The move towards a semantic web has been in progress for many years and more recently there have been applications that make use of semantic web technology. One of the features that made the Web so easy to use is the ability to search web pages in a matter of seconds through the use of search en gines. Now that the use of OWL and RDF as a knowledge representation format is increasing, the possibility appears to improve the quality of searching by us ing the semantic web to enhance the ‘ordinary’ Web. This paper outlines an ar chitecture for using distributed knowledge bases to assist and improve search ing on the web.