General Search Engines

• Acoon - a new player, not glitzy, but claims 86 million entries
• Ah-ha.com - claims “Only the Good Stuff - with clean, fast, relevant results”
• Alltheweb.com - new, powered by FAST and Dell, aims to have the biggest index
• AltaVista - the search engine with the largest database worldwide. Transforming to portal now.
• Anzwers.com - Specializing in web information retrieval mainly related to Australia and New Zealand
• AOL Netfind - AOL search engine. Results are determined from listings in the Open Directory Project (www.DMOZ.org)
• Ask2k.com - New search engine that is growing in popularity. Claims “Only the Best Sites in the World”
• Britanica.com - advanced topical search from britanica.com
• Canada.com - comprehensive portal powered by Inktomi
• ColorStamps - actually pays you to search their site
• Direct Hit - See what other Web searchers thought were most important resuls. Excite uses this feature now, too.
• Excite - still one of the top search engines of the Internet.
• Ezresult.com - new one
• Funkycat - one of the fastest growing URL resources on the net. Claims to be “the new breed of search engine”
• Galaxy - claims to be the oldest searchable internet directory, also called Trade Wave Galaxy
• Google - gives you side-by-side scores for search term relevance and link popularity
• Go - already very popular, started January 1999. Formerly known as Infoseek. Shows matching GO Guides, RealNames and pages part of the GO network first. After that follow results from the web.
• Goto.com - you have to pay to get listed here.
• GoToWorld.com - Try the World’s First Language Translation Search Engine
• HotBot - one of the veterans, some people`s favorite. I guess a matter of design.
• HotRate.com - “search made simple”
• Infoseek - is now GO Network
• Info Hiway - One of the not so well known seach engines
• iWon.com - get your news, sports, weather, etc. along with a chance to win their daily #10,000 giveaways
• Infomak - search engine & directory
• Jayde - search engine with a fairly large web directory
• Kanoodle - searches Open Directory
• Lycos - now owned by USA Networks. Lycos owns Wired.
• Magellan - for good quality sites.
• MSN Search - powered by Inktomi
• Netscape - popular Gateway. Their search engine uses the Open Directory Project
• Northern Light - well categoriezed, often a good choice.
• Oingo - meaning based search technology
• Pathfinder - Powered by Alta Vista.
• QuestFinder - Searching the Web Search Engines, Web Directories, and Site Submissions.
• RagingSearch - a new engine from altavista, with some new features
• Scrub the web - A new search engine.
• Searchalot - they search a lot so you don’t have to
• SearchKing - Search engine using searchers input to determine relevancy and placement and has instant indexing.
• SimpleSearch - Website owners pay for a high ranking for specified search queries. The results are complemented by websites which are ranked by popularity
• Snap! - new Search Engine, powered by Inktomi.
• Starting Point - well designed www starting point
• WebCrawler - One of the bigger search engines.
• WebTop - search over 500 million pages
• Yep - A surf engine that lists your site based on quality
• Zen Search - A strange search engine.

