Updated April 29, 2007

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Invisible Web Links
Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
A directory intended for students from kindergarten to grade 12 and "college students," as well as teachers, parents, and librarians. Includes over 26,000 listings.
CompletePlanet - Discover over 70,000+ databases and special search engines
http://aip.completeplanet.com/
A comprehensive listing of dynamic searchable databases. Find databases with highly relevant documents that cannot be crawled or indexed by surface web search engines. ("There are hundreds of thousands of databases that contain Deep Web content. CompletePlanet is the front door to these Deep Web databases on the Web and to the thousands of regular search engines — it is the first step in trying to find highly topical information. By tracing through CompletePlanet's subject structure or searching Deep Web sites, you can go to various topic areas, such as energy or agriculture or food or medicine, and find rich content sites not accessible using conventional search engines.")
Deep Web Research
http://www.deepwebresearch.info/
A Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring deep web research resources and sites on the Internet. Extensive and up-to-date source.
Direct search - Web Search Tools and Directories
http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm
"One of the best search tools available is Gary Price's amazing Direct Search. It is one of several sites Price maintains and if you check out one, you will find yourself spending hours checking out several of his other sites. It offers links to several thousand specific search tools to help you find the "invisible web" resources not indexed or found by traditional search tools. Price has a knack for finding the best of the best. Included are excellent collections of speeches, transcripts, and audio and visual resources online. Direct Search is a Web "must-see." --Schlein, p.128 [Disagree now -- it has not been updated since 2002; but is a "classic" so I'll leave the link.]
FinderSeeker- The Search Engine for Search Engines
http://www.finderseeker.com/
"Finderseeker calls itself the search engine for search engines. It has hundreds of search tools organized into almost thirty categories. Instead of a subject directory, you get a search box and drop down menus organized by country and keywords. By combining these two you can get some really unusual and useful results." --Schlein, p.129
Invisible or Deep Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
Invisible Web (About.com's guide by Wendy Boswell)
http://websearch.about.com/od/invisibleweb/a/invisible_web.htm
Librarians' Internet Index
http://lii.org/
LincOn com-Find what you want faster
http://www.lincon.com/
Site covers more than 3000 specialized search engines, organized into topics and subtopics. Keyword searching not available at present.
Refdesk reference, facts, news, free and family friendly
http://www.refdesk.com/
This site, owned by Bob Drudge, a librarian, who happens to be the father of Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge, is loaded with all kinds of reference resources and is highly reputable. --Schlein Endorsed by Colin Powell.
SearchTurtle Web Directory
http://www.searchturtle.com/
The web directory that's build as it grows
Welcome to INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/