In a rush? Here's a very fast and good all-round resource locator:

Fully featured and an index of more than 50 million pages.

The grand-daddy of them all. Very complete subject index.

A searchable catalogue for more leisurely browsing.

Infoseek offer a one-stop-shop, covering everything from software to email addresses.

If it's simplicity you want, Webcrawler maintains a searchable index which is regularly updated.

CUSI is a configurable search interface for many searcheable Web resources.

New and specifically UK. Each entry has a comment and the site has a friendly feel.

A UK based search engine. G.O.D. stands for the Global On-line Directory and includes Web searching

All 4one searches Altavista, Lycos, Yahoo and Webcrawler loading the results into separate frames.