MetaSearch and Parallel Search engines

• 1Blink.com - searches Infoseek, Altavista, Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Thunderstone, Northern Light, and NBCi.
• 7in1Search - multi-search 7 top engines at once, 27 to choose from, plus specialty engines for Mp3’s, games, software, more
• 7Search.com - (also called 7MetaSearch) searches the major search engines, awards Web sites in the top 10.
• All4One - metasearch 4 engines in your choice of 5 catagories - uses frames to display 4 pages on one page
• Ask Archie - Internet meta search engine.
• Ask Jeeves -ask Questions ! Inteligent approach . . . popular for it’s layout
• Baldey.com - good metasearch
• BeSeeker - searches 6 engines for The Web, also has catagories for Mp3, UseNet, Shareware, and Jobs
• Better Brain - searches Alta Vista, Excite, GoTo, Google, Go, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, NBCi, Yahoo, and Deja.
• ByteDog - searches 7 engines
• ByteHound - Same engine as Bytedog but with lots of configuration options, and harder to read interface.
• C4 - C4 is the improved version of the already excellent Cyber411 meta search engine - Personalize everything from the way you search to the content displayed on the page - This gets a 130 IQ rating from ZDNET.
• CentraPoint - this meta search eliminates duplicate listings and ranks sites based on their popularity.
• DataHit - searches 7 engines
• Debriefing - Debriefing is a meta search engine written entirely with Java servlets, available in French and English.
• Dogpile - popular - searches the Web, Usenet, FTP, weather, stock quotes, business news, and other news wires
• FindWhat - very effective metasearch, able to filter offensive material
• Go2net - powered by Metacrawler
• GoHip - metasearches 4 engines
• GoToWorld - Competent meta search engine providing on target listings with a minimum of redundant pages. Providing online language translation of Web pages.
• Highway 61 - A metasearch site.
• Hulabaloo - Meta search engine. Also has MP3 search, site submit and virtual cards.
• HuskySearch - University of Washingtons’ metasearch engine
• Ielectric.com - New Metasearch that seems quite promising, using combined results from Dmoz, MSN, All the Web, and more.
• Ignifuge - metasearch and directory
• InFind - searches 6 engines, but doesn’t give detailed results
• InfiniSearch - metasearches 4 engines
• Infospace.com - searches 10 engines, also has directories for Finance, Yellow pages and city guides.
• InfoZoid - Easy to use meta search engine - ranked 130 IQ by ZDNET
• IOport - Meta search engine.
• IQSeek - includes the ability to control which of 15 search engines are used
• Ixquick - ranked 140 IQ by ZDNET (their highest rating)
• Karnak - You must Register to use Karnak. Queries take 8-20 minutes and the results page is emailed to you. Regularly updates its findings and keeps the information for you at the site. Findings are comprehensive and ranked by relevancy. In internet time this is a slooww search tool, but its ability to dig deep over time can’t be beat. For ongoing research projects, this may be the search tool to try.
• Mamma - a popular metasearch
• MegaSpider - nice fast metasearch
• MegaWeb - searches 4 engines . . . rather slow
• MetaCrawler - powered by InfoSeek - searches 8 main portals to bring the most relevant sites
• MetaGopher - 10 engines to choose from
• Meta IQ - 14 engines plus links to specialty engines
• MetaSpider - a cute meta search engine
• Metor - Fast and comprehensive metasearch engine - ranked 140 IQ by ZDNET (their highest rating)
• MoChanni - fast metasearch
• MonsterCrawler - metasearches 7 engines in your choice of 5 categories
• MultiMeta - Searches 10 engines at once . . . too bad about the annoying pop-up ads
• MyGo - good metasearch, quick directories to “best of the web”
• OneSearch - very fast metasearch of 8 engines
• ProFusion - lesser known metasearch, has good search options
• QueryServer - Nice - 10 engines are queried, and the results are combined and categorized according to the options you choose - ranked 140 IQ by ZDNET (their highest rating)
• Redesearch - Fast comprehensive search of ten popular search engines. The new Google of meta search engines.
• Savvy Seach - now owned by Cnet, is the same as Search.com
• Search.com - Great for searching for Specialty Search Engines (It’s at Top of Page) - also queries search engines and databases at one time. Falls short in relevance, but excels in the area of specialty meta searching. Gets a 130 IQ rating from ZDNET
• SecondPower - fast and effective
• Subjex.com - metasearch that accepts human dialogue
• TurcoCrawler - Turkish meta-search is multiligual
• Use It - offers some different options for your search
• Vivisimo - brings results up in Folders that can be expanded for more results - ranked 140 IQ by ZDNET (their highest rating)
• WhatUseek - let “Chubba” find whatUseek

