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Doors to the Future Through Facts, Truth, Information and Knowledge
April 2007DISCLAIMER:
I want to make clear that the list of links below was originally compiled about 6 or 7 years ago and was meant to help people find things before search engines were what they are today. More links are added at times to help keep folks abreast of newer links but there is no 'regular' updating of the list. The listing of any company or organization within this list does NOT constitute my endorsement of the company or organization, nor are the below links compensated.
Canada
Europe
New Zealand
Taiwan R.O.C
United Kingdom
A Sampling of Search and Information Engines Circa 1996-97
| The White House | Quality Magazine | Apple (Macintosh) | |
| The Weather (Mother Nature) | Karma - The Bitch Page | Design for Competitive Advantage | IBM (Big Blue) |
| HotWired! | Internet Service Providers | The MicroSoft (MooseDOS & Wintel Monopoly) | |
| Virtual Tourist World Map | Apartment & Rental Property Listings for the US & Canada (R U Relocating or Contract?) |
2000
- 09-04 - I finally found
time to 'spruce up' this links page just a bit... Most
of the links checked for integrity. If you want to know "...All
about search engines...", go to Danny Sullivan's SearchEngineWatch.com.
If you are new to "Surfing",a few things to consider:
Each search engine or source has specific characteristics in how they search, where they search, their specific focus (such as company listings versus news item searches), How Sites Are Ranked, and other special characteristics.
Two main distinct types are Subject searches and KeyWord searches. Yahoo is a Subject engine. Yahoo is mainly a listing service. In fact, if you think you can find 'it' on Yahoo, think again.
1996 -11-05 ---> First a Note: When I put this site up about a year ago, link pages were not, or did not seem, to be as prevalent as they are now. Now, in late 1996, search engines and link pages are everywhere. Because of this, and the time neccessary to keep all links up you will probably find, now and again, 'Expired' links here and there. When I find them I'll change them - But I won't be focusing on these links. I'm just too darned busy to keep all the links up yet I don't make the money necessary to hire someone to keep the site, or even just this page, updated on a daily or weekly basis. So - I'll focus on the site subject content. Please excuse expired links on this page.
If you find a broken link (a page which has bellied up), send me e-mail and I'll correct or remove it. Please include the URL.
Thanks!
Marc Smith
Life After
Yahoo Discussion (circa 1996)
The Online Advertising Discussion List had an interestingthread called "Can we live without Yahoo?" Moderator Richard Hoyraised the issue, discussing the difficulty of explaining to clients thatthey may not get listed in the directory. "This is a bit of a headachefor an agency like mine. How do you explain to a client that they might notget listed when Yahoo's own (submission) form doesn't clearly state this,"Hoy asked.
Responses ranged from "I managed to get in withno problem" to "I'm still trying." These reflect many of thesame sentiments expressed during Search Engine Watch's Yahoo Special Report.Conducted last year, the findings in the report still remain very true.
A portion of the discussion revolved around the ideathat getting listed may now be more a PR effort. Sending out press releasesand building up the overall awareness of a site may convince Yahoo editorsto list it, some felt.
One person voiced an obligation theme that often comesup when discussing Yahoo's reluctance to list everything submitted: "Internetusers have demonstrated great support for Yahoo, indeed, built much of thecontent of Yahoo one URL at a time and to a large and significant extent madeit possible for Yahoo to be what it is today," wrote Bob Schmidt. "Itwould not be asking too much of Yahoo to use some of its rich resources toorganize itself so as to make it possible for every web site to be listedin the appropriate category."
There were also a few complaints about outdated links,along with concern about inaccurate descriptions and the inability to getthese changed.
"I have not had trouble getting my clients listed.I have had problems getting listings revised or categorized correctly. Onedescription had a typo in it (not original to my submission, apparently insertedby a Yahoo! editor). They didn't care. Another client, Swiss Army Brands,received an irrelevant description, nothing like my original submission,"wrote Kim Brooks.
Finally, some expressed surprise to that Yahoo considersitself a "media company," not a search service. This shouldn't bethat much a surprise. Over the past year or so, most of the search serviceshave made substantial moves to transform themselves into more than just listingservices.
In addition there are sites with 'engines' which are basically registrys. People specifically 'ask' for their URL to be 'visited' by the site's 'engine for cataloging.
And there are sites which are limited registries. One logs in and enters their information. The registry adds the info to their database. They do no page or site searches.
What you are searching for determines the type of engine you will want to use. Most searches will be most profitable when you utilize several different engines (mixed methodologies).
Does the one you choose log and catelogue each page or just index.html? Does it do Meta searches? Consider whether you are looking for a specific company, articles, etc. The existing search engines place you in the biggest library anywhere! If you can't find it on the InterNet, it probably doesn't exist. So choose carefully. And remember many search engines have crossed reference indexes, like Company Name and/or Key Word.
Have fun!
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