Knowledge Management Resource Center: Search Engines and Portals

Knowledge Management Explorer > Search Engines and Portals
Can't find what you need? Try these pre-defined searches for "knowledge management" on the prominent search engines and portals, plus some of the lesser-known excellent resources like AskJeeves, Google, Gotcha, and Open Directory. NOTE: The page counts cited below fluctuate up and down daily. We include them only to indicate the relative size of KM search results.

Special Searches

Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a unique search engine that allows you to ask questions in plain English. It combines a natural language engine with a proprietary knowledgebase that gets smarter over time.

Google
A selective search engine. In ranking sites, it emphasizes their popularity by considering how many other sites link to them. This pre-defined search leads to over 1,090,000 pages.

Directory Searches for KM

Yahoo!
Provides KM resources listed in pre-defined categories, plus over 1,160,000 pages using their web search engine.

LookSmart
Category-based portal. Also includes a search engine, but no result counts are given.

About.com (Directory)
You can search across all of the About.com subject areas.

KM Category Searches

AltaVista
One of the web's most powerful search engines (pre-defined KM search leads to over 574,000 pages).

Business.com
"The Business Search Engine" provides a category devoted to KM.

Teoma
Provides link collections and ways to refine your search as well as search results.

HotBot
Offers a dedicated KM category as well as the well-respected search engine, with over 16,348,000 pages listed in a recent search.

Open Directory - Directory
Not a search engine: all entries are recommended by people. Check the Knowledge Management category or search across all categories.

Netscape Netcenter
Devotes a special category to KM resources, with subtopics like knowledge discovery and knowledge creation.

Lycos
Provides a topical area about KM with subcategories like companies, publications, knowledge creation, etc.

Web Searches for KM

Excite
Pre-defined KM search.

Euro Seek
European search engine lets you search for KM topics in 43 countries and 25 languages. This pre-defined search is for KM in the UK.

MetaSearch Engines

Gotcha MetaKM
A service of the Gotcha KM site, this metasearch engine suggests enhancements to your query, then lets you perform the search on major search engines, KM-specific web sites (KM World and Brint.com), and the Gotcha site.

Dogpile
Like Google, an unforgettable name. This one automatically fetches the top results from 15 search engines for you.

MetaSearch Sites

Beaucoup
Not a pre-defined KM search, but a metasearch site with links to almost 70 search engines. Unlike Dogpile, this one does not search the engines for you.

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