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