Google is simply the most comprehensive search engine available on the net. Aside searching the net you can use Google's extended search features for a whole host of other things including definitions, spell check, calculator, conversions, and much more. Plus there are other Google searches.

Once upon a time web searching began and ended with Yahoo. After a time in the wilderness Yahoo! are back with an excellent search engine that is easily in the same game as Google.

Much as we hate and despise anything that comes from the Microsoft, we can't escape the fact that their MSN search is actually very good. Had it not been a Microsoft creation, it might have gotten 5 stars.

Mirago is a UK specific crawler-based UK search engine that we've found offers a varied selection of results which seem very UK-centric but often a little wide of the mark. It has a lot of room for improvement, but is nonetheless worth a try just because it offers results that are different from the others.

'Ask' fired poor old 'Jeeves' in February. But the change seems to have done them good. They no longer force users to view sites in an 'Ask.co.uk' frame which we found so objectionable last time we reviewed the site. All in all 'Ask.co.uk' is a very good UK search engine.

Once laden with ads-a-plenty AltaVista has chosen to go back to its bare bones search engine roots and offer a relatively ad-light environment. The results are powered by Yahoo though, so there seems little point in using AltaVista if you have already used Yahoo.

A search engine where each submitted site is actually reviewed by volunteer reviewers. However, there seems to be a high number of out of date results as the reviewers struggle to keep up with the dizzyingly fast pace of change on the world wide web.

Ithaki is a metasearch engine, which means it searches in real time other search tools and databases to find the results for your query. Despite having a terrible logo, we're actually quite impressed with this engine. Created and run by molecular biologist Carla Tironi Farinati, Ithaki got its name from a peom written by the Greek peot Constantin Cavafy.

The Lycos website is the internet equivalent of a serious road accident. It looks like someone loaded some kind of ad gun and just fired it at the screen. To add insult to injury when you click on one of their (not very good) search results they hijack a huge portion of your browser screen for their search bar which we find utterly objectionable.

When a search engine is this bad, it does rather leave one wondering why on earth they even bothered. They must be doing this for love, because surely they can't be doing it for money? This search engine is awful in more ways than we can even begin to describe.

From the creators of the atrocious Dogpile search engine comes Webfetch which they claim search Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask Jeeves. But when we tested this site it offered us a confusing mix of results and sponsored (paid for) links. So after careful consideration we once again concluded that this site, like Dogpile itself, is a complete and utter waste of time.