Alexa Web Search

Returns results from its own index accompanied by additional information including tracking ranking, number of links to pages, ownership and links to related pages of interest

AllTheWeb

Returns results from an extremely large database gathered by the Yahoo crawler; offers multimedia and news searches; has a good advanced search interface

AltaVista

Searches websites and Usenet newsgroups with advanced Boolean and field search option

AOL Search

An engine that defaults to And logic and offers an Options template for easy search construction; has an option to view results by popularity

Ask.com

General search engine enhanced by a number of specialty searches including a dictionary, thesaurus, currency converter, encyclopedia, and more

BananaSlug

Uses the Google search mechanism and seeds your search with a random word from the category of your choice to return unusual results

ChaCha

A search engine that offers live human guides to help answer queries

Cvil

Searches a very large index of Web pages and includes thumbnails of sites in its search results

Exalead

Offers concept clustering of results, thumbnail images of retrieved sites, and customization of results by file type, geography or modification date

Factbites

Beta engine that searches for full topic matches and returns meaningful, full sentence excerpts of sites in its results list

EcoSmartSearch.com

A google powered search engine with a black background display that saves energy

Google

Ranks pages by tracking the links from pages ranked high by the service

Google Blog Search

Used for searching blog entries

Google Book Search

Used for searching the full text of books from most publishers in the U.S

Google Directory

Used for searching the Google version of the Open Directory

Google Scholar

Offers the full text, abstracts, and/or citations to scholarly materials including books, journal articles, documents in academic repositories and the free Web

IceRocket

Offers searches of the Web, blogs, and others sources, creates an RSS feed of search results, tracks search terms cited in blog postings, andoffers a free RSS builder

iSEEK Education

Offers authoritative resources from university, government, and established noncommercial providers; organizers results into concept clusters, and also allows users to recommend and rate sites

Kool Torch

Returns results organized by graphical icons into general category clusters that, in turn, generate results within that category

Live Search

Microsoft's search engine that offers searches of the general Web as well as some deep Web sources and focused search including health, local, and questions/answers

Lycos

A general engine that also offers searches of few deep Web content sources including people look up, yellow pages and multimedia

Quintura

Displays a type of tag cloud with keywords related to your search that can be selected to generate new results

SearchEdu.com

Service that limits results to the .edu, domain; also offers to search well known encyclopedias, almanacs, etc.

Webbrain

Offers results in visual layout of related terms for subsequent searching

Yahoo!

Portal with a general Web search and many other content services.