Lists of searching engines as searching aids
Before Google became the tool for searching on the web thus signalling the end of the golden era of web directories, there were more — equally viable — options to choose for web search. Since these crawler based search engines or human edited link directories could in many cases cover only a certain region or provide search results in a certain language, once you needed to search in an other language or wanted to find information related to other countries than US, knowing which search tools covered a certain geography or language might have been handy. That’s the reason why the first directories of directories (and search engines) emerged.
One of the oldest but still maintained link collection, and a good example for these search engine lists is Search Engine Colossus. This directory lists the search tools organized by countries and antonomous regions (or something like that). As for the quality of this web site, given the age (more than 10 yrs old!) and the scope of the site there are quite a few search engines and directories listed which are practically defunct by now although still online (not accepting new link submissions, not crawling the web anymore). The age is also reflected in the oldschool design of the site. Nevertheless the page is still maintained, and still offers a good starting point if you want to discover a specific region on the web. In addition to this if you possess a local search engine a link directory, it is worth contacting the site owner: Bryan Strome, since this site can lead some traffic to your search solution, and it could pass some link juice as well (at the time of writing the site is unranked by Google’s PageRank algo though).
Other example of these worldwide search engine lists can be found on an Italian site called Segnali di Vita (means “signs of life” in English). Although the purpose and the concept of the entire site is not quite clear for me, this link collection has most likely a higher traffic than Search Engine Colossus has — based on my experience, you get slightly more visitors from this site if your directory is listed at both sites.
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