Search Engines
Twenty-seven of the best sites for search engines or search engine information. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page.
1. Google - So popular the term “Googling” has entered the vernacular as a way to search for something. (www.google.com)
2. Yahoo! Search - Search the Web, from the earliest mover in the industry and still a solid #2. (search.yahoo.com)
3. Wikia Plotting Search Rival to Google - July 31, 2007 article on the co-founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales’ plans to create a search engine based on technology similar to the wiki technology that allows Wikipedia site visitors to edit pages. (www.usatoday.com)
4. Live Search - Microsoft’s entry in the search engine field, formerly known as MSN Search, is generally considered the third-largest search engine by volume of searches. (www.live.com)
5. Ask.com - Formerly Ask Jeeves, this search engine has been a minor player among search engines for a long time, but has been gaining traction (or at least publicity) as of late. (www.ask.com)
6. Almost Half of Search Queries Are Repeats - August 2, 2007 article on a study that suggests many search engine queries are repeats of past searches by the same people looking for information they’ve seen in the past, but that changes in search engine results sometimes frustrate them in their attempts to re-locate the information they’d seen previously. (www.webpronews.com)
7. Search Engine Land - Blog anchored by search engine reporting pioneer Danny Sullivan reports on the latest news from the major search engines, and some minor ones as well. (searchengineland.com)
8. Alt Search Engines - While 99% of the world uses just a handful of search engines, there are still hundreds more out there hoping you’ll give them a try. This site discusses these alternative search engines and their different approaches to search, from full Web search engines to vertical search engines of specific topic areas to visual search engines that display results graphically. Each month the site offers its list of the top 100 alt search engines. (www.altsearchengines.com)
9. TheFind.com - Shopping search engine aims to help you find the products you want. Type in what you’re looking for and it pulls photos and prices of products from multiple online retailers. (www.thefind.com)
10. Dogpile - Search here and the results you see are actually a mix of results from other search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Search, Live, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more. (www.dogpile.com)
11. The Race to Beat Google - January 2, 2006 analysis of multiple search engines groups them into categories based on their search methods, user interfaces and status as full or vertical search engines, and discusses the chances of any of them putting a dent in Google’s armor. (www.readwriteweb.com)
12. Monster.com - Vertical search engine focused only on searching job listings. (www.monster.com)
13. MetaCrawler - “Meta” search engine displays results based on a formula that combines results from major search engines including Google, Yahoo, Ask, Live, and more. The majority of listings, however, appear to be sponsored listings. (www.metacrawler.com)
14. In Silicon Valley, the Race Is On to Trump Google - January 1, 2007 article on the many new entrants into the search engine field, many promising new ways to search that are better than Google, or at the very least good enough to steal a fraction of Google’s market share. (www.nytimes.com)
15. What Search Engine Spiders See - To add your site, search engines send out “spiders” to access your content. What do these spiders see when they reach your page? Type your URL in here to find out. (dlperry.com)
16. Technorati - Blog search engine lets you search for the latest blog posts about any topic, and also points you to popular blogs, posts and videos. (www.technorati.com)
17. Search Engine Watch - Offers the very latest news on the major search engines as well as new search engines attempting to join the big boys. (searchenginewatch.com)
18. Exalead - Search engine offers a thumbnail photo of each site to help you decide whether you’ll click through or not. (www.exalead.com)
19. PolyMeta - Meta search engine gives you search results based on a combination of results drawn from Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask and Exalead. (www.polymeta.com)
20. Search Engine Market Shares - December - A look at the market share of the top 18 search sites by volume in December, 2006 helps decode who’s who in search engines and just how dominant Google is. (www.enquisite.com)
21. Behind the Scenes in the Search Engine Labs - What do the major search engines have cooking? How about context-based acronym resolution, keyword mutation detection, and face localization? (searchenginewatch.com)
22. Sugarcodes - Search engine allows you to use pre-set or customized codes to search multiple search and information sites from a single interface. (www.sugarcodes.com)
23. Mamma Metasearch - “The Mother of All Search Engines” uses a single interface to allow you to get results culled from a variety of sources, including search engines and other sites. This meta search engine appears to pull most results from About.com, Ask.com, Gigablast, and Wisenut, and also sprinkles in sponsored search results among the regular results. (www.mamma.com)
