Favorite search engine(s) besides Google

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-07-27 03:50am

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.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-07-27 04:15am

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

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-07-27 04:37am

I use Google exclusively.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-07-27 04:37am

Google.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-07-27 05:03am

http://www.alltheweb.com

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

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-07-27 05:28am

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.

DeadM · Post by **DeadM** » 2003-07-27 05:33am

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.

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2003-07-27 05:33am

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.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-07-27 05:45am

www.copernic.com ...

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

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-07-27 07:14am

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

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-07-27 07:17am

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

~ver

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-07-27 08:16am

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

LOL, which uses google.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-07-27 08:50am

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

www.metacrawler.com

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2003-07-27 10:21am

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

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2003-07-27 10:26am

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.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-27 10:54am

Before using google i used this www.sympatico.ca

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-07-27 11:55am

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.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-07-27 01:07pm

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.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-07-27 01:17pm

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

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-07-27 01:41pm

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.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-27 02:18pm

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

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-07-27 02:29pm

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

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-07-27 03:28pm

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.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-07-27 03:54pm

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.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-07-27 04:03pm

http://wos.mimas.ac.uk

But I guess that's technically a database.

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