GOOGLE: one of the more accurate search engines.
Make sure you try the advanced search capabilities of this site...
it helps a lot.
http://www.google.com
ALTAVISTA: good "old fashioned" search engine. Always read the entries on
your list or returned "finds" to get clues as to the nature of the site the
search engine has found. Is it a retail site or an institution or privatem
individual? This gives you a clue as to whether the author of the site has
the authority to distribute the information they are putting on the web.
http://www.altavista.com
DIRECTHIT: also called TEOMA, this is a good search engine as well.
http://www.directhit.com
DOGPILE: this is a meta-search engine, which means it is a "search engine of
search engines". It searches the most popular engines and gives you the
best combined results by removing duplicates and analyzing the results to
help ensure the best results top the list.
It searches Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, About, FindWhat, LookSmart and more.
http://www.dogpile.com
METACRAWLER: this is another meta-search engine.
http://www.metacrawler.com
EXCITE: a meta-search engine, which gathers results from the top engines and
compiles them for you. It now searches: Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, About,
Overture, Altavista.
http://www.excite.com