Poll: What's your search engine of choice?

Ask Jeeves?!  Has anyone ever actually used that?!

like once or twice.... good for looking up medical questions.

 

~Karen

Since I had it installed in my browser I hardly use anything else. I used to use Dogpile a lot. It's a metasearch engine. The problem is it gives the same hits over and over again.

I read about a guy who got convicted for murder partially based on a search of his computer, which turned up an Ask Jeeves query for "What sentence would I get if I stabbed someone in an unprovoked attack?"

yeah!

the student's friend!

I love using it to help me find research stuffs!

~J~

amen! and the coders friend! nothing like typing in "*problem name* *language name* code example" and getting  *exactly* what you want. :D

Google gets better responces like When I was looking up something about Russell Wolff I found  "One day a social worker took John to meet an artist by the name of Russell Wolff who painted with his feet."

ask if Jeeves is gay.

Alright.... Is Jeeves gay?

(waits to hear the joke)

How about asking Jeeves other thought-provoking questions...

Jeeves, what is the nature of the universe?

Jeeves, what is the meaning of life?

Jeeves, why DID the chicken cross the road?

Ask Dave's Head!

The Fruvous Playground isn't up anymore, but it had a thing where you could type in any question, and Dave's Head would answer with a Fruvous lyric.  I copied a bunch of the questions when I got the limericks and poetry off the site for Frucon.  Some are really funny.

What happened to the fruvous playground?

I didn't know it wasn't up anymore. :(

In order:

What is the nature of the universe?
The Nature of the Universe Great Debate in 1998
From: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/debate/debate98.html

What is the meaning of life?
The meaning of life is to increase fitness...
From: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEANLIFE.html

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Another Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road Joke Site! WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD? (besides to get to the other side!) CHICKEN FUN. Get off your perch and have some fun! Chicken Dance...
From: http://www.whydidthechickencrosstheroad.com/

Oh, sure, I've asked Jeeves lots of stuff.  Not when I actually needed to know the answer, but it's kinda fun to see what you come up with.... :)

ask him if jeeves is gay, maggot. :P

i hate to be disloyal to lycos, being as their logo is a dog and my dogs would be displeased if they knew...but yahoo just works so much better.

Yeah, I still use Dogpile every once in a while, especially if I'm looking for something really obscure. But only "google" sounds convincing as a verb, and I know that's what I look for in a search engine.

Yes! I used to use Jeeves all the time just because I'm a Wodehouse fan. Now I use Google mostly, but Jeeves is still my favorite. Just 'cause of the name.

*snork*

http://static.wc.ask.com/docs/about/isjeevesgay.html

Yahoo, although if it fails me, I go to Lycos or AltaVista. Most sites won't let you search for really common things, but once I went on Lycos and searched for "www" in the URL and got like a billion and a half results. hehe

ask dave's head if jeeves is gay?

There's a neat little feature you can do in Mozilla to assign a URL a keyword and pass it a strig to work with.

Make a bookmark like:

http://www.google.com/search?query=%s

Give it a short 'keyword', like "gg"

THen, to do searches, all you have to do is type into the address bar:

gg Paul Mischler

And the browser does this search

Cool thing is, most every search engine under the sun supports searches like that, so you can easily program different search engines in.

like images.google.com:

http://images.google.com/images?q=%s

dictionary.com

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=%s

Mozilla Bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

It's a pretty cool thing, and a big time saver, especially since you can hit CTRL-T (Open new tab) CTRL-L (go to address bar) then just type.

And here's one for IMDB...

http://www.imdb.com/Find?select=All&qstxt=%s

I miss it. That site made me happy and laugh a lot :-)

It's all about Google. I never use anything else anymore.

I'm so boring, I use the MSN search engine. I guess I'm not as hip as I thought I was. Hee hee.

Same here... but I honestly didn't expect these results.

Wow!

All the cool kids support Micro$oft. And giving your eyeballs to Billg earns tax money for your state! Do it for the children! The children!

Fuck the children I want something out of this. I think Mr. Bill should hand over some of this money to me directly, as I.. live in the same state as him.. and.. umm... lived *near* Redmond where the main MS building is, so.. that's a good reason!