Search engines

Ask.com is actually quite cool. I decided to try it out today, after reading that Ask.com was the fifth most popular search engine in the world, behind Google, Yahoo, Time Warner and someone else.

Wanted to use Metacrawler instead since it compiles searches, but Firefox users obviously weren't much fans of it, so i couldn't find a search plugin for Metacrawler, so scrap Metacrawler. I'm using Ask.com instead.

But of course, Google's important too, so i FINALLY, RELUNCTANTLY, got myself the Google ToolBar for Firefox. Comes with a Google Search Bar, with auto completion of search terms. And instant Wikipedia search and search for links in current page as well. Pretty cool. Don't have ANY use for the other funky stuff like Bookmarking or Blog about this page etc.

Ask.com helps provides alternative search terms to help narrow down your search. I suppose Google have this too, it ought to, but it's probably not very visible since I haven't seen it in years....
It also helps you expand your search terms if ya want... hehe similar point..
Most importantly, Ask.com has the option to preview your search results.. Pretty cool. Of course it's not exactly up-to-date, the preview updates when Ask.com crawls through the site again. Which is quite not so frequent considering how big the Internet is. And also not all sites have the option; Ask.com hasn't crawled through ALL the sites yet either. But all in all it's quite neat. Novel maybe but i still think it's neat.

Plus, I really don't want to contribute anymore to Google, and Yahoo just sucks at doing everything substandard, including its search.

'Course I'll still be Googling around if I find I'd exhausted all my options in Ask.com. Of if I wanna find the cached version of a page, it's great for finding stuff that people took down from their sites.. =D They forget Google has a copy of it. Oh yeah, some Internet archiving organization also as a QUARTERLY archive of pages too. Maybe even more frequent. Or less, depending.

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