Searching the Web

• Search Engine Watch
  Provides tips and information about search engine marketing and optimization, paid search advertising, and analysis of the search engine industry.
  www.searchenginewatch.com
• PubSub
  Allows you to subscribe to queries that are then matched against newly published information from sources such as blogs, newsgroups, and SEC filings.
  www.pubsub.com
• Wikipedia: Web Search Engine
  Article describes the history of search engines, their technologies, and challenges.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine
• Soople
  Provides a page with individual search boxes that take advantage of the advanced search options on Google.
  www.soople.com
• SearchTools.com
  How to choose and implement a search engine on a web site. Also has information on robots, indexers, search servers, and related topics.
  www.searchtools.com
• Traffick
  News and commentary on search engines, Web portals and browsers, and Internet marketing. Features a guide to portals, search engines, and webmaster tools.
  www.traffick.com
• Search Engine Lowdown
  Search engine news and marketing commentary.
  www.searchenginelowdown.com
• Meta-Search Engines
  What are meta-search engines? When to use and not use them?
  www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html
• John Battelle's Searchblog
  Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more.
  www.battellemedia.com
• Can't Find On Google
  A repository of failed queries.
  www.cantfindongoogle.com
• Search Engine History
  Overview of the history of search engines and search technology.
  www.searchenginehistory.com
• 50 Matches
  Crawls sites where users have voted for or bookmarked popular URLs, including Digg, del.icio.us., and Reddit.
  www.50matches.com
• cl1p.net
  Acts as an Internet clipboard, allowing users to copy and paste information between computers.
  www.cl1p.net
• TEK Project, The
  Working to build a low-connectivity search engine for use by people at the far side of a bad telephone connection.
  tek.sourceforge.net
• Sugarcodes
  Create shortcuts to frequently used search engines, shopping sites, and web destinations.
  www.sugarcodes.com
• compare-stuff.com
  Compare the popularity of any two given searches by entering a comparison term.
  www.compare-stuff.com
• Search Engine Herald
  News and analysis of the search engine industry.
  www.searchengineherald.com
• Multiservice Search and Comparison Using the MetaCrawler
  Paper from 1995.
  www.w3j.com/1/selberg.169/paper/169.html