General Search Engines

All The Web - Powered by Yahoo and customizable.

AltaVista - Results come from Yahoo, lighter interface.

AOL Search (external) - Results come from Google, crawler based index.

Hotbot - Blends search results from Google, Yahoo and Teoma.

Teoma - Crawler based technology, owned by Ask Jeeves.

Gigablast - A small but growing index.

Google - World's largest search engine.

Going Into - Meta Search Engine - Search engine with metasearch functions featuring a list of the most popular search results from different online sources around the web.

Looksmart - Human compiled directory of web sites, paid listings for commercial, free for non-commercial.

Lycos - Oldest search engine on the internet, owned by Hotbot.

MSN - MSN is developing its own crawler based technology (Microsoft).

Netscape - Uses Google for search results, owned by Time Warner.

Yahoo - The search engine of Yahoo.

Volunteer Driven Directories

Zeal - Volunteer run directory owned by LookSmart.

Open Directory - The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the internet.

HotLinks - Members contribute bookmarks.