The following sites provide various levels of assistance in retrieving information from the Web; I have tried out some of them!
I have also found a variety of assessments and comments; most informative appears to be Search Engine Showdown.
For a comprehensive list of over 100 Web `robots' and related information, see
The Web Robots Pages; or try the BIG Search Engine Index,
the Search Engine Colossus
or the JafSoft Search Engine
`search engine'.
An impressive search tool is available as a free download from Copernic.
The University of Wolverhampton's Searching the World Wide Web and Keele University's Searching the Internet may also be useful.
For science-related searches only, try
And, though not search engines:
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Copernic 2001 meta-search tool requires a software download (2.4 MB) and installation - but (I find) is well worth the effort.
Finally (and quite separately), if you want to look for a discussion group, try:
's FAQs