Directory Major Best Search Engines - We define Search engines as computer software program designed to help users of the Internet locate information on the World Wide Web. It collects and indexes Internet resources ( Web pages, Usenet Newsgroups, programs, images, etc. ) and provides a keyword search system allowing the user to identify and retrieve resources. These lists are either built from specific resource lists (as is the case with a search directory) or created by Web programs, with insect names like bots, spiders, crawlers, and worms. Net surfers have FREE access to many search engines, each different in their scope, search protocols, and appearance. Major search engines are: Alta Vista, Google, Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, and HotBot.