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