Excite Search includes News search capbilities with a decent Web search engine. Lycos is a good WWW general purpose search mechanism. Not particularly fast. Indexes key words, not small often used words. The WebCrawler page also links to Best Of The Net listing service that reviews web sites and makes recommendations.
Internets provides access to lots of search engines and news.
Use these when the above return to many hits or hits unrelated to your desire. All In 1 Search Page provides links to searches available in hundreds of databases. Search Links and Specialty Search Engine Links provides ways of narrowing to specific fields by way of choosing search engines that operate in a specific catagory of information. Direct Search provides links into specialized databases. Lycos Searchable Databases provides ways of narrowing to specific fields by way of choosing search engines that operate in a specific catagory of information.