THE CURRENT VERSION IS SEY 2003

List of Topical Search Engines / Vortals
by André le Roux
Dec. 2001

NOTE: For an updated list of topical search engines, please refer to the current version of the Search Engine Yearbook.

Academic / Educational Search Engines

Academic Info http://www.academicinfo.net/
Argos http://argos.evansville.edu/
Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Britannica http://www.britannica.com/
Catalynx http://users.intrepid.net/~hollyoak/
Education Index http://www.educationindex.com/
Education Planet http://www.educationplanet.com/
Education Web Search http://www.tkm.mb.ca/education/
Education World http://www.education-world.com/
High School Hub http://highschoolhub.org/
Hippias http://hippias.evansville.edu/
Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Insectclopedia http://www.insectclopedia.com/
LII.org http://www.lii.org/ Librarian's Index to the Internet
Library in the Sky http://www.nwrel.org/sky/
Search Edu http://www.searchedu.com/ Search through more than 20 000 000 university pages.
The School Site http://www.bottco.com/Schoolsite/index.html
Wisdom http://www.thinkers.net/

Lists of Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Search http://www.search-affiliates.com/
AssociatePrograms http://www.associateprograms.com/

Art Search Engines

Adam http://adam.ac.uk/
Art Guide http://www.artguide.org/
Artnet http://www.artnet.com/
ArtSeek http://artseek.com/

Business Search Engines

All Business Directory http://www.allbusiness.com/directory/index.jsp
Canada One http://www.canadaone.com/business/index.html Canadian businesses and business resources
Corporate Information http://www.corporateinformation.com Search companies by country or U.S. state
CorpTech http://www.corptech.com/ 50,000 high tech companies
Industry Central http://www.industry-central.com/
International Trade http://internationaltrade.org/webindex/index.html
The Dotcom Directory http://www.dotcomdirectory.com/
Qango http://business.qango.com/ UK based B2B search engine
Small Biz Search http://smallbiz.searchking.com/
Yellow Pages http://www.yellow.com

Christian Search Engines

Active Spidering http://www.active-ss.com/
Bible Gateway http://bible.gospelcom.net/ A search engine with the Bible as database.
Christianity Today http://www.christianitytoday.com/search/ Database of church and Christian sites
Cross Search http://www.crosssearch.com/
Everything Christian http://www.everythingchristian.org/

Lists of Free Stuff

Freebies Planet http://www.freebiesplanet.com/
Hot Free Site http://www.hotfreesite.com/

Hotel Search Engines

Hotel Search Engine http://www.hotel-search-engine.com/

Image Search Engines

AltaVista Image Search http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?mmdo=16&stype=simage
Diggit http://www.giggit.com/
Ditto http://www.ditto.com/
Excite Photo Search http://photosearch.excite.com/
Google Image Search http://images.google.com/
Photo Disc http://www.photodisc.com/
IconBank http://iconbank.com/gx/index.htm

Internet-Specific Search Engines

Internet Commodities Market http://www.netcommodities.com/ (List of the best Internet products and services)
ISP Finder http://ispfinder.com/ (Finds Internet service providers)

Search Engines for Kids

Animal Search http://animalsearch.galganov.net/
Ask Jeeves For Kids http://www.ajkids.com/
Giraffen http://www.giraffen.dk/
Kids Click http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com/

Literature Search Engines

Fictionsearch http://www.fictionsearch.com/
FreeBook http://www.free-book.co.uk/ Directory of free online books
Planet Doom http://planetdoomportal.searchking.com/ Sci-Fi, fantasy and horror
Share Look http://literatur.sharelook.de/ German

People Finders

AnyWho http://www.anywho.com/
BigFoot http://www.bigfoot.com/
ICQ White Pages http://www.icq.com/whitepages/search.html
WhoWhere http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
Yahoo! People Search http://www.yahoo.com/search/people

Medical / Health Search Engines

Achoo http://www.achoo.com/search/achoo.asp
Alternative Medicine http://www.healthlinkusa.com/383.htm
CliniWeb http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/search.html
Health Index http://www.healthindex.com/home.asp
Health A to Z http://www.healthatoz.com/atoz/default.asp
Med411 http://www.med411.com/
MedExplorer http://www.medexplorer.com/
Med Scopio http://www.medscopio.com.br/
Med Web Plus http://www.medwebplus.com/
Mirago http://www.medisearch.co.uk/

Music and mp3 Search Engines

Audio Find http://www.audiofind.com/
Bluegrass Acoustic http://music.searchking.com/
Lyrics Search http://lyrics.astraweb.com
MP3.com http://www.mp3.com
MSE http://besides.ipc.ru/cgi-bin/linkmat.cgi
Music Search http://www.musicsearch.com/

News Search Engines

ABYZ News Links http://www.abyznewslinks.com/
Aileena http://www.aileena.com/ (Over 5'500 links to newspapers, radio- and TV-stations in 174 countries)
PPPPNet http://pppp.net/links/news/
News.com http://www.news.com/
News Directory http://www.newsdirectory.com/
Newspapers.com http://www.newspapers.com/
Radio Locator http://www.radio-locator.com/bc.html (links to 7000+ radio stations)
WwideWeb http://www.wwideweb.com/

Lists of Newsletters / E-zines

Ezine Universe http://www.ezine-universe.com/
EzineCentral http://ezinecentral.com/
List of Lists http://catalog.com/vivian/interest-group-search.html
Pandecta's Top 20 http://pandecta.com/bezines.html (Pandecta Magazine's Top 20 business e-zines)
Topica http://www.topica.com/

Maps and Directions Search Engines

Map Machine http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine
Yahoo! Maps http://maps.yahoo.com/

Science Search Engines

ResearchIndex http://researchindex.com/
SciCentral http://www.sciquest.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/sci_index.d2w/report
SciSeek http://www.sciseek.com/

Web Development Search Engines

After Page http://www.afterpage.com/
Free Site Tools http://www.freesitetools.com/
Graphic Design Portal http://graphicdesign.searchking.com/
NetWeave http://www.netweave.co.uk/index.html
Web Developer's Virtual Library http://wdvl.com/ Recommended
Webmaster's Tool list http://pandecta.com/webmaster_tools.html Pandecta's list of tools for webmasters