It's said that the first thing that people look for on a web page is a search engine. Well, here are a few for you to try. They are not in any particular order, preferential or otherwise, but there must be something here that'll work for you. If there's not, then at least I tried.

Looking for people?
Yahoo People Search | 192.com | Whowhere Advanced E-mail

... or something?
Britannica | Encarta | Encyclopedia | Encyclopedia Mythica | Encyclozine
Free Internet Encyclopedia | Information Please | World Book

... films?
Internet Movie Database | Rotten Tomatoes | Reel Classics | Early Cinema | Movie Mistakes | Hammer Films

... UK search engines?
Red Hot Chilli | Dot UK Directory | Yahoo UK | MSN | Lycos Advanced | Lycos UK | Mirago | CyberBritain | CurryGuide | Mug-o-milk | SparkSearch Advanced | Tartanweb | Data-Wales | Total-Wales | All Search Engines

... famous pictures or artists?
Artchive | Web Museum | Art History Network
Art History | Picassos Guernica | Getty | Art.Com

... and here's some more
AOL | Alltheweb | Ask Jeeves | dogpile | Invisible Web | Yahoo Advanced Search | Hotbot | MSN (UK) | MSN (US) | MSN (advanced) | Vivisimo | Web Wombat | Yell.com | Alta Vista | Looksmart | Beaucoup! 2,000+ Search Engines, Indices and Directories | Mamma.com: The Mother of All Search Engines | Search Engine Colossus | 37.com; 37 Search Engines | Search Engines Databases and Newswires @ Internets

Or there's even...
A Search Engine for your site