Search Engines
www.altavista.com
www.excite.com
www.lycos.com
www.hotbot.com
www.google.com
www.fireball.de
www.askjeeves.com

Edited lists (directories)
www.yahoo.com
search.looksmart.com
pandia.com
www.zepti.org

Multiple Search Engines
www.metacrawler.com
www.dogpile.com
alltheweb.com
www.copernic.com
www.profusion.com/index.htm
www.mamma.com
www.highway61.com
www.infopeople.org/search/tools.htm

Search Engine news
searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156221
www.pandia.com/powersearch/index.html
pandia.com

General search methods
Specific procedures vary from one search engine to another

Refer Google help

Certain general concepts apply across all or most search engine systems.

Use space or + to include a search term or search terms
    restaurant
    restaurant sofia pasta     ( select the words restaurant sofia pasta )
    restaurant +sofia +pasta +comfy    ( select the words restaurant sofia pasta comfy )

Use - to exclude a search term
    restaurant sofia, -vegetarian    ( select the words restaurant sofia exclude vegetarian )
    Bush Kate    ( select the words Bush and Kate )
    Bush -Kate    ( select the word Bush, exclude the word Kate )
    Bush -George -Kate     ( select the word Bush, exclude the words George and Kate )

Use " " to include a phrase
    "I wish to speak about the tragedy of Europe"
    "19 September 1946" Zurich

The search terms word order may affect the result
Search term capitalisation should not affect the result