• Alta Vista
  Digital Equipment's Alta Vista search engine.

• AnyWho
  Finds current telephone numbers, E-mail addresses, Web sites. The site has access to 90 million consumer and 10 million business listings.

• Ask Jeeves
  An excellent search engine, this site's specialty is natural language queries. For example, one person asked "Where can I find encyclopedic resources on octopus?"

• Dejanews
  A site capable of searching Usenet newsgroups.

• Dog Pile
  This site lets you search the Web for categories of information, such as "Images" and "Audio/MP3."

• Excite.com
  Excite offers you the choice of searching the Web, news, or the Excite directory.

• EZ-Find
  This site polls twelve other indexing sites.

• Google
  This is PC World's favorite search engine, giving the most relevant results. I once searched for the 'Small Business Association.' Google returned the 'Small Business Administration', which is what I meant to type into the search bar.

• Lycos
  The Lycos indexing engine.

• Magellan
  The Magellan indexing engine.

• MegaSpider
  This site searches other indexing engines for you.

• NlightN
  This site searches the Web and commercial databases.

• Open Directory Project
  This site depends on a network of volunteer Web users to index the Web. Their motto is "Humans do it better." The site is on PC World's recommended list.

• Open Text
  The Open Text search engine.

• Switchboard.com
  Finds phone numbers, addresses, and e-mail addresses of people and businesses. Also provides maps and city guides.

• WebCrawler
  The WebCrawler search engine.

• Welcome to CUI
  The computer science department at the University of Geneva maintains this site. In addition to the search engine, the Useful Links page points to sites dealing with topics in computer science.

• Yahoo
  The Yahoo search engine.