Engine list

http://www.lycos.com/: Lycos is consistently rated highly for the number and relevancy of the hits it returns. By some accounts, it catalogs more than 90 percent of the Web.
http://www.infoseek.com/: This comprehensive and accurate Web list of cataloged and reviewed sites is a subset of a larger, Net-wide commercial service.
http://www.mckinley.com/: McKinley's Internet directory features thousands of rated sites, with a "green light" rating given to sites that are apparently free of adult content.
http://www.yahooligans.com/: Want to search the Web, kids-style? Yahoo is a G-rated directory of Web resources geared to the interests of the school crowd.
http://www.hotbot.com/: HotWired adds this Inktomi-based Internet search tool to its collection of hip tools for netizens. Advanced searches don't require any fancy search syntax. Just pick from their menu in plain English!
http://www.infoseek.com/Home?pg=ultra_home.html: Zippy as AltaVista, this Web Infoseek offering takes seeking to a whole new level.
http://www.town.hall.org/brokers/www-home-pages/: This WAIS-based Web search site catalogs more than 70,000 home pages.
http://www.opentext.com:8080/: Open Text is a popular favorite in the major league of fast, complete Web catalog searches.
http://rbse.jsc.nasa.gov/eichmann/urlsearch.html: This URL collection, gathered by Web spider and indexed by WAIS, is part of NASA's Repository Based Software Engineering (RBSE) project.
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html: Query more than a dozen Web search engines at once for a variety of resources (but be prepared to wait).
http://www.yahoo.com/: Web legend Yahoo searches its own descriptions of sites (with their URLs and titles). From the site itself, you can browse through subject categories, too.
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/cgi-bin/ugwww: This classic collection of Web-related resources is a collaboration between CUI and SCG, and includes Aliweb, the EFF, and others.
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html: Formerly EINet, TradeWave's Galaxy is a Yahoo-style collection of Web information from a company that focuses on secure business-to-business electronic commerce.
http://webcrawler.com/: America Online's resident World Wide Web site catalog is fast but not always as thorough as some other crawler sites.
http://wwww.cs.colorado.edu/wwww/: The Worm (as it's known to its friends) is a pioneer of large catalog-based Web searches Though the Worm is showing its age a little compared with the newcomers, it's still a good resource.
http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu:8080/: This highly rated metasearch tool uses one search box to wade through nine other services (Open Text, Lycos, Web Crawler, Infoseek, Yahoo, TradeWave Galaxy, Excite, Inktomi, and Alta Vista) and returns a single configured screen of results.
http://wizard.inso.com/: Step through this somewhat unwieldy collection of search terms to home in on a Web search tool for your query. Then, pick from a selection of recommended search engines and online directories. Great for the remedial searcher.
http://www.planetsearch.com/: Philips Multimedia gets into the Web-search act with a new engine that returns highly relevant results.