Jun 12 2007
Today: A Day Without Major Search Engines
Feh. Whatever. I’ve got work to do.
1. All day Tuesday, June 12th, don’t use any of the 5 major search engines.
2. Avoid Meta search engines, since most of them include the major search engines.
3. Likewise, the specialized vertical search engines may be too narrowly focused.
4. Consider changing your homepage or downloading their toolbar. You can always uninstall everything and change back on Wednesday.
5. On Wednesday, leave a detailed comment on AltSearchEngines and share your experience with the rest of us. Which alt search engine did you chose? How would you rate the experience?
I guess if you don’t have any work to do and you want to prove just how 1334 you are by not succumbing to the temptation of using the big bad Google, Yahoo!, or MSN, this is for you.
Technorati Tags: search engines, google, yahoo!, msn
June 12th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
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June 12th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
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June 12th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I prefer dogpile.com since it’s got a cute and fuzzy mascot.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:31 am
…and General Motors used to think that Japanese imports were not worth paying attention to either.
If KartOO, Quintura, Hakia, ChaCha, Zuula, Collarity, Decipho, Accoona, Knuru, KoolTorch, GoshMe, Swamii, CrossEngine, Srchr, Allth.at, Searchbots, EveryZing,Sphere, Sproose, Delgio, CognitionSearch, Agent 55, iBoogie, IceRocket, ixquick, Exalead, Searchles, SeeIt, Slifter, Twerq, TheFind, Wize, and LivePlasma are stupid, then please, let me be stupid, too!
Charles Knight
AltSearchEngines
June 13th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Charles,
With all due respect, you have an agenda, and that agenda is sticking it to the “big evil corporations.” I could care less about who gets me the results I need; I just care about getting stuff done. If you can get by using IceRocket and all those other fine search engines, go for it.
I don’t use Google because it’s Google. I use Google because it works. Well. Consistently. Apparently CrossEngine thinks so too because their results are based on Google.
Quintura is powered by Yahoo.
Hakia is powered by Ask.
ChaCha is a human-guided search engine using results from all over the net.
Zuula is a meta search engine.
Collarity is powered by Yahoo.
So far, out of the first 7 I tried, none of them fit the rules for your little “stick it to the man” experiment because none of them provide original results.
Way to prove my point buddy boy.
June 14th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
^^^
owned.
lol