Reviews

How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
University librarian Laura Cohen gives advice in the format of "if you want A then choose B."
http://www.internettutorials.net/choose.html

InFoPeople: Best Search Tools Chart
Comparison of selected search engines and directories by content and features.
http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html

PPC-Search Engines
Publishes articles and news about pay per click search engines.
http://www.ppc-searchengines.info/

Search Engine Challenge
Provides unbranded search results from the top five search engines. You can then vote on the one you find the most relevant. All users' votes are aggregated and provided in a pie chart showing voting distribution after you vote.
http://www.searchenginechallenge.com

BBC: Search Wars - Which is the Best?
As Microsoft enters the internet search engine market, the BBC compare five of the main providers: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and A9. <small>(November 12, 2004)</small>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4003193.stm

SEOSurvey: MSN's Beta Search vs. Yahoo! and Google
An analysis of the search results for four sample searches. <small>(November, 2004)</small>
http://www.seomoz.org/article/msn-beta-vs-yahoo-google

DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation
Ben Edelman evaluates DNS, Google, and RealNames for their respective accuracies in providing correct and relevant content. Research suggests that Google offers the highest accuracy. <small>(June, 2002)</small>
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/DNS-as-search/

Search Engines for the World Wide Web: A Comparative Study and Evaluation Methodology
Comparison of AltaVista, Excite, and Lycos. <small>(October 19, 1996)</small>
http://www.asis.org/annual-96/ElectronicProceedings/chu.html