Search Engines
Web SiteAbout
http://www.yahoo.com The best place to start your search.
 http://www.yahoo.co.uk The UK version.
 http://www.google.com A new site that is highly recommended - it is extremely fast!
 http://search.com Offers you a series of areas to search under, as well as giving you the choice of picking a search engine to search - it is powered by InfoSeek.
 http://www.easysearcher.com This uses a compilation of search engines when it searches, along with some specialised ones. It also provides a number of drop down menus to choose from such as Food & Drink, Government & Law.
 http://www.altavista.digital.com Alta Vista gives you a wider range of directories/areas to search under on its front (search) page, including the opportuntiy to search in a number of different languages, and the ability to search for something under web pages, images, video, audio.
 http://www.altavista.co.uk Similar to the American version.
 http://www.ukplus.co.uk As well as being a search engine, has web site reviews and searches mainly UK web sites, but also other sites that may be of interest to UK readers.
 http://www.looksmart.co.uk Uses a selection of categories that keeps narrowing down your search until you get what you want as well as the usual way of typing in a word and searching to find what you want.
 http://www.savvysearch.com A good search engine, with useful categories to search under.
 http://www.alltheweb.com "Fast search and transfer announces world's biggest fastest search engine: 300 million web pages searched in under one half second with highly relevant results"
 http://www.ukmax.com A UK Internet portal to find 'the best content' on the web for UK readers.
 http://www.excite.com A fairly useful concise front page with a number of directories to search under - what is useful, are the news directories that have up to date news on them!
 http://www.excite.co.uk The UK version.
 http://www.hotbot.com The HotBot directory on its front page is nice and concise - with the ability to search smarter using their added options of Language, Date (useful), Return Results et.c.
 http://www.infoseek.com Reasonable front page directory layout, with a few news & money directories, as well as chat rooms!
 http://www.lycos.com A good concise directory layout, that does contain news directories.
 http://www.webcrawler.com A good directory list with regular updated news!

Other useful sites for searching are:

Web Site About
 http://www.onelook.com A little more than a dictionary!
 http://www.whatis.com Useful for looking the meaning of internet terms!
 http://infind.inference.com Good for searching when you want to cut all the commercial rubbish out!