Selected WWW Information Discovery Tools

Human Created Directories

General Directories

Yahoo Directory http://dir.yahoo.com/
Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/ [via Google http://directory.google.com/ ]
Looksmart http://www.looksmart.com/

Academic Directories

Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Academic Info http://www.academicinfo.net/
BUBL 5:15 http://bubl.ac.uk/link/five/
Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
Scout Report Archives http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/archives/

Computer Created Indexes

Google http://www.google.com/
Yahoo Search http://search.yahoo.com/
MSN Search http://search.msn.com/
Gigablast http://gigablast.com/
Teoma http://www.teoma.com/
WiseNut http://wisenut.com/

Meta Search Engines

Online

Vivisimo http://vivisimo.com/
ez2Find http://ez2find.com/
ProFusion http://www.profusion.com/
Ithaki http://www.ithaki.net/
SurfWax http://www.surfwax.com/
ZapMeta http://www.zapmeta.com/
Ixquick http://ixquick.com/
iBoogie http://iboogie.com/
Metacrawler http://www.metacrawler.com/

Desktop (PC)

Yahoo Desktop Search http://desktop.yahoo.com/
Google Desktop Search http://desktop.google.com/
Ask Jeeves Desktop Search http://sp.ask.com/docs/desktop/
Copernic http://www.copernic.com/ (Free and $)
FirstStop WebSearch http://www.firststopwebsearch.com/ (Free and $)
WebFerret http://www.ferretsoft.com/ (Free and $)

Searchable Subject Sites ("Deep Web")

CompletePlanet http://www.completeplanet.com/
Gary Price's Daily Blog http://www.resourceshelf.com/
     Directory (Companion to Gary's book) http://www.invisible-web.net/

Keeping Up-To-Date with Web Searching Sites and Tools

Search Engine Showdown (Greg Notess) http://searchengineshowdown.com/
Search Engine Watch (Danny Sullivan) http://searchenginewatch.com/
SearchDay (Chris Sherman) http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/
Internet Research News (Tara Calishain) http://www.researchbuzz.com/
Internet Search Engine Database http://www.isedb.com/news/
Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk (Gary Price) http://www.resourceshelf.com/
About.com Guide to Web Search (Jennifer Laycock) http://websearch.about.com/
Pandia Search World http://www.pandia.com/searchworld/index.html
Traffick http://www.traffick.com/
Search Engine Journal http://www.searchenginejournal.com/
Search Engine News (Search Engine Guide) http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchenginenews.html

Created by: Keith Stanger, keith@stanger.com  Updated: February 27, 2005
URL: http://keithstanger.com/infodiscoverytools.html