http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/12/technology/12CYBERLAW.html -- An article in today's (1/12/01) 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 recent study reveals the "bow tie" structure of the Web. Helpful for visualizing the usability and accessibility of the Web.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/circuits/articles/03sear.html -- A Pre-Google era New York Times article titled "Desperately Seeking Susan OR Suzie NOT Sushi."  It links to the favorite search engines of various interviewed celebrities.

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

http://www.google.com/why_use.html - Read how Google works.

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

http://www.internets.com/ -- Internets.Com calls claims to have assembled "the largest filtered collection of useful search engines and newswires anywhere on the World Wide Web."  Particularly helpful for anyone teaching or doing research in unfamiliar disciplines.

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://queryserver.dataware.com/general.html -- 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.infind.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.cen.uiuc.edu/exploring.html -- Ed Kubaitisat of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers this helpful chart of links to useful search engines.

http://www.zdnet.com/searchiq/ -- ZDNet's "Search IQ" offers links and reviews of search engines.

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

 

http://www.searchengineguide.com/pr/2001/01/09_pr1.html -- This article about the company Quiver (http://www.quiver.com/) suggests that in the future we will search using "Vertical Portals . . . [and] intelligent Web directories that enable their Web search results to dynamically grow more and more relevant."  Next year's presentation on search engines will probably address the increasing use of artificial intelligence as an aid to web-searching and many other computer-based activities.