo - Metasearch engine. Beaucoup - More than 2,000 listings of engines, directories and indices. Also has a metasearch tool. Densitron Site Search - Some searches can be made from this site, but mostly you get links to search sites. Kresch.com - Comprehensive list of the best search engines on the web. Most of these search engines may be queried directly from this page. You may search for web pages, persons, mailing lists, FAQs, newsgroup articles, software, FTP sites, gopher sites. Frequently updated. 80 Plus Search Engines and Directories - Links to more than 80 search engines and directories and their URL submission pages, all on one page. Text only page, so quick to load. Www.Mainpage.net - Search over 80 search engines from this site. Over 500 total links. ComputerEase Search Tools List - A well organized list of internet search tools, which includes the following categories: directories, search engines, meta-sites, sites to help you find people and businesses, sites to help you find files, and reference tools. The Engine Rooms - Alphabetical listing of search engines, with links to UK ISPs, MP3 and game sites. Searcher's Road Less Travelled - A continually-evolving collection of new and obscure search engines. 100 Top Search Engines - A compilation of the top 100 search engines. Internet Search Resources - Links to over 250 Search Engines, "Quick Search" the most important engines, and additional resources. JournalismNet - Access to about 6 popular search engines, but the best features of this site are the extensive news- and journalism-related links and the ability to search through them. WWW Search Engines and Pages - Over 120 links for search engines, directories, and finding people or businesses. W3 Search Engines - Over 100 search engines and directories, with many falling outside the 'traditional' search engine which searches only the web. Internet Search Engines - Over 360 Sites. A comprehensive reference guide to Internet search engines, evaluation sources, URL submissions, dictionaries, etc. A StartBot - Large collection of search engines, meta search engines, worldwide search engines, and yellowpages. Search Engines Worldwide - Search engines sorted by geographical location. Fossick - Links to search engines on many topics. All search engines in this directory are represented by their logo. Also has a metasearch tool. A Collection of Special Search Engines - Provides links to special search engines (and some databases), especially discipline-specific, subject-specific and topic-specific search engines and collection of national, regional and local search engines. JT's Search Tools - About 100 links to search engines of ALL types. WorldJump - Provides links to search resources based on geography. The Front Page Collection of Search Engines and Sites - Search the web, people and business directories, newsgroups, reference desks (libraries, in a way), and various topical directories. Microwho.com - Over 1,400 links search engines and portals in all kinds of subject areas. Search Resources - A comprehensive list of search engine links sorted by alphabet. Search Engine Guide - Guide to search engines, portals, and directories. Search engines, search software for your site, news and information. Definitive Search Engine Finder - Laisha provides links to search engines: general, regional and specialized. Also links to some articles about how search engines work and how to get the most out of your submissions. Aurora Search Engine Directory - 200+ meta, general, and international search engine links. Searchfinder.com - Gateway to searching on multiple search engines. Searchlinks - Lists search engines and directories, both alphabetically sorted and by world region. 7in1 Search - Pick 7 search engines for best results in 1 fast multi-search Clay's Search Tool Bookmarks - List of search tools are neatly presented in drop-down lists. Internet Research Tools - Links in several categories; search engines, usenet searches, mailing lists, phone books, and email addresses. Multiple Search - search boxes from all the popular search engines (meta, directories, and more) on one page. Globaldirekt - International directory of search engines and directories. FTP Search Engines - Rated links to ftp and mp3 search sites. Skworm - Brings you hundreds of search engines in topics that include: MP3, phone numbers, pets, stocks, music and books. Search Engines Guide - A guide to worldwide search engines, by region or by topic. Big Search Engine Index - Big index of categorized search engines, to make it easy to find the search engine you need. PC Workshop's page - Includes links to invisible web- and WAP-search engines. FinderSeeker - Find the search