Conference for Internet researchers to hone their skills and refresh their search competencies, held September 14-15, 2009, Washington, DC. Includes registration and past event schedules and speakers.

The rumored-but-rarely-talked-about topic of the “deep web”. A web underneath the web, filled with petabytes of data and information that’s out of the reach of your standard Google, Bing, or Yahoo search bar.

News on the search engine industry continually updated from thousands of sources around the Net.

A directory of search engines: general, metasearch, pay-per-click, children's, subject, country and people search. All are described and can be rated.

Search forms for the most effective engines in dozens of categories from Robert Skelton. Includes reviews, ratings, webmaster tools, and tutorials.

Provides information, news and advice about web site searching technology. Includes a guide, search tools list, glossary, and opportunity to compare searches of its own site by different tools. Offers a free monthly email newsletter.

Search engines sorted by geographical location.

A guide to search engine marketing and search engine optimization. Forums, reviews, articles, ratings, and frequent newsletters. Paying members receive access to extra content.

A user's guide to Web searching with features, comparative analysis, strategies, discussion, news and reviews.

Bruce Clay's pictorial view of how search engines provide data to partner engines and directories.