Internet Search Engines

• Altavista - Also has multimedia searching & language translations.
• Answers.com - Quick, integrated reference answers instead of just search engine links.
• Alltheweb - Uses the Yahoo! index.
• Excite - Search engine with a variety of search functions.
• Google - Popular search engine with a number of very good options for searching.
• Scirus - Finds scientific information.
• Teoma - Searches using subject specfic popularity which ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference it, not just general popularity.
• Vivisimo - Organizes search results into meaningful categories.

Subject Directories

• Academic Infonet - Educational subject directory.
• About.com - Searchable directory.
• Accessnz - Directory of New Zealand sites.
• Dmoz - Open directory project maintained by volunteer editors.
• Excite - Searchable directory.
• infomine - Scholarly internet resource collections.
• Librarians Internet Index - Features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by librarians.
• Te Puna Web Directory - Directory organised by the National Library of New Zealand.
• Yahoo - Searchable directory.

Specialised Search Engines

• CompletePlanet - Finds specialised databases and specialty search engines usually hidden from other search engines.
• Dogpile - Meta-search engine.
• Kartoo - Meta-search engine.
• Profusion.com - Search engine of search engines.