About.com - Generally good annotations done by "Guides" with various levels of expertise.

AllPlus - Multi dimensional metasearch engine with clustering and advanced linguistic capabilities.

AlltheWeb.com - Powered by Yahoo, you may find AllTheWeb a lighter, more customizable and pleasant "pure search" experience than you get at Yahoo itself. The focus is on web search, but news, picture, video, MP3 and FTP search are also offered.

AltaVista - Now owned by Yahoo, if you want a lighter-feel than Yahoo but to still have Yahoo's results, AltaVista is worth considering.

AOL Search - AOL Search provides users with editorial listings that come Google's crawler-based index.

Ask.com - Ask depends on crawler-based technology to provide results to its users. These results come from the Teoma algorithm, now known as ExpertRank.

Bing - Formerly Live.com, this is Microsoft's most recent search engine.

bjorgul - Clean interface lets you query major search engines from one page.

Bytedog - Uses a meta-searching technique that fetches results from all the other search engines so you don't have to.

Clusty - Currently searches a number of free, search engines and directories, not Google or Yahoo.

Copernic - Select from list of search engines by clicking the Properties button following Advanced Search search box.

Cuil - Search engine with results shown with images and a drill-down menu.

CurryGuide - Meta search engine for the US and several European countries, as well as in various subject areas.

CustomSearchEngineGuide.com - Not a search engine in of itself, but a quite complete directory of Custom Search Engines (CSE's).

Dogpile - Searches Google, Yahoo, LookSmart, Ask.com, MSN search, and more. Sites that have purchased ranking and inclusion are blended in.

Exaled - Truncation lets you search by the first few letters of a word. Proximity search lets you find terms NEAR each other or NEXT to each other.

Excite - Sign-up search portal similar to InfoSpace.

Fazzle - Fazzle offers a highly flexible and customizable interface to a wide variety of information sources, ranging from general web results to specialized search resources in a number of subject specific categories.

Gigablast - Compared to Google, Yahoo or even Teoma, Gigablast has a tiny index of the web. However, the service is constantly gaining new and interesting features.

Gimenei - Gimenei queries an undisclosed number of search engines and removes duplicates from results.

Google - It's highly recommended as a first stop in your hunt for whatever you are looking for.

HotBot - HotBot provides easy access to the web's three major crawler-based search engines: Yahoo, Google and Teoma. Unlike a meta search engine, it cannot blend the results from all of these crawlers together. Nevertheless, it's a fast, easy way to get different web search "opinions" in one place.

IceRocket - The service queries WiseNut, Yahoo, Teoma and then somewhat repetitively also includes Yahoo-powered MSN, AltaVista and AllTheWeb.

Info.com - Info.com provides results from 14 search engines and pay-per-click directories, including Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Kanoodle, LookSmart, About, Overture and Open Directory.

InfoGrid - In a compact format, InfoGrid provides direct links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories.

infomine - Scholarly internet resource collections.

InfoSpace - Search the Web on InfoSpace to get all the best results from leading search engines, plus results from Yellow Pages.

ipl2 - The result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII).

Ixquick - Meta search engine that ranks results based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the various search engines.

Jux2 - It allows you to search two major search engines at the same time, then see results that are found on both first, followed by results found on only one of them next.

Kartoo - This meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords.

iZito - Search and combine all search engines.

LookSmart - LookSmart is primarily a human-compiled directory of web sites.

Lycos.com - It ceased crawling the web for its own listings in April 1999 and instead provides access to human-powered results from LookSmart for popular queries and crawler-based results from Yahoo for others.

Mamma - Mamma searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories and specialty search sites.

Meceoo - Meta search with the ability to create an "exclusion list" to block pages from particular web sites being included.

MetaCrawler - One of the oldest meta search services.

MetaEureka - earch against several major search engines and paid listings services.

MonsterCrawler - Search The Web's Top Engines With Just One Click!

Netscape Search - Owned by AOL Time Warner, Netscape Search uses Google for its main listings, just as does AOL's other major search site, AOL Search.

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

ScrubtheWeb - Scrub The Web was the first search engine to provide Search Engine Optimization Tools.

Search.com - a meta search engine operated by CNET

Snap.com - Snap is one of the largest distributed media networks on the Internet, already reaching 9% of the US audience

Surfwax - A better than average set of search engines. Can mix with educational, US Govt tools, and news sources, or many other categories.

Vivisimo - Enter a search term, and Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories.

WebCrawler - The web's top search engines spun together.

Windows Live - Signup for Hotmail, Skydrive online storage, Messenger, photos, scripts, etc.

Yahoo - In addition to excellent search results, you can use tabs above the search box on the Yahoo home page to seek images, Yellow Page listings or use Yahoo's excellent shopping search engine. Or visit the Yahoo Search home page, where even more specialized search options are offered.

Yebol - Yebol automatically clusters and categorizes search terms, Web sites, pages and contents.

Yooci - Yooci queries major search engines and finds results that are universally ranked in the top 100.