This is a quick list of search engines that are most often used for general web inquiries. Yahoo's decent enough for most purposes, but Altavista and Excite are very good at narrow searches that aren't covered by the general interest web spiders. Altavista and Dejanews are Usenet search engines, for searching newsgroups. I recommend Dejanews for searching news...

Alta Vista	Search the Web Usenet and Display the Results in Standard Form in Compact Form in Detailed Form
	Search Usenet           Select documents matching all any keywords.   Display histlist in concise detailed format.
	Enter words describing a concept or keywords: Search: Web Sites Usenet Classifieds Reviews
InfoSeek	Search for information about: in the World Wide Web Infoseek Select Sites Usenet newsgroups Company Directory E-mail Addresses Timely News Web FAQs (Search tips)
	Lycos Query    Search Options Match all terms (and) Match any term (or) Match 2 terms Match 3 terms Match 4 terms Match 5 terms Match 6 terms Match 7 terms Loose match Fair match Good match Close match Strong match Display Options 10 results per page 20 results per page 30 results per page 40 results per page Summary results Standard results Detailed results
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