Google is simply the most comprehensive search engine available on the net. Aside searching the net you can use Google's extended search features for a whole host of other things including definitions, spell check, calculator, conversions, and much more. Plus there are other Google searches.

Once upon a time web searching began and ended with Yahoo. After a time in the wilderness Yahoo! are back with an excellent search engine that is easily in the same game as Google.

Much as we hate and despise anything that comes from the Microsoft, we can't escape the fact that their MSN search is actually very good. Had it not been a Microsoft creation, it might have gotten 5 stars.

A superb search engine from Amazon that provides a unique set of powerful features to find information, organize it, and remember it. A9 uses web and image search results enhanced by Google, 'Search Inside the Book' results from Amazon.com, as well as references from GuruNet, IMDb, and more.

Jeeves got fired in February, but that hasn't reallcy changed anything. 'Ask' is still able to offer a decent selection of results, though sometimes they seem a little out of date.

Once laden with ads-a-plenty AltaVista has chosen to go back to its bare bones search engine roots and offer a relatively ad-light environment. The results are powered by Yahoo though, so there seems little point in using AltaVista if you have already used Yahoo.

Trusty old Lycos might have all the style of a drunken street brawl but that doesn't mean they can't offer a decent selection of results. Plus we found that searching their picture engine gave us quite different results from other engines out there. An improvement as far as we're concerned.

A good selection of results is often offered by this engine. Their site seemed to be very fast at returning results, and the simple tab layout of the page reduces confusion for the user. The top three results are sponsored (ads).

A relatively newcomer to the search engine game, Wisenut have made a good start. The results seem fast and reliable with a fairly simple page design that makes distinction between the ads and search results easy for the user.

A search engine where each submitted site is actually reviewed by volunteer reviewers. However, there seems to be a high number of out of date results as the reviewers struggle to keep up with the dizzyingly fast pace of change on the world wide web.

Teoma is a crawler-based search engine owned by Ask Jeeves. We've found then a bit 'hit and miss' at times, but some people also like the "Refine" feature, which offers suggested topics to explore after you do a search.

There really isn't anything especially 'smart' about Looksmart. The web results it offers are pretty poor and the directory is rubbish.

What on earth were these guys thinking about when they named their search engine Dogpile? Well, as the name suggests, it's a big pile of nasty.