Search Engines

Top Picks from the Gang at SpringSips

All the Web, All the Time This one is very comprehensive and very very quick!

Ask.com Got a question? Just ASK Great for Beginners!

Excite Good old reliable search engine.

Google Quick, fun, playful at the holidays! Hit the Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" button for true adventures in searching. This is Amy's Favorite.

Yahoo Do you? Of course, you do.

Accommodation Search Engine A great guide for finding a roof over your head for your vacation

Altavista An amazing amount of information here

AOL Netfind AOL's search engine

BizWeb "Business Guide to the Web"

Dogpile.com A Meta search engine, seeking your query from other engines and bringing you the results.

Go2.com Good for more experienced surfers

Lycos One of the big search engines; really well laid-out and easy to navigate

Mamma called "...the mother of all search engines..." this is another "meta" searcher, searching other search engines and offering a compilation of hits for your perusal

MetaCrawler This one doesn't have it's own index, it uses other search engines indexes and searches among all the ones it's registered with

WebCrawler "The web's top search engines spun together"

Web Ring This is an interesting way of finding things. People register their sites with sites of the same characteristics (usually).

WhoWhere? Specializing in finding people on the web

The Yellow Pages Yup, The Yellow Pages phone book is now on-line, you just have to know what you're looking for