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 Google started out as a Stanford University
project designed to find the most relevant Web pages for a search by assigning a higher weight to those pages that
have the most links to them from other high-quality pages. It’s an excellent idea. Google has an uncanny knack
for returning extremely relevant results. Try it just once, and you’ll see how different the search results are
from those you get using other search engines.
HotBot  HotBot, which won our Editors’ Choice, is part of
The Lycos Network and delivers fast, accurate searches with relevance-ranked results. You can search within date
ranges and do a second search off the results of your first search. The results: better search returns. HotBot
remains the versatility leader among search engines.
Northern Light  Northern Light, twice
a winner of our Editors’ Choice for Web searching, sorts
your search results into folders, based on their sources. That makes it easier for you to figure out which results
you should focus on. The site also provides access to non-Web-based information from over 5,400 business magazines,
newswires, and academic journals that you can’t find anywhere else online. (You’ll pay to access the full text
of those search results.) Last year, the site added SearchAlert, a free service that e-mails you when an item in
a category you’ve specified is added to the Northern Light database.
SearchIQ  You can spend all day searching the
Web, and you can even spend all day just learning how to search the Web. To get some great shortcuts for searching
strategies, stop by SearchIQ, the site about searching. Its experts test and review search engines and tell you
how to make the most of them. The directory of specialized search tools is a wonderful resource.
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