SEARCH ENGINES
These are the more common search engines, in alphabetical order.
Dogpile - Searches multiple search engines
Feedster Searches RSS news feeds, blogs, images
Google - Generally considered at or near the top of the heap
Inktomi - A database used by major search engines; not a search engine unto itself
Medology - A medical data search engine
Metacrawler - Searches multiple search engines
ProFusion - Searches multiple search engines (URL unknown)
Yahoo! - An industry heavyweight lies at the bottom of the list due to the unforgiving rigidity of alphabetical order
Xtragoogle is now HotDaddy (you can check the Xtra-Google site to read why)
Speaking of Google... Google Thinks It Knows Your Friends article by Miguel Helft
Ah-Ha is now Enhance Interactive
Direct Hit is now Teoma; and Teoma has subsequently been absorbed into the ask.com engine.
Goto.com is now Overture
RECIPROCAL LINK CHECK
Very important for site popularity in search engines, these tools let you check on how many links there are to your web pages..
For Google, enter "LINK:A_URL.domain" to use Google's built-in reciprocal link check mechanism (BackLinks). For example, for this site, you would 'search' for:
LINK:www.thesocialistparty.org/
