These multimedia search engines will help you locate sound, image or video files.

AltaVista Photo Finder
Impressive service that lets you find photos, images, audio and video clips from all over the web. Search results feature thumbnails of images found.

FAST Multimedia Search
Millions of images, audio and video files from across the web can be located via this crawler-based index, powered by FAST Search. You can also narrow searches to particular formats, such as JPEG, GIF, BMP, MIDI, MP3, Wave, AVI, MPEG and QuickTime.

Ditto
Search or browse to find images on the web. Matches are displayed in thumbnail format. Formerly known as Arriba Vista.

Lycos Pictures and Sounds
The Lycos multimedia search service. It features images organized by category, from the PicturesNow catalog. You can browse categories and view thumbnails of these pictures. Search mode lets you scan the web for pictures or sounds of interest, but no thumbnails are provided.

Scour.Net
A multimedia search engine that allows users to find audio, video and images on the web, including MP3 files.

StreamSearch.com
Directory of multimedia resources on the web. Search or browse categories.

SpeechBot
Great service that lets you search through the audio files of popular US radio programs. Enter a subject, and you'll be shown matching programs and even be taken to the exact points in the shows where the subject is being discussed.

MIDI Explorer
Allows you to search for MIDI files.

Looking for MP3 files? These search engines specialize in helping you find music in that compact format.

Napster

Gnutella
Like Napster, Gnutella allows you to locate MP3 files. It goes beyond this by also allowing you to find any other types of files among its network of users.

Lycos Music / MP3 Search
You can search for MP3 files from across the web here. The index (powered by FAST Search) is supposed to be updated on an hourly basis, with the freshest and most dependable links listed first.

MP3.com
All things about MP3, including thousands of legal MP3 files.

MP3meta
Search all the major MP3 search engines at once through this metasearch service from SavvySearch.

SpinFrenzy
Allows you to search for music located on other people's computers.

2Look4
Has an option to filter out unreliable sites from your MP3 searches.

AudioGalaxy
Displays site speed and reliability information for each match.

Oth.net
A bare-bones interface, but comprehensive coverage of many files.

Audiofind
Browse by artist or genre, or keyword search for MP3 files.

MediaLeech search
MP3 search engine.

Arianna MP3
Italian MP3 search engine allowing you to search by artist, song title or album title.

Getsongs - MP3 Search Engines
Query multiple MP3 search engines from one place.

AudioPhilez
Displays technical info about each song listed in search results.

Manic Music
Lets you choose to search from many MP3 search engines, though only one at a time.

Dgolpe
Directory of downloads specializing in Latin and world music.

Eisbaer.org
Dutch-based MP3 search engine.

Soundcrawler