What search engine you usually use ?

[lndm]

Google does all of that and much more. Even if you don't specifically use google, they'll still be there. You need to do more than change settings to avoid them. On a positive note, it's not just you...ummm

 

[El Koeno]

Google does all of that and much more. Even if you don't specifically use google, they'll still be there. You need to do more than change settings to avoid them. On a positive note, it's not just you...ummm

Well, I'm sure deleting their cookies works a bit. Before I did that, on a trip in China, I was searching for the website of Dutch chain of supermarkets (for a reason that's hilarious, but out of place here), on my laptop which I hardly ever used in the Netherlands. This really was in the middle of nowhere. Still google managed to come up with the specific shop of that supermarket chain that is closest to my house in the Netherlands as the first search results. How did they know? Now I use a white list for cookies, the rest gets eaten and I get the national website of the supermarket as the top result.

 

[Macha]

Google. My only complaint that it can't handle searches for programming code due to the vast array of symbols involved. !=;(){} are all ignored. Worse +, -, and, or are all treated as search operators.

 

[lndm]

A recent (well maybe old now) rule of thumb was that Google was best for popular topics and Yahoo was best for factual topics, as Yahoo was more literal and put more emphasis on the ordering of their list by keyword relevance.

Last time I used altavista it brought a whole lot of sites out of the woodwork. There's a lot of c**p out there in the world but it was good to see I could view it if I needed to. I can't vouch for them now though as I haven't been there lately. Sometimes when I didn't know where to go I'd use dogpile as they bring in results from several engines.

 

[eoc]

Google. My only complaint that it can't handle searches for programming code due to the vast array of symbols involved. !=;(){} are all ignored. Worse +, -, and, or are all treated as search operators.

Try the inverted comma or the quotation comma when you search them. Such as, "+, - {}" or '! ;'

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Google. Simple and elegant.

 

[IglooDame]

Scroogle.

It uses Google search results, but sorta quasi-anonymized. Plus if you turn off the cartoon, it loads at least as quickly as Google itself does.

 

[Perfection]

None. I just hire some Chinese kid to figure that computer stuff out for me.