google

[specialkonrd]

[SkoTtY]

my search engine of choice

[Crazy Dave]

funny enough I'm still a yahoo man after 7-8 years.

E-mail and news also with it.

[danyelleee]

google likes to crash my computer, I use yahoo or altavista

[Miss T]

google is my search engine of choice!
yay for me

:y:

[specialkonrd]

go.com (previously infoseek.com) is my search engine of choice...if i cant find what i want there, i use metacrawler, or if its non-typical things i need, i use AstaLaVista (not altavista)

[cerah]

i *heart* google

[inkster]

google toolbar massive!@#

[rawb]

nothing better than google.

[oFFseT]

google reminds me of the computers at my school

not cool:(

[oFFseT]

YAHOO is where it's at

[No trace]

msn whut? i msn everything, used to use altavista.... never was really into the yahoo or google thang...

[BB_YungYung]

google all the way

[rawb]

google is the fastest, most complete and most feature filled search.

it's amazing the amount of shit it does.

but it is definately something advanced. yahoo is good for categorical search. yahoo (for the next little while anyways) falls back on google when it's own search can't find anything. yahoo's a good basic search for people that don't need something as advanced.

all other searches are pretty damn shit.

[AGROculture]

My favorite is Copernic

Its a free downloadable program that searches

Google, Yahoo, MSN websearch, yahoo, netscape, aol, compuserve, euroseek, lycos, hotbot, wisenut, looksmart, open dictionary project, mamma, Find what, espotting, teoma, altvista, etc

all at the same time within seconds, and you have tons of options

for example you can choose to find up to 20 of the most relevant links per search engine,

it saves all your searches for you, so next time you just need to click once.

and you can organise them into folders etc etc etc

whats cool about it is that you will find things that will for example show up on yahoo but not google

theres a free download at
http://www.copernic.com/desktop/index.html


I feel like a salesman

AGROout

[inkster]

Originally posted by specialkonrd
or if its non-typical things i need, i use AstaLaVista (not altavista)

astalavista is a pain in the ass to use. but that's probably just because all the sites it archives are mainly script-kiddiesque and are about as bass ackward as you can get.

on a tangent, i miss altavista. it was insanely fast in its day, and the ability to use wildcards was much appreciated. it could return hits with nearly the same success as google, but i remember having to search endlessly through them to find the relevant site.

Originally posted by rawb
[b]but it is definately something advanced. yahoo is good for categorical search.[b]

a funny thing about that is that it's common to come across yahoo's category pages when looking through the list of hits in google. plus that of the dmoz, which always is handy.

...

anyone remember webcrawler? gah. it's still around. why!

a better question would be, did anyone ever use gopher and the other various search engines before the www took over?

[GiggleyGal]

I always use Google. :D

[specialkonrd]

inkster, astalavista is actually VERY useful when finding cracks, and is a good alternative if you cant find what you need in #serials