Good alternative search engines to Google

[Rili]

I use to think that google was an awesome search engine, but after it
took about a month to index my webpage I started to think differently.
And then, my webpage was briefly indexed for a week or so before it
dropped off google's search engine all together! Why would it drop my
webpage?

Anyway, I started to look around at other search engines and found a
couple that were better at finding less popular pages, but none the
less, important pages since they had information that I wanted.

Here is a list of some search engines (some are multi-threaded) that I
think are good and that also allow you to save some search preferences
such as number of hits returned per page.


http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.teoma.com/

http://www.metacrawler.com/

http://www.dogpile.com/

What are some of your favourite search engines?

 

[elaich]

What are some of your favourite search engines?

Pandia Powersearch

http://www.pandia.com/

 

[Sweet Andy Licious]

I use to think that google was an awesome search engine, but after it
took about a month to index my webpage I started to think differently.
And then, my webpage was briefly indexed for a week or so before it
dropped off google's search engine all together! Why would it drop my
webpage?

Anyway, I started to look around at other search engines and found a
couple that were better at finding less popular pages, but none the
less, important pages since they had information that I wanted.

Here is a list of some search engines (some are multi-threaded) that I
think are good and that also allow you to save some search preferences
such as number of hits returned per page.


http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.teoma.com/

http://www.metacrawler.com/

http://www.dogpile.com/

What are some of your favourite search engines?

I too, do not like google, here's my current: http://clusty.com/

Tried Teoma for awhile, but not the others on the list. Will have to try
them.

 

[Tritoneur]

I too, do not like google, here's my current: http://clusty.com/

Nice. Useful organization of the information. Thank you.

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

I use to think that google was an awesome search engine, but after it
took about a month to index my webpage I started to think differently.
And then, my webpage was briefly indexed for a week or so before it
dropped off google's search engine all together! Why would it drop my
webpage?

Anyway, I started to look around at other search engines and found a
couple that were better at finding less popular pages, but none the
less, important pages since they had information that I wanted.

Here is a list of some search engines (some are multi-threaded) that I
think are good and that also allow you to save some search preferences
such as number of hits returned per page.


http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.teoma.com/

http://www.metacrawler.com/

http://www.dogpile.com/

What are some of your favourite search engines?

Here is an interesting site that lists best search engines for certain types
of searches:

http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm

 

[Mike Henley]

I use to think that google was an awesome search engine, but after it

took about a month to index my webpage I started to think differently.
And then, my webpage was briefly indexed for a week or so before it
dropped off google's search engine all together! Why would it drop my

webpage?

Anyway, I started to look around at other search engines and found a
couple that were better at finding less popular pages, but none the
less, important pages since they had information that I wanted.

Here is a list of some search engines (some are multi-threaded) that I
think are good and that also allow you to save some search preferences
such as number of hits returned per page.


http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.teoma.com/

http://www.metacrawler.com/

http://www.dogpile.com/

What are some of your favourite search engines?

Today I installed greasemonkey for firefox with the Google Butler user
script and now when I search google I get this line on the results page
"★ Try your search on Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AlltheWeb, Teoma, MSN,
Lycos, Technorati, Feedster, Daypop, Bloglines" with each one of those
search engine names as a link that when I click on I see its search
results.

I also love that it removes google ads and sponsored searches on yahoo
and others.

See screenshots I just took http://tinypic.com/4gn3o7
http://tinypic.com/4gn3ue

I't superb!

 

[Mel]

Here is an interesting site that lists best search engines for certain types
of searches:

http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm

Or you could look at a list of 138 general search engines

http://www.philb.com/webse.htm

 

[Predictor]

Anyway, I started to look around at other search engines and found a
couple that were better at finding less popular pages, but none the
less, important pages since they had information that I wanted.

...

What are some of your favourite search engines?

I find Google to be fast and effective. Because I have searched pretty
deeply on some arcane subjects, though, I found it helpful to consult
other search engines.

These I've been using most often lately:

http://a9.com/
http://www.alltheweb.com/
http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.devilfinder.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.teoma.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/

Here are some others that you might want to investigate:

http://www.excite.com/
http://www.gigablast.com/
http://www.lycos.com/


-Will Dwinnell
http://will.dwinnell.com

 

[Canetoad]

se I've been using most often lately:

http://a9.com/
http://www.alltheweb.com/
http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.devilfinder.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.teoma.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/

I used to regularly use AlltheWeb as a search engine. I dislike the
empire building, all knowing attitude of Google.

A couple of months ago they announced that their site was now
'compatible' with -----(insert name of browser here, I seem to recall it
was IE, but not too sure). Anyhow, displayed on Mozilla, the search box
was jammed up on the left of screen with no margin, and search results
appeared in a font so tiny that you needed to change font size to read
results.

I sent feedback but have heard nothing. Anyone else using Mozilla get
the same problem? It's a shame to abandon a usable, non-
google search engine just because they can't make it display properly.

 

[Predictor]

I use Mozilla Firefox and don't have any problem viewing AllTheWeb.


