My favorite search engine is Yahoo!, www.yahoo.com because of its ease of navigation plus it offers a clean visual of a variety of information related to topics of interest at first sight.  I can either type in my search or click on the various side bar topics for a more specific search such as news, travel, shopping or movies.  The local weather is displayed, the current stock market figures, and interesting news clips that you might have never searched for but were offered as you open up the site.