Specialized Searchable Databases
Collections of Links to Resources
There is a growing competition among search engines to offer not-web-search services, some free and others fee-based. Following Google's huge success measured in ad profits from AdSense and AdWords, engines hope to lure users to their sites and hope they will click on an ad. The services that are especially useful are highlighted below.
Large Subject Directories
- Selected sites, "cataloged" into subject categories
- Yahoo Directory at dir.yahoo.com
- Others use Open Directory at dmoz.org
- Gigablast at gigablast.com
- Exalead at exalead.com
- Google at directory.google.com
Maps, Directions, Local Searches
- Google Maps at maps.google.com
- Google Local at local.google.com
- Yahoo! Maps at maps.yahoo.com
- Yahoo! Local at local.yahoo.com
- MSN Live Local at local.live.com/
Publications on the Web
- Google Scholar at scholar.google.com
- Google Book Search/Google Library at print.google.com
- Yahoo! Subscriptions in advanced search
- Yahoo promises a full-text book search
Education, Reference
- Yahoo! Education at education.yahoo.com
- MSN Encarta at encarta.msn.com
Government, Finance
- Gigablast Gov Search at gov.gigablast.com
- Google Uncle Sam at www.google.com/unclesam
- Yahoo! Finance at finance.yahoo.com
- MSN Money at moneycentral.msn.com
Current News
- Google News at news.google.com
- Yahoo! News at news.yahoo.com
- MSN Newsbot beta at newsbot.msnbc.msn.com
Shopping and Traveling
- Froogle at froogle.google.com
- Yahoo! Shopping at shopping.yahoo.com
- Gigablast Travel at travel.gigablast.com
- Yahoo Trip-Planner at travel.yahoo.com/trip
Finding People, Groups
- Yahoo! People Finder at people.yahoo.com
- Yahoo! Groups at groups.yahoo.com
- Google Groups at groups.google.com