http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/12/technology/12CYBERLAW.html -- An article in the January 2001 New York Times on potential legal blocks to searching robots used by most search engines.

http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb000522-1.htm#bowtie -- This study reveals the "bow tie" structure of the Web. Helpful for visualizing the usability and accessibility of the Web.

www.google.com --Google is still the best search engine because of its size, speed, and practice of ranking found results "objectively."

http://directory.google.com/ - Visit the Google directory, which is faster, better organized, and less commercial than Yahoo.

http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm#Par62 -- This collection of search engine links and literature will take a while to load, for it is huge and is hosted at the Dutch Leiden university.  It's worth the wait, though, for the site's author has invested significant effort in researching all these resources.

http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm -- Queryserver allows the user to search the ten most popular search engines simultaneously, and then read the discovered data clustered by content.  A more effective version of other meta-search engines like http://www.vivisimo.com and http://www.dogpile.com/.

http://www.search.com/ -- This C|NET-owned site allows one to "metasearch more than 800 specialized engines from around the Web." Not particularly academic, but very effective in searching for recent news stories.

 

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Academic.html -- An excellent collection of 29 academic search engines and directories.

http://www.lii.org/ -- The Librarians' Index to the Internet.  Trust your librarian, rather than some Dot Com startup, to help you evaluate and choose web resources.

 

http://www.hi.is/~anne/websearch_bibliography.html -- The best bibliography of print and web resources on and about searching the web, from Anne Clyde at the University of Iceland.

http://www.cyndislist.com/search.htm -- This genealogy web page links to dozens of search engines and articles about searching.