Specialized Search Engines

• 3Dup.com - catering to 3D graphics and design, multimedia, news, technology
• Acclaim - Limited to businesses with internet presence.
• AllBusiness.com - search for dot com businesses
• Alpha Search - The primary purpose of AlphaSearch is to access the finest Internet “gateway” sites. The authors of these “gateway” sites have spent significant time gathering into one place all relevant sites related to a discipline, subject, or idea.
• Amnesi - Name Search Engine, has also a very good listing of all the different countries in URLS.
• Askme.com - get answers to your questions from real people
• Astalavista - “computer security” related search engine.
• AtRus - Russian search engine and portal (English and Russian versions)
• Babelfish - Systran Translation service by Alta Vista.
• Bay9 - shopping search engine
• BizWeb - a web business guide to 44140 companies listed in 202 categories
• BotSpot - Search for robot spider search engines
• Britannica - an Encyclopedia at your fingertips
• Buyer’s Index - Search 18,000 Web shopping sites and North American mail order catalogs with over 153 million products
• Designer Index - Search for Web Designers, Consultants, Programmers, and related Jobs
• Devsearch - For webdevelopers.
• Direct search - Confusing interface, but lot of links to databases.
• DisInformation - (not really a common searchengine, but worth a visit), subculture, propaganda, revolutionaries, censorship, counterculture, counterintelligence, newspeak.
• Dot com Directory - search businessess, startups, from Network Solutions vast database
• Earth Cam - locates live images from indoor and outdoor Internet cameras.
• Environmental Web Directory - comprehensive search engine specific to global environment, organizations, causes, news
• Epicurious - search for recipes
• Euro-investment.com - nice multilingual approach to important finance facts like international share markets.
• Euronaut - seeks Europe, powered by AltaVista.
• European Journalism Centre - Media News archive, searchable index, also daily news per mail.
• Euroseek - Multilingual Europe Search Engine.
• FAST FTP Search v4.0 - The World’s Largest File Search Engine
• Financewise - global and local financial SE. Every topic, from risk management to syndicated finance and equities is indexed in depth, with the contents of each site evaluated by editorial staff before sites are allowed into FinanceWise’s search index.
• FindLaw - internet legal resources, but also a good general metasearch
• FindLink - small, but growing search engine. Searches only in the category you select.
• Frequent Finders - Search for words in the actual URLs.
• Gee-Wiz! - shoppers guide in the mold of Yahoo!, but not quite ready for prime time
• Global Business Information Directory - also for small companies, has the option to search by region.
• Government Information Locator Service - (GILS), by USA, has also own meta tags.
• HealthAtoZ - searches Medical and Health related sites
• iAtlas - An advanced search engine which allows users to obtain more relevant search results through the use of geographic, demographic, and internet specific filters. Uses Inktomi and InfoUSA.
• Infoplease Kids - Facts, Fun & Free Homework Help. A safe & easy to use site for kids to find information from an encyclopedia, almanacs, and dictionary.
• Information Please - Almanac, encyclopedia and dictionary search.
• Job search engine - The Job-Search-Engine queries job boards, in parallel and in real time, and returns a composite list of employment opportunities available on the Internet.
• Jumbo - Files, games and shareware, over 300.000.
• Keen.com - lists websites of people that can answer your questions by phone
• Kids Search - A portal designed exclusively for kids is fun, a safe place to learn the net. Links to fun, educational websites.
• Linkmaster - media search
• Logos - multilingual dictionary
• Matilda - specializes in new websites - has geographicaly localized versions of their portal
• MSN Encarta - Encarta Online specializes in connecting information-seekers with relevant, high-quality knowledge.  Whether it’s a school report or simply a personal interest to be explored, Encarta opens the door to comprehensive information.
• My Simon Compares prices of an item at a plethora of online merchants and deliver them up to you on one page.
• Nerdworld - tries to be the “Nerd Portal”
• News.com - technology search engine run by Cnet
• Newsbot - a news search engine, powered by Hotbot.
• Newsbreaker - a news search engine powered by Excite.
• One Stop Internet Shop - European Community trade info centre, 11 languages available, 500.000 companies, all European funds, laws, translation service, exhibitions, public TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) all for free.
• Orientation - for outside US and W-Europe.
• Pathway Services - The Pathway Indexer is designed for locating Federal government information on the Internet.
• Peekaboo - information and travel directory and search for States around the New England area. Lodging, dining, etc.
• Présence Web - The domain name search engine
• Rambler.ru - Russian search engines.
• Research it - Great for finding reference material, phone #s, addresses, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesarus, all one one page
• Richsurf - A Chinese search engine.
• Rock Yahoo - Music Yahoo category.
• SearchHound - Child-Safe Search Engine. Blocks out adult content. Search for websites, stocks, people, entertainment, software, and more all at once.
• SearchUK - A grouping feature also allows results to be reorganized by or grouped by domain class, such as commercial, academic or governmental. Clustering options appear at the top of results pages, while grouping options appear at the bottom.
• Shareware.com - Cnet’s search engine for software
• Sprinks.com - powered by Direct Hit and Inktomi, directory links are all from paid advertisers
• Study the web - a learning search engine features lots of content in a searchable directory for students.
• Suite101 - a Vancouver-based search engine where members can post topics, and others can respond.
• Sympatico-Lycos - Canadian search engine powered by Lycos
• TechWeb - technology search engine by Internet.com
• Thunderstone - This is an index of sites not pages. It is very good at finding companies and organizations by purpose, product, subject matter, or location. This engine attempts to focus on the quality of answers, not the quantity.
• UKMax - powered by Inktomi, with Direct Hit for the UK.
• USA Online - search for businesses by State, or Category.
• U.S. Business Advisor Search of GovBot Database - The GovBot has gathered over 535,000 web pages from government sites around the American country.
• Webdata - Searches multiple Web databases.
• WebSitez - Search engine for domain name addresses
• What`s new - new pages on the net.
• WhatsNu - search engine filters web site listings by date/category
• What`s new too - new pages on the net.
• WhoWere? - directory for Personal Homepages from the Lycos network.  Able to search other online communities too!
• WholeNetDirectory - search for directories of popular categories . . . good but annoying pop-up windows
• World Pages - search for businesses, people
• Yack - Internet Program Guide, find upcoming web events, Worldwide IRC Chat searchengine
• YellowPages - You are supposed to find what you seek.
• ZdNet - search for software, technology

