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AltaVista AltaVista
AOL AOL
Ask Jeeves Ask Jeeves
Direct Hit Direct Hit
Excite Excite
Fast Fast (All the Web)
Go Go (formally Infoseek)
Google Google, a terrific engine that consistently returns relevant pages.
Go To Go To
HotBot HotBot
Infoseek Infoseek (now Go.com)
I-Won I-Won
Look Smart Look Smart
Lycos Lycos
Magellan Magellan
Metacrawler Metacrawler combines the search spiders from several search engines, resulting in one of the most complete set of pages being returned.
MSN MSN
NBCi NBCi (fomally snap.com)
Northern Light Northern Light, another good engine, especially for natural-language queries
Oingo Oingo
Open Directory Open Directory, an excellent indexed site which consistently returns relevant pages in complex searches
Raging Search Raging Search
Snap Snap (now NBCI.com)
Webcrawler Webcrawler
Yahoo Yahoo, the grandfather of indexed sites, Yahoo returns poor search results to all but the simplest of queries. Best use Yahoo if you wish to naviage the index directly.

Search engines to find Web Sites:

About About'
AltaVista AltaVista
AOL AOL
Ask Jeeves Ask Jeeves
Direct Hit Direct Hit
Excite Excite
Fast Fast (All the Web)
Go Go (formally Infoseek)
Google Google, a terrific engine that consistently returns relevant pages.
Go To Go To
HotBot HotBot
Infoseek Infoseek (now Go.com)
I-Won I-Won
Look Smart Look Smart
Lycos Lycos
Magellan Magellan
Metacrawler Metacrawler combines the search spiders from several search engines, resulting in one of the most complete set of pages being returned.
MSN MSN
NBCi NBCi (fomally snap.com)
Northern Light Northern Light, another good engine, especially for natural-language queries
Oingo Oingo
Open Directory Open Directory, an excellent indexed site which consistently returns relevant pages in complex searches
Raging Search Raging Search
Snap Snap (now NBCI.com)
Webcrawler Webcrawler
Yahoo Yahoo, the grandfather of indexed sites, Yahoo returns poor search results to all but the simplest of queries. Best use Yahoo if you wish to naviage the index directly.

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Infospace Infospace
Reference.com Reference.com
RemarQ RemarQ (DejaNews)
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