Search Engines

• Altavista
• AllTheWeb
• Ask.com
• Bing - Provided by Microsoft
• Cuil
• Exalead one:search - A unique search technology that unifies access to information no matter where it resides
• Excite
• Find-It Washington - Searches government information in Washington State
• Finder Seeker - Search engine for search engines
• Gigablast
• Go.com - Powered by Yahoo!
• Google
• Google API Proximity Search (GAPS) - Allows a proximity search of the popular Google search engine
• Google Scholar Beta - Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature
• HotBot
• Infomine - Scholarly Internet Research Collections
• Lycos
• Reporter's Desktop
• Rollyo – Roll your own search engine; allows you to create your own custom search engines and use those created by others 
• Snap Shots    
• Yahoo! 

See also: Search Engine Showdown -  Reviews of search engines

Meta Search Engines

These sites allow one to search multiple search engines in a single search.

• Dogpile
• Ixquick
• Jux2 
• Mamma
• Metacrawler - Search the search engines
• Pandia Powersearch 
• Search.com
• SurfWax
• Vivisimo - Displays clustered results by topic

Web Directories

• About.com
• Dmoz – Open Directory Project
• Google Directory
• Librarians' Internet Index
• WWW Virtual Library
• Yahoo!

Also, see our Web Searching page, which recommends search strategies for finding local government information and provides search techniques and general reference links.