• The Spider's Apprentice
  Information on this site will help you search the Web more efficiently. It explains how search engines work. It advises you on improving your own search engine ranking by careful use of meta tags and keywords. It guides you in figuring out which search engines are most effective--in fact, it ranks them for you. 

• Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers
  The Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers explains, how to design your pages, keeping the search engines in mind, and why it is necessary to do so. Knowledge is a powerful weapon and having knowledge of what a search engine is going to do with your page, while you are designing it, allows you to build a better resulting web page

• Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques
  This site will familiarize yourself with a variety of search tools and help you to develop effective search techniques. If you hope to take advantage of the resources offered by the Web without spending many fruitless hours flailing about, and eventually drowning, in a sea of irrelevant information, then this site is a must read.

• Choosing and Using a Site Search Engine
  As your site grows, getting around in it becomes a lot trickier. Of course it helps if you provide clear, meaningful navigation tools like a handy navigation bar and thoughtful internal links. But you can't place everything on the navigation bar or the home page, and a drill-down menu system can be both time consuming and labyrinthine to users. This site will help you decide if and when you need a site search engine and how to go about purchasing the correct one for you.

• Search Engine Terms
  This site is an alphabetical listing if search engine terms along with appropriate definitions.

• Tuning Your Engine: Using an Internet Search Engine 
  This article demonstrates the syntax usage for the main current search engines. It also explains some of the other options available to users to help them obtain the most from search engines.