Links on Searching the Web

General

http://dmoz.org/

ODP, the Open Directory Project.

http://www.searchlores.com

Very interesting site dedicated to searching the web. Unfortunately it is not very well structured.

http://search.microsoft.com

Microsft's new search engine.

http://en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia -- the free encyclopedia community project.

http://www.touchgraph.com/TGAmazonBrowser.html

The TouchGraph AmazonBrowser. Very nice tool that quickly shows you clusters of books related to your search words (Java required!)

Scientific Search Engines

http://scholar.google.com

Google's search engine specialized on scientific publications.

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu

Citeseer, the scientific literature digital library.

http://arxiv.org

Famous e-print archive.

http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.html

BASE, the ``Bielefeld Academic Search Engine'' (Bielefeld is my hometown).

http://dblp.uni-trier.de

The Digital Bibliography & Library Project.

Misc

http://dict.leo.org

Very good German/English/French dictionary.

http://maps.google.com

Google searches for maps in the U.S.A.

http://www.berlin.de/stadtplan

Searchable city map of Berlin, Germany.

http://yacy.net

Distributed searching based on peer-to-peer technology.

http://songza.com/

Search engine dedicated to music.