engine you want by selecting a thematical category and/or country, or search by keyword. Kids Search Engines - A list of search engines designed for kids or families, either in focus or by filtering out possibly inappropriate sites. From Search Engine Watch. SearchEngines.com - A comprehensive resource center for both web searchers and webmasters. Guides to Specialized Search Engines - A collection of guides (with descriptions) to specialized search engines. The guides are arranged by size and specificity of subject categories, and are also classified according to the strength of their search engine collections in several broad subject categories. Search Engine Colossus - Directory of search engines. Gain access to hundreds of search engines and searchable directories from around the world. The InvisibleWeb - InvisibleWeb com is a directory with over 10,000 search engines organized into categories. This is a search engine of search engines. Search Engine Alliance - Trade association of specialized search engines and directories. Site includes a useful listing of member search engines, an application form, and the federation's membership criteria. Virtual Search Engines - Over 1,000 of the most popular engines within 50 categories including sports, shopping, reference, directories, e-mail, people, addresses, and software. Specialized Directories and Search Engines - Features specialized directories, major and minor search engines, metasearch engines, search engines for children, and engines for business, medical, international, and news. Fagan Finder - The best internet tools gathered on one page. Search engines, reference, news, multimedia, discussion, dictionaries, calculator. Also search help and search news. 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 - This is a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Hotbot, and Infoseek. The Ultimate Search Engine Links Page - A collection of search engines and resource pages. Access Place Web Resources - Approximately 200 links related to search engines, portals, guides, site reviews, Internet news, ISPs, services, modems, publishing, newsgroups, privacy, and spam. Pandia Powersearch - All in one list of search engines and directories for finding sites, files, people, shops, news, music, reference and more, with metasearch engine and directory. All Search Engines.Com - Lists all major search engines and a huge list of other search engines by category. ISEDB.com - A directory of search engines and directories: major, local and regional, specialty and pay-per-click. WhatsNu - The newest sites on the Internet in 29 categories, the sites are sorted by the date they were added. You can choose to receive a weekly bulletin of new sites in the categories of your choice. Web Search - Meta search engine which combines the results of several popular search engines with WebSearch's own directory. MaxBan - MaxBan advertising services includes a search engine directory, free for all links page, submissions services, ezine advertising and games. Smart Internet Guide - Listings in a variety of categories. La Toile des Toiles - An international directory of banks, chambers of commerce, directories & search engines, internet access providers, stock exchanges, and universities. Interface in English, French and Spanish. Elegant-Lifestyle.com - Upmarket portal/directory for established quality brands. !tzalist Web Directory - Directory of websites and searches, organized by topic. Invites users to submit their sites for listing. Complete Planet - Directory of databases and specialty search engines. The Invisible Web Directory - Chris Sherman's writings on the invisible web and a directory of resources available on the hidden internet. Josh's Sanctum - A hierarchical directory of links from all over the globe. Beebuzz - A site gets a higher ranking in the Beebuzz search results if users perform Beebuzz searches from that site. The Cannylink Internet Guide - Web directory with shopping facility and free email. Leon's Web Brain - Database-driven Web directory that tracks popularity of links. SurfPoint - Directory of sites which are member of the LinkExchange banner exchange network. 1st Spot - A personally reviewed directory of web sites in over 160 categories selected on the basis of their informative value. Fetch Dog - Just sniffin' the web, go get it boy. Starting Page - A reference guide to websites by subject, with emphasis on entertainment sites. 