Search Engine Links
Some of the best search engine links on the internet  
Page updated Mar 25, 2008

Some of the fine art exhibited here was found by using search engines or other search resources.  The list below includes some of the more-interesting, little known, perhaps unknown, search resources that we have run across.  Many of them are unusual, off-beat, of international origin, or specific to a particular country, category, topic, or subject.  Some are imaginative or entertaining in their presentation.  Some are genuinely useful, well-designed, and user-friendly.  We have no financial interest, connection, or affiliation with any person or website mentioned in these pages.

Some of the entries in this list are not "search engines" in the usual sense, and are not specifically related to art work or  paintings, but have been included anyhow because they provide a way to find and use information that might otherwise escape your attention, they involve searching for something, or are related to the "how-to" of the website or search engine optimization.  As any searcher knows, all search resources are not created equal, and we have made no attempt here to rank them or to compare any marketing hype with the actual online experience.

We hope you will enjoy the search engine links list and be curious enough to visit several of them.

An alpha list was impractical.  So we made the list more or less alpha--sometimes more, sometimes less.  From time to time, we add, revise, or delete entries, and revalidate the entire list.   

Do you know of an unusual, unique, or novel search resource that should be included in the Search Engine Links List?  To recommend it, all you have to do click here and send us the website's address (URL).

Search engine links list
This list was revalidated in its entirety Mar 25, 2008

7metasearch -- http://7metasearch.com -- searches all top-rated search engines simultaneously, giving "TOP 10" awards to all web sites appearing in the top 10 positions of each search engine and placing the sites with the most awards on the top of its return lists.

AbeBooks -- http://www.abebooks.com/ -- AbeBooks, a private company based in Victoria BC Canada, is "the world’s largest online marketplace for books, lists over 110 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print books from more than 13,500 independent booksellers from around the globe." 

Answers -- http://www.answers.com/ -- "...instant information on over 4 million topics...we start with 180 trusted titles from the most prestigious reference publishers, and we add our patented database technology, to give you the most comprehensive page available on a subject." 

Arabo -- http://www.arabo.com/ -- in Arabic and English, the Arab & Middle East Search Engine and Directory.  Directories by country from Algeria to Yemen.  The English section has a categorized listing of every site in the Arab world, regularly maintained and refreshed content, featuring individual countries as well as all general Arab topics. 

Ask -- http://www.ask.com/ -- "...relevant search results [from] the most authoritative sites on the Web...[our algorithm goes beyond link popularity] to determine popularity among pages considered to be experts on the topic of your search [which provides] world-class relevance that often offers a unique editorial flavor compared to other search engines."

BookFinder -- http://www.bookfinder.com/ -- "BookFinder.com is a one-stop ecommerce search engine that searches over 150 million books for sale--new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks.  We save you time and money by searching every major catalog online, and letting you know which booksellers are offering the best prices and selection.  When you find a book you like, you can buy it directly from the original seller. . .We enjoy blogging about our work, and advocating for a strong, diverse, bookselling industry."  [BookFinder is an independent subsidiary off AbeBooks.  Check out BookFinder's blog.] (Added Apr 30, 2008)

CIA -- http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html -- no website is complete unless it has a link to the Central Intelligence Agency.  We use its 2008 CIA World Factbook (updated frequently) as a source of information about the countries of the world.  See also "Maps" below.  

Copyscape -- http://www.copyscape.com/ -- "Copyscape makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web.  Simply type in the address of your web page, and Copyscape. . .finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you."  Copyscape is a free service; premium services are available.

Dogpile -- http://www.dogpile.com/ -- "Dogpile puts the power all the leading search engines--Google, Yahoo, MSN Live Search, and Ask.com-- together in one search box to deliver the best combined results. The process is more efficient and yields more relevant results. . .Dogpile was named top consumer search engine by J.D. Power & Associates for 2007."

Embassies of the World -- http://www.embassyworld.com/ -- "EmbassyWorld is designed to provide a comprehensive list of contact resources for all of the world's diplomatic offices.  Our goal is to provide an easy-to-navigate directory that is clearly laid out and fully cross-indexed. Our database is searchable via a bi-lateral search-engine to search both host location and hosted embassy from dual query boxes.  It is our intention to make finding an embassy easy."

European Search Engines -- http://www.netmasters.co.uk/european_search_engines/ -- "[the directory} is the leading directory of European Search Engines and Directories on the Internet.  [It] was established in 1996 to promote European search resources...the site lists search resources that allow free registration...".

Fazzle -- http://fazzle.com -- A Googlish interface. Check those eyes!

FirstGov -- [Renamed to USA.gov--see below]

FyberSearch -- http://www.fybersearch.com -- In 2003, Nathan Enns began the development of the FyberSearch engine he is self-funding.  His mission is "to provide revolutionary information retrieval and processing tools to all Internet users."  Nathan was 23 years old on Mar 21, 2008.

iBoogie -- http://www.iboogie.com -- Don't we all?  Give it a whirl.  

India -- http://us.rediff.com/index.html--   portal, search engine, focuses on the world's Indian communities.  

Internet Movie Database -- http://www.imdb.com -- "the biggest, best, most award-winning movie and TV site on the planet, visited by over 57 million movie and TV lovers each month."   More movies? - see rotten tomatoes below.  Both websites have one thing in common--a bit of garishness which mellows with use.

http://www.intute.ac.uk/ is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 123,083 records.

JoeAnt -- http://www.joeant.com -- JoeAnt, launched in 2001 by former Go.com volunteer guides who "...find and add the best sites in their chosen topics...", provides an internet directory and search engine.  Give it a dig.

Middle East -- http://www.albawaba.com -- Al Bawaba is a directory and search engine for countries of the Middle East, from Algeria to Yemen.

Naver -- http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/04/business/naver.php -- This Jul 4, 2007, article in the online International Herald Tribune tells you why the South Korean search engine called Naver is pummeling Google and Yahoo.  [The article was still online when the Art Links List was last updated.]

Netherlands -- http://www.voelspriet.nl -- a Dutch search engine.

Newspapers -- http://www.newspapers.com -- Answers the question "What in the world is going on?" Search thousands of newspapers online, find newspapers within the U.S. or in other countries.  

Omgili -- http://omgili.com/ -- Omgili is a crawler-based vertical search engine that focuses on user-generated content platforms, such as forums, discussion groups, mailing lists, answer boards--a way to find subjective information as opposed to traditional engines which search for sites and pages.  

Pakistan -- http://www.pakavenue.com -- PakAvenue is "anything and everything Pakistani on the internet."

Pandia -- http://www.pandia.com/ -- owned, designed, written and edited by a couple from Norway, Per and Susanne Koch.   At Pandia you can learn how to search the Web more efficiently, read about search engines and sites devoted to searching, and gain easy access to all the best search resources on the Internet.  Pandia also offers its own search facilities, including a web directory and metasearch engine.  

Radio locator -- http://www.radio-locator.com/ -- "...the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet.  We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2,500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."

ResearchBuzz -- http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/ -- has been buzzing for years, covering the world of search engines, internet research, browser technology, web directories, databases, online information collections, whatever.  ResearchBuzz is written and edited by Tara Calishain, the author of "Web Search Garage," and co-author of New York Times bestseller "Google Hacks."  Buzz on over and take a look.

Rotten Tomatoes -- http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ -- So much to look at, so little time, with one of the busiest homepages in the biz.  It's not as daunting as it first appears.  If you enjoy the movies, you'll spend a lot of time here.  

RSSMicro -- http://www.rssmicro.com/ -- "...search 1.7 million RSS feeds -- the most comprehensive RSS feed search on the web."

Science-specific -- http://www.scirus.com -- "...the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the internet...searches more than 450 million science-specific Web pages." 

Search Engine Colossus -- http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/ --  "...the national directory of international search engines...explore 351 countries and territories" around the world.

Search Engine Guide -- http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html -- "Internet search engines are categorized by topic in our searchable directory of general and specialty search engines.  Also listed are resources and tools for exploring the deep web, performing advanced research, and for learning about using search engine tools and technology."  Search engine news from around the Internet is posted each day.

Search Engine Watch -- http://searchenginewatch.com/ -- Search Engine Watch covers it all:  news, headlines, reviews, tools, blogs, forums, listings, ratings, stats, resources, newsletters, reports. [etc.]    

South Africa -- http://www.searchza.com/ -- "The ultimate South Africa search engine."

Trulia -- http://www.trulia.com/ -- "We are a real estate search engine that helps you find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level to help you make better decisions in the process."  [See also Zillow, below]

U.K. -- http://www.searchuk.com/-- a search engine and directory specializing in the United Kingdom market.

USAGov -- http://www.USA.gov/ -- the U.S. Government's official web portal; has a search engine for U.S. Government and State Government.  Its tag line is Government Made Easy.  (Surely you jest.)  [previously known as FirstGov.gov]

The WWW Virtual Library -- http://vlib.org -- "The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalog of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.  Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web."

Wayback Machine -- http://www.archive.org/web/web.php -- "The Internet Archive Wayback Machine."  Browse through an archive of 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, follow the instructions.  Thanks to a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, Internet Archive completed a 2 billion page web crawl in 2007. This is the largest web crawl attempted by Internet Archive. The project was designed to take a global snapshot of the Web.

Weather -- http://www.weatherbase.com/ -- historical weather or records and averages for over 16,000 cities worldwide, "...the most...comprehensive source on the internet."

Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  -- a web-based free content encyclopedia with millions of entries in about 150 languages.  Its goal is to create a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.  Wikipedia is one of the most popular (and sometimes controversial) reference sites on the internet. 

Zillow -- http://www.zillow.com/ -- a free, no-registration real estate service for some 80 million houses in the U.S.  Enter an address and Zillow provides its approximate market value of the house, comparables, and other data (culled primarily from public records), overlaid on a satellite map.  

ZoomInfo -- http://www.zoominfo.com/ -- "...the premier business information search engine, with profiles on more than 40 million people and 3.5 million companies...delivers fresh and organized information on industries, companies, people, products, services and jobs."

Zuula -- http://zuula.com/  -- Zuula's customizable metasearch is a quick and easy way to get results from all the top engines.  Catchy name.  Privately held, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

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