Alternative search engines to Google?

[Guest]

Since Google has redesigned their search page layout "to provide a consistent experience to all our users" (yeah, right. Now where have I heard that phrase before?) they have 'lost' the left hand search tool sidebar. You now have to CLICK....CLICK....CLICK to be able to filter by, for example, "Pages from the UK".

They have done this because mobile phones have a limited number of characters on a line. To hell with desktop users. The mobile is now King. I now realise why the BBC/Prom website designers changed the layout a couple of years back ...getting rid of, for me, the intelligent week-to-view across the page.

So I am on the hunt for an alternative search engine. Bing I find a bit too US-centric. Just wondered if their were any others hidden away out there?

TIA

[MrGongGong]

a workaround for this is to have this

http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?cr=countryUK

as a bookmark
or on a mac on the favourite sites list

[Stunsworth]

My work computer has Bing as the default search engine. My advice is to stick with Google.

[Flosshilde]

a workaround for this is to have this

http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?cr=countryUK

as a bookmark
or on a mac on the favourite sites list

I've got that as my home page when I start up IE. My big grumble with it is that since I installed the latest version of IE when I start typing in a search Google starts to list results straight away, based on what I've typed even if it's just the first few letters of a word. Sometimes it doesn't even let me finish putting in my full search. The idea now seems to be that such programmes aren't tools to help you do what you want to do, but are designed to tell you what you want to do (even when, more often than not, they're wrong).

[MrGongGong]

I've got that as my home page when I start up IE. My big grumble with it is that since I installed the latest version of IE when I start typing in a search Google starts to list results straight away, based on what I've typed even if it's just the first few letters of a word. Sometimes it doesn't even let me finish putting in my full search. The idea now seems to be that such programmes aren't tools to help you do what you want to do, but are designed to tell you what you want to do (even when, more often than not, they're wrong).

Why use IE ?

Firefox ?

[Flosshilde]

Yes, it's about time that I gave an alternative a trial run.

[Resurrection Man]

Thanks for the suggestions. That workaround works fine, thanks.

[Flay]

a workaround for this is to have this

http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?cr=countryUK

as a bookmark
or on a mac on the favourite sites list

Please explain the difference between this and the Google http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?source=search_app which is what I notice is on my desktop, and the basic Google address http://www.google.co.uk/

[Russ]

I've got that as my home page when I start up IE. My big grumble with it is that since I installed the latest version of IE when I start typing in a search Google starts to list results straight away, based on what I've typed even if it's just the first few letters of a word. Sometimes it doesn't even let me finish putting in my full search. The idea now seems to be that such programmes aren't tools to help you do what you want to do, but are designed to tell you what you want to do (even when, more often than not, they're wrong).

You can turn off those 'autocomplete' settings in any browser. Search for 'How to Delete the AutoComplete Function on the Google Search Engine'.

Russ

[Resurrection Man]

Good point, Flay, and in checking the links out again, I realise that neither link (although they reach the same conclusion) do NOT give you 'Pages from the UK'.

Simple test. Enter "New York Times" and look at the results. Lots of US sites. Now go to search tools...CLICK....then CLICK ..the web then CLICK Pages from the UK and only then do you get just UK hits.

Thank CLICK you CLICK very much CLICK Google.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I always use Yahoo.
Why? Because so many people use "google" as a verb. Rather like "hoover".