This is an excellent site for finding U.S. newspapers' websites.

US Newspapers - US Newspaper List

Another pocasting search engine, this lets you search by audio or video.


podscope

TagWorld looks to be another MySpace, attracting the same crowd of young people thatwant to connect with each other. MySpace tends to have the teenagers and tweens, and TagWorld attracts an older gropup. Still, it looks like another good site for social networking.


TagWorld

This is an excellent directory, full of sites and information. Take a look at the Weird Sites category.

TurnPike Emporium Directory

Podcasts are audio or video files that you can download or subscribe to. A lot of Internet radio stations and interviews are now being sent as podcasts. Loomia is a new search engine for both podcasts and videocasts.


Loomia

Something fun for the holidays.

ITSAWONDERFULINTERNET.COM

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