Does anyone still use a search engine other than Google?

Never really thought about it till you mentioned it...but, nope.

I can't even remember what I used to use before. Yahoo, I guess.

 

i use dogpile.com. it combines all the search engines results (google, yahoo, askjeeves...)

i like google for the cached feature though. cant live without it.

 

I use boneme.com's fine pornographic search bar.

 

I like Yahoo personally. Just cuz it's old school and it's owned by a Chinese guy with better results for Chinese searches. I also google and yahoo just because they give different searches and i like the variety.

 

I wonder why google has become the defacto search engine. I mean it isn't the first one to come out. There were a bunch out before it. weird...

 

Yeah i have wondered the same thing. For quite a while yahoo was the same way but at some time it shifted to google. Though it seems that google produces the best results and seems to have the best interface.

 

How do you judge the "best results" from a search?

 

It finds what you were looking for when you made the search...or better p*rn

 

i can't ever remember using something other than google. and i don't know how i ever lived without it (like the yellow line in football). especially for simple crap. wanna know the lyrics to a song real quick, who wrote a book, who was in what movie. stuff like that is just so easy to find. now i'm sure other engines can handle that as well (basically i'm just praising the internet) but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. hell, google is synonymous with searching now. no one says "i yahoo'd it."

 

Anyone remember the old Metacrawler days and 37.com?

 

Google's cache function is awesome. I pretty much use it exclusively, but sometimes will use icerocket for the little picture of the page next to the search results.

 

I used dogpile before google and altvista before that.

Google was cool becuase the home page is so clean and not cluttered with a bunch of stuff. I think that helped it's popularity also.

I also like to Froogle.

 

I like the way http://www.vivisimo.com clusters search results.

 

I used to use AltaVista.com way back in the day, but it's all about Google now...

 

Someone at work just showed me A9.com, Amazon's search engine. Go to the Yellow pages and search for a restaurant by zip code. You can then virtually walk down the street looking at the restaurants.

They have only mapped a few cities. I work at 90401, and it works.

 

i was just walking down the street the other day and saw a piece of paper on the ground and (richardsrealm .com) thought about what a pleasant world we live in.

 

Why is the cache function so useful? Why not just click on the actual link? Sometimes the cached page is outdated...

 

I still use Yahoo! 90% of the time.

 

I still use Yahoo all the time. I always have and I guess I always will.