If at first you don't succeed...

Last year's web site:               http://faculty.ycp.edu/~vkline/pala2000/pala2000.html

Keeping Track

• Clusters results on the fly
• Better than Northern Light!

• Grouped by topic
• Expert links

• Requires IE5
• Anchors
• My list
• Saved searches
• Email lists

• Automatic categorization
• Spam-proof ranking
• Fast crawling- refreshes once a month

• Calculates relevancy by search habits of others
• Related Searches
• Owned by AskJeeves

• More specific topics
• More general topics

• Volunteers
• Brief annotations
• Whois for authority

• Browse by discipline
• Collections of search engines and journals
• Recommended sites
• Emphasis on scientific search engines
• English and German

• Librarian recommended sites
• Annotations
• Many categories

• More international content
• Selection of search engines not typical
• Good results

• Targeted metasearching
• Separate windows

• Includes good selection of niche engines

• Best to browse categories
• Tips
• Search engine news
• Needs more topic areas

• Looks like Yahoo
• 3381 search engines

Search Engines World Wide

• Search engines by country

• Digital special collections
• Historical documents
• Early publications and manuscripts

• Links to online censuses (censi?)
• Mostly U.S., but some international
• Sort by title, date, rating, popularity
• Second number - links in category

• Translating dictionaries and glossaries
• About 60 languages
• Some subject specific

MRQE

(Movie Review Query Engine)

• Movie reviews
• Search by title only
• Links to IMDb

• Geographic names and surnames
• Includes population, zip code, geographic coordinates, etc. for some

• Agriculture
• Searchable
• International!

• Part of EEVL
• Searches free engineering ejournals

• Academic ejournals and conference proceedings
• Still relatively small

• Top level domains
• Search partners

• Domain names

• Searches both news sites and blogs
• Get facts and opinions about current events

• Replaces DejaNews

• Message boards and forums
• Mostly recreational
• Click on category first!

• Images

• Sound effects
• Formats: AIFF, AU, WAVE

• Archive of audio files
• Speeches, addresses and telephone conversations
• Includes transcripts

• Video transcripts

• Internet radio stations
• Streaming media
• Choose genre

• Streaming media

• Pictures
• Video
• Audio

IncyWincy

Directory

• Combines Open Directory Project with Deep Web

• Visual directories

• Keyword entry into ERIC Thesaurus
• Automatically moves selected terms into search!

• Select best spelling
• submit to search affiliates

• "A lexical database for the English language"
• Not designed for your average user!

• Ranks search engines
• Reviews
• Groups by category and subjects

• Companion to The Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research
• Weekly newsletter available
• Links to news sites go stale quickly

• Feature comparisons
• Size comparisons
• Overlap
• Dead Links
• News 

• Web Searching Tips
• Search Engine Lists
• Reviews, Ratings & Tests
• Search Engine News