24. Reciprocal Links in a Coma, or Dead? - Mike Valentine gives his opinion on using the strategy of reciprocal linking with other sites in order to improve search engine rankings. He’s against it. (www.realityseo.com)
25. SearchEngines.com - Despite its name, this is not exactly the “all about search engines” site that you’d expect. Instead the site is focused on industrial and maufacturing companies and how they should be trying harder to use search engine marketing to raise their profiles and drive sales. (www.searchengines.com)
26. Mesothelioma Search Engine - Search engine restricts included domains and pages to only those with information on the lung disease mesothelioma. (www.mesothelioma-search-engine.com)
27. Search Engines: SERPs Algos & SEO Technology - This is one very long page with a bunch of different ideas and tips on how search engines work and how to be ranked well, from a basic bullet-pointed list of what gives a site an edge in the search engines, to which engines are more likely to be influenced by different page coding attributes, to what is considered spam. This page won’t win any design awards, but you might find some useful information if you are starting from square one. (search-engines-web.com)
11 Comments Add your own
1. DLPerry October 18th, 2006 at 4:06 am
Perhaps this listing would be acceptable here, or under a SE Tools catagory, or??
2. Donald Nelson October 18th, 2006 at 5:57 am
I think there should be a sub-category, Search Engine Optimization and I would also like to suggest a website for it:
A1-Optimization: Provides affordable search engine optimization, website copywriting and other web promotion services.
url: http://www.a1-optimization.com
Thanks for your consideration of this suggestion
3. Chris Nielsen October 22nd, 2006 at 1:16 pm
I am suggesting our small search engine for inclusion. It’s a real search engine, not just another junk mesothelioma site…
By the way, I already see a number of limitations for your site. I was thinking to submit our company listing, but you don’t have the categories. There is a suggestion above for a category for SEO that was made on the 9/18/06, but still no response or new category. Also, limiting SEO to 100 listings is really going to restrict the usefullness of the category, so you really may want to consider something like what DMOZ is doing.
4. AdamBessed October 22nd, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Donald Nelson,
Your site has been added under Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
5. AdamBessed October 22nd, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Thanks for your comment, Chris, we will add you in the next few days.
As for your comments on the limitations of our site, I think you’re right and also wrong. Yes, we are not going to be able to create new categories at the drop of a hat, so there will have to be lag between when someone submits and when a category is created or they are added to a category that already exists. It’s the limitation of using human editors, so you are right about that.
On the other hand, even spidering search engines have some lag between when you create a page and when it is indexed. And, as many Webmasters have painfully seen with Google, a new site can sit for a year virtually unseen until Google decides it has built up enough credibility to get some decent rankings. Now that’s a long wait.
As far as the limit to 100 in any given category, I’m sure there are times that will seem like a limitation, but in our opinion, not often. And because of the platform we are built on, we don’t want any search results pages to stretch on indefinitely to include every site that might qualify for a category. Some sites that are on our pages now may not be there a year from now, as we are prepared to make tough choices as to what the top 100 sites in a given category are. We think that’s a service to the user. If a site can’t crack the top 100 in a broad category, it may still find a place at Bessed in a more specific category.
Our goal is to make each search results page as relevanyt as possible, showing the best sites possible. If we’re not willing to choose which sites qualify and which don’t, then there’s no reason for our site to exist.
Thanks for your thoughtful comments. I will let you know when your site is added.
6. jnorthern October 22nd, 2006 at 1:54 pm
I find myself both intrigued and interested in your site, Bessed. Will return often.
7. AdamBessed October 26th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Chris, your site has been added.
8. Charles Knight August 2nd, 2007 at 11:21 am
I would like you to consider adding Read/WriteWeb’s newest blog AltSearchEngines, the blog that deals exclusively with Alternative Search Engines.
Our monthly Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list is never perfect, but we do try to make it better every month!
9. AdamBessed August 2nd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Charles,
Your site’s been added above.
10. John February 16th, 2008 at 8:07 am
cool info thank’s
11. Rod Fielding August 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
This is a page with all the search engines for the UK, ready to use.
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