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World of Search
The most crucial part of web is finding the right information.So i gathered some really useful SEO list on various topics and it is divided into different parts.So the first part is all about the different forms of search that we use in our daily life.
General search engines
Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently. Also offers news, picture, video, and audio search.
AltaVista provides the most comprehensive search experience on the Web!
Google search is a web search engine owned by Google, Inc., and is the most used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services.Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997.
MSN is Microsoft’s portal, offering MSNBC News, sports, MSN Money, games, videos, entertainment & celebrity gossip, weather, shopping and more great content
Yahoo! Inc. is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and social media websites and services. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search and MSN Search) is the name of Microsoft’s web search engine, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo!. Live Search is accessible through Microsoft’s Live.com and MSN.com web portal. Currently, Live Search is the fourth most used search engine after Google, Baidu, and Yahoo!
Netscape operates a search engine, Netscape Search, powered by AOL Search. Another version of Netscape Search can be found at netscape.com/search, which has since been incorporated into Propeller.
Offers search for web sites, images, news, blogs, video, maps and directions, local search and shopping.Ask.com is a search engine started in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California.
referential search engine
About.com is an online source for original information and advice, and was among the top 15 US Websites (Nielsen Online Spring 2008). It is written in English, and is aimed primarily at North Americans. It is owned by The New York Times Company.
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. is an American company best known for publishing the Encyclopedia Britannica, the world’s oldest continuously-published encyclopaedia.
Wikipedia (Spoken content icon) is a free, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
The leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information.
Infoplease.com, a free, authoritative, and respected reference for Internet users, provides a comprehensive encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary, and thesaurus. Infoplease.com contains facts on all subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, education, world news, and united states government and history.
your gateway for interactive learning on the Web.
Question & answers Search
wikiHow is a wiki-based community with an extensive database of how-to guides. All of the site’s content is licensed under Creative Commons (by-nc-sa); and the site uses a modified version of MediaWiki 1.12.
Fluther is a free Q&A collective that specializes in getting fast answers from the right people
Answers.com is a website that presents aggregated content from other reference websites. Launched in January 2005, the website is the primary product of the Answers Corporation
Answerbag is a collaborative online database of FAQs, where questions are asked and answered by users. Instead of the one question–one answer model, multiple answers to a given question are presented, in descending order of user ratings. As of December 2006, Answerbag was the second largest social Q&A site next to Yahoo! Answers.
Experts Exchange (www.experts-exchange.com) is an online “ask an expert” site for computer related questions founded in 1996. It offers its services in two forms: A free access with some limitations (see below) and a fee-based premium service without such restrictions.
Expert guidance from real people helping to answer your questions.
Wondir is an organization with a simple mission: eliminate the barriers between questions and answers.
Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users.
Image search engines
Google Image Search is a search service created by Google which allows users to search the Web for image content. The feature was originally announced in December 2001. The keywords for the image search are based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image.
Picsearch is a Swedish company which develops and provides image search, video search and audio search services for large websites.
Ditto.com is a leading visual search engine. Ditto enables people to navigate the Web through pictures.
PicFindr searches the web* for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially
Meaning Search
Reference.com is an online information source that provides encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, and other content. The site also provides text translation and serves as a web search engine portal for Ask.com.
Merriam–Webster, which was originally the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially dictionaries that are descendants of Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Merriam–Webster is a subsidiary of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.
Free online dictionary from Cambridge University Press.
YourDictionary.com maintains the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2,500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, dictionary, glossary and reference articles, games that build language skills, and a forum for discussing language issues with the logophile community.
TheFreeDictionary.com is an online dictionary and encyclopedia which gathers information from a variety of sources. This site cross references the contents of Wikipedia, Columbia Encyclopedia, Hutchinson Encyclopedia.
Urban Dictionary is a Web-based dictionary of slang words and phrases. The site also features slang assocated with virtual communities and sub/counter-culture public figures.
Google Dictionary is a service of Google. It was a part of Google Translate. Now it is a standalone service.
Free online English dictionary by Babylon.Get free definitions from over 1,000 online dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias and download our translation/dictionary tool for free.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED),published by the Oxford University Press (OUP),is a comprehensive dictionary of the English language.
Video Search
Google Video is a free video sharing website and also a video search engine from Google that allows anyone to upload video clips to Google’s web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge; some videos are also offered for sale through the Google Video Store.
Yahoo! Video is a Yahoo! website dedicated to video.It is similar to sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, MSN Video and Veoh.
MSN Video is an internet video streaming service created and run by Microsoft. It features various content, including music videos,news video,sports videos, movie videos,JibJab, IFILM picks and other viral videos, original content, TV shows such as Arrested Development, and news shorts.
