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» Site title: Pandia Powersearch  - List of search engines and directories. Also includes a metasearch engine, search tutorial, and a free newsletter.
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» Site title: Age of Dot Com
» Site description: Links to search resources including start pages, integrated search forms, portals, engines, guides, and directories. Offers both a simple links page and a directory with descriptions and ratings.
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» Site title: Aleph Search
» Site description: A directory of directories. Links to selected information rich web resources, both unspecialised and specialised, with a strong emphasis on United Kingdom based sites.
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» Site title: Alt Search Engines
» Site description: Charles Knight maintains a list of the top 100 alternative and niche search engines. Includes news, reviews and debates on search engines.
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» Site title: Big Search Engine Index
» Site description: Directory listing hundreds of search engines, categorized, described and rated.
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» Site title: Complete Planet
» Site description: Directory of databases and specialty search engines from Bright Planet.
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» Site title: CyberTimes Navigator
» Site description: The starting point that New York Times reporters and editors use for their explorations of the Web. A straightforward list of some of the best sources on the Web for all types of information.
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» Site title: Direct Search
» Site description: Gary Price's compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools.
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» Site title: Fetchfido
» Site description: A graphical interface of links to search engines. Multi-layered, with universal, United Kingdom, United States, European and worldwide sections.
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» Site title: FinderSeeker
» Site description: Find the search engine you want by selecting a thematical category and/or country, or search by keyword.
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» Site title: FTP Search Engines
» Site description: Rated links to ftp and mp3 search sites.
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» Site title: Geniusfind
» Site description: Categorizes thousands of the most useful topic-specific directories and databases, with descriptions.
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» Site title: Indexing the Internet
» Site description: An essay by John Hubbard analyzing the question of what is the best way to index the Internet, with references.
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» Site title: ISEDB
» Site description: A directory of search engines and directories worldwide, organized by geographical area and subject, includes articles on site submission, marketing, and optimization.
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» Site title: OpenSearch
» Site description: A collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results. Includes specifications and frequently asked questions.
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» Site title: Search Engine Colossus
» Site description: Directory of hundreds of search engines, organised by country and topic.
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» Site title: Search Engine Relationship Chart
» Site description: Bruce Clay's pictorial view of how search engines provide data to partner engines and directories. [PDF]
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» Site title: Search Engine Showdown
» Site description: A user's guide to Web searching with features, comparative analysis, strategies, discussion, news and reviews.
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» Site title: Search Engine Watch
» Site description: A guide to search engine marketing and search engine optimization. Forums, reviews, articles, ratings, and frequent newsletters. Paying members receive access to extra content.
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» Site title: Search Tools for Web Sites and Intranets
» Site description: Provides information, news and advice about web site searching technology. Includes a guide, search tools list, glossary, and opportunity to compare searches of its own site by different tools. Offers a free monthly email newsletter.
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» Site title: Searchenginez
» Site description: Search forms for the most effective engines in dozens of categories from Robert Skelton. Includes reviews, ratings, webmaster tools, and tutorials.
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» Site title: Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed
» Site description: Librarian Robert J. Lackie provides annotated links to directories, searchable sites, databases, and search engines useful for uncovering content that the general search engines fail to disclose.
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» Site title: Topix: Search Engines News
» Site description: News on the search engine industry continually updated from thousands of sources around the Net.
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» Site title: The Ultimate Search Engine Links Page
» Site description: A directory of search engines: general, metasearch, pay-per-click, children's, subject, country and people search. All are described and can be rated.
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Do You Know?
Wikipedia say: Topsites are sites with a ranked listing of different websites, generally related by an overall subject. In many cases a topsite is a directory of related web sites which ranks the listed sites by popularity. Topsite rankings are user generated, usually through voting by visitors (clicks in to the topsite) from member sites or by counting pageviews. Most topsites have an anti-cheat protection system and some display traffic statistics, user ratings, and reviews. Topsites often list a top 50 or top 100 most popular sites with a similar topic. They can be a significant source of free targeted traffic for member sites if that topsite becomes popular. After several early search engines failed, some people thought topsites might replace them.
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Idiocy in the Computer World
When I worked for a company that had a contract with 3M, 3M had asked me to write them a memo describing why we were having problems with diskette failures. I said in the memo that the disks were failing due to head crashes. "If the customers would just clean their heads periodically, we wouldn''t have these problems," I said in the memo. One customer responded with "What kind of shampoo do you recommend?"
An end-user hotline received a call about a bad software disk. They asked the customer to make a copy of the disk and mail it in to the hotline. A few days later, they received a letter with a mimeographed copy of the disk. Since it was a double-sided disk, both sides of the disk had been Xeroxed.
A Computer Operator says as she is lifting an RP06 disk pack from the drive: "Gee, how much does one of these weigh?"
Me: "It depends on how much data is on the disk.
The operator believed it.
I had a similar experience while working as a student operator at Michigan Tech. One particularly trying afternoon, the computer was merrily crashing for a number of reasons. After about four such spectacles, we broadcast that the computer would be down for the remainder of the afternoon. There was a resigned groan from the users and they began to file out of the Center, except for one comely young woman with wide blue eyes who wandered up to the counter and queried: "What''s wrong with the computer?"
Too tired and irritated to give her a straight answer, I looked her straight in the eye and replied: "Broken muffler belt."
A look of deep concern wafted into her expression as she asked: "Oh, that''s bad. Can you call Midas?"
A few excerpts from the Computer Help Desk:
Caller: "What''s the name for when you''re entering data into the computer?"
HD: "Data Entry."
Caller: "Thank you!"
Overheard in a student computer lab:
Client (raising hand and waving frantically): "The computer says ''Enter your name and press RETURN. ''What do I do??"
Lab Assistant: "Enter your name and press RETURN."
Client (as if a revelation has struck): "Oh!"
Humor of the day
Q: Did you hear about the blonde coyote?
A: Got stuck in a trap, chewed off three legs and was still stuck.
Q: Did you hear about the blonde who stood in front of a mirror with her eyes closed?
A: She wanted to see what she looked like asleep.
Q: How can you tell if a blonde is a good cook?
A She gets the pop tart out of the toaster in one piece.
Q: How did the blonde try to kill the bird?
A: She threw it off a cliff.
Q: How do blonde brain cells die?
A: Alone.
Q: How do you get a blonde to marry you?
A: Tell her she''s pregnant.
Q: What will she ask you?
A: "Is it mine?"
Q: What are the worst six years in a blonde''s life?
A: Third grade.
Q: What did the blonde get on her IQ test?
A: Saliva.
Q: What do you call 15 blondes in a circle?
A: A dope ring.