Search Engines - Resources

A selected list, largely ignoring sites directed to marketing and business applications.

Finding Information on the Internet: The Teaching Library Internet Workshops, University of California, Berkeley. Includes tables of features for search engines andsubject directories, and coverage of the invisible Web, search strategies, evaluation, et al.
ResearchBuzz!: Industry news about search engines, research, and so on.
Resource Shelf: News, readings, new resources. Maintained by Gary Price, whose earlier Alpha Search was one of the first Invisible Web gateways.
Search Engine Showdown: By Online columnist Greg Notess. Very rich site, full of tips, strategies, etc. Has become more commercial lately.
Search Engine Watch: Used to be THE search engine information source, by Danny Sullivan. Now more comercial and business-oriented. Includes guides, facts and fun, status reports, and myriad resources. Rich and informative, and includes a listserv current awareness service.
Search Engines and Beyond: Powerpoint et al. from the Infonortics search engine conferences from 1998 (98 isn't listed, but the URL pattern is the same as all the others).
Yahoo: Searching the Web: In addititon to lists of engines (including a georgraphical listing), includes subsections on crawlers, tips, gateways, and placement improvement.