General Search Engines, use automated systems to search the entire World Wide Web for relavant sites.

• Ask Jeeves, A popular metasearch engine that does an excellent job of searching other search engines using natural language search queries.
• AltaVista, a comprehensive search engine from Digital that can search Usenet postings as well as WWW sites, considered the best by several surveys, tests, and critics.
• Excite, popular and highly rated, it also contains a directory of sites with some reviews.
• FAST Search, new search engine designed to obtain faster results.
• Go Network, the popular and comprehensive search engine, includes some advanced features.
• Google, new general search engine from Stanford University.
• Goto.com, no-frills search engine designed to be fast and simple to use.
• HotBot, comprehensive search engine that rivals AltaVista in percentage of web coverage.
• Lycos, the popular and highly rated search engine with a searchable directory and some reviews.
• Magellan, also rates selected sites from one to four stars.
• Mednets: A Community for Patients, Search engine performs your keyword search in select subset of websites. Websites are reliable, recognized authorities on health topics. Easy to use, nice layout, good navigation.
• MetaCrawler, can limit searches to regions or sources (domains) and can limit the time taken for a search.
• MSN Search, new search engine from Microsoft.
• Northern Light Search, site that offers a web search engine and a special collection search engine. Full-text of articles in the special collection may be purchased for a nominal fee.
• Open Text, a free commercial search engine.
• Planet Search, a new search engine from Phillips Multimedia Center.
• Snap.com, wide coverage search engine.
• SearchBug.com: The Most Useful Searches
• Subjex.com- Better answers to any question; Just like AskJeeves
• Webcrawler, from America Online, also contains a directory of sites with some reviews.
• What-u-seek, search engine that pictorially ranks relavance of hits.

• About.com, searchable index of sites with in-depth annotations.
• Alpha Search, search engine of a directory of selected search sites called gateway sites - ones that contain links to all relevant sites within a field or subject.
• LookSmart, a searchable directory of 20,000 subject areas. This site is also integrated with the AltaVista search engine.
• Yahoo, extremely useful as a comprehensive and finely categorized searchable directory that includes some reviews. This site is also integrated with the AltaVista search engine.