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!


Search Engine Optimization Specialists and Ranking Information - The #1 Resource to help SEOs, Webmasters and Designers find SEO News, Tools, and Services

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

Everything you ever wanted to know about tropical fish.


Tropical Fish Internet Directory

How about an international catalog of superheros?

International Superheroes

A directory of political web sites online with links to parties, organizations, governments, and more.


Political Resources on the Net

A directory of government web sites by country.

Official Government Web Pages by Country

A great resource for finding embassies and consulates around the world.


Absolutely All Of The Worlds Embassies & Consulates In A Searchable Database

A good reference guide for dealing with electrical appliances in different countries.

World Electric Power Guide

Over 600 Aesop's fables.


Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656 fables -

An herbal reference source.

Henriette's Herbal Homepage

Here is a searchable index of holdings in universities, libraries, record offices, and museums in Wales. Currently there are only about 500 records, but the official launch is scheduled for 2005 with 4,000 records.

Archives Network Wales

This may seem like a basic service, but it is not under "thesaurus.com". Thesaurus is paired with Dictionary.com, which is also quite useful.


Thesaurus.com

This is a guide to free e-mail services, fee-based e-mail, ISPs, and other free services such as web hosting.


Free Email Address Directory : Your guide to free email and much, much more!

An encyclopedia of finance. Just the ticket for all those odd questions at tax time!

Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Finance

A quick and "dirty" guide to state and county information. The entries are far from complete, however.

STATEGUIDE.com : Destination Research Made Simple - VACATION - RELOCATION - RETIREMENT

Everything you ever wanted to know about European soccer stadiums!

EuroStadiums.com - European Football Stadiums Page

An excellent encyclopedia of the Jewish religion.

JewishEncyclopedia.com

This site is a compilation of "lost words", words that appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, but are no longer used (much).


Compendium of Lost Words

Here is a new meta search engine. The YW stands for Your Web. It allows you to search in a lot of the smaller search engines, as well as several of the news sites (like Daypop), many directories, countries (France, Australia, and Canada), and even an MP3 search.


yw metasearch engine

This site tries to answer the question of "Whatever happened to...?" for show biz stars child stars, sports, politics, music, and pop culture.


whatever happened to...

Here is a great site to help you identify fonts from samples.


Identifont - identify fonts and typefaces

This is STILL one of the best business portals around. Scroll all the way down for a remarkable number and variety of links.


CEOExpress: Business portal for executives created by a CEO

This is a great page for learning about and deciphering smileys!

  The UnOfficial Smiley FAQ(tm) by Don Z'Boray - updated: 11 May 2001 -- NewbieNET!  

This is an excellent site for small businesses and other entrepreneurs.



Resources for Entrepreneurs and Business Planners

An excellent site for free tutorials on web development and the Internet.

FindTutorials - Tutorials

A site for international business resources and statistics.


globalEDGE (TM) | international business resource desk

An excellent resource for legal information.


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

Everything you've ever wanted to know about New York City.


Forgotten NY

An interesting web site (if you are into baseball history). This site gives the past, current and future histories of baseball ballparks/stadiums/fields.


Ballparks of Baseball-The Fields of Major League Baseball