Search Engines (general)

www.alltheweb.com
AlltheWeb's index includes billions of web pages, as well as tens of millions of PDF and Microsoft&ref; Word files.
www.altavista.com
One of the original and popular search engines, now powered by Overture.
www.a9.com
A product search engine from Amazon.com.
www.ask.com
Has a multi-faceted search interface that provides a 3 panel search result. Allows for expanding or narrowing a topic along with search results and matches in other areas such as images.
www.google.com
Highest rated, "world's largest search engine". Uncanny knack for extremely relevant results. Results are based on number of times other sites have linked to the results.
www.ixquick.com
"the world's most powerful metasearch engine" Ixquick lists the search engines searched and the website's place on each engine's top ten list
www.zuula.com
Searches the major search engines all at once (Google, Yahoo, MSN).