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OK, yeah, Google rocks, but anyone use other search engines to find stuff?

I use http://www.profusion.com for metasearches (you can search up to 10 different web directories and indexes at once) if I'm having trouble finding something with Google. You can also set up page alerts to be notified when a particular page is updated. Quite handy for some things.

If you don't count Google, I use Yahoo!.

I use Google exclusively.

Google.

http://www.alltheweb.com

I use it occassionally because it will let you search for audio and video files.

I use Google exclusively now, mostly because a) it kicks ass, and b) Opera has a kickass built-in Google search field in the upper-right.

Before I used Google (way back in the day), I used Dogpile.

Umm.... The search function on this forum?


Well, I dont really use anything other than Google, but I used to use sol.no's search engine before I found Google.

I used Northern Light as a Google alternative until they decided to close their web search function. As of now, I use Google pretty much exclusively.

www.copernic.com ...



but its like on your computer ... does that still count ?

What are these 'other search engines' you speak of?

http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.ask.com

~ver

Gandalf wrote:If you don't count Google, I use Yahoo!.

LOL, which uses google.

well, asides from google, which is the only one i use....

www.metacrawler.com

I don't search. I am past the age of exploration.

http://turbo10.com

Personalisable metasearch engine. Can deep-search other sites' internal search engines, and can sort the rsults by topic and by what engine returned them.

And because, unlike Google, it doesn't exclusively search static content, you're much more likley to get the answer to your search, not a load of mindless pap.

Before using google i used this www.sympatico.ca

Dalton wrote:I use Google exclusively.

Same here. I have a trippy Google bar, so I can use it whenever, whatever site I am on.

Datana wrote:I used Northern Light as a Google alternative until they decided to close their web search function. As of now, I use Google pretty much exclusively.

They plan to reopen it later.

Anyways, alltheweb, since it has the second largest database.

Lycos. But only when Google isn't finding me what i need.

Pu-239 wrote:

Datana wrote:I used Northern Light as a Google alternative until they decided to close their web search function. As of now, I use Google pretty much exclusively.

They plan to reopen it later.

Anyways, alltheweb, since it has the second largest database.

And its very handy for finding specific files too.

I used Hotbot until Google came out.

If not Google, I use the Google toolbar (powered by Google) or AOL Search (also powered by Google). There's also this nifty little thing:Desktop Google

Drewcifer wrote:OK, yeah, Google rocks, but anyone use other search engines to find stuff?

I use http://www.profusion.com for metasearches (you can search up to 10 different web directories and indexes at once) if I'm having trouble finding something with Google. You can also set up page alerts to be notified when a particular page is updated. Quite handy for some things.

Like the following:

Metacrawler

Dogpile

Pu-239 wrote:

Datana wrote:I used Northern Light as a Google alternative until they decided to close their web search function. As of now, I use Google pretty much exclusively.

They plan to reopen it later.

Anyways, alltheweb, since it has the second largest database.

Northern Light was t3h 31337, too.

Google.

Long ago, I used a combination of Lycos, Altavista and Infoseek (back when Lycos was a university project, Altavista was part of DEC and Infoseek was independant). Hotbot came along and I mostly used that. I switched over to Google shortly after they released-to-public.

http://wos.mimas.ac.uk

But I guess that's technically a database.