Based on Alexa traffic ranking - 6th August 2002
| Yahoo | 1 | The biggest and most used search directory |
| MSN | 2 | |
| 5 | 2 Billion pages indexed - 150 million searches per day | |
| AOL | 22 | |
| Lycos | 25 | |
| Excite | 37 | Metasearch engine summerises other search engines |
| Altavista | 44 | |
| Netscape | 47 | |
| MSN UK | 57 | |
| Overture | 73 | Biggest Pay per click search engine |
| ODP | 136 | Influential - 46,000 volunteers editors |
| LookSmart | 206 | Major Directory |
| Ask Jeeves | 218 | |
| Fast | 224 | 2.1 Billion pages indexed - European based |
| Teoma | 1322 | New approach - greater relevancy of search results |
| Inktomi | 1546 | Provides search results for other search engines |
| Espotting | 2488 | Europe's largest pay per click |