Favourite search engine?

Merve

What search engine do you use? I personally use Kart00 and Google, sometimes Metacrawler.

n00854180t

I pretty much just use Google.

Moonglobe

Originally posted by n00854180t
I pretty much just use Google.

amen!

Merve

I think I should be more specific. I use Google for quick searches. I use Kart00 for research. I use Metacrawler when I want to zone in on a specific topic, and I use AltaVista for complicated searches.

n00854180t

You know what though? Ever since Google announced that it was "improving" its searching methods, I have noticed that sometimes it will not strictly match the words you give it, even if they are in quotes. It seems like it was more powerful before they changed it. Has anyone else noticed this?

Merve

Yup

Moonglobe

sorry, ya got a google bigot here..... its one of my bad points but o well.

n00854180t

Damn, that was pretty much the sole reason I liked to use Google exclusively (other than no ads, no bs crap on their site). It used to get such perfect results, and now it is pretty much as bad as Altavista (don't know if they have changed it since the last time I used it...2 years ago or something).

Merve

Use kart00; it's got cool maps and is really cool if you use their expert version.

Merve

Originally posted by n00854180t
Damn, that was pretty much the sole reason I liked to use Google exclusively (other than no ads, no bs crap on their site). It used to get such perfect results, and now it is pretty much as bad as Altavista (don't know if they have changed it since the last time I used it...2 years ago or something).

AltaVista has changed a lot! Their search engine is good now, and compares with Google. I like it and I use it quite often.

I also like Metacrawler because it includes topics as a whole (as Google used to do).

I hate Ask Jeeves. It is the worst search engine on the net. It is a piece of crap.

n00854180t

AskJeeves? That crap is still around? It can't even be considered a search engine. More like an advertising engine lol.

Moonglobe

ya know it's creater was runnin for guvna' of California?

n00854180t

LOL who was it?

Moonglobe

Garret Gruener

Merve

roflmao! That's fresh!

The kids version of Ask Jeeves actually has an ad with a baby's bare butt. There are four-year-olds looking at this stuff, they should really not have that one on.

Besides; it's a piece of [ahem].

jebster

I use google for normal searches, alltheweb sometimes for normal searches too, and alltheweb for image searches. Tho a promising(IMO) search engine that is still much smaller than either of those(which have 3.3(google) and 3.1(alltheweb) billion pages) is http://www.gigablast.com/ (only has 202 million pages so far) I like its real time spidering feature! 🙂

dalecosp

Google, no time for anything else.

Heard about Froogle ® ??

Merve

Originally posted by dalecosp
Google, no time for anything else.

Heard about Froogle ® ??

sure heard about it. 🙂 Not like I'm ever going to use it though.

jwb666

google, definetly. its image search is brilliant and it is very quick.

ASK JEEVES IS TERRIBLE! I hate it so much, i wish someone would hack it.

goldbug

Suprised nobody's mentioned astalavista.box.sk 🙂