I’m adding a new link to my blogroll: Search Engine Land, which as the name implies reviews and evaluates search engines.
This post is a good a place as any to link the numerous search engines, directories and indices I learned about in Candy Schwartz’s course and had to evaluate. It will be good to have the links in one handy spot.
About.com
alltheweb
BUBL Information Service
Dogpile
Google
Digital Librarian
Humbul Humanities Hub
Infomine
Internet Public Library
Librarians’ Internet Index
Ask MetaFilter
Open Directory Project
SOSIG
WWW Virtual Library
Yahoo!
Research beyond Google.
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Top 100 Alternative Search Engines.
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100 Useful Niche Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of
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Blind Search allows you to use multiple search engines and then do a blind evaluation of the results to see which is best without preconceived notions of the brands.
Hunch asks 20 questions and then gives you recommendations of things you may like.
BookSeer offers book recommendations based on a book you like, drawing results from Amazon and LibraryThing.
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