-Will Dwinnell
http://will.dwinnell.com

 

[Tom Denford]

I use to think that google was an awesome search engine, but after it
took about a month to index my webpage I started to think differently.
And then, my webpage was briefly indexed for a week or so before it
dropped off google's search engine all together! Why would it drop my
webpage?

Anyway, I started to look around at other search engines and found a
couple that were better at finding less popular pages, but none the
less, important pages since they had information that I wanted.

Here is a list of some search engines (some are multi-threaded) that I
think are good and that also allow you to save some search preferences
such as number of hits returned per page.


http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.teoma.com/

http://www.metacrawler.com/

http://www.dogpile.com/

What are some of your favourite search engines?

Have a look at www.searchenginewatch.com ... some very useful pointers.

 

[JW]

(snip)

What are some of your favourite search engines?

I rarely use this one, but it's a clever - and sometimes - useful way to
represent searches via interactive flash-based maps:

http://www.kartoo.com

jw

 

[Duddits]

What are some of your favourite search engines?

Vivisimo (aka Clusty) http://www.vivisimo.com
Mamma http://www.mamma.com
IXQuick http://www.ixquick.com/

regards

Dud

 

[Franklin]

On Wed 13 Apr 2005 19:05:24, Mel wrote:

Or you could look at a list of 138 general search engines

http://www.philb.com/webse.htm

Very nice

Here is another site which lists lots of search engines.
http://www.beaucoup.com/1geneng.html

It may be better to start on the home page and choose a link.
http://www.beaucoup.com/

 

[Franklin]

On Wed 13 Apr 2005 11:14:17, Rili wrote:

I use to think that google was an awesome search engine, but
after it took about a month to index my webpage I started to
think differently.

I sometimes use this webpage on Search Features Chart to work out if
a search engine supports the sort of syntax I want to use for a
search:

http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2155981

Unfortunately it is getting rather dated now. Does anyone know of a
more recent list of this sort of info?

 

[Franklin]

What are some of your favourite search engines?

I really like the web search app "Copernic Agent Pro" but it is
chargeable.

However there is a free version which could well be almost as good.
I don't know if the freeversion has adware or anything else which
makes it less than completely free.

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html



Please note: I never mentioned FOSI.

 

[Cousin Stanley]

| ....
| What are some of your favourite search engines ?

Recently I've been experimenting with a Unix program
called surfraw that provides a command-line interface
as a front-end entry point used to initiate web searches ....

http://surfraw.sourceforge.net/

A search starts on a command-line with search-term arguments
and the results are displayed in your browser ....

In general ....

# surfraw engine_name search_terms

The engine_name argument is an alias
for a specific search engine and a reference
to a specific url on the web ....

Surfraw comes with about 4 dozen pre-defined search engines
which are aliased in this way and these are stored in
a plain-text file that a user can edit and change as desired ....

Searching in this manner allows a convenient and consistent way
to narrow searches using a specific specialized search engine ....

For example, to search computer science papers
for the term eigenvectors ....

# surfraw cite eigenvectors

The alias cite points to www.researchindex.com
and after the command-line is entered it is sent
to the browser for processing ....

I'm using surfraw under Debian GNU/Linux
and the package was easily installed via
the apt-get package manager ....

However, I think the program *might* be implemented
completely as a set of Bash shell scripts, so it
*might* also work using CygWin under Windows,
but this is only a guess ....

So instead of having a favorite general-purpose search engine,
at this point I'm leaning toward using special-purpose engines
to try and make fishing in a very large ocean full of all types
of critters seem a bit more like fishing in a small pond that
mostly only contains the type of critters I'm fishing for ....

 

[J44xm]

["Rili"; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:14:17 GMT]

And then, my webpage was briefly indexed for a week or so before it
dropped off google's search engine all together! Why would it drop my
webpage?

Maybe you should e-mail them and ask. There just might be some reason, or a
glitch that you'll call their attention to.

 

[Troppo]

Altavista for a query which is very specific, Metacrawler for something
more vague - good at getting a relevant cross-section.
Issues are: how the engine "thinks" - they all seem to vary a bit. The
best one will depend on the type of question. They all vary.
Indexing is another area where policies differ. Most engines seem to use
"Meta Name" tags in pages, so you need to include these. Also the field
is very competitive.
I have a page at http://.users.tpg.com.au/mclark/ dealing with building &
urban design in the tropics. A rather specialised subject. The page seems
to get about 20 hits a week on average. Searching Google with "building
urban design tropics" pulls up my page in first place. In Altavista
"building+urban+design+tropics" the page comes up in 6th place - not bad.
It's a lot harder if you have a page with a subject of very common
interest, or you are selling something which a lot of others sell, etc.

 

[Chrissy Cruiser]

I sent feedback but have heard nothing. Anyone else using Mozilla get
the same problem?

Yes, on one machine I had but not on any others. I deinstalled and
reinstalled but same thing. OS = W2K on all machines. However, this one is
the only one with a 17" monitor.