These sites do not crawl the web themselves to build an index. Instead they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then unified. They may either present results from each engine one after the other (parallel search), or blend them, removing duplicates.

Date Added: Nov 26, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

Pay-Per-Click advertising companies that do not confine their services to any one of the subcategories. In general, these are the leaders of the Pay-Per-Click industry.

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Sites which offer a number of search tools on one page. Each search tool can be accessed from its own search box or via a singe search box by radio buttons, drop-down list or other method. Resources may include general search engines, directories, dictionaries, encyclopedias or other general reference resources.

Date Added: Nov 27, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

This category includes sites that provide free Web based telephone/address look up services.

Sites that publish and sell telephone directories, and/or offer directory access on a subscription basis, but don't provide a free look up service for Web users are listed under Business/Publishing_and_Printing/Publishing/Books/Reference/Phone_Directories/

Date Added: Dec 5, 2007 Hits: 1 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

A search engine is a Web site connected to a database that catalogs other Web sites. It will search the actual text of other Web sites for you. A computer search program, or spider, follows links on Web pages to regularly and automatically rebuild this database.

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Weblogs primarily about searching the Internet: news and commentary related to search engines, directories and other tools and resources for searchers.

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Sites related to the Internet directory and portal Yahoo.

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Finding Information on the Internet, Tutorial on the Internet, World Wide Web searching, Choosing the best search tools or engines to refine searches and get the documents you want, Evaluating Web, Critical Thinking, Search Engines, Web Directories, Meta-Search, help searching

This tutorial presents the substance of the Internet Workshops offered year-round by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley. The content on this site has been updated to reflect the latest trends in search engines, directories, and evaluating web pages. We call the course "Research Quality Web Searching" to reflect our belief that there is a lot of great material on the Web - primary sources, specialized directories and databases, statistical information, educational sites on many levels, policy, opinion of all kinds, and so much more - and we have better tools for finding this great stuff.

Date Added: Dec 16, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0

Directory of top Internet search engines. Allows the direct searching of 22 search engines in each category. Provides links to the best search engine resources available online.

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All-in-one meta search page. Links to top meta search engines and meta crawler sites.

Date Added: Dec 16, 2007 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0