1. The Top 12
   The Biggest, Fastest, Best of the Best
   

2. WebCrawler Usually pretty fast and thorough. Has become my first choice
3. Alta Vista Definitely one of the NEW PowerHouse search Engines
4. SNAP A VERY good, comprehensive and quite new search site. Could move to #1 !
5. HotBot Another powerful one in the top 12 group
6. Excite Search Engine, Links to over 11 million pages
7. Yahoo One of My favorite starting Point. Usually productive, available & fast
8. InfoSeek Searches Web pages full text and NewsGroups
9. Aliweb A Public Service provided by NEXOR, UK
10. The Front Page / LinkStar Search Engine Getting Faster & Better all the time
11. Lycos Pretty thorough BUT also Pretty Busy during the day - Best used @ Nite
12. Web Wombat - well done Australian Search Engine that been around since the beginning
13. Matilda Large, well organized and responsive Australian Search Engine
14. Open Text Livelink Pinstripe. Search site designed specifically for the business community
15. MultiMeta Bilingual simultaneous search in English/Deutsch/Español/Francais/Italiano

1. 2Ask - Your gateway to The InterNET
2. The Nihongo Yellow Pages English/Japanese Business Directory
3. Starting Point Everything You Need to Work the WEB. Every day
4. Pointers Information Centre UK Search Engine w/ Daily UK News Scroll
5. Rominger Legal Services On-line LEGAL Research Page.
6. Scott Banister's METASEARCH Multi Search Engine Facility
7. W3 Search engines A very usefull collection of search engines
8. All-in-1 Search Page A compilation of various forms-based search tools found on the NET
9. WORLD WIDE WEB WORM Items of interest can be selectively set
10. EINet Galaxy `...and where are my potatoe chips?''
11. Big Yellow Names, Address, Phone# for 16 million US Businesses
12. Virtual Yellow Pages Comprehensive, easy to use directory of Web Sites & Info
13. Clearing House A Wealth of Information for the INTERNET USER
14. U. C. Berkeley INKTOMI Research Prototype
15. Josh's Sanctum Australian Based Hierarchical Links, Including Search & Random
16. CMC Search Engine by John December
17. New Riders Official World Wide Web Yellow Pages

    Search for People & Business's
    E-Mail, Phone & Addresses

18. AnyWho Search for People or Businesses - Over 90 million entries
19. Four11 - The Internet White Pages
20. WhoWhere - E-Mail Addresses
21. BigFoot - White Pages & E-Mail Addresses
22. SwitchBoard - People & Business Phone # & Street Address
23. 555-1212 A good directory/link of directories - yellow, white, blue, email, etc.
24. Internet 800 Directory Just what the name says

    Search Reference Desks

    Specific Items, Pursuits & Categories

25. Aviation Sales Pavillion Links to numerous aviation resourses, FAA, etc.
26. Builder On-Line The Leading Magazine for the Home Building Industry
27. BuildNet - a good list of Architects, Builders, Contractors, Suppliers & Manufacturers
28. CarPrices.com - Great site dedicated to all aspects of cars incl'd new/used prices, insurance quotes, credit checks, financing, title check, rebates, warranties, reviews and automotive links
29. College Net search by name, location, tution, enrollment, major subjects, sports
30. College Financial Aid database of 180,000+ scholarships & Lists of lenders
31. CityNet A most comprehensive international guide to communities
32. Collector's COIN UNIVERSE WWW Site
33. Computer and Communication Companies
34. A Good jump point for links to Computer Vision & Graphics
35. Construction Industry - Management Consultants & Executive Search
36. Netcheck functions as a Consumer Bureauon the InterNET
37. A searchable index of Credit Unions
38. DisInformation is a comprehensive Web directory for the subculture
39. Online Educational Resources
40. 101%education, a directory of Educational Web-Sites
41. B.E.S.T. Best Education Sites Today. Links to Over 10,000 EDUCATION URLs.
42. Government Lists & more lists
43. Wide World of Packet Radio - links to Ham Radio Sites
44. The American Society of Home Inspectors
45. HomeScout searches other web-sites based on price, size & community
46. Human Development Consulting Career Search Tools
47. Enjoy Your Surfing in Italy, ... AND Enjoy Your Surfing at TrADE-Net
48. Kids Camps Links to day, overnight, specialty and family Camps
49. A database of Manufacturing Resources
50. Maps on Us - Navigation made easy . . All across the United States
51. Large collection ofMedia-Related WWW sites
52. MEDMarket Healthcare Manufacturing Index - companies involved in the medical device, diagnostics, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries
53. Pointers to sources related to Object-Oriented languages & systems
54. Grand Old Page Directory of Political Sites
55. US Postal Service Look up Address's & Zip's - Must know Name,Street,City,State
56. PriceLine Name YOUR price for a Leisure Airline Ticket or a New Car
57. Real Estate and related business links
58. Great Outdoors Recreation Pages
59. Thomas Register Online listing of American Manufacturers
60. Zoo links and Animal Pages

