What in everyones opinion is the best search engine?

Answer 1

By far Google is the best and most comprehensive search engine. Some of the other stuff they offer is naff but their search (and e-mail) are the best...

Answer 2

Google

Answer 3

Google

Answer 4

Google

Answer 5

Google

Answer 6

For me it has to be www.dogpile.co.uk/ they have all the best search engines together, including Google, Yahoo & Ask. Give it a try next time you need to search the www

Answer 7

I use yahoo and google equally. If i don't like my search results for one then I try the other. Only two search engines you need really.

Answer 8

Google is the most-used search engine in the world. As I recall it is used for around 85% of general searching. The next most-used search engine is Yahoo. (Google should not get too smug; it came from nowhere, and despite its new-found wealth out of nowhere could come an upstart with a new and better algorithm. MSN is said to be working on it, and it's no upstart.)

Googling "search engine wars" ( http://tinyurl.com/rzcs8 will get you that) will provide you with more than you bargained for on these subjects.

Sophisticated researchers often like to use meta search engines like the following:
http://dogpile.com/
http://mamma.com/
These search across multiple search engines at the same time.

A new tool for Google is
http://hotdaddy.com/
This provides cool icons that apply your search criteria directly to various Google services.

Bear in mind that with Google and other engines you can include a criteria formatted as < site:http://www.latimes.com/ > (substituting any site for the Los Angeles Times one). This limits your search to that site.

Scientific, legal, medical and other specialized users either add limiting criteria like the above or they use specialized search engines like:
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/ (legal)
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ (scientific)
http://www.mwsearch.com/
There are dozens of these. You can find them easily enough ... with Google.

Answer 9

I like Google for most searches. They really are the best followed by Yahoo. Both, of course, are supported by advertising but Google contrive to make it less obvious and, perhaps, more useful.

I like that one can choose between google.com and google.co.uk - each gives slightly different results.

For specialised searches, such as scientific journals, there are better indexes.

Answer 10

Yahoo is good.
But i think google is better since google is it self a search engine while yahoo has other facilities.because of this they cannot entirely concentrate on their search engine while google can.