Altavista
http://www.altavista.digital.com
   Web and Usenet searches and translations. Huge,
   fast, multilingual and discriminate.
   Excite
http://www.excite.com
   Requires fine key-word tweaking to get revelant
   results . Also maintains a reasonable site directory.  
   with some ratings. Comes in several international
   editions all padded out with a plethora of services
   like TV listings, news, weather, stock quotes, people
   finding, email lookup, flight bookings, maps and 
   yellow pages.
   HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com
   First-class Web search, sponsored by HotWired , with
   several useful search options. Particularly adept at
   finding instances people's name from sites. Also
   accesses content from several top directories.
   Human Search
http://www.humansearch.com
   A search engine with a difference: u submit a query to
   humans (Rhode Island Students), who get on the
   case.
   InfoSeek
http://www.infoseek.com
   Search the Web, Usenet and various newswires and  
   Web FAQ's plus loads of other services.. Web search
   is fast and gives accurate results.
   Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
   Various services like news, city guides and maps. Its
   Web search is highly discriminate due to fancy Java
   front end.  
   Northern Light
http://www.nlsearch.com
   Search a large Web database and/or special
   collection of newswires, journals, books and
   magazines. Results listed and sorted into sensible
   folders. 
   Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
   Big and easy to navigate by subject, though light on
   reviews. Loads of specialists stuff like national and
   metropolitan directories, weather reports, kids
   guides, yellow pages, sport scores plus outstanding
   news and other services.