Looking for Something?

Usually the top three search engines (MSN, Google and Yahoo, last time I checked) are good enough, and you can find what you need right off the bat.  Sometimes something different is useful though. For example, if you are looking for info on something a bit less known, that you don't get very many results for on your favorite engine you might want to try ProFusion. ProFusion searches most of the major engines, and some lesser known ones, and compiles results (though it can take a few minutes to do it).  On the other hand, if you are getting too many results, you might want to try out an engine like Clusty, which groups results into clusters (categories). You might also find a socially driven search engine, like Seekum useful. Seekum allows users to vote on whether or not a website is related to a certain keyword ("tag"). If you are a heavy shopper at Amazon, you might want to check out A9. If you log into A9, and use it frequently, Amazon will give you a 1.5% discount. A9 also has some specialized search functions, a bookmarking function and a "diary". If you are looking for something on a specific type of website (forums, blog, etc) you might want to check out Whonu. Whonu lets you search for specific categories of things, on specific types of websites.  If you are a bit of a "geek", enjoy command line interfaces, and are looking for a more interesting search engine, check out YubNub. YubNub can do a huge number of things based on what command you type in the box (search, etc), even including a couple basic games. You can look at some of the commands here and here or just type "ls" in the search box (just like UNIX).

On a side note (news), If you use the Google Toolbar for Firefox, they released an update today, as well as another extension to sync your Firefox settings between computers (announcement).
If anyone is interested, Microsoft also released a public beta of Vista (the next version of Windows) today (actually, lateish last night), you can get it here but the server is having trouble keeping up with demand right now. This beta times out next June.