What is your favorite non-Google search tool?

Hi professionals ,

I am hoping to start a discussion on what people like and dislike with the various search engines out there.

Personally my own preferred search engine is Google.  Ok I know that this is not very original but the reason that I like Google is not because as many people say, it finds more accurate results than other engines. The feature that Google has and I like is its luck of features. I mean Yahoo and even MSN might find quite sufficient results for me perhaps, but unfortunately there interface is overloaded. MSN gives you a full page asking you to Find a house, Shop for Flowers, Read news, etc, etc, plus a whole list of choices the use of which might not be apparent until you click them. Whilst Google on the other hand offers a simple interface. A page which, surprise surprise!, can load much faster. Google's page gives you only the basic choices: Web, News, Froogle, Groups, Directory. No unnecessary and confusing toolbars (Money, People Chat, Shop, Hotmail, My MSN, etc) and whole lists of unnecessary links.

I know that you can customize your choices with My MSN and the same on Yahoo! with My Yahoo, but users who need to perform just the most popular thing on the Internet which is just to search will soon find that Google's simpler approach is far better as it is faster and easy to learn by everyone. With these I do not mean to say that less used features like Finding a job, a House, Yellow Pages, etc, should not be developed. On the contrary, these features are useful, especially the many facilities currently offered by Yahoo! such as its excellent Briefcase, free calendar and Note-taking feature, its chat, etc. I would be very happy if MSN for example were to develop the richness of Yahoo!'s free facilities, like a free calendar. However, what is important is for these extra features to be organized better. For example, like Google, a search portal could first show a simple page with a simple search box and include a link More>> which would reveal its other offerings. Or just organize the various services under different and easy to understand links, rather than placing everything on the home page. Another problem is that features that do not work outside specific countries eg. the USA should not be offered.

Finally, the search engine that I dislike a lot is Microsoft Search. Not only it rarely finds what you ask for, its real problem for me is the categories. Categorising results into eg. downloads, technical info, etc is surely useful. But why do I have to wait 5-10 secs for the Microsoft Search results to load, skip the unnecessary toolbar at the top (All Products, Guide, Home, etc), plus skip another search box and then click the category I wish? Microsoft Search should programmatically choose which categories it should display based on my query, or at least offer a combo box on every page next to the search query box for choosing the category. It should I believe display results grouped into categories on the results page, but intelligently place at the top the category whose results are the most relevant to my query, eg. searching for "Directx Downloads" should show the download category at the very top, followed by let's say Product information results category. On the other hand searching for Directx API should show the technical Info category at the top followed let's say by results in the developer chats category about the Directx technology. The number of results shown in every category group should also increase or decrease based on my query. Is this difficult to implement? I wonder...

So, What do you think about the search business? What are your own experiences?

Regards

Thanks Ms Ghada for invitation

My favorite non-google search tools is :

- Bing

Google....nonGoogle go for Yahoo. Thanks.

I Love and prefered Google over all search engine.

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- Google

- Yahoo

- Bing

- Yandex

- DuckDuckGO

Why ? because I love SEO and SEO love Webmaster Tools and Webmaster Tools love Google , Bing-Yahoo , Yandex and others

Thanks

Google , and sometimes Yahoo

Thanks for your invitation, My non - Google search tool is Bing

I always prefer Google as my search tool. Apart from Google i search on Yahoo or Bing.

https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/02/25/say-goodbye-to-google-14-alternative-search-engines/

1.Google(All the time).

2.Bing(Because I'm using Microsoft Windows Phone).

3.DuckDuckGo(When time comes to Privacy, I use just because it doesn't collect the information about the user, IP, no history, most importantly add free search Engine).

4.Yahoo(Just becuase, I like Yahoo answer).

I tried

And experimented

I did not find an instance of Google

thanks for the invitation