What search engine do you prefer?

[Boojatta]

Link to "Scroogle scraper":

Search Engine

If you follow the link, you will see the following:
"no cookies | no search-term records | access log deleted within 48 hours"

[Make7]

1. Should the answers just be a list of search engines? ( n/t )

[Boojatta]

2. The reasons for a choice are often at least as interesting as the choice itself.

[Make7]

7. So if someone prefers Google for a reason other than your poll options...

... then should they select None of the above?
 

[Boojatta]

10. Yes, I suppose you're right about that. I should have provided other options.

[Skip Intro]

17. I learned a long time ago that you can't go wrong with an "other" option.

Kind of a catch all and eliminates any chance that you've not allowed for all possible responses.

[Boojatta]

19. I included that as "None of the above", which is the same idea.

What I didn't include was "Google, for a reason not listed above" which sounds a bit like a stereotypical Boojatta poll option.

[Skip Intro]

20. D'oh!

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Not if this is just really a way to advertise Scroogle.

[Boojatta]

18. I wouldn't have mentioned Google if that were the case.

In fact, the name "Scroogle" itself is almost an advertisement for Google. There are probably a number of search engines that offer more privacy than Google, and that don't have a name that sounds like "Google." I hope that the replies include links to some of them.

[notesdev]

3. Love Scroogle

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

Same results, without the ads or behavior tracking. I've used it for years. Google's algorithm is good but the involuntary data mining I can live without.

[trof]

5. yup

[Jamastiene]

4. I prefer Yahoo.

It's just out of habit at this point. I've been using it since I first went online. There is nothing wrong with Google that I can tell. Yahoo is just more comfortable/familiar to me.

http://www.yahoo.com

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. Me too.

[Zoigal]

6. Use Dogpile a lot. Great site....z

[AndyA]

9. Google has the most searchers, and is the most popular.

But I can tell you it also takes longer to index new pages on older, established sites.

Yahoo gets the new pages first, and has a "fresher" index.

Bing is actually getting to be pretty good, and very well could give Google a run for its money. Some professional webmasters are saying they're seeing more traffic from Bing, which means it's catching on. I'm often able to find things on Bing that I could find on Google.

Google also seems to have a lot of spammy sites ranked high. The ones where you click the link, and the page is just a bunch of links to other sites with snippets about what's on that page. Uh...I didn't search Google--a search engine--to find sites about links to other sites on that topic. Seems redundant to me. :eyes:

Plus, Google's getting too big for their britches, and I have a problem with "too big to fail" corporations these days, for obvious reasons.

[Boojatta]

11. Interesting comments. Thank you for taking the time to reply.

[madrchsod]

13. bling and murdoch... two pillars of hell!

[madrchsod]

12. there`s something other than google?

[Boojatta]

14. If there isn't a specialized mathematics search engine called "Googol"...

then there ought to be one.

[begin_within]

15. Google is just a habit.

No other reason than that, it's just ingrained into my thinking. I should check out some of the others.

[JanMichael]

16. Clusty can be useful for some searches by clustering sites...

...so the subsets can be chosen to weed out the crap.

[cowcommander]

22. Google toolbar

Part of my browser. And google still has a better search engine than anyone else out there.