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