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Toon Tracker is the home to lost cartoons. Here you can find the history of Mr. Magoo, Batfink, Gerald McBoing Boing, and other half-forgotten TV toons.
Toon Tracker

SeekOn is an excellent local search engine for the United States and Canada. It has apparently been blacklisted by Yahoo for no apparent reason.

SeekOn Search System - Local Information for USA and Canada

Find Target is another meta search engine, covering the larger search engines. You can search by word or category. It also has local search, yellow pages, white pages, images and audio.


FindTarget

The Turnpike Emporium Directory has an excellent collection of categories. It is quick and very useful.

TurnPike Emporium Directory

And here is a site where you can report splogs.

Splog Reporter : Cleaning up the blogosphere one splog at a time.

A nasty new spammer tool rears its ugly head. Spam blogs, or "splogs" are being created by spammers to fool the search engines. This is an excellent article on the subject and also mentions comment spam.

WSJ.com - 'Splogs' Roil Web, and Some Blame Google

Talk about an incredible search engine!! ZoomInfo allows you to search for people and gives you a lot of information. It is excellent for looking yourself up, doing business research, and sales intelligence.

You can also create your own ZoomInfo summary for free. I used it to get rid of the ancient information about me (as a reference librarian many moons ago).

ZoomInfo

This is a good site to explore Pay-Per-Click search engines.


659 Pay Per Click Search Engines Reviewed

Rollyo is another twist on social networking. You can customize your own search engine ("searchroll") and share it with others. I've set one up for archaeology called ArchaeoSeek.

ROLLYO

Toogle is even stranger and not for young kids. Here words make up images. It is fun to play with, but not much else.

Toogle Image Search

A few new tools to play with, Woogle and Toogle. Woogle shows you words and pictures. I tried "a penny for your thoughts", but other metaphors will work.


Woogle - Words in pictures

JDGO is a very interesting search engine and web directory. I have found results here that are not duplicated elsewhere.

JDGO - Search Engine

I just found a great, free tool gives me fingertip access to over 150 search, research and marketing tools AND markets my site for me! The tool is called the Free Traffic Bar and it works with Internet Explorer or FireFox. It works very well on Firefox, but I have not yet tried it on IE.

In addition to better web searching and quick access to online marketing tools (which include tons of information and web sites to help you online), the toolbar also lets you advertise for free right on the toolbars of other members. You automatically generate advertising credits while you surf the web and you get additional credits when people you invite surf the web. It is spyware and adware free! Visit http://tinyurl.com/bxf71 to find out more and claim your 500 free ads!

Google has rolled out its new Blog Search tool.

Google Blog Search

Amidalla is a fun search engine. I am not sure what the little creature is in the righthand corner. You can see what people were searching for day by day here.

amidalla search engine - searchengine

InfoSniff is a directory that covers just about everything. You can also get the code to put a search box on your site.


Infosniff.com Unleash the power of search engine

A blog directory that lets you search by category. It currently has over 11,000 web logs in 190 plus categories.


The Blog Directory - Getblogs.com

Wikidweb is a wiki directory for the web. A wiki is sort of a group blog that allows anyone to make posts and corrections. This site is is a free, open directory where anyone can post, and edit links. You do not even need an account.


Main Page - Wikidweb

If you are trying to locate someone in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, here are regional message boards, as well as boards form companies and universities.


Hurricane Katrina Message Boards

BizAhead is an international B2B (business to business) directory.


BizAhead.com Business Directory - business directory, trade directory, business resources

Megri Directory is an Internet Web Directory with a good set of categories and is compiled by human editors who are very selective.


Megri Portal

One Big Index is what the Open Directory started out to do, but OBI is still on track. This is a human editied directory that has an excellent range of categories.


Index - One Big Index

Dir One is a web directory organized by words. It is different than most and has a lot of suggestions as to other terms to use. It is also available in Spanish (GuiaWay.com) with Spanish words (might be a great teaching tool).


Free Web Directory

I get a real kick out of SearchIt. You can see popular searches and recent searches at the top of the page.


SearchIt.com :: Get Results Fast!

LS Blogs has a wonderful directory for blogs and blog search engines. Ken has now installed a forum, and you can submit blogs as well.


LS Blogs- Blog Search Engine and Blog Directory - Home - Blogging Related Submit or find blogs and blog-sites.

I used the term today, "at sixes and sevens" and then began to wonder where it had come from. Here is the answer at WorldWideWords.


Questions & Answers: At sixes and sevens

And, if you want to know what people are searching for, try IceSpy (an uncensored look).

IceSpy

IceRocket allows you to search blogs as well as the web, images, multimedia, and "Phone pics" which are apparently pictures from people's camera phones.


