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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:10 am 
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I like the idea, but I'd like to know more about what this app would be able to do. Will it be able to display the results in its own window? Or something to be used by Executor, for example?
At present I haven't thought much about it. Perhaps that's a sign it should just stay on the back burner. :mrgreen:

The goodies section is very impressive, for example I love how you can translate a sentence into a URLEncoded string or create a MD5 checksum from a string. The website has great potential.

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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
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https://www.ixquick.com/

https://www.startpage.com/

http://yandex.com/


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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:28 am 
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startpage is by Ixquick.

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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:48 am 
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I am Baas wrote:
startpage is by Ixquick.


Yes, so?


http://aafter.com/

http://www.etools.ch/

https://www.exalead.com/search/web/

http://www.entireweb.com/

http://www.gigablast.com/


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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:09 am 
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It's brilliant you're listing all these new search engines but honestly I could create a list of 100 providers in 5 minutes, what we want to know is why are these special and different from say the likes of Google or Bing.

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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:00 pm 
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It's brilliant you're listing all these new search engines but honestly I could create a list of 100 providers in 5 minutes ...
Yes, that's easy :wink:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=List+of+search+engines


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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:07 pm 
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Ideally lmgtfy.com should be lmddgtfy.com :D

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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:21 pm 
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Ideally lmgtfy.com should be lmddgtfy.com :D

Yeah, I've been thinking about it too.

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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
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guinness wrote:
It's brilliant you're listing all these new search engines but honestly I could create a list of 100 providers in 5 minutes, what we want to know is why are these special and different from say the likes of Google or Bing.




Really?

This is the question from the first post:
"I was just reading this topic and I was wondering what search alternatives to Google are you guys using (not yahoo, bing, ask or some other giant)?"

As you can see, I was simply answering it by listing the search engines I (occasionally) use.


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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
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Just to throw it in there I just remembered about http://www.dogpile.com/ which is a meta search engine.

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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:50 am 
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Toxteth O'Grady, I find it a little hard to believe that anyone uses 10+ search engines when generally speaking most only use 1 or at a push 2. The question as you pointed out was "What other search alternatives are you using?" & not "What other search alternatives are available?"

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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
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http://qrobe.it/

Another I regularly use. It's excellent.


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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:47 am 
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I mentioned earlier about a DuckDuckGo version of lmgtfy, well seems it's been done already >> http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/por ... st-for-fun (website appears to be down.)

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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
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guinness wrote:
I mentioned earlier about a DuckDuckGo version of lmgtfy, well seems it's been done already >> http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/por ... st-for-fun (website appears to be down.)

Cool. Thanks, guinness.

Edit: http://lmddgtfy.com/ is down.

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 Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Google search
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I checked it again yesterday too and I get the funny feeling that it's been down for sometime, shame.

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