Comments on: Can you ditch Google for a metasearch engine?

Google may reign supreme in the search market, but metasearch engines are a viable alternative to those who want more out of their search engine.

[NeedlerFanPudge]

But Google WORKS!!

[aztec92154]

Google FTW!

[sting7k]

Not use Google? What will they have us do next, stop breathing oxygen?

[gggg sssss]

At last someone recognizes the brilliance of dogpile

[logictrap]

I like moosearch.com

[DigitalFrog]

I occasionally use Webcrawler.com

[Penguinisto]

Dogpile has been around for (almost) as long as Google itself has. If it were such an awesome idea, Dogpile would have bested Google by now.

Instead, it seems as if it's a middle-man, you know?

IMHO, it's just easier to hit Google's page and skip the extra wait (and threshing through all the patently crap results the other engines usually cough up, etc).

[vankuvr]

Why this obsession with Google? Yahoo is just plain better.

[jackdaniels08]

The obsession with Google is because not only is Google the best, but also Google has the most potential for the future.

[canberra_photographer]

what were you smoking

[Penguinisto]

*sigh*... it used to be. Nowadays, it's too cluttered with ads and Adobe Flash to be useful for much, especially when you just want to get in, grab some information, then get out.

MSN/Live has the same problem - but its compounded by messy results, and MSFT's habit of shoving their own stuff to the top of the list wherever they think they can get away with it (search for "portable music player" on it - no mention of the iPod at all on the first page, and packed with Zune ads. You'd think that the largest-selling PMP alive --the iPod-- would have at least a mention in the results, no? So much for relevance).

[DrtyDogg]

Poor Apple, they don't get top billing on live search, it must be a MS conspiracy.

Funny how they don't get a link on the first page of Google either. They are second behind the Zune in shopping results on google, but Zune.net has a link on the first page, as well as another MS website.

On live search Zune.net doesn't have a link on the first page and neither the Zune or iPod are listed on the link to shopping results, though there is an iPod on the first page of a shopping search, and no Zune.

[duddedudde]

I've been starting using Exalead.com lately as an alternative to Google Search. I'm actually starting to get a little upset with the monopoly position that Google is acquiring with services like Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Reader, Google Calendar, Chrome, iGoogle, Google Docs .. the list is long.. Try to live a day without any Google service. It's hard these days!

I'm trying to cut down on my Google addiction. There are a lot of good alternatives:

Search = Exalead.com
Webmail = Zenbe.com
Video = Vimeo.com
RSS = Netvibes.com
Calendar = Zenbe.com
Browser = Firefox & Opera
Startpage = Netvibes.com
Docs = Zoho.com

[duddedudde]

Correction: Exalead.com/search/

[eltoro2827]

stopped usin google long time ago....yahoo and live work for me.

[t8]

You are allowed to use inferior technology.

[afratta]

eZanga.com is a search engine that specializes in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising making it faster and easier to obtain search results, narrowing results based on relevancy and location which can drive more traffic to your business and/or website. eZanga?s site has features such as time targeting, enabling you to schedule campaigns to run at specific times throughout the day and specific days of the week, while customizing the running time of your campaign to circulate the most traffic at the best time. You can also create white-lists and black-lists to increase the traffic that you want (white) and block the illegitimate traffic (black). This allows you to manage your budget when dealing with specific categories and feeds. eZanga offers more security for your investment with Traffic Advisors? their anti-click fraud technology which is used for all ad campaigns and verified by Click Forensics?.

[goroz]

Take a look at OXY Search (www.oxysearch.com). Here is the Web results page:

http://www.oxysearch.com/search.aspx?q=Cars&st=web

It's a meta engine with Google, Yahoo, ASk and MSFT but also adds other related content in right rail. Universal style results page.

A strong alternative to ordinary engines and metasearch engines.

[Ashley1980seo]

GLseek metasearch engine ( http://www.glseek.com ) can search and return results from Google, Yahoo, Live and Ask .
Its a powerful metasearch engine and i like it too much.
It can search for everything you want : web, images, videos.

(great), news, jobs, wikipedia, travel ,Shopping , blogs and ...

This metasearch engine has some unique features.
After searching it rank results by relevance. Why?
However Google, Yahoo, Live themselves rank results by relevance but as they are using of different algorithms, GLseek will rank results again to give best results to its users.
Most metasearch engines can return only limited results, for example they can give at most 300 results to the visitor but GLseek will give all results from above search engines to the visitor. It's a very unique technology which is used in this great search engine.
Glseek Metasearch engine has some softwares too:

1) Glseek Toolbar:

This toolbar has nice abilities:
Email Checker: It can check and receive your emails instantly without logging to your email account.
Auto filler: It fills all of your forms if you want.
Password Manager: It's one of the best password managers. It's really great and can save unlimited usernames and passwords if you want.
Save: By clicking on this icon, the current page will be saved as image.
Search Engine: It can search directly through Glseek search

engine in all languages.
Highlighter: It will highlight the searched words if you want,

for finding them easier in pages.and other abilities.
You can download the latest version of this toolbar from here:
http://www.glseek.com/toolbar.exe

2) Glseek Instant Search:

By opening this software, you directly will be guided to Glseek home page then you can search.
Or in the search box you can enter search term and see results.
You can download the latest version of this Instant Search from

here:
http://www.glseek.com/Browser.exe

It also has some nice search boxes for webmasters and you can get their codes here : http://www.glseek.com/meta_search_box.html

[NewCityVegas]

Gooplusplus multi search with internet radio "listen while you search" feature.

Google is great but so are niche and specialty search engines. Instead of slower meta search sites, however, I prefer a good multi search sites. A very compact search site with unique features:

http://gooplusplus.com