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Search our site using Atomz (external search engine)(text based Google ads are served by AddFreeStats. Please advise me if any are offensive- my only course then would be to remove this facility!):

Search Engines

When researching on the internet, try not to limit yourself to one search engine. The others have differing layouts but more importantly differing sets of web pages and differing algorithms. For difficult subjects it is usually best to use two or three search engines at least.
I have found it advantageous to try some of the other search engines below instead of (or as well as) Google.

With useful filtering on the right hand side of results is

Google Accessible Search is a Google search with lower rankings for web sites that are poor at accessibility and higher ranking for web sites that are easily accessed. Recommended to avoid web sites that make their content hard to use by insisting on special plug ins.

Using a meta engine, which uses several engines at once, can take some of the strain off although you don't control the search engines used and the results can differ from when you use the individual engines yourself. Note that meta engines may use increasingly useless search engines which once offered a good service. Treat any responses from Infoseek, Lycos and Altavista with caution.
Newish offspring of Vivismo, formerly Clusty, now Yippy (it uses Ask, Bing and Yahoo) can be useful - use the clouds on the left of the results:

To just search Wikipaedia (lots of good information, a little may be mythical so check sources!):

To search Usenet messages you can now use Google groups which has now replaced the old dejanews.