This page contains an interface into a number of the most popular search engines on the web. Yahoo is extremely good at topic-based searchs. It can be compared to using the topic stack in the library card catalog. Lycos does very fast full-text searchs. Bigbook contains most of the yellow pages in the United States, with a map to each individual business.
Switchboard has the combined white pages of the United States.
I bet you're in there. Infoseek , Another popular full-text engine. Webcrawler , Yet another full-text search engine. Excite Search Twice the power of the competition. To find results with all words use AND, e.g. surf AND sea AND sand.