Yahoo

You can find it at http://www.yahoo.com.

Yahoo is the old man of search engines and is well known and well used. It has the largest directory with over a million web sites on its list. Web page designers submit entries to Yahoo, so some sites that a crawler might find from searching everyday might not be in the catalogue.

However lots of editors go to a lot of trouble to try to categorise sites so that you can find information easily. They do a pretty good job.

Again, you just enter you search terms and click Search. You can use all the usual suspects like using quote marks to search for a phrase and plus and minus signs to include or exclude words. Yahoo then searches its directories for pages that match.

If the search cannot find a match in the diectory, it uses the Google search engine to display results.

Alternatively, you can just pick a category and keep drilling down to find pages on the topic you are interested in.

Yahoo displays related searches at the bottom of the results page, just above the Next Search box.

At directories like Yahoo, you can't run a search and then search within it. But you can go to any category and then choose to search just within that section. Just look for the appropriate options near the search boxes that appear within the categories.