Someone turned me on to this search engine back in 1999.
It uses multiple search engines to locate keywords through Alta Vista, Fast Search, Find What, HotBot, Lycos, MSN Web Search, Open Directory Project, Yahoo, and others all at once!
Get results in seconds and find virtually everything on the web on any subject with just one search!

Available in most, if not all languages.

Best of all, if you don't need the extras (straight-to options for auctions, encyclopedias, images, MP3's, multimedia, software downloads and tech reviews) its free!
Copernic 2001

Enjoy :D

I've gravitated toward google, these days.

Mark

What are google's advantages/options?

my experience so far is, if you can't find it with google, you can't find it anywhere.

What are google's advantages/options?</font>[/QUOTE]<font color=Orange>With google you can search for just images, and stuff like that. It also has way better stuff than yahoo or ask jeeves.</font>

Um...I like Google because it sounds funny? [img]smile.gif[/img]

Actually I use it because it has become a habit, I think.

I like the fact that it has the option to search Usenet groups and images on the Net, too.

A lot of the PC techs I've worked with use google...peer pressure strikes again! :D

I'm sorry, I guess I have no real reason for my preference.

I'll go away now.

Mark

OK Well I checked google out and its only disadvantage is having to use the back button to check out different links.
Copernic has a page of results and clicking on a link will open your web-browser and go to the page...no need for back buttons, if you're not happy with the link you clicked on, just go to the next one in Copernic and your web browser will take you there. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Now I'm asking myself:

Do I love Google because it's so simple and easy to use with very quick download times and simple graphic interfaces, and good search algorithms that more often then not give me the sites that I am looking for in one page.

or

Do I love Google because it has a ton of useful sites logged in its database including all copies, half sites, under construction sites, etc.?

I am willing to say that's it's likely the first one, and I think that it might be that for most other people.

But according to this Boston.com article, Online search engine AlltheWeb claims bigger index than Google

I like the "extras" that Google has. You can get a news ticker/Search toolbar for your browser. It supports OS X's Services. It has the ability to search for sites, pages, images seperately. It's been free for ages, and it seems to be growing constantly. :D try it.

On e more thing: I DID use Copernic for a while, and IIRC I was able to access Google through it.

I went back to Google because it didn't take up any extra resources, since it IS web-based.

And, again, since it's web-based, it's cross-platform. So I can access it if I'm in windows, Linux, Unix, or OS X.

AND, it just pulled up 831 pages with my name in it. :D

Just checked, Copernic is Win only. :( I always did like it.

[ 06-18-2002, 07:35 PM: Message edited by: RudeDawg ]

I also like Google, especially for the toolbar. It's very easy to run a search, and it will spawn a new window so your original one isn't lost.

I used to like AltaVista until they "sold out", and now they're Hastalavista in my book. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

But, yes, the ability to do image searching, and do searches within domains, etc., is great. Back when Elfwood search was down (and still is 3/4 of the time :rolleyes: ) I can do searches for Elfwood artwork by going to Google, restraining the domain to elfwood.lysator.liu.se, and then supplying a search term.

Google is also great at doing fuzzy searching (pages similar to) and backward searching (link searches).

Cheers,
-Sazerac

Metacrawler <font color="lightblue">performs the same functino as copernic, but it IS web-based, and cross-platform. [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>

Google as well for me. And awg, I'm using it because I'm satisfied with it... Have only tried 2 or 3 of the other ones you've listed. Can't be bothered to check those either. As long as Google does the trick accurately, why should I change? ;)

Not on AOHell lol. I haven't tried it on Netscape or IE...they are so slow compared to aol that I can copy and paste whatever urls they are trying to open into aol and have the pages open in aol first lol.

I don't do too much searching for images anymore but when I did, I'd use Ditto .
I searched Google for images today and it brought up pages of stuff without the name or the subject I was searching for (but those many images were on the same pages as images specific to my search). It seemed like a waste of time. :(