Jim Kukral's blog is all about blogs and blogging relationships. He sees blogging as a source of content online. Has an interesting take on blogs in general.


BlogKits - Building Blog Relationships. BlogKits focuses on building relationships between businesses, bloggers & readers.

SeekOn was doing local search long before the larger search engines thought of it. Here you can search either by category or state/city.


SeekOn Search System - Local Information for USA and Canada

Jayde is both a search engine and a directory focused on business to business. Jayde now owns a whole network of serach engines.


Jayde.com - The B2B Search Engine

An article from ZDNet Australia on Google. It talks about PageRank, and how the search engine works.


The magic that makes Google tick: ZDNet Australia: Insight: Software

Search Ramp (a.k.a. Search Depo) is a good directory to the Web. They also have forums on the site.


SearchRamp - Your On Ramp to the Internet!

I highly recommend Andre le Roux's Search Engine Yearbook as the best place to get information about search engines. This site also has excellent articles and resources. Andre has a great newsletter as well.


Pandecta Magazine

NetNose is a very useful search engine. You can rate sites, set up filters, and add sites that you like. They even have their own toolbar!


NetNose - Rate the Web!

Yahoo now has its own blog (apparently not updated that frequently). It has a lot of behind the scenes information.


Yahoo! Search blog

Evisum is an educational search engine with homework help and lots of interesting resources for kids and adults. A "Vortal" is a vertical portal, in other words, a site that caters to just one subject.

Evisum.com The Educational Vortal

Info.com is a new meta search engine. It searches Google, Ask Jeeves, Open Directory, Yahoo, AltaVista, Teoma, Fast, Inktomi, Overture, and LookSmart. It has web searching, a shopping search, images, whiote and yellow pages. You can also set a family filter.


Info.com - Displays results from 14 search engines

GlobalSpec is an Engineering search engine. You can search by specification, comapny name, or product.

GlobalSpec: air compressors, electric motors, bearings, bar code scanners and other engineering products at GlobalSpec.com

This is a highly specialized search engine, just for animals.

AnimalSearch: A family-safe search engine for animal related web sites

Amfibi is a search engine, a directory, and a meta search engine (Google, Wisenut, Teoma, etc.). I saw a few dead links, but it has a lot of unique web sites.

Amfibi Web Search

Google can now be accessed on wireless phones that have SMS (short messaging systems).


Google introduces wireless service

Another use of search engines inidentifying a hit and run victim case from 11 years ago.


CNN.com - Google IDs 1993 hit-and-run victim - Oct 8, 2004

The Mudcat Cafe allows you to search for lyrics of songs.


The Mudcat Cafe

IntelSeek is a great search engine and directory. You can see the last 15 sites submitted, classified ads, and an intelligent directory.


Search Engines - intelSeek! A free major search engine

This site is both a encyclopedia of psychology and a directory of pyschology web sites, including organizations.


Encyclopedia of Psychology - Psychology Websites

A good resource for famous and women and their speeches. Started by a librarian.


Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World - Sweet Briar College

Here is a directory of gift web sites.



Gift Websites

Here is a new search engine called Ice Rocket. Ice Rocket shows you images of the web site results. It also allows you to find news on the subject, images, and products under the same keywords.


IceRocket Search

GoArticles is an article search engine from Jayde. You can search full tect articles by topic, and it is updated regularly.

Article Search Engine Directory: GoArticles.com

Please Retrieve is both a search engine and a directory. It also has a news feed, stock market results, and games. The front page is a bit crowded, but it is a good search tool.


Please Retrieve.com search engine

The best blog search engine yet! Check out the directory categories.

Blog Search Engine - Blog Directory, Blog Search, Blog Directories - Links Menu

Jim Martindale has put together an interesting reference collection, with a lot of science sources.

Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' - International Art, Business, Science & Technology

An online tutorial on how to use Google.

Google Guide: Google Guide Introduction

Google now has its own web log!

Google Weblog

Here are images from Life magazine for all the political conventions from 1948-1992.

Presidential Conventions

Here is where you can find laws in other countries, or at least links to them.


GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Nations of the World

For those of us who are never sure about the correct spelling of "color" or "colour."

American·British - British·American Dictionary

An acronym is a label formed from the beginnings or middle of words. Robot started as one, laser and IBM are others. You can search for their meanings here.


Acronym Server Simplified

A new, fast, meta seach engine.

WindSeek Meta Search Engine

This is the Lonely Planet web section that covers travel sites online.

Lonely Planet SubWWWay | Web links

Everything you ever wanted to know about the state of Georgia!

The New Georgia Encyclopedia

The U.S. Patent Office has news, and a way of checking on the status of an application.

United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page

Martindale-Hubbell is considered THE source for legal directories and information. You can find a lawyer here, read articles, and find out about becomin an attorney.
I think that FindLaw (see other entry) uses MH for its lawyer search database.


Martindale.com Homepage

A site where you can find and buy legal forms.

FindLegalForms.com - Power of Attorney Bill of Sale Auto and Vehicle Legal Forms - Home

LawyerTool allows you to do research in free legal databases, including one for sex offenders.


LawyerTool.com - Simple Free Legal Research Search Law Database

I feel legal today! FindLaw is an excellent legal site for both the public and legal professionals. You can search by state or practice area, read legal news, peruse state or federal law, check the dictionary, or use one of their tools. FindLaw even has its own toolbar.


FindLaw - Find a Lawyer, Attorney, or Law Firm - Free Lawyers Search

The title here kinda says it all. AllLaw also has legal news.

AllLaw - Legal Information, Links and Resources about state laws, federal laws and statutes, lawyers, attorneys and law firms

And here is the site about Google Mail. Actually, this makes a lot more sense than Mail.com's way of dumping ads on everyone.

Welcome to Gmail

MetaCrawler has a whole new look! This is a meta search engine covering Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves, About, LookSmart, Teoma, Iverture, and FindWhat. You can search for web sites, images, audio, multimedia, news, yellow pages and shopping. There is now an Advanced Search option, and you can set your preferences as well.

Web Search Home Page - MetaCrawler

Topix is a local news search engine. It can search by state, city, or zipcode, as well as topics. It also can search by industry or name.


Topix.net - News organized by topic and location

Recall is a new search engine at the Internet Archive that indexes the text of over 11 billion web pages, covering from 1996 to the present. It searches the text of the HTML pages.

Recall

A search engine for politics that includes news headlines, articles, and political sites. A good place to watch the presidential race.


Political Information (.com) -- A search engine for politics & policy

Here is an excellent source of free fonts. They have script, famous (Yahoo, Coca-Cola), holiday, dingbat, and others.


JFonts.com - Download over 100 Free Fonts!

A new search engine for blogs (i.e. web logs). The categories are a bit limited, and there are a lot of sex blogs listed under lifestyle, but it appears to be a good start.


Blogarama

An interesting guide to misspellings (in English).

yourDictionary.com ? 100 Most Often Misspelled Words

An interesting twist to search engines.
musicplasma : the music visual search engine