The place to start any internet surfing adventure, google is the most widely used internet search engine. Advanced features include caching and on the fly translation of results, PageRank, and an option to find similar and theme-related web pages. The company's main focus is developing state of the art search technology.

http://www.google.com/ [ state of the art search technology ]

    Offers search for web sites, news, blogs, images, video also includes maps and directions, global and local search and shopping.

http://www.ask.com/ [ maps and directions ]

    Enables users to search the Web, and images also enables online translation of results and individual pages.

http://www.altavista.com/ [ search the Web ]

    Offers internet search engine, also know and popular for dialup access services and content provider.

http://msn.com [ internet search engine ]

    Search engine that enables real-time search for user-generated media (including weblogs) by tag or keyword. Also provides popularity indexes.

http://www.technorati.com/ [ user-generated media ]

    Open source Search engine and free wiki hosting from Wikia, using the same MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia.

http://www.wikia.com/ [ Open source Search engine ]