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In the past, those links were Google, the default Yahoo site, Altavista, and Metacrawler (a "meta search engine" which searched and consolidated results from a variety of search engines). But times have changed. Now there are newer methods for searching the Internet, and some of the old search sites have lost their popularity.
To reflect that, we've recently updated the search engines and Internet directories included on the UO home page. If you go to http://www.uoregon.edu/ now, you'll Google (as always), but you'll also see a new MSN Search option. This new option reflects the increasing coverage, quality, and importance of Microsoft's new search engine as an alternative to Google.
You'll also see that the former link to the top Yahoo page, which has become increasingly unfocused and commercial over time, has been replaced with a direct link to the original-style Yahoo Directory page. Yahoo Directory is complemented by a link to DMOZ, the Open Directory project that's the leading competitor to the Yahoo Directory page (and the foundation underlying the Google Directory page, among others).
We'd be interested in hearing about your experiences with this revised set of search and directory tools. Send your feedback about the UO home page to www-feedback@lists.uoregon.edu