There are many different so-called search engines available on the Web today. They all work slightly different and will return different results. Sometimes the results are similar and sometimes they are not even close. It is not our goal to evaluate or rank these search sites but rather to give you, our visitors, a variety of choices.

The sites listed here are general search sites. We have not included specific ones that deal with telephone numbers, job listings, etc. If you would like to see us include these please e-mail us.

A little WhyNot hint; If you're going to be searching a lot of these sites for the same thing, such as doing research on your family name, after entering the term in the first search site, right click and do a "copy." Then when going to other sites you can simply do a right click and "paste" the term. It can save a lot of keyboarding.

If you would like more information on just how these search engines work, here's a good site. It's kind of like Search 101 and is called SearchEngineWatch.com .

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Yahoo

Lycos

Excite

HotBot

Search.com

Altavista

InfoSpace

Netscape Search

Go.com

SearchWiz

Northern Light

WhyNotLocal recommends InfoSpace for the following specialized searches

Kids Health

Fitness & Nutrition

White Pages Yellow Pages Art & Culture
If you have a favorite search site that's not listed please e-mail us with it.