[G.Mason]

"Check out www.metacrawler.com. It's at least as good."

And who do they donate to? Hummmmmm?

[jackbill]

metacrawler is apparently owned by Infospace. Check out the principals at:

http://www.infospaceinc.com/corpinfo/exec/

I checked a few of them at www.opensecrets.org and it looks like at least as many gave to Republicans as gave to RATs. They are apparently based in Bellvue, WA and I noted contributions to Jennifer Dunn, Bush, etc., as well as one board member from AOL who gave to Kerry. Too bad. He lost his money.

[dware]

"Check out www.metacrawler.com. It's at least as good."

Not quite. Once one knows the ins & outs of Google.com, one will hardly want to turn away. You would be hard pressed to find a search engine that can even come close to rivaling Google.

[LibertarianInExile]

Metacrawler and my preference, Dogpile, are owned by Infospace. Looks like they're heavier Rat donors than Pubbies, but seems better than Google by a country mile. Yahoo is as bad as google. Lycos, Altavista and Excite are about as bad (Excite is an Ask Jeeves Company, and they're leftist as hell, and Lycos is owned by Carnegie-Mellon University, which I figured as a non-profit and thought about--except its money goes to paychecks for leftist profs).

I think I'll stick with Dogpile, unless someone comes up with a better option.