Directories and Indexes

• 7in1 Web Directories - 700 Best websites - find great web sites in 28 popular categories
• About.com - and excellent directory
• Aeiwi - good searchable web Index
• All-in-One - list of over 500 search engines, directories and indexes that can be used (one at a time)
• AllySubmit - Family friendly web directory.
• Beaucoup - a search engine directory, over 2,500 listed!
• Click Here to Find - categorized links and a search engine
• ComStart Network - Internet directory of sites geared to entertainment, sports, finance, music and schools. Looking for editors to review and maintain the database and host chats
• Gimpsy - searchable directory using activity words . . . such as “buy books”, “build houses”, “meet people”, etc.
• Go Guides - Infoseek user-contributed directory.
• Hotrate.com - Pays editors for site contributions.
• LookSmart - Smart directory, searchable
• MavicaNet - Multilingual catalogue of Internet resources, edited by volunteer browsers.
• NationalDirectory - a good searchable directory
• Netbreach - A family friendly web directory.
• OneKey - A database of kid safe sites with sites in over 500 categories.
• OneMission.com - One of the first NewHoo-inspired sites.
• Open Directory Project - also referred to as “DMOZ” supplies catagorical website listings that are used by many search engines such as AOL Netfind, Netscape, IOport (to name a few) to find listings in a more explicit fashion.
• Pengs.com - Kid safe directory and search engine -24hr weather and news, Free email accounts, webpage counters, more
• PlanetClick - User contributed sites and ratings.
• Quiver - Human powered directory. Also includes a browser plug-in called the Qbar.
• Rex - Directories.
• Saluki Search - Family friendly directory for families, teachers, schools, and kids.
• Searchlite - A family-friendly directory and a separate section with links to news sites.
• Searchport - Family friendly directory, searchable. Many links to sites for talk and chat.
• Sites2Surf - Family safe web directory.
• Snap LiveDirectory - User-contributed front end to Snap’s directory.
• Splat Search - Web directory. There’s an “family safe” option for searches.
• Spyweb - a new search engine, new concept for websearchers, but framed and slow.
• SurfSafely - Family friendly web directory - child safe - An index open only to PICS rated sites enabling informed content selection using free parental controls already built into most major browsers.
• The Net 1 - a searchable directory
• WWW Virtual Library - The oldest catalog of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and the Web itself. Run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert.
• Wherewithal - Pays editors for site contributions.
• WordScapes - has a nice list of search engines and directories
• Yahoo - the Granddaddy of the web directories, seach is powered by Google
• Zeal.com - Web directory and search engine built by Internet users. Find ratings, reviews, and websites.
• Zerx - You can view sites related to another site, or refine your existing search using that site.
• zipee.com - their directory is alright, but don’t waste your time with their home page