General Resources

Dogpile A tremendous search tool. Searches about a dozen engines for you at once.
ProFusion. Brought to you by the good folks at the University of Kansas, this multi-search engine displays only unique results to your query, and even detects broken links for you! The main interface requires Javascript, but they have a non-javascript version, as well.
Inference Find Quite useful-searches the web for things directly and indirectly related to whatever keywords you type in, then organizes the results by category.
Search.Com Doesn't search everything at once like Dogpile does, but everything you need is at your fingertips.
My Virtual Reference Desk. If you need to know something, you can probably find it here.
555-1212.Com Allows you to look up people by name OR just their phone number. U.S. listings only.
Phonebooke.Com Multiple on-line phonebooks here. There's also a section that allows you to find Canadian listings. A word of warning to Lynx users-this site uses frames.
Canada Post Residential Services. Find a Postal code or the nearest Post Office of a friend in Canada.
U.S. Postal Service. Anything you'd ever want to know, except maybe who'll be next to " go postal".
The BIG Search Engine Index An index of 399 search engines, organized into categories such as software searches, science searches, etc.
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial Brought to you by the folks at UC Berkely, this tutorial includes an introduction to the Internet, a glossary of terms, things to know before searching the World Wide Web, how to create search strategies, and how to refine your topic and identify the search tools to fit your needs.
Resources. A great page of links to everything you could possibly want to know about, sponsored by the Witchita, KS public schools. Be patient-it takes a while to load.
The Re:Search Centre. Lots of search engines accessible on a single page. An annoying hroizontal scroll problem for graphical-browser users and an annoying lack of alt tags for Lynx users, but a good site nonetheless.
Beaucoup.Com. LOTS of search engines listed with links. Don't worry, they're organized by category.
Search Insider. Useful information about surfing the web with search engines.

Medical Resources

Medsite.Com A pretty good medical search engine.
Doc Finder. Established by the Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors, Doc Finder allows you to look up state licensed physicians in participating states. You can search for information on a doctor, check on the status of a physician's license, or learn how to file a complaint.
Medbot. Brought to you by the good folks at Stanford, this site allows you to search up to 4 databases simultaneously. Unfortunately, it uses Javascript, so it's no good on Lynx.
Medis
Medical Search Engines.
The Digital Medical Library TM.
CliniWeb. Submit queries in five different languages.
Neuroscience Web Search.
National Organization for Rare Disorders. Lots of info here. You can even search their database of more than 1,100 diseases.

Legal Resources

FindLaw. A searchable database of all U.S. Supreme Court cases since 1937. The cases are searchable by citation, case name and full text and are browsable by year and US Reports volume. The cases contain US Reports page markers and hyperlinks within the cases to other cited cases for easy navigation.
USSC Plus. Search for more Supreme Court decisions. Unfortunately, you need a browser that supports frames to see anything.
Law Guru Homepage. A great legal search engine for anyone with a browser that supports frames. In the webmaster's defense, however, he/she at least acknowledges the lack of a non-frames version of the page is a problem.
Martindale-Hubble Law Directory. Search for a lawyer by state, city, practice, etc.
Westlaw Lawyer's Directory. If you click on "Advanced Search," you can search by county - no area-code searches, alas.
The Jaffe Legal News Service Archives. Journalists can also get the free newsletter by e-mail or fax periodically. Its purpose is to provide Journalists access to leading legal experts as interview and background sources.
Virtual Legal Search Engines. This site contains a ton of legal search engines. It also links to a list of 500 specialized search engines in more than 40 categories.
How to Effectively Locate Federal Government Information on the Web. A thorough online interactive tutorial put together by a couple of librarians at U.C. San Diego.
The Copyright Website.
Media Law Links.The official World Wide Web site of the Media Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Pace IPLS: General Legal Search Engines and Resources. From the folks at Pace University.
Law Databases Search Engines.
LawCrawler.Com
WashLaw Web. Fairly comprehensive listing of links to federal courts.

Miscellaneous

Alternative Dictionaries. Interesting dictionary of slang. You can choose from several languages and even add words, but so far, the English Dictionary has the most entries.
Excaliber Image Surfer Search for images on the web using words describing the contents of the image.
Picture Resources. Links to other image search engines.
Accommodations Search Engine. Lets you search by country, state and region for location, then narrows it down with price ranges, etc. Best of all, it's optimized for Lynx!
Dictsearch. An Internet tool which allows for a simple and fast consultation of some of the most complete dictionaries throughout the Net. Unfortunately, it requires a browser that supports frames. However, there is a no frames version of the site that links to other online dictionaries.
Suite 101. Not a search engine or directory, but it does help you to surf the web and find what you need quickly without having to sift through everything else.
Library of Congress Experimental Search System. Allows you to search the Library of Congress for books by title, subject, or author.