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Thread: Best Search Engine?

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    Best Search Engine?

    Favourite search engines anyone?

    My personal favourite is www.google.com

    Fast, Effective, Well Designed, Not too cluttered with 'Buy this!' links and stuff... Not over-commercialised, in my opinion.
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    Re: no question about it

    Google is the best, handles boolean searches well, no crap like you said, and they run Linux and FreeBSD!!!
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    Yup. Blindingly fast too... my last search took 0.02 seconds to complete, yielding over 200,000 results!!!
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    if i dont find what i want on google i use webferret

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    google rox!!!!!!!! but the other one that i now use regurlarly for school work is www.c4.com very good!
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    Google!

    I used to use IXQuick, it searches top ten stuff. But Google is a lot better, and faster, plus it comes as a default with the Opera browser.
    Why am I still here?

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    Well for the multi-lingual among you I suggest www.alltheweb.com and of course www.google.com

    www.altavista.com is ok too.

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    Yep, Google rules. Researchville is also good, it's a meta search engine, and it's possible to get the results of each engine (8) in its own window. It also has got different kind of directories and listings of those & news sites & other things. Worth of checking.
    Ask Jeeves also sometimes finds something.

    Search Engine Watch is a site dedicated to (surprisingly!) search engines. Tips, listings, resources, reviews.

    And finally: Google Directory of search engines.

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    Not one single Yahoo! person? I feel left out.... bawling

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    Question

    Yahoo is *very* slow... and the whole Yahoo site takes forever to actually provide you with anything useful
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