What is a good search engine besides google

[madokie]

I'm wanting to try something different and I'm looking for suggestions.

[canetoad]

1. You might find something you like here

http://searchenginewatch.com/links

I've use HotBot and AlltheWeb at various times in the past.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. Try dogpile.com

I used to use it for everything before I was assimilated by the Borg Google wound up as my home page...

[madokie]

3. I kind of like a dogpile

so dogpile it is for now. Who runs it? do they track users like I think google does?

thanks

[Dead_Parrot]

4. Less of the same

These days it's run by Infospace, who want to want to be Google when when they grow up: It's safe to assume they're collecting the same sorts of stats, but not having Google's omnipotence (such as the DU ads) means there'll be a lot less they can gather.

I don't know of a search engine that doesn't gather info, so I think you're watched whoever you use - it's just a question of how much.

[2Design]

5. dogpile is the best n/t

[pokerfan]

6. 1,000 specialized search engines in 50 categories

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/search.html

[defendandprotect]

7. Can someone elaborate on the difference between a search engine . . .

I think I have google or yahoo for that ... but not sure ...

and the browser -- why are they separate?

And how does it all connect to the home page?

Non-emergency question -- !!!

:evilgrin:

[pokerfan]

8. A search engine is just a tool

that lets you search for information on the web that you can then visit with your browser. They don't have to be separate. In fact, you likely already have a search engine window embedded into a tool bar in your browser by default. The search window in your tool bar usually even gives you a choice of search engines like this:



so if I wanted to search imdb (internet movie database) for a movie, I could enter the search term in the window and select imdb from the list.

Your home page (or pages) is what you see when you start your browser or whenever you go "home" by clicking on the home icon (or by hitting the alt+home keys. Your home page can be whatever you want it to be. For many, their home page is a search engine site such as Yahoo or Google. Others might have their home page set to DU or perhaps a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal">web portal. Browsers that support http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_%28GUI%29">tabbed browsing tend to also support multiple home pages. For example, when I launch Firefox, I wind up with nine tabs open: DU, MyYahoo (an internet portal that I've been using for ten years), Google News, my web email account, TV listings, several poker forums and a couple of other message boards I follow.

I hope this answers your question.

[canetoad]

10. To expand a little on what Pokerfan said

Picture this.....

The internets are out there, swirling around, tubes doing their thing all around the world. At strategic locations are great big servers with a shitload of hard drive space and they hold all the information on the net.

That information can be distributed in lots of different ways. These ways are called Protocols and examples are: email, chat, web pages, file transfer - and so on. Each protocol has a sort of code that makes it recognisable, for example http:// which stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. Oddly enough, web pages tend to be written in a language called Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML.

So you are sitting at home, PC connected to the tubes, the big servers at the other end are spewing out all this HTML code which is sent by http. All you need now is a program that can read the information - and here comes your BROWSER. It is an HTTP client program which means it receives the information and translates it to something viewable on your screen. That's all a browser (or an email program, a chat program) is. These days browsers can handle lots of different protocols, but that's another story.

Now the search engine part. You know how people have their own websites? They make them, upload them to a big server which then sends them down the tubes to people who can look at them in their browsers like you. DU is Skinner's website, Fox is Rupert Murdoch's website. Google is just Larry and Serge's website, sitting on a server, with a big mess of HTML waiting to be transmitted by http right into your home.

As your browser is just a client (or program), you can set the options you wish. One of these is setting the page that the browser first opens - the Homepage. This could be Larry and Serge's website which looks up stuff for you, Rupert's website which serves you propaganda or any other website sitting on any other server.

[Lowell]

9. Start Page

I use start page (http://startpage.com/). It is fast