Blinkx is an Internet search engine for video and audio content, based in San Francisco, that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media.
Truveo is a search engine for Web video operated by Truveo, Inc., which based in San Francisco, California.
book search engines
BookFinder.com is a vertical search website that helps readers buy books online. The site’s meta-search engine scans the inventories of over 100,000 booksellers located around the world. Users can find the lowest price for a book of their choice from over 125 million volumes available for sale, and purchase titles directly from the bookseller, without a markup. The search engine is focused primarily on English, French, German, Italian, Spanish,and Dutch language titles.
Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using optical character recognition, and stores in its digital database. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004.
AddALL is a company based in Arcadia, California. Its website that offers an online book search feature. The search combs records from more than 40 major sellers in a meta-search and combines the results so that they can be sorted by the user .
AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books. Most books listed are used books, many are rare or out-of-print, and a growing number are new books.
Book search and find old, rare and out-of-print books from booksellers and bookstores worldwide..
blog search engines
Weblog search engine, with a continuously-updated search index. Results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger. Results can be viewed and filtered by date.
Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo.
IceRocket is an Internet search engine specialized in searching blogs.
Blog Catalog is the premiere social blog directory on the internet.
Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats.
music search
Songza is a web search engine that finds and plays music files on the internet.It was launched on November 13, 2007.
Project Playlist, Inc., operator of the playlist.com website, is a Web 2.0 company much like slide.com and RockYou! that provides widgets for MySpace and Facebook. It claims to be a search site for music files and does not store any music on their servers.
eSpew is a free online mp3 music search engine and download service. eSpew maintains that it is the largest directly linked mp3 database in the world.
SeeqPod is a search and recommendation engine specifically for indexing and finding playable search results including audio, video, podcasts and Wikipedia articles.
company search
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking.
Covers the new economy and workplace for people who believe in fusing tough-minded performance with human values.
Hoover’s, Inc. is a business research company that has provided information on U.S. and foreign companies and industries since 1990.
people search
Search by name to find address and phone number, or email.
The most comprehensive people search on the web.
White Pages and Yellow Pages lookup. Reverse phone directory, address and phone number search.
People search and people finder services. Find phone numbers, addresses, background checks and more.
WhitePages is the world’s largest and most trusted source for people’s contact information, with more than 200M people!
Free people search at Wink, the world’s largest people search engine.
PeekYou is a people search engine that indexes people and their links on the web.
AnyWho.com is an online telephone directory owned by AT&T.It was founded under ownership by AT&T Corporation, and became a subsidiary of The New AT&T in November 2005.
price and product search
PriceGrabber is a price comparison service. They’ve partnered with over 11,000 mechants and sellers. They also serve as the data source for numerous other shopping web sites.
Shopzilla is a price comparison service. Founded in June 1996 by Farhad Mohit and Henri Asseily as Binary Compass Enterprises, the company changed its name to BizRate.com in January 1999.
PriceSCAN.com is a US-based price comparison website, founded in 1997 by David Cost and Jeffrey Trester, two alumni of the Wharton School.
The website Kelkoo is a European price comparison service founded in France in 1999. It was bought by Yahoo! in 2004. It operates in 10 countries, including UK, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, and Belgium.
Freelance search
Hire experts and outsource to programmers, designers, coders, writers, developers, translators, marketers, researchers and admin contractors with tested skills.
Guru.com is a freelance marketplace.[1] It allows companies to find freelance workers for commissioned work. Founded in 1998 in Pittsburgh as eMoonlighter.com and still headquartered there, it is one of the tech firms to survive the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.
Rent a coder is an international marketplace where people who need custom software developed can find coders in a safe and business-friendly environment.
job search
Monster.com is an employment website owned by Monster Worldwide.
SimplyHired.com is a job search engine. The company was founded in 2004 by Gautam Godhwani and Peter Weck, and the initial beta site launch occurred on March 16, 2005.
Indeed.com is a job search engine. It was launched in November 2004 as a “search engine for jobs – with a radically different approach to job search.
CareerBuilder.com was founded in 1994 by Rob McGovern. It is the largest online job site in the United States, with more than 23 million unique visitors each month and a 34% market share of help-wanted web sites in the United States.CareerBuilder.com provides online career search services for more than 1,900 partners as of March 2008, including 140 newspapers and portals such as America Online and MSN.
map search
Google Maps is a free web mapping (for non-commercial use) service application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API.
Live Search Maps is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft’s Windows Live online applications services suite and powered by the Microsoft Virtual Earth framework.
Yahoo! Maps is a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo!.
MapQuest is a map publisher and a free online Web mapping service owned by AOL.
So what’s next folks ?.I am interested to receive your comments here and i will be posting the next chapter as soon as possible.I think this will be the most useful and creative SEOlist ever.
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