The search engines below are all excellent choices to start with when searching for information.
Google
Google provides the option to find more than web pages.
http://www.google.com

Yahoo
Yahoo is the web's oldest "directory," a place where human editors organize web sites into categories.
http://www.yahoo.com

Ask Jeeves
search engine that let you search by asking questions and responded with what seemed to be the right answer to everything.
http://www.askjeeves.com

AllTheWeb.com
Powered by Yahoo, you may find AllTheWeb a lighter, more customizable and pleasant "pure search" experience than you get at Yahoo itself. The focus is on web search, but news, picture, video, MP3 and FTP search are also offered.
http://www.alltheweb.com

AOL Search
AOL Search provides users with editorial listings that come Google's crawler-based index. Indeed, the same search on Google and AOL Search will come up with very similar matches.
http://search.aol.com/

HotBot
HotBot provides easy access to the web's three major crawler-based search engines: Yahoo, Google and Teoma.
http://www.hotbot.com

Teoma
Teoma is a crawler-based search engine owned by Ask Jeeves.
http://www.teoma.com

WebCrawler
Metasearch results from popular engines and directories.
www.webcrawler.com

Dogpile
Dogpile fetches and ranks results from multiple search engines, letting you search for key words, pictures, audio, video, news, or phone numbers from a single page. Filter results by language, date, or domain.
www.dogpile.com

MetaCrawler
Search service that relies on the databases of other search engines.
www.metacrawler.com

CNET Search.com
Searches dozens of leading search engines to bring you the best results.
www.search.com

Mamma
Mother of all search engines.
www.mamma.com

Ixquick Metasearch
Forwards searches to a user selected list of top search engines. Ranks results based on number of occurrences in queried engines.
www.ixquick.com

ProFusion
Search engine powered by Intelliseek.
www.profusion.com

Vivísimo
Offers organized search results with document clustering. Makers of the Clusty search engine.
www.vivisimo.com

Highway 61 MetaCrawler
www.highway61.com

W3 Search Engines
www.cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html

Surfwax
Meta-search engine that helps focus searches and provides real-time page summaries.
www.surfwax.com

Metafind
Searches through all the large search engines and collates results.
www.metafind.com

Debriefing
Available in English and French.
www.debriefing.com

Multimeta
Simultaneous meta search in the top search engines. Features URL submission service, URL ranker, and meta tag generator.
www.multimeta.com

IceRocket
Offers a metasearch search engine with thumbnail site previews and specialized tools for searching news, images, products, and more.
www.icerocket.com

Web Search Engine
www.web-search.com

Findspot
An Internet searching gateway designed to assist users in creating searches that retrieve a manageable list of useful results.
www.findspot.com

Langenberg
www.langenberg.com

SearchBug
www.searchbug.com

MetaGopher
Multi-engine search tool.
www.metagopher.com