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The following two websites are primarily oriented toward marketing other websites, but even newcomers to the Worldwide Web may find them useful in understanding and using search engines more effectively.
Market Zone
Search engine marketing and advertising resources. Membership required to access some features. Lists search engines by type and shows which engines are displaying results from other engines.
www.marketzone.net
Search Engine Watch
Extensive and varied information on search engine marketing and optimization. Detailed reviews and descriptions of individual search engines and explanations of how they work. Tips for using search engines more effectively. Latest news on search engines and relevant articles from the past couple of years.
www.searchenginewatch.com
AllSearchEngines.com
Lists major search engines, Web directories and "topic search engines" (that search only within a specific topic). "Complete SE List" page has alphabetically listed links to about 70 search engines with brief reviews of selected search engines.
http://www.allsearchengines.com/
SearchEngines.com
Lists well over 100 links to search engines in several categories.
http://www.searchengines.com/
StartBOT.com
Well-organized directory of search engines and Web directories with a brief description of every link.
http://www.startbot.com/
Yahoo! - Search Engines and Directories
Huge alphabetical list, plus a top ten list of most popular search engines and directories. Oddly enough, Yahoo! does not include a link to their own site in the top ten.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Search_Engines_and_Directories/
All The Web
http://www.alltheweb.com/
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/
Ask Jeeves
http://www.ask.com/
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com
Earthlink
http://www.earthlink.com/
Excite
http://search.excite.com
Galaxy
http://www.galaxy.com
Google
www.google.com
HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com/
Infospace
http://www.infospace.com/
Lycos
http://search.lycos.com/
MetaCrawler.com
http://www.metacrawler.com
Netscape
http://search.netscape.com
Teoma
http://www.teoma.com/
Webask.com
http://www.webask.com/
WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com
WiseNut
http://www.wisenut.com/
Yahoo
http://search.yahoo.com
About.com
http://www.about.com/
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/dir/default
Excite
http://dir.excite.com/d/search/p/excite/directory.jhtml
Galaxy
http://www.galaxy.com
Google
http://www.google.com/dirhp?hl=en&tab=wd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
Lycos
http://dir.lycos.com/
Netscape
http://search.netscape.com