A few years ago there was lots of choice of search engines. Nowadays from what I can tell Google is the more or less only choice.

I saw a show on TV the other night all about Google and some people expressed the view that it is not a good thing to get all your information from the one point of view of Google.

At first I thought - Google just finds content for you, it doesn't invent that content -- but I wondered if everyone here uses Google and if not what search engine do you use -- and why?

did you try a google search with "search engines"?


my two cents:

you can manipulate the public not only with what you feed them but also how you feed them.

what do i mean with that? if you look for information on google (which seems to be the most popular these days) say about that reincarnation matter (or whatever, it's just where i saw you mention you needed to google it...) - it will provide you with thousands of sites, right? how many pages of the provided links do you go through before you're tired of it?
if i'm not very much mistaken one of googles search criteria is linked to the popularity of a website. so, if site x and site y have the exactly same information about what you are looking for, but y had 10 hits and x had 12 hits - x will be on top of the listing. and therefore it will get more hits and so on. the reputation of page x increases where as the equally good or perhaps even better page y remains or falls back...


if you're looking for the special stuff or a wider variation of opinions and don't want to check thousands of sites you need to refine your search and or search a wording outside the "mainstream" - or give one of these other search engines a try.


oh... of course, i use google, sometimes i go directly to the different wikipedia-sites, rarely yahoo, and for special issues i go to sites or forums which have helped me in the past and search them for informations and related links.

as a sidline about the whole search thing: if you understand more than one language fluent enough it is amazing how different the same things look from a different point of view - expressed in the different languages. it even makes a difference if you go to google.com or google.ca or google.co.uk


happy searching, liz!

Try these:

http://www.ask.com/

http://www.google.com/ig

http://search.yahoo.com/

http://www.live.com/

http://www.wikiseek.com/

http://www.dogpile.com/

R.

why don't you google "search engine"?

I stopped using altavista when it was installing spyware on my PC. Before that I was a google hater and altavista lover.

Just signed up for yahoo mail but vaguely remember using yahoo search waaaaay back when. Can't remember if I thought it was any good.

I use yahoo but there are still a lot of general purpose search engines out there.

However, If I'm searching for specific types of info then I use a dedicated search engine/info supplier such as Wikipedia, Answers.com, Hyperdictionary, Torrentspy (ooo - wonder what that's for ) etc.

Anyone remember Hotbot? - Still going since 1986. Practically prehistoric at http://www.hotbot.co.uk/index.html
Shame it's owned by Lycos now.

I normally use torrentz

got to give the spy version a go.

www.Metacrawler.com can be quite useful as it searches the following search engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask.