• AltaVista: Search engine and web portal.
• Ask Jeeves: Natural language-based metasearcher.
• Ask Jeeves for Kids: Youth-oriented version of the "Ask Jeeves" search engine; additional sections include Advice!, Teachers, Net-mom Picks, Today's Word, and Brain-Box TV.
• Direct Hit: Relevancy of query results are based on sites visited in previous search results lists.
• Ditto.com: Search here if you're looking for images, rather than text.
• Dogpile: Metasearcher that includes access to financial information, web hosting, shopping, and multiplayer game sites.
• Fast Search: Includes links to specific search areas, such as FTPs and MP3s.
• Go.com: Search engine and web portal.
• Google: Metasearcher that ranks its query results on the number of relevant links to that page.
• HOTBOT/Lycos: Query results are based on an index of every word, link, and media file on more than 110 million Web documents that is refreshed every three to four weeks.
• InternetOracle: Metasearcher
• KidsClick!: Search engine designed for kids by librarians; sites are searchable by reading level and by number of images.
• MetaCrawler: Metasearcher
• Northern Light: Query results here are returned in blue Custom Search Folders™ that allow the user to more accurately select those that are most relevant.
• Real Names: Access sites for companies, brands and products by entering their names, instead of their URL's, into the browser address line.
• Search Engine Watch: Comprehensive overview of search engines and how they work, maintained by the author of "A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines."
• Searching the Internet: A list of links to search engines, broken down by type.
• Searchopolis: A web portal specifically tailored for use by secondary school students and teachers.
  
• Surfing the Net with Kids: Syndicated columnist Barbara J. Feldman's reviews of fun, educational Web sites for families.
• WebCrawler: Search engine and web portal.
• Yahoo! Every site that is included in Yahoo!'s hierarchy has been reviewed by a live person, as opposed to being automatically generated by a search engine.
• Yahooligans!: Youth-oriented version of the "Yahoo!" search engine; additional sections include Around the World, School Bell, and Science and Nature.

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