• Formerly Mining Co.
• Subject areas hosted by human "Guides

Answers.com

• Search a database of existing questions and answers
• Email their experts
• The ultimate in trivial pursuit

• 16 search engines
• Choose faster or smarter
• Customizable 

LookSmart Live!

• Added service for an established web directory
• Questions answered within 24 hours.

• 140,000 categories
• 800,000 sites
• 14,000 subject experts
• web searching by Google

• Limit searches by region, country, domain, language
• Interfaces for many languages!
• WOW!!!! 

• Largest search engine
• 200 million pages
• Goal: 1 billion pages

• "The professional's guide to a world of information"
• Results include an Excerpt, Frequent Words, Outline, Date Entered, Date Indexed
• Originally a DARPA-funded prototype

• Search 10 engines
• Translates search syntax
• Relevancy ranking

• Search 35 different engines from one form
• Build Searches
• Links to help pages for search engines

Searchling

Now only sells search technology to companies.

• Combines AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, InfoSeek
• Yes, No, Maybe
• Light Searchling - quick search
• Heavy Searchling - more extensive search

Yep.com

Reincarnated as a casino directory.

• Customize for popularity or quality
• My first impression: Nope.

dowjones.com

Web directory no longer available on site.

• "It's all business"
• 29 industries
• 2,000 business web sites
• Newswires 

• Adults only
• It was only a matter of time...

• Friendly design
• Links to goverment web sites
• Some world goverment info

GovStartPage.com

Replaced by a porn site. Hostile browser takeover.

• No frills
• US government
• Arranged by branch of government
• Links to government-related search engines

• For women

• Targets a single profession

• Politics and Policy web sites
• Annotated

NewsPage

• Free version of NewsEdge
• Default search - today only
• Can only go back 5 days

• Newspapers by country
• Magazines by subject
• Television 
• City Governments!

• Updated every 5 minutes
• News channels 
• Arranged by age
• Archive - 30 days - searchable

• Search by media type, country, or subject
• Choose your databases
• Some news sites charge

• Digital audio clips
• Search by performer or song title
• Servers rated on reliability

• Many independent recordings

• Ages 3-10
• Uses images to represent categories
• Filtered 

• Sponsored by ALA
• Question and answer service for K-12 

• Scholarly Internet resources
• Selected by librarians at the University of California
• Search or browse by keywords or LC subject headings

• Not publically available
• New algorhythms for identifying authoritative sites
• Uses classification and focused crawling

• Unusual design
• Site Snap - view metadata for sites
• Detailed help files

• Clusters databases by topics
• Pop up windows for each database searched

• Companion to The Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research
• Weekly newsletter available

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

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