What search engine (www) to use?

Carl Farrington

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Mar 5, 2004, 6:03:17 PM3/5/04

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I've well and truly lost track of which search engines share data with each
other, so I'm wondering can anyone recommend a couple of good web search
engines which are *not* related to Google, so that when google returns 0
results on something specific, I know where else to try.

I used to use Altavista from time to time, but now I'm not sure who's who
with Altavista, Yahoo, Hotbot & Lycos. I occasionally try alltheweb.com, but
that's about it.

I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts or ideas

cheers,
Carl

p.s. this is of course because I'm more than well aware of Google's 'anti
junk/webspam' filtering... and am starting to suspect that when Google says
No Results, it's quite possible that it isn't fully speaking the truth.

Pedt

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Mar 5, 2004, 7:36:49 PM3/5/04

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Carl Farrington <ca...@000compsup000.net.invalid> said:
>I've well and truly lost track of which search engines share data with each
>other, so I'm wondering can anyone recommend a couple of good web search
>engines which are *not* related to Google, so that when google returns 0
>results on something specific, I know where else to try.

Xpost and FU set to alt.internet.search-engines as that would be a far
better group for your query.

>
>p.s. this is of course because I'm more than well aware of Google's 'anti
>junk/webspam' filtering...

You want to read webspam???

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Nogood Boyo

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Mar 6, 2004, 1:37:05 AM3/6/04

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http://www.demon.net/search.shtml

http://www.completeplanet.com/

http://www.incywincy.com/

http://www.archive.org/

Have you tried Googling for "search engines"..?

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Carl Farrington

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Mar 6, 2004, 4:56:14 AM3/6/04

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I think you mis-understand the specifics of my question. That first link you
gave lists Excite, Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos, Google and Hotbot. I am almost
certain that most of these have their results provided by the same engine.

Tim Owen

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Mar 6, 2004, 8:00:07 AM3/6/04

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Carl Farrington wrote:
> I think you mis-understand the specifics of my question. That first link you
> gave lists Excite, Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos, Google and Hotbot. I am almost
> certain that most of these have their results provided by the same engine.

You could try Teoma (www.teoma.com) which has been around for a year or
two. They are not Google-powered and use a different page ranking algorithm.

Carl Farrington

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Mar 6, 2004, 3:05:50 PM3/6/04

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Thanks. I noticed when I searched that a http request went out to sp.ask.com
So I guess this one might as well be Ask Jeeves? A search engine I've never
really found to be of any use.

Carl Farrington

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Mar 6, 2004, 3:13:44 PM3/6/04

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I just realised how awful that sounds. Thanks for the suggestion :-)

Nogood Boyo

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Mar 6, 2004, 4:10:19 PM3/6/04

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On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 at 09:56:14 in demon.service Carl Farrington wrote:
>I think you mis-understand the specifics of my question. That first
>link you gave lists Excite, Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos, Google and Hotbot.
>I am almost certain that most of these have their results provided by
>the same engine.

The Demon link brought the issue on topic...

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Carl Farrington

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Mar 6, 2004, 4:41:20 PM3/6/04

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good!

Antony Colwood

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Mar 7, 2004, 5:22:13 AM3/7/04

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"Carl Farrington" <ca...@000compsup000.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> I've well and truly lost track of which search engines share data with
each
> other, so I'm wondering can anyone recommend a couple of good web search
> engines which are *not* related to Google, so that when google returns 0
> results on something specific, I know where else to try.
>
> I used to use Altavista from time to time, but now I'm not sure who's who
> with Altavista, Yahoo, Hotbot & Lycos. I occasionally try alltheweb.com,
but
> that's about it.

http://searchenginewatch.com/ has listings of all major search engines and
shows which engines they use.

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Antony Colwood

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Mar 7, 2004, 5:32:08 AM3/7/04

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"Antony Colwood" <a...@nbco.nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156401 to be more precise.

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