Icon's Pick: The Top Ten Search Sites

We examined the most popular search engines and directories and rated them on how well they performed plain-English searches and category searches and how efficiently they cached information and handled advanced and specialised techniques as well as Boolean queries. We checked for the relevance of the first 10 hits and error messages. The following are the top 10 performers. Using a combination of these engines and their power search tools, you should only ever be a few clicks away from your target site or