You need to know, in specific terms, what information you want and in what specific way you want it. A simple guess and the right suffix often yields easy results. Includes several dictionaries, thesaurus, acronyms, quotations, French and Japanese translators, French conjugator, anagrams, King James Bible searches, world map searches, CIA World Factbook searches, U.S. Area Code and 800 number directory, Global Currency Converter, Stock Quotes and Symbol Lookup, Zip Code locator,and tracking of UPS and FedEx packages. Each search engine has advantages which distinguish it from the others. Some claim to be more comprehensive while others claim greater ease in locating the needed information.
Lets consider five search engines to determine the advantages of each.
Centispeed technology has enabled Lycos to catalog more URLs than InfoSeek, Excite, Alta Vista and Yahoo combined. In addition, Lycos enables one to custom search using multiple terms, exactness of the match, etc. SNAP does the usual things such as weather, shopping, etc. but also seems to find unusual hits that are missed by other search engines. Yahoo permits searching for the the newest sites on the Web from three year old sites to those only one day old and it allows for an advanced search syntax. In addition, you can search for connecting URLs.