• Search Engine Watch Lots of excellent information about search engines.
• Search Engine Showdown "The Users' Guide to Web Searching" features comparisons of and statistics about many search engines.
• Search Engine Decoder Provides a visual display of search engine relationships.
• Yahoo! The first search engine and directory service.
• Classic Yahoo! The Yahoo! Directory home page.
• Altavista Was the Google of its day (late 1995).
• Google Our favorite - the search engine that ranks sites by hyperlink popularity.
• Ask Gained fame in late 1990s as the natural language search engine called Ask Jeeves.
• AllTheWeb.com Previously owned by Fast (aka Fast Search) and now powered by Yahoo!
• HotBot Provides easy access to the Web's major search engines (but does not merge results like a metasearch engine).
• Lycos One of the oldest search engines on the Web (since about 1994).
• Open Directory Project A human compiled directory of sites that uses volunteer editors o manage categories. Used by many other search tools.
• LookSmart Primarily a human compiled directory of sites.
• Metacrawler One of the oldest metasearch engines, it was developed at the University of Washington in July of 1995.
• Dogpile A metasearch engine.
• Clusty A metasearch engine formerly know as Visisimo.
• Web Crawler A metasearch engine: "The Web's Top Search Engines Spun Together."
• IceRocket A metasearch engine for blogs.
• Fazzle A metasearch engine that also provides specialized search.
• Bigfoot Great for locating lost friends.
• Yahoo! People White pages from Yahoo!
• WWW.FOUR11.COM White pages.
• WhoWhere White pages from Lycos.

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