* A9 Amazon books, Live results
* Abbreviations For abbreviations
* Abcsearchengine Index based, fairly small
* About Lots of articles on lots of things
* Accoona Excellent for news, good for focussed searching
* Acronymfinder Find acronyms
* Aftervote Social search engine
* Ajaxwhois Great for site statistics searches
* Alexa Good for background information on a site
* AllPlus Good meta engine, lots of options
* Alltheweb Part of the Yahoo family
* Altavista Oldie, but still a goodie, suprising enough
* Answers Good for factual information
* AOL Search Google in a different guise
* Archive, Internet Good for older versions of a site
* Ask One of the big four
* Azoos Painfully bright yellow index engine
* Beaucoup Index based, not impressed
* Better Who Is Information about a website owner etc
* Blinkx Multimedia search engine
* Brainboost Part of the Answers family
* Buzzle Index based, not impressed
* ChaCha Search with a human guide
* Clusty Good all rounder
* Collarity Personalised search engine. Very good.
* Complete Planet Excellent for hidden/invisible web
* Convert To convert from one to another
* Country Search Engines 4,000 country search engines
* Definitions Good for various definitions
* Digital-librarian Collection of links from a librarian
* DMOZ (Open Directory Project) Good index/directory
* Dogpile Multisearch GYMA
* Draze Compare GYM on one screen
* Ebingbong Social search, lets users rate results.
* Eurekster Good for building your own engine
* ExaleadSuperb functionality, good advanced options
* ExciteDoes anyone still use that any more?
* Factbites Factual information
* FaganFinder Superb collection of engines
* Fazzle Good all round meta search engine
* Feedster
* Findsounds Audio/sound search engine
* FinQoo Multi search engine, doesn't say what the sources are
* Freesearch UK based engine, global scope
* Galaxy Index based
* Google Do I need to say anything about this one?
* Google Blogsearch Best blog search engine going
* Google Directory Same as DMOZ
* Google Groups Good for obscure information
* Google Images Yahoo image search is superior
* Google Local Local to the UK that is.
* Google News Adequate. Good for email alerts
* Google Personalised Tailor results to your interests
* Google Scholar Good(ish) for academic stuff
* Google Trends Who is looking for what?
* Healia Excellent medical search engine
* Hotbot Blast from the past!
* IAF People search Searches for people! US biased.
* iBoogie Multi search engine, strong on clustering
* Icerocket Good for blog searching
* Illumirate Index based
* InfoMine For scholarly internet resource collections
* Infopeople People search
* Infoservice Index based, bizarre collection of headings
* Intute Superb directory, very authoritative
* Irazoo Social search engine, vote for results
* Ixquick Excellent meta search engine
* Jayde Business to business
* Jux2 Excellent meta search & compare results
* Kartoo Visual search engine, good reputation
* Kazazz Free text search engine, not particularly exciting
* KidsclickChildren's search engine
* Librarians Internet Index Superb resource
* Linkopedia Index based, not exciting
* Live Search One of the big 4
* Lycos Almost lost in the midst of time, but still trying
* Mahalo Social search engine, some like it, I don't
* MammaMulti meta search engine that's been around for years
* Mastersite Calls itself #1 though I can't work out why
* Metacrawler Meta search engine
* Monstercrawler Meta search engine
* Mooter Visual search engine
* MsDewey Microsoft folly; annoying and pointless
* Oaister Emphasis on hidden web academic material
* Omnimedicalsearch Excellent medical search engine
* Peerbot Very unusual engine, as it searches for favicons
* Pepesearch Does not stand out
* Pinakes Superb collection of Virtual Libraries
* Questfinder Selective web directory
* Quotations for Quotations
* Quintura First rate, uses clouds of terms. Recommended
* RedZee Visual search. Awful. Used to be excellent
* References Good all round resource
* Re-quest Index/Directory web search engine
* Scandoo accurately indicates a level of trustworthiness
* Scirus Scientific search of web and selected journals
* Scrubtheweb Nothing to recommend it
* Search-beat Uses Google's database
* Searchbug Search for people and companies in the US
* Search.com Metasearch engine
* Searchhippo Metasearch engine, unimpressed
* Searchy Personalised search
* Searchmash Google test bed
* Search Medica Excellent medical search engine
* Searchthe.net Meta search engine
* Searchtheweb Index/Directory
* Selectsurf Selective web directory
* Similicio.us Find similar sites
* Silobreaker Superb news resource
* Slider Full text search engine that searches DMOZ
* Smartlinks Index/Directory
* SMEALSearch Academic authoritative content
* Sproose Social search engine
* Sunsteam Index/Directory
* Supercrawler Index/Directory
* Synonyms Good reference resource
* Technorati Excellent weblog search engine
* Thenet1 Index/Directory
* Thunderstone Index/Directory
* Trooker Superb video search engine
* Turbo 10 Great for hidden/invisible web
* TurboScout Very good multi search engine
* Ujiko Visual search engine
* Zip codes Information about US zip code areas
* Web Brain Visual search engine
* Webcrawler Meta search engine for GYMA
* Web-search Meta search engine, one at a time
* Webworldindex Index/Directory
* Whatuseek Web/Index based, not worth the trouble
* Windseek Meta search engine
* WWW Virtual Library Second only to Pinakes
* Yahoo One of the big 4
* Yahoo Buzz What's going on?
* Yahoo Directory Yahoo as it used to be
* Yahooligans For children
* Yahoo Local Local information
* Yahoo Mindset Emphasis research or shopping
* YouTube Video engine. Use Trooker instead
* Zapmeta Allows for various methods of re-ranking
* Zensearch Uses the Google database
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