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Ask YC: Please recommend me an alternative to Google

1 points by thevoid ↗ HN
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?

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

Up and comers. Lots of eyeballs. About to be acquired.

thevoid
Have never found Yahoo to be accurate enough though, that's why I'm asking (see op).
aston
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
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=disception+forum

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=disception+forum&fr=...

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.

thaumaturgy
I have occasionally found clusty (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.
makecheck
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
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.