Which search engine do you use?

[WillJ]

I was wondering what search engine all of you use. Do you have a favorite that you highly recommend to others? Do you like certain features with certain engines?

I always use Google, and it is PC Magazine's Editor's Choice. I especially like its image search feature.

 

[funxus]

Google, definitely

 

[Pillager]

Yup, 99% of the time Google.

 

[Mariusz]

Of course Google.
I didn't even know that there are so many of them.

 

[col]

Google mainly - but Alltheweb still throws up pages that google doesnt. i used to use Hotbot a lot too.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

Google because it is convinently built into Opera.

 

[Mikoyan]

Google. I used to search with go2net before, but google is so much better.

 

[hbdragon88]

I use Google the most often.

I tried using alltheweb and it did give me better results, but didn't check the spelling in my search. So it's back to Google.

 

[WillJ]

Well, Google's the most popular, as I expected, but I didn't know it was going to be such a landslide... I was sure that there might be at least a few Yahoo, AlltheWeb, and AOL users...

 

[hbdragon88]

Well, used most often. All of us might have used Alltheweb, or Yahoo, or AOL once in a while, but never all the time...

 

[funxus]

Originally posted by col
Google mainly - but Alltheweb still throws up pages that google doesnt. i used to use Hotbot a lot too.

I love that feature, just write 'g ' and what you want to search for...

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by WillJ
Well, Google's the most popular, as I expected, but I didn't know it was going to be such a landslide... I was sure that there might be at least a few Yahoo, AlltheWeb, and AOL users...

Well, the poll is in a way it has to give these results. Maybe a multiple-choice one might have been better.

Usually Google, more than sometimes Yahoo, escpecially because I want directory hits first there and rarely a German one.

I started with Webcrawler, then Excite, Lycos and Yahoo. After Yahoo did not feature the "Search More: Google Excite ..." links at the end of the page, I completely turned to Google.

Oh, and of course I pretty often use the search engines on Astalavista.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Google nowadays, after hearing all you CFC'ers raving about it...

 

[Turner]

There. . . did it. Voted for Yahoo. I use the Yahoo Companion, and it has the search thingy right there on top of explorer. Sometimes I use google when using NC, but for the most part, yahoo. I think they go through google, as I get a bunch of the same results. . .

 

[Souron]

indead: yahoo is powerd by google. Sometimes I use Yahoo becouse the catigoreys look better and seem easyer to navigate. ofcource I never tried navigating catigories in google.

 

[WillJ]

Yahoo is not powered by Google anymore, IIRC. I think it was powered by Overture a while ago, then Inktomi. I'm not exactly sure, though...

Originally posted by Lucky
Well, the poll is in a way it has to give these results. Maybe a multiple-choice one might have been better.

But I meant that I thought there would be a bit more people that used other search engines, even as their main choice.

 

[JonathanValjean]

Google. You mean there are other search engines?

 

[Jamesds]

I like Google, they have special search-bars, and a googe-labs page with some real cool things, maybe all you google users should check it out!

I don't know the URL, but type Google Labs into the google search engine and it'll appear in the list.

 

[JJP]

Google.

 

[bladester]

I have never failed to find anything I wanted/needed through Google.