123World - Directory of official sites of the world. E-lynks.com - Links on various subjects sorted alphabetically. Fly2Net.com - Directory to the most popular and useful links on web. Free email, news and shopping. Funsites.com - A directory of entertaining and informative websites. TurboLinks.net - Bare bones navigation aid features 3,600 select sites. Linkopedia - Over 300 categories including news, weather and financial information, online games, travel deals. Re: Quest dot Net - Online library of internet and reference resources. SunSteam Search - Web directory with special gaming section. Commercial sites pay for inclusion. Websearch that queries Sprinks, Findwhat and 7Search. LiquidEffect.com - Web directory with links to news items and free email. Connect Online - A directory with the contents of the chosen category displayed on one page. iMarvel.com - A guide to popular sites. Daily tips cover personal finance, consumer news and web freebies. LinkStarter.com - Delivers verified links on different topics. Cyberfetch Directory - Small commercial directory. Use the free classifieds, play java games or send a postcard. Searchbots - Combines web search with creativity, storytelling, animation and sound. Search per subject, or let the searchbots select sites for you based on your favorite color or your current mood. Site requires the Flash plugin. Somuch.com - Links on various topics, mostly focussed on computers and Internet. Rex - The Internet Resource Exchange is a Web directory from Skyline Network Technologies. SmartLinks.org - Easy access to categorized search engines, directories, and a select collection of web sites. 7in1 Web Directory - 700 hand-picked sites in 26 categories. Yep.com - A casino portal and directory restricted to sites that use HitBox. Blakkat Station - Directory organised into topics. Within each topic links are arranged into sub-categories all on the same page. Web Manor - Handpicked links site divided into "rooms" named after the topics within. PointClickSurf - Directory of directories and other reference sites, organized by information category. Phatoz - Categorized in an A-to-Z only categorizing system. Gimpsy - Only holds reviewed, interactive sites. Classifies by the activity the user is aiming at, and provides a Natural Language search interface. Free site submission. BobMarks - Offers downloadable list of bookmarks in the form of a directory. BBC WebGuide - Aims to list the best websites. Impartial, informative and easy to use, the BBC recommendations are handpicked for quality. BUBL Link - Catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described by experts. Dutchess - The English version of the Dutch Electronic Subject Service, maintained by the national library of the Netherlands. Browse or search arts and humanities, sciences and engineering, and social sciences. Librarians' Index to the Internet - Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Mina Rees Library: Selected Web Sites - Subject index to 15,000 informative sites, maintained by the library of the City University of New York. WWW Virtual Library - An expert-run catalog of sections of the web. News Researcher Page - Categorized Internet resources maintained by news librarian Barbara Gellis Shapiro. i list - A web directory from the Groton Public Schools, Connecticut, listing search engines, subject guides, reference desk, homework help, books online, news media online, and family resources. Infomine - A database of scholarly social sciences, humanities, and general reference instructional resources. One World - Nations Online - A list of virtual gateways to the countries of the world. About - About, Inc. is a network of sites where visitors can find over 700 targeted topic areas - each one managed by a professional Guide. About - Search Service - Search the entire About network of topics and the net with web results powered by Sprinks and Inktomi. About - Our Story - The About network consists of over 700 Guide sites organized into 36 channels. The sites cover more than 50,000 subjects with over 1 million Net Links. About - Be a Guide - What it takes to become an About Guide. Each Guide's mission is to create an easy, intuitive and gratifying experience for people interested in their topic. About - Investors' Overview - Targeted marketing opportunities, investment information for advertisers and businesses that market their products and services. About - Sprinks - Performance based keyword search engine - advertisers choose their listing fee. About.com, Inc. Capsule - Hoover's Online - Capsule profile and comprehensive investor information including financial reports, news and analysis, industry analysis, competitor information, and company officers. Former About Guides - Gathering place for former About.com guides whose topical sites were eliminated. Includes lists of topics that were dropped and reports from former guides, including what they are doing now and links to their