100 Search Engines in 100 Minutes

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Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, and the other popular engines are only the tip of the iceberg. Searching the Deep Web finds much more content than the big engines combined. Like 1000 times more content than is even spidered by Google and the rest.

Most lists of “search engines” are just lists of scammy, spammy scripts people download to be like Yahoo or Google. Without knowing what a real engine is, you might be tempted to get yourself listed on a dead site no one visits just because it calls itself a search engine.

Charles S. Knight presented “100 Search Engines in 100 Minutes” at Web 2 Expo this fall. His list represents a more thoughtful inventory of vetted engines and databases than you’ve likely found anywhere else. But a lot of people use them to find the majority of information the popularity engines like Google haven’t indexed yet.

Might help you find some places to be found, get some great links, and reach outside the Google box for traffic.