Search Engines & Directory Services Sites

WebSurf

Surf the web using the best quality search engines & directories on the Internet.

Search Engines & Directory Services

Google - GO - top quality search service with rankings based on site significance. Google's relevancy paradigms have significantly improved the precision & reliability of searching the net. 
Yahoo - GO - best quality hand crafted search index with high relevancy. 

Teoma - GO - sharp new search engine with unique relevancy categories (includes rankings based on site popularity). 

Wayback Machine - GO - Internet archive of 10 billion web pages dating from 1996 to present.

AltaVista - GO - one of the oldest search engines on the web.

AOL - GO - high quality search index & US portal. 

Query Server - GO - excellent meta search engine.

ZWorks - GO - top quality meta engine.Vivisimo - GO - cool meta search engine.

SearchIQ - GO - lists & reviews all the major search engines, indexes & tools.

Open Directory - GO - the largest "human edited" directory on the web.

ixquick.com - GO - spiffy meta engine with quality rankings. 

HotBot - GO - large good quality search engine.

Lycos - GO - established search service.

Netcraft - GO - find out what servers are used at any specific website.

Librarians' Resource Centre - GO - great toolbox of free databases, technical resources & knowledge management tools. 

Reference.Com - GO - search newsgroups, mailing lists & web forums.

EuroSeek - GO - quality European search engine.

Search Engines Portal - GO - more good quality search links.

Web Surf Tips

Berkeley Library - GO - tutorial on how to locate information on the Internet.