Top Choices
The search engines below are all excellent choices to start with when searching for information.

Google
AllTheWeb.com
Yahoo
MSN Search

Strongly Consider
The search engines below are other good choices to consider when searching the web.

AOL Search
Ask Jeeves
HotBot
Lycos
Teoma

Search Providers
The companies below are really in the business of providing search results to other people, rather than hoping you'll visit their own sites to search. They are listed here primarily to provide further explanation of how they partner with some of the search engines listed above.

Inktomi
LookSmart
Open Directory
Overture

Other Choices
The sites below are "major" in the sense that they either still receive significant amounts of traffic or they've earned a reputation in the past that still causes some people to consider them to be important.

AltaVista
Netscape Search