It is supposed to be one of the better ones, but I have never really had much luck with it. No Meta tags . Not case sensitive Linkstar is the smallest of the big 10. Indexing is very fast. Northern Light is extremely good at finding articles and obscure facts used by doctors and lawyers, but they do charge for some of the articles from its Special Collection.
Indexing is rather slow.
Matilda is an Australian search engine with affiliates over over the world. It really helps. Canada 411 Phone Directories Canadian phone numbers only. Excellent site, lots of information. This has been taken over by Yahoo.