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Google: Fast results and very effective relevancy ranking. Google Help: Cheat Sheet has searching tips.
Internet Public Library: Real human librarians contributed these sites and classed them under human language subject terms. Especially good coverage of California-related information.

Internet Public Library: Real human librarians contributed these sites and classed them under human language subject terms.

InfoMine: Selected by librarians at the University of California. This directory has an academic focus and includes resources marked $ that are subscription-only. To get only the sites that are freely available outside the University, use Advanced search and select Free under "Resource access."
Forbes Best of the Web: Selected by the editors of Forbes magazine.
Open Directory (DMOZ): The Open Directory project is created by volunteers.
Yahoo: Subject directory contains links to web sites evaluated by human catalogers.
Yahoo en Español

These services piggyback on other search engines to search more than one database simultaneously.

Dogpile: Searches 25 Web, Usenet and News search engines, 3 at a time. Can customize the order in which databases are searched.
Ixquick: Searches the major search engines and then discards duplicates. Also lets you search for music, images. Ranks results.
Mamma.com: Choose to search from the Web or stock quotes, MP3 sites, images, or video.
MetaCrawler: Good ranking and relevance criteria. Can limit by region or domain.

Google's Index to Usenet (Google Groups): Index to Usenet newsgroups. Good tool if you want to find a specific piece of information you think has been discussed in a newsgroup.
TileNet: Index to Mailing Lists and Usenet news. Good tool for finding electronic discussion groups on a topic.