anybody know of GOOD serach engine?

Joe> At 11:47 AM 3/29/04 -0500, you wrote: >> >> Joe> Does anyone know of a good internet search engine? I've been Joe> using Google but they have gotten LOUSY in the last couple of Joe> months since they've decided to sell the "right" to companies to Joe> be first in their search results. It's gotten so bad that I can Joe> no longer find anything with their searchs except ads for Joe> totally unrelated items. Joe> Have you used them lately??? This morning I tried to search for Joe> a driver for the ethernet card that is built into my Dell GX110 Joe> computer. I searched for "dell gx110 ethernet driver download" Joe> instead all I get are ads such as "Buy pcmcia to pci WindWire Joe> Wireless". Do you see anything in the search string about "buy" Joe> or "pci" or "pcmcia" or "wireless"? That wasn't the only result Joe> like that, they were ALL ads for soemthing totally unrelated to Joe> what I wanted. I went through 6 or seven pages or results and Joe> didn't find anything close to what I was looking for. You must be using a different Google.com than I am... :-) I just tried that exact string. I get a page that reports 129 hits, and the very first one is a Dell software download page. Not the right one, I think -- but it does seem to have all the words on it. I don't see any windwire ads. I do see three "sponsored links" on the right side of the page, which is something I ignore 99.9% of the time. Remember that a query of the form you used finds pages that contain the words you mentioned, anywhere in the page. That explains why the first hit is a download but not for the gx110 driver. The query that seems to work is simply: "gx110 driver" download paul