BBB -Better Business Bureau
Big Book -GTE Directory with 10 million+ business listings.
Big Yellow -16 million business listings
Biz-Lib -
BizBot -
Bizweb -Info on over 34,000 companies.
Business Advisor -Government/ business link.
Com Find -
Company Finder -”Instant profiles of over 4,700 high-tech companies.”
CorpTech -Database of 50,000 high tech companies.
CNNfn -CNN Financial Network.
DotComDirectory -Find online businesses –FAST!
Dunn & Bradstreet -
EDGAR -Search the SEC’s database of corporate information.
Edgar-Online -Research company offers SEC info.
Edge -Entrepreneurial Edge Online.
Financial Web -Real time quotes, research info.
Fortune 500 -Introduction to the 1998 Fortune 500 list.
Fraud.Org -
Galaxy -Business focus directory, “for professionals”
Hoovers Online -13,000 large public and private co info.
Industry Research Desk -
Kompass -
LogicTeam -Business analysis tools.
MarketWatch -By CBS. Get stock quotes and more.
MoneyWeb -Financial Search Directory
The Motley Fool -Finance and folly, stock tips.
OpenText -Business focus SE. Millions of pages.
Silicon Investor -
Stockmaster -Follow the stock market.
TollFree -AT&T 800 directory, locate competitors.
Web Assurance Bureau -
Yellow.Com -Search for companies, products and services.
Zip2 -Find businesses in a designated city, state.
Business Search Engines
October 29, 2006Book Search Engines
October 29, 2006 21 N. Main -Used book dealer, 15MM books from over 3500 dealers
Advanced Book Exchange -7000 independent bookstores
Alibris -Rare books
Amazon.Com -The Best
Author’s Den -
Barnes & Noble -The Biggest
BCY Book Loft -
BiblioFind -Rare books
Book Browser -Authors, reviews, forthcoming titles and more.
BookFinder -Great used book finder
Booksamillion.com -
Booksense -Independent Bookstores Network
Elgrande.com -
Harvest Book -Out of print books
Ingram -
NetStore USA -
Powell’s Books -
SeekBooks -The sure way to locate book sites on the web!
Textbookx.com
Arts & Humanities Search Engines
October 29, 2006ADAM -UK art, design, architecture and media Information
Artcyclopedia -Fine art search engine. Search by title, artist, or museum.
Art-Bridge – Directory and searchable database of art resources
Getty Information Institute -Bridging art and technology
Librarians’ Index -Arts, History, Philosophy, Scieence, etc..
Voice of the Shuttle -Humanities research directory.
Adult Search Engines
October 29, 2006
AAA Adult -Hot sex links!
Adult.com -
AOSOTD -Adult Oriented Site Of The Day.
BBW Sex Toys -Lingerie and more
Chippy.com -THE adult search engine!
Hanna’s Banana -Lots of content
HotSpots -
Index of Sex -
MILF -Mother I’d Like To Fuck
Naughty Linx -
Nude Celeb Search -SE for free nude celebrities on the web.
Persian Kitty -Heavily visited link site.
Perverted Links -Many categories.
Perverted Toys -Search huge selection of XXX videos, adult DVDs, lube, leather, condoms, poppers, lingerie.. and more!
Sex.com -Owned by my friend Gary.
SexCites -
Sex Finder -
Sex Toys .org -Large selection!
Sinfoseek -
Sin Search -
U Search X -
WebUnderground -Cool look
X Domains -Priority listings available.
YNOT -
Top 3 Search Engines
October 29, 2006Top 3 Search Engines in the United States (The Majors) by Rank
1. Google
Free Submit: http://www.google.com/addurl/
2. Yahoo! Search – Powered by Yahoo!
Free Submit: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/
3. MSN Search – Powered by MSN and Yahoo! Site Match™
Free Submit: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
Admin Note: According to 2005 November figures from Nielsen//NetRatings, Google has the largest share of U.S. based web searches with 46%, Yahoo is second with 23%, and MSN third with 11%.
How do Search Engines Work?
October 29, 2006The term “search engine” is often used generically to describe both crawler-based search engines and human-powered directories. These two types of search engines gather their listings in radically different ways.
Crawler-Based Search Engines
Crawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They “crawl” or “spider” the web, then people search through what they have found.
If you change your web pages, crawler-based search engines eventually find these changes, and that can affect how you are listed. Page titles, body copy and other elements all play a role.
Human-Powered Directories
A human-powered directory, such as the Open Directory, depends on humans for its listings. You submit a short description to the directory for your entire site, or editors write one for sites they review. A search looks for matches only in the descriptions submitted.
Changing your web pages has no effect on your listing. Things that are useful for improving a listing with a search engine have nothing to do with improving a listing in a directory. The only exception is that a good site, with good content, might be more likely to get reviewed for free than a poor site.
“Hybrid Search Engines” Or Mixed Results
In the web’s early days, it used to be that a search engine either presented crawler-based results or human-powered listings. Today, it extremely common for both types of results to be presented. Usually, a hybrid search engine will favor one type of listings over another. For example, MSN Search is more likely to present human-powered listings from LookSmart. However, it does also present crawler-based results (as provided by Inktomi), especially for more obscure queries.
The Parts Of A Crawler-Based Search Engine
Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. First is the spider, also called the crawler. The spider visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site. This is what it means when someone refers to a site being “spidered” or “crawled.” The spider returns to the site on a regular basis, such as every month or two, to look for changes.
Everything the spider finds goes into the second part of the search engine, the index. The index, sometimes called the catalog, is like a giant book containing a copy of every web page that the spider finds. If a web page changes, then this book is updated with new information.
Sometimes it can take a while for new pages or changes that the spider finds to be added to the index. Thus, a web page may have been “spidered” but not yet “indexed.” Until it is indexed — added to the index — it is not available to those searching with the search engine.
Search engine software is the third part of a search engine. This is the program that sifts through the millions of pages recorded in the index to find matches to a search and rank them in order of what it believes is most relevant.
Major Search Engines: The Same, But Different
All crawler-based search engines have the basic parts described above, but there are differences in how these parts are tuned. That is why the same search on different search engines often produces different results.
By Danny Sullivan
