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AltaVista is consistently one of the largest search engines on the web, in terms of pages indexed.  Its comprehensive coverage and wide range of power searching commands makes it a particular favorite among researches.
AOL Search allows its members to search across the web and its own content from one place.
Ask Jeaves is a human-powered search service that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question.
Direct Hit measures the clicks on the search results presented at its own site and at its partner sites, such as HotBot.  Sites that get clicked on more than others rise higher in the rankings, thus known as a "Popularity Engine".
Excite is one of the more popular search services on the web.  It offers fairly large index and integrates non-web material such as company information and sports scores into its results, when appropriate.
FAST Search aims to index the entire web.  It was the first search engine to break the 200 million web page index milestone and consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web.
Go/Infoseek offers portal features such as personalization and free e-mail, plus the search capabilities of the former Infoseek serch service, which has now been folded into Go.
GoTo unlike other search engines, GoTo sells its main listings.  Companies can pay money to be placed higher in the search results, which GoTo feels improves relevancy.
Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites.  This can be especially helpful in finding good sites in response to general searches, because users across the web have in essence voted for good sites by linking to them.
HotBot is a favorite among researches due to its many power searching features.
IWon backed by CBS television network, has a directory of web sites generated automatically by Inktomi, which also provides its more traditional crawler-based results.
LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites and provides directory results to MSN, Excite and many other partners.
Lycos started out as a search engine, depending on listings that came from spidering the web and now shifted to a directory model.
MSN Search is a LookSmart-powerd directory of web sites.
NBCi is a human-compiled directory of web sites, supplemented by search results from Inktomi.
Netscape Search results come primarily from the Open Directory and its own "Smart Browsing" database, which does an excellent job of listing "official" web sites.
Northern Light is a favorite search engine among researchers.  It features a large index of the web, along with the ability to cluster documents by topic.
Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web.  Lycos and AOL Search make heavy use of Open Directory data.
Yahoo is the web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved reputation for helping people find information easily.  It is the largest human-compiled guide to the web.