Ask YC: Please recommend me an alternative to Google
I've tried others but Google seems to wipe the floor with them all for accuracy. Can anyone recommend a search engine as good as Google that isn't Google?
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I have occasionally found clusty (http://www.clusty.com/) to be useful. It needs some more help tuning its direct search results, but the clustering stuff it does is pretty neat.
http://www.ask.com/ is very fast. Text auto-completing option saves time. Rolling over the binoculars in each result shows a miniature preview of the web page! Image results have zooming roll-overs. Video playback uses JavaScript mini-windows to avoid changing the page.
http://www.altavista.com/ - Now run by Yahoo but with less clutter than the Yahoo domain.
There's this one out called Yahoo.com.
Up and comers. Lots of eyeballs. About to be acquired.
Up and comers. Lots of eyeballs. About to be acquired.
Have never found Yahoo to be accurate enough though, that's why I'm asking (see op).
Can you provide queries where yahoo.com, google.com, and live.com are differentiable to a significant degree? Just out of curiousity, moreso than critique.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=disception+forum
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=disception+forum&fr=...
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=disception+forum&g...
A little forum I frequent... Direct link to the actual domain in the first result on Google.
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=disception+forum&fr=...
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=disception+forum&g...
A little forum I frequent... Direct link to the actual domain in the first result on Google.
Yahoo says: "We have included deception forum results - Show only disception forum" (link to the latter is http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&rd=r1&p=%...).
No defense for live.com
No defense for live.com
I use Lucene in our apps for indexing files and and other usefull things. It is a java based indexing lib. if you are not happy with google or anyone else and have a specific thing in mind, you can use it to create your own search engine.
use metasearch if you're not satisfied with google.
Thanks. I think that Google have a great product but I have a natural aversion to using the biggest, most popular of anything...
1) Yet you're posting on YC?
2) That's silly.
Yeah, because this place is bigger than Digg, Reddit and Slashdot combined :eyeroll:
Yeah, because this site does the same thing that Digg, Reddit, and /. do...
I don't see your point. I don't think you have one. Back under your bridge now.
This place, if you haven't noticed, is nothing like Digg, Reddit or Slashdot. This is for serious people. That's his point.