Education Search Engines

• StudyWeb - A collection of over 128,000 Research Quality URLs.
• SearchEdu.com - Over 20 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity.
• Education Planet - The K-12 Education Web Guide and portal helps teachers, students and parents find quality educational resources, including top Web sites and 16,000 lesson plans. Search from over 300,000 quality educational resources .
• Education World - Education World (R) Search Engine. Where Educators Go to Learn. The surfing is over. Here you will find the best education links and original content the Net has to offer.
• Furbello.com - Furbello.Com provides an interactive online learning index for Internet users seeking guidance and information about online learning resources.
• ERIC - Eric is the world’s largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government .
• Bigchalk - K-12 education site offers resources for teachers, library media specialists, parents and students with online periodicals, state standards, homework help, lesson plans, test practice and school technology guides.

Encyclopedia Search Engines

• Britanica.com - The world’s best Web sites, plus magazines, books, and the complete Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Encyclopedia.com - More than 14,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition have been assembled to provide free, quick and useful information on almost any topic.
• Encyclopedia Mythica - A on-line encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend.
• MSN Encarta Online - Home for the Encarta Concise Encyclopedia, the Encarta Schoolhouse educational site and Encarta Explore, an ever-changing resource for exploration and discovery.

Entertainment Search Engines

• 123cam.com -123cam.com is a search engine directory about web cams and live video from the entire world Geographical research or by themes: sea, mountain, city, strange, traffic, weather report.
• webcam-list.com - Another web cam search engine from all over the world
• Chat Seek - Chat Seek! The chat only search engine. All topic areas. Add your chat site instantly!.
• Celebhoo - Celebrity search engine with thousands of reviewed links to official and unofficial celebrity fan pages.
• Internet Movie Database - The IMDb is the ultimate online movie database covering over 200,000 titles and 750,000 people with facts, trivia, reviews plus multimedia links from the earliest films to the latest releases.
• Gamebot - All web game search engine for game demos, cheats, reviews, news, patches, and other important info at Gamebot.com.
• Musicseek - The Online MP3 & Music Online Search Engine. The easiest way to find MP3s on the Internet.
• MusicTracer.com - The Internet’s Collection of Music Links. Find a link to any band you are looking for instantly!
• Scour - Scour is a broadband entertainment portal on the Internet. That means it helps you find (almost) every kind of music (including streaming radio stations), movies and videos from all over the Web.

Health Search Engines

• MedExplorer - Search peer reviewed health and medical websites.The best medical searh engine on the net.
• HealthAtoZ - Search over 50,000 professionally reviewed health & medical Internet resources.
• Health Finder - A gateway consumer health and human services information web site (basically a health search engine), created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Health on the Net -Search for healthcare websites, hospitals.
• StayHealthy.com - Your premier health and wellness portal, offers diverse and comprehensive Internet health and wellness resources.
• AllHealth.com - Top quality health search engine.
• Med 411 - Search engine of sites for medical professionals.
• MedSeek: Directory of Hospitals - The largest directory of American hospitals on the net (if you don’t no the full hospital name, entering part name is alright).
• MedHelp International - Search the largest patient library on the Net comprising: articles, patient support groups, glossary, Q&A.
• Combined Health Information Database - CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.
• On-line Medical Dictionary - A searchable dictionary of terms from medicine and related fields.
• Health Guide - Health site covering mental health, senior health and family health.
• Healthtouch - Search enables you to find information about more than 10,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications.
• OnHealth - A personal guide to health, offering local health guides, discussion groups, live broadcasts and disease information.