Your Favourite Search Engine

[Flummoxed]

What's your favourite search engine. Why?

[Darknight]

still google, just habit and it loads quick

[Erwin1011]

Jeeves. Incredible nice fellow, polite to the point, fast

[Thetyim]

Google.

fast and seems to understand what I am looking for.

[cdnvic]

Altavista. Been using it for 10yrs or more and it doesn't let me down. Fast, reliable, and the index is low on spam. It has a text-only version that works great when I'm in the mood for lynx. Never been one to jump on bandwagons (google,etc) since I've seen so many of them rise and fall.

cv

[Ajarn]

Google is super convenient and fast to use. I find it much faster-loading on my crap connection than Yahoo, normally. I use the cached page link on 90% of my searches because it saves so much time in wading through the crap which always comes back in droves. Some engines also place paid ads as first search returns, but Google puts them to the side, so, again, less crap to have to wade through.

Altavista has improved a lot, and it seems to be the leanest, ad wise. It, too, has pretty much the same search features as Google and Yahoo. Putting in 'Asian Recipes' comes back with the same top results in each engine. But it often still loads slower than Google for me.

I don't like Dmoz at all. Not as complete, and getting listed was never easy for websites... Plus, they don't list my website as high in the search returns as other engines do, the bastards

I also recommend Google to my website visitors because I think it's easy and good. I get mostly students doing research, and many had a tendency before to write me directly with their assignments, expecting me to do their homework. But hitting up another teacher to do your homework is wasted effort.... So I made my site more user-friendly with an internal search engine, and some instruction pages to teachers and students on how to find info on my site and at google, plus I give teachers some ideas on how they can best utilize my site in their teaching...

I also run google ads on my site, and google always pays on time. I even bought stock in the company. Google also announced that they've signed deals with the Library of Congress, Harvard Library, and others, to digitize all their libraries, including fragile rare books. What an amazing idea, especially for those of us with fond memories of searching through libraries as a kid, excited about the adventures in learning.

I'm riding on the Google train for the time being, I think.

[george]

http://beta.search.msn.com (still in BETA but very nice, and will soon catch up on Google).

The search engine war in 2005 will be between Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.

[frumau]

Google. Until a better one comes along...

[melus]

Always has been Google. It's fast, clean, and has the news link which I like.

[kabal1234]

GOOGLE... v/fast and relevant results. MSN search is fast also, but the quality of results is NO WHERE NEAR as good as google's. AltaVista is prolly next on the list.

[RDN]

I used to try them all: Jeeves, Altavista, Lycos, Infoseek, Yahoo, etc, etc - but I always came back to Google. Now I just don't bother trying new ones. Having said that, I would like to try a Metasearch engine - like dogpile - but would be interested in other peoples' assessments of them before I change engine.

[Phil Conners]

Google.

Microslush is the worst. Try goint to microslush.com and search for anything, chances are if it's there at all it's on page 50 after a lot of irellevant links. Microslush sucks!

[thaiwing]

Learn scripting with google or automate the need.....

http://www.google.com/apis/

its a good engine to study.What other site can return 11.000.000 hits from one word.

[britmaveric]

Yahoo- just used to it and personally think all of them are pretty much the same.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Google is the one for me

[udon]

I downloaded this pic and can't find the original site now..... duh!

I thought that it came from the Hilohatti.com website but not any more.

Any ideas on how to find the source again the file name was, hat3502hilohatti.jpg

I originally found it by googling "straw gambler hat" & "straw plantation hat"

T.I.A.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

I downloaded this pic and can't find the original site now..... duh!

I thought that it came from the Hilohatti.com website but not any more.

Any ideas on how to find the source again the file name was, hat3502hilohatti.jpg

I originally found it by googling "straw gambler hat" & "straw plantation hat"

T.I.A.

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It is time to get out of the garden shed Udon. Or at the very least, start imbibing a bit later ( I know it is an hour later in Sinnee )

[cdnvic]

I downloaded this pic and can't find the original site now..... duh!

I thought that it came from the Hilohatti.com website but not any more.

Any ideas on how to find the source again the file name was, hat3502hilohatti.jpg

I originally found it by googling "straw gambler hat" & "straw plantation hat"

T.I.A.

Why the hat?

Cat refusing to wear the lime any longer?

cv

[Highwayman]

Google always loads the quickest.

Metacrawler is a good alternative as you can set it to show replies grouped by other search engines.

[chonabot]

Lycos , no-one else uses it except me , therefore it's quicker...

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Lycos , no-one else uses it except me , therefore it's quicker...

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The logic of the lad ...

[udon]

Why the hat?

Cat refusing to wear the lime any longer?

The Pomelo is going off and he needs a replacement helmet/hat and he likes straw.

[krider]

Google is and most likely always will be the homepage, pretty conveniant as a home page and the fastes to load.

However recently started using yahoo a bit more and they seem to have updated the index a lot - and also get more relevant results when searching for my name and friends names - you should try it - good for a few laughs

K

Edited December 22, 2004 by krider

[waldwolf]

Apparently their called "Outback Straw Hats".

One similar to that you pictured, is named "Outback Straw Hat w/Aztec Band"

Link here:

(Looks good. Might order one myself.)

[udon]

Many thanks for trying, but it's not a gambler. Cheap enough though

It's driving me nuts trying to find the @#$%^** thing

[RDN]

Google is and most likely always will be the homepage, pretty conveniant as a home page and the fastes to load.

However recently started using yahoo a bit more and they seem to have updated the index a lot - and also get more relevant results when searching for my name and friends names - you should try it - good for a few laughs 

K

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That's a very good test! I put my name into Yahoo and wasn't in the top 20 hits. With Google, I was numbers 3, 10 and 11.

Think I'll stick with Google

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Google is and most likely always will be the homepage, pretty conveniant as a home page and the fastes to load.

However recently started using yahoo a bit more and they seem to have updated the index a lot - and also get more relevant results when searching for my name and friends names - you should try it - good for a few laughs 

K

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That's a very good test! I put my name into Yahoo and wasn't in the top 20 hits. With Google, I was numbers 3, 10 and 11.

Think I'll stick with Google

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Was that from the most wanted list

[RDN]

Was that from the most wanted list 

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Ha, ha! Er, no.. from my past life as an ace football player. (Table football )