Google offers its advanced search technology to individual users through the company's search destination site, www.google.com. Google also offers the same high-quality search capabilities to portals and commercial websites with its Google WebSearch services. The Google search here is suppost to filter out the X-rated sites you sometimes get. Many of the X-rated sites try to fool the search engines so they show up when you don't want them.
AltaVista Search - Claimes to be the world's fastest, most comprehensive search service available in 25 languages with 8 distinct search dimensions. I use AltaVista when researching more obscure items. If you search on very comon items you will bet back thousands of possibilities. Their "advanced search" is very powerfull.
One of the first online navigational guides to the Web. I use yahoo when I want to search for businesses and things that are mainstreem. Yahoo is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet.
