What search engines do you use?

Urban Ranger · February 14, 2003, 02:31

I use pretty much just Google these days. I think I have used Yahoo! once in the last six months. What about you?

What about specialised search engines, such as for medical or psychological info.

orange · February 14, 2003, 02:33

Google and on rare occasion AltaVista

Skanky Burns · February 14, 2003, 02:37

Google. And that is it.

Asher · February 14, 2003, 02:37

www.google.com
www.google.com/ucalgary

More occasionally:
www.altavista.com
www.teoma.com

Static Universe · February 14, 2003, 03:45

Quote:

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I use pretty much just Google these days. I think I have used Yahoo! once in the last six months. What about you?

Yahoo is Google. Try both and you'll find the returns are exactly the same. Yahoo gets their search results from Google.

Adagio · February 14, 2003, 07:53

altavista for 99% of my searches...
yahoo for the other 1% (= When I need to find something in DK)

Dauphin · February 14, 2003, 08:01

Google.

Occasionally AltaVista's Babel engine. Although its so poor I'm better off thumbing my dictionaries.

Mercator · February 14, 2003, 08:20

Google mostly, and then some AllTheWeb and a bit less Teoma.

If I'm looking for scientific papers, though, I invariably start with CiteSeer.

BC: Google also has a translator (click on the little "Language Tools" link), don't know how much good that is, though, probably not much better.

Dauphin · February 14, 2003, 09:11

Quote:

Originally posted by Mercator
BC: Google also has a translator (click on the little "Language Tools" link), don't know how much good that is, though, probably not much better.

They are identical.

I use AltaVista merely because I used that translator first, and so I have it in my favourites list.

SlowwHand · February 14, 2003, 09:59

Google.
Anything else is readily available at www.refdesk.com

Main_Brain · February 14, 2003, 10:34

directhit was great Teoma is far worse

Alex · February 14, 2003, 10:40

Google, Altavista and AllTheWeb.

Grrr · February 14, 2003, 16:54

Google. Alltheweb, and XtraMSN (for NZ sites).

The Viceroy · February 14, 2003, 17:13

I use to only use Webcrawler, then moved over to excite .. went back to webcrawler again, and now i use

Alta Vista
Webcrawler

and on very rare occations (like if im not happy with what I get from them)

I use Google or ask.co.uk (ask jeeves)

Gangerolf · February 14, 2003, 17:21

altavista and kvasir.no

kaaza for music

JCG · February 14, 2003, 22:16

Google 90% of the time, Altavista 10%.

MrFun · February 15, 2003, 00:16

The civilized, superior humans use Google for their Internet searches.

The heathen, backwards humans use whatever other search engine(s) strikes their fancy.

Seneca · February 15, 2003, 01:01

I just like the Google interface - the word Google (possibly decorated if there's any special occasion), and a box in which your search for wisdom begins (plus a few adverts which are so discreet it took me two years to notice they were actually there).

Google - it does exactly what it says on the tin.

Dis · February 15, 2003, 04:16

google.

there is none other

H Tower · February 15, 2003, 11:27

google, and I'm slowly moving away from profusion

Sarxis · February 15, 2003, 13:18

Google like the rest, but I do have bookmarks for the others in the poll, plus for Deja and Northern Light, and another one called W3.

But I don't use the others anymore- Google works just fine.

H Tower · February 15, 2003, 14:48

only 4 out of 57 don't use google. talk about market share

Wittlich · February 15, 2003, 14:52

Google all the way