new web projects. About - Privacy Policy - Information about what kind of personal information the About.com web sites gather and how it is used. About.com is a member of the TRUSTe program. Yahoo! - The first large scale directory of the Internet. Yahoo! Inc. Capsule - Hoover's Online - Yahoo! company profile and comprehensive investor information including financial reports, news and analysis, industry analysis, competitor information, and company officers. Upside - Driven to Succeed: The Yahoo Story Wired News - Does Yahoo still Yahoo? Yahoo! - Company History - Official page Yahoo.com and You - In-depth analysis of the history of Yahoo and its defensive posturing, including acquiring broadcast.com, webring.org, and geocities.com and it's rise from the shadows of Netscape and Altavista to far greater heights. Yahooligans! - Search engine for kids. My Yahoo! - Personalised News content. Web portal Yahoo! Messenger - Allows you to quickly exchange messages with online friends. Yahoo News - A round up of links to sites that are carying news stories. Gayzoo - A search engine for the Gay and Lesbian Internet Community. Jewhoo! - The ultimate jewish celebrity consortium. Ankhoo - This is like Yahoo, but with a twist. Yahoot! - A funny alternative to that other popular web directory. GunHoo - A comprehensive list of gun resources. FishHoo! - Search Index For Fishermen. Redmond Roundup - Index of anti-Microsoft, anti-Wintel, anti-Monopoly, and anti-Gates page. LinuxApps - Yahoo-like directory for Linux and related information! Yankovic! - Yahoo! parody as a tribute to "The Prince of Parody", Weird Al Yankovic. Open Directory Project - Help build the most comprehensive human-reviewed directory of the web. ODP and Yahoo Size Projection Charts - From editor geniac. Visit a Random Site - Jump to a random site from amongst the millions of sites listed in ODP. [a tool produced by editor rpfuller] Open Directory Project Growth Rate Chart - Graphic tracking the growth rate of the number of sites and editors in ODP. Automatic Generation of Topic Hierarchies - Partial dendrograms of the ODP by editor solzaire. In PDF format. Genesis of the Open Directory Project - Slides from a talk about early ODP history by founder Rich Skrenta. Forgot your Password - Official mechanism for password recovery. Request Reinstatement of Editor Account - Official requests for an expired account if you did not login within the first month, did not edit for a consecutive period of four months, accidently removed your editor account, or it was purposely removed and you like to be reconsidered for reinstatement. Printable Review Form - Two page form that allows reviewers to fill in restaurant details while away from a computer. By editor maven. [Requires Adobe Acrobat plug-in.] ChefMoz ODP Navigator - Frames-based navigation tool lets one use the ChefMoz editor dashboard, guidelines, forums, tools and search all together in one page. [From editor pchere] ChefMoz - Project Home. MQA Spell Checker - For edit boxes. Hours Parser - Test your hours string ahead of time with chefmoz's interactive hours parser. ChefMoz Bar - A shortcut browsing bar designed for ChefMoz editors. ChefMozed.org - Resource site for ChefMoz editors; includes a mediation tool and the unofficial FAQ. Host for editor web space and chefmozed.org e-mail accounts. Set up and maintained by ChefMoz editor imajes99. The Unofficial ChefMoz FAQ - Answers to editors' Frequently Asked Questions. ChefMoz Guidelines - Preliminary, unofficial version of the official project guidelines. Password Reminder - Official mechanism for password recovery. Quick Search - Official search for Chefmoz. Become a Chef Moz Editor - Dmoz editors can get their logins activated here. Review Guidelines - Page offering suggestions for writing a review. FirstProductions: Dining Guide - Incorporates the content of the ChefMoz dining guide into a website. Free and commercial version; includes a demo as well as documentation. Add New Restaurant - Form to add an entry directly to the dining guide, bypassing features for the US part. Mainly made for Switzerland, but also useful for other countries. Guidelines for Rating Restaurants - Helps you grade the service, ambiance and food. Review a Restaurant Form - A printable version of the detail edit page to aid reviewers in gathering the necessary information. You can take this with you to a restaurant to fill out. Briefme - Early article by Laura Madonna mentioning the project. San Jose Mercury News - David Plotnikoff gives a brief early review of the Netscape Open Directory restaurant area. Netscape's ODP Surpasses Two Million Web Sites - Official press release mentions the ODP's restaurant guide as