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AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com

Alta-Vista is able to combine relative ease of use with access to a wide range of websites, creating a versatile search-engine.

Its home page layout offers several options which are not readily available in other search engines, such as the choice of language to search for, or the specific file-type you want to seek.  This can help narrow the search results, often giving surprisingly concise information.

Alta-Vista also allows casual surfers to search through several broad categories, eventually landing in the site they wish to be.  All in all, Alta-Vista is a fairly good search-engine that should suffice to your needs.

Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com

Yahoo! is designed to be user-friendly and it caters to the needs of those who are unfamiliar with the Net.  Its bright and light-hearted page layout also reflects its focus on fun and entertainment.

Yahoo! is recognised as an authoritative search engine.  Its search results offers fairly straight-forward explanations with little elaboration.  If you are after simplicity or are a first-time user, Yahoo! should serve your purposes adequately.

Infoseek
http://www.infoseek.com

Infoseek gives a lot of details in its search results.  Its search method seems to give you each and every result with a heading containing a term of your selected subject.  Needless to say, this often leads to a frustrating excess to irrelevant junk for users to sift through.  However, once you finally pin down onto a correct site, you'll be stunned by the awesome amount of information you get.