AltaVista

My personal favorite. Powered by Digital, AltaVista gives a 1 to 2 day submission to database turnaround. AltaVista also powers Yahoo and C|Net's Search.com.

[ http://www.altavista.digital.com/ ]

Excite

Also a engine that has relatively quick turnaround when you submit a site. A site that I created was listed here second (after AltaVista) when I submitted it. Big database here as well.

[ http://www.excite.com/ ]

HotBot

I just started using HotBot and I am starting to love it. It appears to feed me back more information than any other engine that I have tried. This engine is powered by Inktomi and is also linked to HotWired (the online 'zine version of WIRED magazine). At "presstime," HotBot had 54 million documents in its database. The site that I made was listed here (even though I did not submit it).

[ http://www.hotbot.com/ ]

Infoseek

Another necessary site to get your page listed on. This used to be Netscape's primary search device when you clicked on "Net Search". Cool because sites are ranked by percentage (not always correct though).

[ http://www.infoseek.com/ ]

Ultra Infoseek

Ultra Infoseek (Ultraseek) is pretty much the same as Infoseek. There is one noticeable difference though. They used to have, and is working to get functional again), a automatic database submission device, which means that as soon as you submit your site, it will be ready for searching.

[ http://ultra.infoseek.com/ ]

Lycos

Lycos sites can be searched as "all sites" (that relate to the search string), "related sites," "pictures," and/or "sounds." Pretty cool if you are searching just for a rare pictures of Madonna that are a bit risque (hehe!).

[ http://www.lycos.com/ ]

Magellen

Home of the popular ranking system of "3-star," 4-star," etc sites. Many people are proud to be chosen and love to flaunt the Magellan Icon on their site as a winner (including me!).

[ http://www.mckinley.com/ ]

Search.com

Another search "engine" powered by AltaVista. Having connections to the popular C|Net (cnet.com, news.com, gamecenter.com, download.com, shareware.com), going to this site can help you access info on one of the many search engines online (without having to go to each one individually).

[ http://search.com/ ]

Yahoo

Probably one of the more popular search engines, Yahoo is designed Heirarchtical for simpler nevigation.

[ http://www.yahoo.com/ ]