Nope, I don't Google. I Dogpile, Mamma, MetaCrawler, Monster Crawler, Vivisimo, AllTheWeb, Search.com, Query Server, Advanced Portal Solutions, VROOSH!, Fazzle, Clusty, Good Search and [url=http://www.ixquick.com/]...

Nope, I don't Google. I Dogpile, Mamma, MetaCrawler, Monster Crawler, Vivisimo, AllTheWeb, Search.com, Query Server, Advanced Portal Solutions, VROOSH!, Fazzle, Clusty, Good Search and Ixquick Metasearch. These metacrawlers and meta search engines variously search About, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AltaVista, Overture, Teoma, FAST, FindWhat, OpenDirectory, Sprinks, MetaSearch Pick, MetaSearch Search Partner Network, Inktomi, Search Hippo, Teoma, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, Adobe, Avaya PDF, Gigablast, Go, Kanoodle, WiseNut, AOL, HotBot, Ah-ha, Mamma Collection, Business.com, LookSmart Directory, and yes, even Google.

With many of the big name search engines, the results you want are hard to find through the advertised results.
There are many products I have tried to find specs, or comparisons for, and the results are filled with ebay sales. It helps to be specific, but that can take some practice. I was thinking that as people are getting better at navigating, and many find websites that more specifically detail a product or subject, then the internal search engine is much more can lead to information or related sites. Google can be good for a lead, or specific searches, but quite often the number of results for an inquiry can have 8+ figures which can be daunting.
Wikki is great for facts, and a range ...

With many of the big name search engines, the results you want are hard to find through the advertised results.
There are many products I have tried to find specs, or comparisons for, and the results are filled with ebay sales. It helps to be specific, but that can take some practice. I was thinking that as people are getting better at navigating, and many find websites that more specifically detail a product or subject, then the internal search engine is much more can lead to information or related sites. Google can be good for a lead, or specific searches, but quite often the number of results for an inquiry can have 8+ figures which can be daunting.
Wikki is great for facts, and a range of social opinions, but are the big engine names going stale?
Can people navigate the web more easily without them. Are alternatives becoming an easier way to find information?
Of course that's just more questions, but as time passes, and people have found the sites they are comfortable with are big search engines as necessary? One problem with google I have, its the fact that results are on title or popularity, but I've had trouble finding the date a page or article was created or written without going to the page
I can say this that one of the biggest problems
is some of the biggest engines are bland- perhaps apart from the advertising, which can nake bland seem like a relief.
I have to mention clipmarks, because apart from other things, while you may be looking for something in particular there are other links and stories that have related information, or can show something you didn't know was interesting until you see it.( Like Stumble with a clue), where if you can find a site you like it can be bookmarked at both the site and the browser. Google Microsoft and Yahoo (In alphabetical order to be fair) it seems like searching a computer.
People want personality.

Another thing I've been wondering is whether clipmarks can tack a search function onto the drop down menu next to the clipping mode icon on the browser. Even a more widely available search engine in the general search browser drop menu, that could accept a search term, with a choice of how the results are listed at the site, the way we have them at the site. Could depend on the browser, but more and more things have to be cross platform today.
I will tack on my favorite multifunction page which I found in a clip here. AllMyFaves, which is the kind of thing that can save a lot of link and bookmark space.
http://www.allmyfaves.com
The Net is becoming more customised. People aren't as happy...

Another thing I've been wondering is whether clipmarks can tack a search function onto the drop down menu next to the clipping mode icon on the browser. Even a more widely available search engine in the general search browser drop menu, that could accept a search term, with a choice of how the results are listed at the site, the way we have them at the site. Could depend on the browser, but more and more things have to be cross platform today.
I will tack on my favorite multifunction page which I found in a clip here. AllMyFaves, which is the kind of thing that can save a lot of link and bookmark space.
http://www.allmyfaves.com
The Net is becoming more customised. People aren't as happy to be told what they want, when they can find what they really want themselves.
When the net started the most common browser was internet explorer, and the setting was default.
Now people are creating their own sites, servers, even search engines. Things have changed as we saw they would, but the change has been spiced by innovation that can't be directed from the top down.