Is there any better search option than Google?

**freddyleo1984** · 19-11-07

Hi,

Is there any better search option than Google?

Freddy

**channel5** · 20-11-07

Do you mean as a user trying to find something or as an affiliate trying to promote something?

As an affiliate Google is unfortunately the Daddy in the UK with 80%+ of the market share, so if you don't optimise for Google then you are efectively giving up on most of the market.

As a user trying to find something, well Google still seems to provide the most relevent results most of the time.

**nick279** · 20-11-07

Google is the most popular and has the biggest market share. It's (IMO) the most relevant and has the best spam filters.

Users - try wiki/chacha

**tomj** · 20-11-07

Yahoo! surely?....

**Paul Smith** · 21-11-07

Is there any better search option than Google?

Not really, no.

**yesasia** · 22-11-07

Better than Google or Yahoo ? Google and Yahoo: SearchBoth.com - Search both Google & Yahoo at the same time!

**Arun_lakhera** · 21-12-07

Hi Freddy, I have been told that google, yahoo and msn are the three big search engines. Out of the three google is most popular and most difficult to optimize. If you can find out the substitute for google then please PM me.

**Mogga** · 21-12-07

search engine - Google Search

Google lists :-
altavista
dogpile
yahoo

**Arun_lakhera** · 21-12-07

Originally Posted by freddyleo1984

Is there any better search option than Google?

I have learned about an international search engine SearchJohn.com in a forum. It is incorporated in Christchurch, New Zealand. But I don’t know whether it is better than google or not.

**moshin** · 12-01-08

i like ask for content search

check this

Ask.com SearchTools Demo

**moredial** · 12-01-08

Ask has just gone right down in my ratings. In December the ask bot started to add a space (%20) at the end of every url it crawled, including the domain root. Needless to say, it got a 404 response. I think I have the server set up now to do a 301 redirect for the ask bot. I just hope I have done so before my sites completely disappear out of ask.

I have always optimised for Yahoo and MSN. About a year ago I did an experiment with playing Google's PR algorithm game. Traffic went up, but I never saw an increase in income.

The only search engine that does have a marked effect on my income is Yahoo. Over the last couple of years, every time Yahoo 'lost' my sites, the income went down. Even so, with only MSN sending traffic the income was still more than I would have expected if Yahoo and MSN brought the same revenue per visitor.

While I like Yahoo most for sending visitors, I suspect that MSN gives most revenue.

If I am doing research, then I only use live.com. Top results are always relevant and never spammy.

If I want to find out about something that happened in the last 48 hours, only then will I use Google.

I used to use Yahoo for all my searches; now it is my second choice if I can't find what I am looking for.

If you are looking for a search that puts emphasis on relevance, then ScrubTheWeb.com is the best available. Only pages that are submitted are included in the index, so results can be hit and miss. It is worth submitting pages as ScrubTheWeb is used as a source for many smaller engines.