Alta Vista   Fast, comprehensive search service with growing index of over 200,000,000 web pages. Search now includes spell check and phrase processing.

  Google Search engine tends to retrieve relavent results.  Good searching tool.

 About.com  Search engine of evaluated Web sites.  "A network of sites by expert guides."
The variety of search methods will serve searchers at all levels of expertise.

 Findwhat   A lean-and-mean search engine with no clutter, or wasted space.

 Fastweb  Has depth of indexing, search speed and ease of use.

 Excite   Full-text searching with automatically generated summaries.

 HotBot   One of the lastest search engines, offering powerful field searching in over 50 million documents.

 Infoseek   One of the fastest, tends to retrieve more relavant queries, but does not index as many documents as other search engines.

 Lycos   One of the largest search engines.

Northern Light   Organizes search results, creating folders of documents with similar subjects, sources or types.

 Snap   New search engine from C/Net.
 

 Ixquick  More than a dozen Web searching databases are searched by this neta search engine, also does news, MP3 and picture searches.

 ProFusion   Meta search engine which uses other search engines to get initial results and then does further processing.  Features "Automatic Pick Best 3" in that ProFusion automatically selects the best three search engines for each query.

Dogpile   Searches combine web search engines, Usenet, and FTP.

Metacrawler   One of the first meta search engines.  Can customize searches.

 Librarians Index to the Internet   Well-indexed directory of informative sites with meaningful descriptions.

 Nerd World   Provides short descriptions.  Results show link to category to aid in finding similar listings.
 
 Yahoo   Largest searchable directory of sites.

 Search Engines Worldwide   Engines and directories organized by 130 countries alphabetically or by 5 continents.