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Select, compare and analyze 5 of the following search engines. Post your analysis under the search engines you chose.

A [|site] to guide you in selecting the best search engine for your purpose.

Search Engines:

[|All the Web] [|AltaVista] [|Excite] [|FindSpot] [|Google] [|GoTo] [|Hotbot] [|Lycos] [|Netscape Search] [|Northern Light] [|Search] [|Search Engine Watch] [|Webcrawler] [|Yahoo!] [|Ask.com]

Meta-Search Engines:

[|Metacrawler] [|Dogpile]

Subject Directories:

[|LookSmart] [|Yahoo!]

Web Search Services:

[|PubSub] [|Rollyo]

Searchable Databases:

[|Ask Jeeves]