Has good field-search options that allow you to limit your search results by specific criteria. Excite provides concept searching. It is also particularly good on identifying current news articles. You can also hone your search by doing a second search of just the results returned by your original query. Hotbot offers a number of ways to customize your search to zero in on links that are most relevant.
Interface is easy to master.
Good for locating multimedia files and to locate Web sites by geography. Ask Jeeves is a user-friendly search resource. You compose your query as a question and submit. Ask Jeeves searches through five different search engines at once or leads to edited pages that might answer your question. If you mispelled a word or if additional refining of your question need, Jeeves will ask you.