an aside in one sentence. ChefMoz Meta-Editor Report - Lists all editors with editall and meta privileges as well as ChefMoz staff. ChefMoz Meta-Editors Forum - For discussion of issues concerning editalls and meta-editors as well as larger ChefMoz issues. ChefMoz New Editors Forum - New editor guidelines, question and answer. Accessible only to ChefMoz editors. ChefMoz North American Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz: United States - Public page. US Zip Code Lookup - Find the postal code for a US address. Restaurant.ca - Dining in Halifax, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, Southern Ontario, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver. Find restaurants by cuisine or features. Offers numerical user ratings. zagat.com - Canadian coverage in Toronto and Vancouver. No linkable reviews because the site requires registration. Fodors.com - Has coverage in Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto and Vancouver. ChefMoz: Canada - Public page. ChefMoz Central American Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz: Mexico - Public page. ChefMoz South American Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz: Argentina - Public page. ChefMoz African Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz: Zimbabwe - Public page. ChefMoz: Kenya - Public page. ChefMoz Asian Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz: Japan - Public page. ChefMoz: Singapore - Public page. 6-Digit Postal Code Enquiry - Find the postal code for a Singapore address. In Your Pocket City Guide - Eastern European guide with restaurant sections. Baltics Worldwide - Contains restaurant listings for the Baltic countries. ChefMoz European Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz: Italy - Public page. ChefMoz: Spain - Public page. ChefMoz: Poland - Public page. ChefMoz: United Kingdom - Public page. ChefMoz: Ireland - Public page. ChefMoz: Sweden - Public page. ChefMoz: Belgium ChefMoz: Germany - Public page. ChefMoz: Malta - Public page. ChefMoz: Russia - Public page. ChefMoz: Switzerland - Public page. ChefMoz Middle Eastern Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz Atlantic Island Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz Indian Ocean Island Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz Pacific Island Countries - Public side listing. ChefMoz: Malaysia - Public page. New Zealand Post Code Finder New Zealand Yellow Pages - With a shortcut to restaurant listings. ChefMoz: New Zealand - Public page. Australian White Pages - Phone book directory and Postcode search. ChefMoz: Australia - Public page. Yellow Pages OnLine - Restaurants - Eating and Drinking section. ChefMoz: Philippines - Public page. Forum Search - Use this tool to search all forum content. Recommended before raising a new topic. ChefMoz Editor Forum - Several areas to consult for information and help on editing at ChefMoz. Accessible only to ChefMoz editors. ChefMoz Caribbean Countries - Public side listing. Pluckie.Com: Restaurant Directory - A web directory uses ChefMoz data for the dining guide portion. AZBBQA Dining Guide - The Arizona Barbeque Association website utilizes the complete ChefMoz data set to encourage visitors to add/update to the ChefMoz project. ThisIsScarborough.com - Uses scripts to present ODP and ChefMoz content. resturant* - restaurant* dinning - dining celler - cellar beleive* - believe* honer* - honour* (UK) or honor* (US) restarant* - restaurant* restuarant* - restaurant* restauant* - restaurant* resaurant* - restaurant* ukran* - Ukrain* menue* - menu* desert* - dessert* (cuisine or course) vegit* - veget* vegat* - veget* vegete* - vegeta* vegt* - veget* atmosh* - atmosph* atomo* - atmo* apert* - aperit* disapo* - disappo* rester* - restaur* tastey - tasty sizzel* - sizzle* atmost* - atmos* tomatoe - tomato (may be the name of the restaurant) potatoe - potato definat* - definit* decour - decor ejoy* - enjoy* decore* - decor* quaili* - quali* cusi* - cuisi* recc* - rec* (recommend*) sause* - sauce* retau* - restau* potatos - potatoes bordau* - bordeau* cocta* - cockta* (e.g. cocktail) avac* - avoc* (e.g. avocado) tomatos - tomatoes thier - their definitl* - definitel* havn* - haven* (e.g. haven't, haven) sandwh* - sandw (e.g. sandwich) recome* - recomme* (e.g. recommend) dissap* - disap* (e.g. disappoint) fair - Sometimes should be 'fare', e.g. "good American fare". ingredia* - ingredie* (e.g. ingredient) entres - entrees (or entrées) entre - entree (or entrée), but correct in 'entre nous', for example apet* - appet* (e.g. appetizer) appett* - appet* vinig* - vineg* vinagr* - vinaigr* (e.g. vinaigrette) or vinegar* dingi* - dini* (e.g. dining) profesi* - profes