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Search Engines

All the Web
According to searchenginewatch.com, "An excellent crawler-based search engine. In addition to web page results, AllTheWeb.com provides the ability to search for news stories, pictures, video clips, MP3s and FTP files."

Ask.com
Once its "natural-language" searching was supported by manual editing and indexing; it is now crawler-based.

ChaCha
The first search engine that uses the brainpower of really smart people to find anything you want on the Internet.

Digital Librarian
This directory offers a librarian's choice of the best of the Web, maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York.

Exalead
This international search engine is currently in beta.

FactBites
What do you get when you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia? FactBites was created by Rapid Intelligence, a content technology company based in Sydney, Australia. According to their website,  "Factbites searches for matches on the basis of your whole topic area, not just your keyword. This means that it can return relevant, informative results on your topic that don't necessarily mention the word you searched for!" (currently in beta)

Google
Search its tabs for the Web, Images, Groups, Directory, and News, as do more users than any other search engine. It receives more than 200 million search queries a day and indexes over 3 billion web pages.

Use Google's specialized search features to find exactly what you need:

• book search
• calculator
• definitions
• local search
• movies
• phonebook
• stock quotes
• street maps

Infomine
A treasure trove of reliable information from the Library of California.

Kartoo
Is a metasearch (uses multiple search engines simultaneously) search engine with a visual display of results in mind mapping format.  In some cases, mousing over an icon on the map will produce a thumbnail representation of the web page referenced.  "Maps" can be e-mailed or saved.

Librarian's Index to the Internet
A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,500 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians...a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.

Lycos
Began in 1994, it now uses crawler-based results provided by AllTheWeb. Its popular Fast Forward feature displays search results simultaneously with the actual pages in a separate window.

Mamma: the Mother of All Search Engines
Searches About.com, Ask.com, Business.com, Entireweb, Findwhat, Gigablast, Kanoodle, OpenDirectory, and Wisenut.  Search results can be e-mailed.

Pandia Search Central: a Guide to Internet Searching and Internet Search Promotion
Pandia includes a short and easy Internet search tutorial called the Pandia Goalgetter, as well as a page with links to -- and search forms for -- important search engines and directories.

Vivissimo
Its document clustering provides automatic categorization of information for faster, more efficient results.