100 Specialized Search Engines
Other combined search engines. Allows searching by category.

All-in-One Search Page
A magnificent, if overwhelming, one-stop search site. Submits searches to others.

Cyber 411: The Ultimate Parallel Search
Searches for a word or a phrase. Returns the titles of pages, with no descriptions.

Debriefing
Ranks by relevance. Also searches AltaVista, Yahoo, InfoSeek, Excite, Webcrawler and Lycos.

Dogpile
Uses the usual Web search engines, as well as Usenet newsgroups and FTP sites.

Go2Net
This site searches all the search engines.

GoProfit
"The world's financial search engine," a specialized search engine with links to business news and resources.

Gov.Search
A free (for now) searchable index of U.S. government Web sites.

Government Search (via Google)
A metasearch of many government Web sites, using the Google metasearch tool.

Guide to meta-search engines
A quick overview of meta-search tools, from Jian Liu of Indiana University Libraries.

Highway 61
Well, it's different. So far it doesn't look ready for prime time.

Inference Find
Many people like it the best, because it merges the results, removes redundancies, and clusters the results into neat understandable groupings. And it's fast. Not so targeted or complete as learning a few AltaVista search rules, but easier -- if you don't

Internet Sleuth
Submits queries to searchable databases of Web pages, in categories. Worth trying. Can take a minute or two.

Invisible Web
A beta site containing "searchable information resources whose contents cannot be indexed by traditional search engines. These include databases, archived material, and interactive tools such as calculators and dictionaries.

Mamma.com
Another metasearch, with results sorted by "relevance." Advertises itself as the mother of all search engines.

MetaCrawler
Submits to Excite, AltaVista, InfoSeek, Webcrawler, Lycos, and the directory Yahoo. Returns results with a relevance ranking. Advantage: one shot searching. Disadvantage: you miss the power of the advanced search syntax, unless you choose to use MetaCrawl

Oingo
Claims to be the first "meaning-based search engine." What does that mean? Oingo says it can decipher what you really want, and bring it to you from various search engines. But if you know what you want, why can't you just search for that yourself? At this point, still a limited resource, searching less than other tools.

Profusion
Uses three search engines.

Reporter's Desktop
A fabulous one-stop shop for the best phone finders and search engines. Compiled by Duff Wilson of The Seattle Times.

Reporter's Desktop
A fabulous one-stop shop for the best phone finders and search engines. Compiled by Duff Wilson of The Seattle Times.

SavvySearch
Another metasearch tool. For my money, not so savvy as Inference Find.

Search the Federal government
The Pathway Indexer searches more than 1,300 U.S. government agencies and military Internet sites. A prior link was given with more specific info. (http://gather.access.gpo.gov/Harvest/brokers/Pathway/query.html) but it cannot be opened.