international directory of search engines http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
second to google? http://www.wisenut.com/
elgooG http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/
librarians index to the internet http://www.lii.org/
one page, searches lycos, google, ask, more http://www.thesearchsite.com/
find information and stats, you should check this out if ou haven't been http://searchengineshowdown.com/

theres alot of reference to google in these forums, i use it too and i think its good(cause it IS), but i normally have 3 or 4 browsers open at once at sites that are on different servers in different geographical locations. string hmmmm = "japanese search site and a copy of babylon translator?";