Pandia Awards 2004 Part 3

Best site on searching

Search Engine Watch, a giant

Someone once asked us why we constantly praised Search Engine Watch, the site being a competitor of Pandia.

We argued that Search Engine Watch and Pandia are not as much competitors as sites that supplement each other.

(Anyway, if we stopped informing our readers about sites that are relevant to their needs, they would probably stop visiting us).

The fact is that Search Engine Watch is a treasure trove of search engine related information and advice. The founder and main editor of Search Engine Watch, Danny Sullivan, has also hired two of the worlds foremost experts on the search engine scene, Chris Sherman and -- lately -- Gary Price, providing a very strong team of writers.

Among the more recent additions to the SEW site are the SEW Forums and the SEW Blog.

Highly recommended

Although it is not as often updated as before, Greg Notess' Search Engine Showdown remains an important source of search engine information. This is the place to go to find obscure search terms and other tips on advanced searching.

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Wendy Boswell is now editing the web search section of About (once controlled by Chris Sherman of Search Engine Watch).

This section continues to have a lot of useful information about search engines and search engine optimization, especially for beginners.

(However, there is just too much advertising on About these days.)

Among excellent non-English sites, check out @-Web (German), Abondance (French), Voelspriet (Dutch) and Internetbrus (Swedish).

See also Pandia's list of non-English sites focusing on search engines.

Best site on search engine marketing

Search Engine Watch, encore

Search Engine Watch is one of the few sites that cover the arts of Web searching and search engine promotion equally well. The amount of information is staggering, even if you do not pay to get access to the fee-based, closed section of the site. (You should, though.)

Danny and Chris have contacts in all the major search engine companies and are up to date on all the major developments in this part of Cyberspace.

Highly recommended

Behind its rather bland appearance is hidden a large number of informative articles, written by search engine optimization experts from all over the world

Search Engine Guide also offers an excellent search engine news service and a directory of search sites.

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Andrew Goodman's Traffick with a K has been around for ages, and provides a lot of insightful information on the search engine scene.

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