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Ask YC: Please recommend me an alternative to Google

1 points by thevoid 19y ago

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?

thaumaturgy 19y ago
I have occasionally found clusty (http://www.clusty.com/ 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.
bioskope 19y ago
use metasearch if you're not satisfied with google.
- thevoid 19y ago
  Thanks. I think that Google have a great product but I have a natural aversion to using the biggest, most popular of anything...
  - boredguy8 19y ago
    1) Yet you're posting on YC? 2) That's silly.
    - thevoid 19y ago
      Yeah, because this place is bigger than Digg, Reddit and Slashdot combined :eyeroll:
      - boredguy8 19y ago
        Yeah, because this site does the same thing that Digg, Reddit, and /. do...
        thevoid 19y ago
        I don't see your point. I don't think you have one. Back under your bridge now.
        kajecounterhack 19y ago
        This place, if you haven't noticed, is nothing like Digg, Reddit or Slashdot. This is for serious people. That's his point.
aston 19y ago
There's this one out called Yahoo.com. Up and comers. Lots of eyeballs. About to be acquired.
- thevoid 19y ago
  Have never found Yahoo to be accurate enough though, that's why I'm asking (see op).
  - aston 19y ago
    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.
    - thevoid 19y ago
      http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=disception+forum http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=disception+forum http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=disception+forum&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8&rd=r1 http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=disception+forum&fr=... http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=disception+forum&go=Search&mkt=en-gb&scope=&FORM=LIVSOP 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.
      - aston 19y ago
        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=%2Bdisception+forum http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&rd=r1&p=%...). No defense for live.com
xirium 19y ago
http://www.altavista.com/ http://www.altavista.com/ - Now run by Yahoo but with less clutter than the Yahoo domain.
makecheck 19y ago
http://www.ask.com/ 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.
ubudesign 19y ago
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.

1 points by thevoid 19y ago

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?

thaumaturgy 19y ago

I have occasionally found clusty (http://www.clusty.com/ 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.

bioskope 19y ago

use metasearch if you're not satisfied with google.

thevoid 19y ago
Thanks. I think that Google have a great product but I have a natural aversion to using the biggest, most popular of anything...
- boredguy8 19y ago
  1) Yet you're posting on YC? 2) That's silly.
  - thevoid 19y ago
    Yeah, because this place is bigger than Digg, Reddit and Slashdot combined :eyeroll:
    - boredguy8 19y ago
      Yeah, because this site does the same thing that Digg, Reddit, and /. do...
      - thevoid 19y ago
        I don't see your point. I don't think you have one. Back under your bridge now.
        kajecounterhack 19y ago
        This place, if you haven't noticed, is nothing like Digg, Reddit or Slashdot. This is for serious people. That's his point.

aston 19y ago

There's this one out called Yahoo.com. Up and comers. Lots of eyeballs. About to be acquired.

thevoid 19y ago
Have never found Yahoo to be accurate enough though, that's why I'm asking (see op).
- aston 19y ago
  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.
  - thevoid 19y ago
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=disception+forum http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=disception+forum http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=disception+forum&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8&rd=r1 http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=disception+forum&fr=... http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=disception+forum&go=Search&mkt=en-gb&scope=&FORM=LIVSOP 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.
    - aston 19y ago
      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=%2Bdisception+forum http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&rd=r1&p=%...). No defense for live.com

xirium 19y ago

http://www.altavista.com/ http://www.altavista.com/ - Now run by Yahoo but with less clutter than the Yahoo domain.

makecheck 19y ago

http://www.ask.com/ 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.

ubudesign 19y ago

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.