Posted on 01/14/2012 3:09:53 PM PST by narses
The time was that yahoo answered most basic searches sort of well. And then along came google, and for a while they looked like the gold standard. But lately the SEO games and massive quantity of stuff online has made simple queries painful. Anyone have a better set of search engines for the DIY or how to crowd?
I only use Yippy.com....supposedly don’t track you.
Check out youtube. There are videos on everything under the sun. Anything from step by step engine rebuilds, to complete home renovation. I use it all the time.
I agree with your assessment on googles usefulness. People have long beat it’s system resulting in search results showing other’s search results summaries .
I switched to dogpile long ago and haven’t been misserved...but my needs are few.
I might try that, thanks very much.
I am unhappy with Bing and like narses, I despise google so much, I don’t have it on this computer!
I know weird name... but it's clean, fast and as good you'll find. I found the html code to give the link in 2 seconds.
I’ve switched to Bing. You can also set it so it doesn’t keep a record of your searches. I find it to be every bit as good a search engine as Google.
I use Bing.....And it’s Patriotic(:
Google is so frequently annoying and useless now. The minute they started moving from a search engine to an “experience” they started sucking.
While I can watch vid clips ...I can no longer download Youtube vids?
Otherwise,I may will look into those other search engines because while I have not had any difficulity with google I don’t like the fact that its run by nut pie libs.
Scroogle is excellent, it does not keep a record of your searches! Great for privacy.
Lately it seems Google doesn’t even pay attention to the “-”!
I use scroogle, but would love a better one.
The Google finds your lack of faith ...... disturbing.
The Google finds your lack of faith ...... disturbing.
I use Scroogle and Qrobe.it - Both are better than google.
Enter what you want to calculate or know about
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Infomine: built by a pool of libraries in the US
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
WWW Virtual Library: oldest catalog on the web
http://vlib.org/
Complete Planet: 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines
http://aip.completeplanet.com/aip-engines/browse?thisPage=%2Fbrowse%2Fbrowse.jsp&successPage=%2Fbrowse%2Fbrowse.jsp&errorFlag=&errorMsg=&event=loadPageEvent&directPage=&directSection=4&treeQueryExpr=&treeQueryType=phrase&treeQueryTarget=tree
Infoplease: encyclopedias, almanacs, an atlas, and biographies
http://www.infoplease.com/index.html
DeepPeep: forms that query databases and web services for information
http://www.deeppeep.org/
IncyWincy: meta-search engine by tapping into other search engines and filtering the results
http://www.incywincy.com/
DeepWebTech: 5 search engines for specific topics - science, medicine, and business
http://www.deepwebtech.com/
Scirus: pure scientific focus - journals, homepages, courseware, patents
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
TechXtra: concentrates on engineering, mathematics and computing
http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/index.html
Startpage.com. They do not record your activity, and I’ve heard of no leftist bent about them.
Of course, they’re “powered by Google,” which I think most search engines are.
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