Ask YC: Please recommend me an alternative to Google

[thevoid]

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]

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.

[xirium]

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

[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).

[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.

[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...