Best search engine

[Rollingthunder]

Google

Always find what I'm looking for, and rarely stuff I don't want. It's almost intuitive. Never go anywhere else these days.

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[ 16 January 2002: Message edited by: Rollingthunder ]</p>

[pax anglia]

Have to agree,Google is about as good as it gets.
I had Copernic on my old PC,but when I bought this machine a couple of months ago I didn't get around to re-installing it and as yet haven't missed it.

[ 15 January 2002: Message edited by: pax anglia ]</p>

[OzPax1]

Yup, have to agree with you both. Google is always my first port of call when conducting a searches.

[innuendo]

Have the Google task bar installed right under IE task bar. It's excellent.

[woftam]

I used to think "Ask Jeeves" was pretty good until I tried "Google".
Have to agree with everyone else, "Google" is great!
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[Blacksheep]

I like Google too, but sometimes when it doesn't come up with the goods, then I try Dogpile. Good old rover runs the search on all the other search engines and has never failed to retrieve something yet.

<a href="http://www.dogpile.com" target="_blank">http://www.dogpile.com</a>

[Lurk R]

also try

<a href="http://www.northernlight.com" target="_blank">Northernlight</a>

[Tosh McCaber]

Dogpile is the dog's b------s! It looks at about 15-20 major search engines, interogates them for twenty seconds, and gives the 10-20 most likely answers from each. I don't think that it has failed me, in a couple of years of searching.

I've also heard that Ixquick and Surfwax are good, although I haven't tried them.

[ 16 January 2002: Message edited by: Tosh McCaber ]</p>

[clutchcargo]

try this one ....... it searches all of the aforementioned search engines and more. Not that I'm trying to sell it but I was put on to it and I don't bother using any others.

<a href="http://www.copernic.com/" target="_blank">copernic</a>

If you download the basic program (about 10Megs worth) it will do everything you need.

Cheers
CC

[gofer]

Was a Google first and Ask jeeves when that didn't work person myself - so thanks for the other tips I'll try them wen Google failes me.

On a slight tangent have you ever compared answers when giving Google or one of the others a multi word selection (logical &). Depending on the sequence the answers can be OH so different. I was looking for ways to query something that i thought customers might use when they were in panic and help mode and wanted to check if we came up on the 1st page every time - boy did i get some different answers - from 1st to 400th depending on how I asked the question. Think I've fixed our stuff now so we always come in the top 10 (until somebody gets smarter).

[ 17 January 2002: Message edited by: gofer ]</p>

[nilnotedtks]

. . . webferret used to work well for me but I see they are charging for it now so Google gets my money ( well, not really ! )

[clutchcargo]

Had a look a dogpile, and found that its not bad, will use that as a secondary engine to copernic.

So far I would rate them in order of:

Copernic
Dogpile
Google
Ask Jeeves

although with multiword searches on google, one needs to often rephrase the search if it doesn't work first time.

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[Molly1]

It's Google for me every time, try their image search as well, and down load the Google browser its excelent. Also just looked at Northernlight and found this notice.....
[quote]Important Notice

As of January 16, NorthernLight.com is discontinuing free public access to our Web search in order to focus on delivering the accurate and timely news and archive content that you can rely on. You can still access news and Special Collection search, as well as Search Alerts and Special Editions.
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