Search Engines - Find web sites using keywords

Google - Easy, clean interface with excellent search results - relevant hits; nice advanced search feature
AltaVista - Great subject categories to choose from and an "Around the World" search option
Excite - Excellent advanced search feature
Fast - One of the largest search engines
Hotbot - Click on a series of boxes to easily do your search
MetaCrawler - Search multiple search engines at one time
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New Search Engines - Search engines come and go, so it's a good idea to try a new one

AllTheWeb.com - new look since 7/01; in addition to a web page catalog, AllTheWeb also has a database of pictures, video clips, MP3 and FTP files from across the web

Search Directories - Directories let you access web sites via a "menu" or hierarchical layout

Yahoo! - the old favorite, good for popular and general information; also lists and categorizes new additions in their "whats new" section
About.com - browse by subject category; includes editor reviews
Excite - use the drop down box to search by subject category
DMOZ Open Directory Open Directory Project - one of the larger directory databases edited by humans
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Specialized Search Engines - Unique ways to search for and access unique content

Find Audio Clips
FindSounds.com
SpeechBot - search through the audio files of popular US radio programs.

Find Image or Video Clips
AltaVista PhotoFinder - find photos, images, audio and video clips
Ditto
Google Images - in Beta testing
PicSearch - high relevance between keywords associated with indexed pictures

Find Government Information
Firstgov - an official US government web site; search or browse by subject
Google Uncle Sam
SearchGov.com

Find People
Qwestdex
AnyWho - search for business or residential listings
InfoSpace
Reverse Phone Directory
Telephone Directories on the Web
WhoWhere

Find News
Excite News - updated 4 times a day; archived for a few weeks
NewsIndex - updated every hour; archived for one week
TotalNEWS.com - updated every few hours; archived for one year

Invisible Web - Find information stored in databases on the web
Invisible Web
Lycos
Webdata

International - Search the search engines of other countries
European Search Engines
Search Engine Colossus
Search Engines Worldwide