Best search engine? According to Google it's Altavista.

[OuTpaTienT]

Have you ever Googled the term search engine. Interesting results; Altavista, Lycos, Dogpile, and Excite all come up before Google does.

Don't know what my point is, just found it curious.

[draboo]

wow,dogpile. havent heard that term i n a few years. i used to use that religiously. but now am on the googlewagon

[ExSuS]

Same here,I used to use dogpile a long,long time ago.I only use google now

[Mike]

Dogpile... wow.... I still use Yahoo, mainly.

[jman01pa]

Originally posted by OuTpaTienT
Have you ever Googled the term search engine. Interesting results; Altavista, Lycos, Dogpile, and Excite all come up before Google does.

Don't know what my point is, just found it curious.

Obviously if your using Google to search for something they dont need to promote it since your already there....

Many years ago I worked for a high end audio / video store. They did not post the current sale ads in store since the idea of the ads was to get you into the store and once you were there wanted the salesman to pitch the products.

[jman01pa]

Yahoo puts google at number 2 and themselves at number 1

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp...search+engines

[RedFury]

Shameless Yahoo....

[OuTpaTienT]

Altavista

1. Search Engine Watch
2. Google
3. Altavista
4. CNET Search

Lycos

1. Lycos
2. AOL
3. Google

Hotbot

1. Search Engine Watch
2. Dogpile
3. Altavista
4. Google

Dogpile

1. is just useless crap. It mixes sponsered links right in with
   your search results. As a search engine that makes Dogpile about
   as helpful as dogcrap. What kind of idiots run that place?

Ask Jeeves

1. Ask Jeeves
2. Teoma
3. Google
4. Altavista
5. Lycos
6. Alltheweb
7. Excite

Webcrawler

1. also mixes sponsered links right in with your results. Useless.

Metacrawler

1. ditto. Useless.

AOL Search

1. AltaVista
2. Lycos!
3. Search Engine Watch
4. Dogpile
5. Excite
6. Google
7. Yahoo!
8. Search.com
9. MetaCrawler
10. AlltheWeb

MSN Search

1. MSN Search
2. Search Engine Watch
3. Aqua11.com

WiseNut

1. Search Engine Watch
2. Google

Mamma

1. Dogpile
2. Search Engine Watch
3. AltaVista
4. Exicte
5. Google

Vivisimo

1. Search Engine Watch
2. Google
3. AltaVista
4. Dogpile
5. Yahoo!

Alltheweb

1. Search Engine Watch
2. Dogpile
3. AltaVista
4. Google

Teoma

1. Ask Jeeves
2. Teoma
3. Google
4. AltaVista
5. Lycos
6. AllTheWeb
7. Excite
8. Dogpile
9. Yahoo!
10. WebCrawler

Yahoo!

1. Yahoo!
2. Google
3. AltaVista
4. Dogpile
5. HotBot
6. Lycos
7. Ask Jeeves
8. WebCrawler
9. AllTheWeb
10. MetaCrawler
11. AOL Search
12. MSN Search
13. WiseNut
14. Teoma
15. Vivísimo

[usslindstrom]

I'd have to agree with Google.

Altavista's my homepage. Has been for years. Probably never gonna' change it either. Even if the company goes debunct, and I keep getting the error 404 page. You can call me a die-hard fan.

[Warthog]

Wow, I've always wondered this...glad you took the time to come up with a complete search engine table for us, Out.

Warthog