deweydecimal
12-17-2005, 10:38 AM
The articles on this web site on Invisible Web Search Engines are several years old. Can you recommend any new, "good" search engines?
I've tried several of the search engines off the article list and they don't exist anymore. :(
Profusion is gone. Lexibot has been replaced by BrightPlanet (?? - still haven't figured that one out) and so on.
Please, please update your article!!!
Deweydecimal :)
garyp
12-19-2005, 02:50 PM
deweydecimal, Gary Price, librarian, SEW News Editor, and co-author of a book on the book about the Invisible Web here.
First, the invisible web of 2005 is not the same IW or "Deep Web" that Chris and I wrote about 5 years. These days, the IW is everything beyond the first five results of a general web engines serp.
Second,
Lexibot has been replaced by BrightPlanet (?? - still haven't figured that one out) and so on.
IMHO, I would, at least for the moment, be more concerned about specialty database that these sites you listed above. That said, it's clear that if you read the SEW Blog or my ResourceShelf.com site that Clusty.com is a favorite metasearch tool.
When, it comes to specialty databases I suggest:
1) A review of this article from today's WSJ. I blogged about it here:
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051219-132722
2) Have you taken a look at the many specialty or IW databases that your local library makes available. A story about that here:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Finding_Answers_Beyond_Web_Search/1118246650
3) The Virtual Chase has a great section of specialty databases.
http://www.virtualchase.com
4) Although its title is Google Power, Chris's new book has lots of good stuff
on specialty tools and databases.
5) We do our best to post about a wide variety of specialty dbases on the SEW Blog and on ResourceShelf.
I hope this helps.
cheers,
gary