- MSN Search - Microsoft provides search of the web, news, images and its own encyclopedia, Encarta. Also offers desktop search via a toolbar.
-- http://search.msn.com
- AOL Search - Offers comprehensive Web results enhanced by Google(TM) plus relevant multimedia results like images, video, shopping.
-- http://search.aol.com/
- Yahoo! - The first large scale directory of the Internet, now a major portal offering search engine results, customizable content, chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
-- http://www.yahoo.com
- Google - Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology.
-- http://www.google.com
- LookSmart - Offers 180+ vertical search sites, each on its own domain. Content from its own web search, FindArticles and Furl, with related news provided by Topix. Company profile and information for searchers, publishers and advertisers.
-- http://search.looksmart.com/
- Ask - Offers search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, maps and directions, people or products. Also has a dictionary search.
-- http://www.ask.com
- Scrub The Web - Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
-- http://www.scrubtheweb.com/
- WiseNut - Owned by Looksmart. Search results are clustered into categories. Preferences settings include search by language and a filter to remove adult content.
-- http://www.wisenut.com/
- The Evolution of Web Searching - David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies. (March, 2000)
-- http://www.davidgreen.me.uk/oirapr00.html
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