Google

Google Services & Tools - A list of links to Google's astounding collection of specialized searches, including Froogle (products for sale from across the Web), Google Image Search, Google News and Google Groups (post and read comments in online newsgroup forums)

Advanced search tips - How to use Google's many search syntax options to help narrow your search results. A very helpful tutorial!

Google features - This page explains some of the finer points of using Google's advanced capabilities. It tells you how to search by file type, phone book listings, similar pages, site searches, stock quotes, street maps and more!

Yahoo

New search page - A new integrated start page for your Yahoo! searches, with tabs that enable you to search the Web, a hierarchical directory, news, Yellow Pages, images and maps.

MyYahoo - Set up a personalized Yahoo! start page, which can include stock prices and news of publicly held companies, plus other useful competitive intelligence resources.

Other Leading Search Engines

AltaVista

HotBot - Search FAST (AllTheWeb), Google, Inktomi and Teoma, all from one search site.

LookSmart

Teoma

Lycos

FAST (AllTheWeb)

Northern Light

AskJeeves

Open Directory Project

News Search Sites

Google News - Probably the most powerful news search tool on the planet. Everything you'd expect from Google, with new stories added several times a day.

Rocket News - Another very effective news search tool. Updated almost as aggressively as Google News.

MagPortal - A searchable index of magazine articles.

FindArticle - A searchable archive of published articles from other 300 magazines and journals.

World News Connection - A foreign news aggregation service maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Niche Search Engines

Government
SearchGov - Provides a searchable index of over 5 million U.S. government Web pages.
SearchMil - Conduct searches of U.S. military sites (having .mil at the end of their domain names).
FirstGov - The U.S. government's official search site.
Google Uncle Sam - Google's government-specific search tool.

Education
SearchEdu - Contains an index of over 20 million university and education Web pages.

Marketing
Internet Marketing Index - A Yahoo-like directory of links to over 250 leading Web sites regarding online marketing, arranged into over 60 major categories.

E-business
eBizSearch - Search the Web, academic and commercial Web sites for articles on various aspects of e-business.

Legal
FindForms - A searchable database of thousands of free legal forms.

Business Resources
Business.com - A Yahoo-like directory of business and corporate information. It features nearly 30 major categories of industry-specific information, news and resources, plus a database of detailed information on close to 70,000 companies.
Hoovers Online - Enables you to search over 6,000 business publications; paid subscription service.
Mergent - Combines an impressive selection of business databases (Moody's Industrial Manual, EDGAR filings and Company Data Direct) into a single, powerful business search resource.
ZapData - Free business research from Dun & Bradstreet.

Associations
Gateway to Associations - Search for over 6,500 trade and professional associations in this online directory.

Creativity & Innovation
Innovation Links Directory - An extensive, Yahoo-like directory of business innovation, creativity and brainstorming sites and resources from InnovationTools.
Creax - An inspirational lidst of creativity and innovation resources on the Web.

E-books
SearcheBooks.com - Find e-books quickly and easily using this search tool.

Weblogs
DayPop - Search 17000 news sites, Weblogs and RSS feeds for current events and breaking news.
EatonWeb Portal - One of the best known sites that you can use to search for Weblogs on a particular topic.
CNET Weblog Search - Select up to 5 major Weblog hosting firms for your search.

General Reference
XRefer - Specializes in encyclopedic and university reference materials for libraries.
RefDesk - This wide-ranging links directory covers almost any kind of reference or background information you can imagine.
Gary Price's List of Lists - A database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet.

Directory of search engines
Search Engine Colossus - An incredible guide to search engines from around the world, indexed by country and topic.

Browser Toolbars

Google Toolbar - Page Rank graphic shows how well Google rates each site you visit in its database; useful for search engine optimization, locating reciprocal link targets.

Yahoo! Companion

Alexa Toolbar

Teoma Search Bar - Unique features include the ability to e-mail the URL of a site you've found, directly from the Search Bar, and to do lookups on the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.

UltraBar - A third-party metasearch toolbar that enables you to add any search engine (or Web site search capability) to your Web browser.

SearchBarPro - Similar to UltraBar

Web Page Monitoring Tools

InfoMinder

Website-Watcher

Watch That Page

TrackEngine

RivalEye - This competitive intelligence tool from the Northern Light search engine helps you to keep tabs on competitive information.

Meta Search Tools

Copernic Agent - A powerful desktop metasearch tool. Recommended!

FirstStop WebSearch - Simialr to Copernic Agent, but also enables you to view thumbnail images of the sites in your search results listings.

Bullseye 3.0 - A desktop metasearch tool from InfoSeek

WebCrawler - One of the Web's oldest and best-known metasearch sites.

Vivisimo - Uses document clustering technology to group search results in some useful ways.

SurfWax - Displays real-time page summaries, and offers some other very useful tools for helping you to visualize and manipulate your search results.

DogPile - Another oldie but goodie meta-search tool!

Metor - A new search and retrieval system that integrates information from hundreds of databases whose contents can not be reached by traditional search engines.

InvisibleWeb - a guide to over 10,000 databases, archives, and other data sources not normally indexed by the major search engines. Owned by InfoSeek.

Visualizing Search Results

WebBrain - See an index of Web sites in a unique visual and dynamic display format!

KartOO - Displays search results as thematic maps.

TouchGraph Google Browser - A Java applet that displays Google search results in an expandable visual map. Very interesting!

PopOut Prism - An experimental browser plug-in developed by Xerox's PARC research lab. It displays your search words in the results pages highlighted in a 3-D format that can help you to find what you're looking for faster.

Grokker - A new desktop metasearch tool that intelligently clusters information to help you better understand search results. A very unique program, still in a paid beta test stage; $99 for the pre-release version.

Anacubis Viewer - This free browser plug-in converts Google search results into graphical icons, and displays the relationships between them.

Search Engine Weblogs

ResearchBuzz - A great source for news, opinions and interpretation of what's going on in the world of search engines and online research.

Pandia Search World - News on Web searching and search engine optimization.

Other Helpful Search Tools & Resources

Search Features Chart from Search Engine Watch

NoodleQuest - Get help in determining which search engine would be best suited to your current search, by answering some survey questions.

Pandia Q-Cards - Helpful printable cards that you can put next to your computer, which give you fingertip access to the advanced search query syntax and rules of the major search engines.

The Wayback Machine - Search for old versions of your favorite Web sites. The Wayback Machine contains an index of over 10 billion pages!

RDN Virtual Training Suite - Hone your Web searching skills with this free set of online tutorials.

Fun Stuff

Google Mirror - A "mirror" image of Google - displayed backwards. Don't forget: You have to enter your search term backwards when using "elgooG"!

Google Whacking - An online "sport" where the object is to come up with an obtuse search phrase or collection of words that returns only 1 search result on the Google search engine.