Search Engines
For a quick return of a few good hits:
Google ranks
the hits.
Ixquick is a meta search
engine which returns top ten results.
To focus a broad academic subject:
Librarians Index to the Internet
allows you to search a subject tree.
Northern Light returns
results categorized into folders.
Yahoo! is like the Librarians
Index to the Internet, but commercialized.
If you think you're doing a search that has
been done before:
Ask Jeeves! is a collection
of answers to questions in "plain English".
If you need to include often ignored words
or phrases in your search:
InfoSeek and Alta
Vista include small words (such as a, be, not, the) in their
searches.
If you have general keyword(s) but need to
refine your search:
The Advance
search in FAST Search uses a template to include or exclude
specified text in the search.