http://www.alltheweb.com

Provides fast, clear and uncluttered results

http://www.altavista.com

One of the largest search engines on the web, providing comprehensive coverage and a wide range of search commands.

http://www.ask.com

Provides results for questions asked in sentence form giving the exact page that answers the question and/or matching pages from other search engines.

http://www.excite.com

Offers a fairly large index and integrates non-web material such as company information and sports scores into results when appropriate.

http://www.google.com/

Provides important, relevant results quickly making heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites.

http://www.go.com/

Offers the search capabilities of the former Infoseek. Consistently provides quality results in response to many general and broad searches.

http://www.hotbot.lycos.com

A favorite among researchers due to its many power searching features.      

http://www.lycos.com         

This is a directory model similar to Yahoo. Main listings come from the Open Directory project and secondary results from the FAST search engine.

http://se.msn.com/

This is a LookSmart-powered directory of web sites with secondary results that come from Inktomi as well as RealNames and Direct Hit data.

http://northernlight.com

Features a large index of the web and groups information by topic

http://www.webcrawler.com/

Provides fewer results for general searches than other engines, not recommended for obscure or unusual material.

http://www.yahoo.com

The web’s most popular search service; a directory compiled by editors, sites arranged in categories