Search Engines Research Tool Kit

A section of the LITA, the Library & Information Technology Association, home page is dedicated to a "Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher." These are resources used by professional research librarian.

Although this section does not cover research strategies, it does point to some of the best research starting points. A point made by LITA is that one should not restrict searches to one resource. Each engine has its own pecularities as to how it spiders(collects), what and how it grabs information and indexes Web Pages. Since each search engines ulitizes different algorithms, research should no be retricted just search engines.

http://www.lita.org/committe/toptech/toolkit.htm