Infoseek - slow during peak times, ads, good
information & related topics
Webcrawler - no frills straight-forward listing,
option to show summaries
Yahoo - popular site, lists sub-categories, helpful, 'no
match' offers other searches
HotBot - search finds the sites with your keywords that are visited the
most often
AltaVista - fast, summaries included
Excite - fast, nice layout, ads, summaries
included, several options
Lycos - fast, broad results, ads, simple layout
Metacrawler - collates results from several search engines,
well done
Dejanews - specifically for searching the
newsgroups, search by author or subject
Shareware.com -
specifically for searching for shareware programs
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