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AOL are and will be ones mostly used by searchers, with Ask Jeeves, Overture (GoTo), InfoSpace, Netscape, AltaVista, Lycos, EarthLink.com, LookSmart etc. used by some of the researchers. Now, the situation is that the search engine business is mainly controlled by the powerful serveral Kindgoms of the Search Engine, including google, yahoo, MSN, AOL etc. The new trends are popping up, such as further localization, specialization, SEO etc.

We expect the search engines offer us more convenient service, more specialized service, and more localized service, no matter what the search engine companies want to do to survive, or to lead the competition.

URLs to images as references(images sources, for reference):
1. Top Search Engines - January 2004
http://www.techwebsolution s.com/images/picture_top _search_engines.gif
2. Percentage of search engine referrals, March of 2004
http://evolt.org/images/63 760/60355/sestats.gif
3. Top Search Engines, May of 2005
http://www.the3marketers.c om/images/popula1.gif
4. Overview of Online activities of IM users http://idc.iresearch.com.cn/en glish/pic/V20057211552 96.gif
5. http://www.seomoz.org/img/uplo ad/hotbot-monster.gif

Sources and further reading:
1.http://www.searcheng inehistory.com/
2.http://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine
3 .http://www.webreference.com/a uthoring/search_history
4.http: //www.seoconsultants.com/searc h-engines/history/
5.Archive.or g - The Internet Archive Wayback Machine (especially useful to view old content if any resource links break).
6.Google Corporate History - The history of Google, from 1995 to today.
7.Search Engines: Evolution & Revolution - by Glen Farrelly, covers 1990 through 1999.

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