If the results were nearly the same you may try the Google Deskbar. It sits to the right of the Start Menu and left of the system tray (see screenshot http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/index.html) and you can Google stuff there. I personally prefer my results displayed in the web-browser (I think this is ideal for the tabbed browsing Mozilla supports), but if you prefer them in a seperate window there's a neat feature about the Deskbar. It offers a mini viewer (http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/he...ns_viewer.html) feature which displays the Googled results there instead of your webbrowser. You can easily hide it and then unhide it. http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/index.htmlOriginally posted here by longtimer01
As for google, I've run this against webferret and it almost appears to me they are the same, I like webferret becasue it runs as a seperate program, rather than in IE.
/edit - I see now that somebody has already posted links to a tool allowing Google searches from outside the web-browser. Oh well, but I'm gonna keep mine posted just as an alternative.