Here are some of the major search engines in common use on the web...
| Engine | Notes |
| Altavista | also includes language translation services. |
| Askjeeves | Handles "Free text" questions |
| Dejanews | now part of google |
| Excite | |
| Go | |
| Very popular, and used as the core of many other search engine sites. | |
| Hotbot | |
| Searches by Google, but with extra facilities for managing the results of your search. These are not obvious until you hover the mouse over a results link. Probably more useful if you are seriously researching a complex project than casual queries. | |
| Lycos | |
| NorthernLight | Divides your search results up into subject-based folders on screen, allowing you to identify the ones most relevant to you more easily. |
| Teoma | Calculates "relevance" differently from others - may help if other engines are finding too many irrelevant sites for your query. |
| WiseNut | |
| Vivisimo | Sorts results into categories, so that you waste less time looking at "wrong" meanings of the words you entered. |
| Yahoo | Uses Google as search core |
| uk.Yahoo | UK & Eire section |
At present, there are several thousand search engines on the web - if the ones above do not meet your needs, try The Search Engine Guide - it lists thousands of search engines, including specialist search engines for particular subjects.
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