IceRocket blog search

John is completing a book about search engines (you can pre-order it from Amazon) titled: The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. His blog talks about the book and other thoughts.


John Battelle's Searchblog

Technorati monitors blogs and what is most popular on them. This page gives you all the data is you are interested in current online trends.


Technorati: Popular

Tinu's blog is an excellent one to read about promoting your web site.

Free Traffic Tips - the blog

Popdex shows which web sites are the most popular. An interesting snapshot of daily events.


Popdex : the website popularity index

This is a fun site. See what Google thinks of you. Type in your first name, or your whole name and see what comes up.

Googlism

If you need someone to help trade links on the Web, Brenda Hoffman is one of the best.


Reverend Sassy's Portfolio

The Librarians' Index is a marvelous place to find all sorts of sites, all selected by librarians for their freely accessible content.

Librarians' Index to the Internet - lii.org

Search ZA claims to be the "Ultimate South Africa Search Engine." It does appear to be pretty complete.

South Africa Search Engine - Search ZA

One Big Index is what The Open Directory started out to be (but ODP became corrupted). OBI is a great directory, very complete and fast.


Index - One Big Index

Deregular is a web directory that is very fast and allows free submissions.


Deregular Website Directory

An excellent resource for legal information.


The 'Lectric Law Library's Entrance, Welcome & Tour

Abilogic is a business direcotry and is quite useful.


Business Web Directory - AbiLogic

Any Search is a web directory. It is quite fast and gives complete results.


Any Search Info - Comprehensive Directory And Search Engine

This is one of the best online almanacs and statistical sources that I have seen online. It even has a Homework center!


Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free online reference, research & homework help.

A set of directories organized by country, state and category. An excellent source for local listings.

GoToGeo.com - The Internet Directories by Geography

DirOne is a web directory and search engine. You can search by their directory, or put in the term you want. The results page also has related terms.

Free Web Directory

This site shows some of the errors that Google has been making lately.


Gfakes :: Errors by Google

Aaron the Aardvark runs three search engines, one for business, one for sports, and one for travel. He is quite picky about what goes in the engines, so the results are high quality.


AardvarkBusiness.net Business Search Engine

Igrep is a new search engine specifically for developers. It searches content and uses fuzzy logic and stem searching.

It also has a toolbar that you can download. Unfortunately, the site does not state what the "Webmaster Tools" or the "SEO Tools" are in the toolbar.


igrep

This article backs up my contention that Yahoo is the better search engine.



Guardian Unlimited | Online | Ben Hammersley: Second Sight

Yahoo Search now has its own blog! Here is the place to go to see what the latest new products are, and tips on using Yahoo and its toolbar.


Yahoo! Search blog

B2Evolution is a mutilingual, multi user blog search engine. It is a free, open source script.


b2evolution: Home

A scuba-only search engine. ScubaLinx seems to be mostly a search engine for the Cyber Diver News Network (CDNN), although it also claims to cover the ScubaLinx Directory, Cyber Diver, Scuba Forum and Poll as well.

CYBER DIVER :: ScubaLinx Scuba Diving Directory and Scuba Search Engine

This site is a great place to track people in the news and in the world. It looks like a Who's Who of people (somewhat famous) but also has intertwined the people that they hung out with, the movies or television shows they did, and a lot of other types of information.



NNDB: Tracking the entire world

Bebo is a contact system like Plaxo. However, Bebo is web-based and does not require you to download any software. It works on any platform as well.


Bebo

This blog has a lot of thoughtful comments on SEO and search engines.


Blog Business World - Marketing, Public Relations, Search Engine Optimization

Poddy's Directory has a lot of interesting links, covering environmental products to casinos.


The Poddys Directory - something different from your average directory - come on in and take a look

This is a new blog directory where you can submit your blogs and see thumbnails of others.

LS Blogs- Blog Directory - Home - Blogging Related Submit or find blogs and blog-sites.

Fagan Finder is an excellent search tool for the web, as well as a great way of researching RSS, meta search engines, and popularity ranking.


Fagan Finder // search engines, reference, tools, and more

This is an excellent site for ancient Egyptian history and information. The "Egyptian Club" is an open forum of people from around the world.


Absolute Egyptology

The Google blog comments on the new way they have of stopping spammers from using blogs to advertise web sites.


Google Blog

AOL's search engine can now group relevant results by topic and will generate a snapshot of results.


AOL Enhances Search Function

SEO Specialists is my new company with Jean-Pierre D'Zahr (no, I haven't abandoned MySearchGuru.com). The front page has a lot of free resources on search engine optimization, there is a tips and articles page, and you can request information about our services as well.

I am so excited about this new venture!


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