Old memories

[Harrison]

I have actually been using Yahoo! a bit recently because I have found it can sometimes find things that Google doesn't. Yahoo! is an old school search engine that indexes things in a directory fashion. Whereas Google works based on association between data on a site and links point to and away from it, and I sometimes find the search results can be a bit obscure in Google because of this.

[Teho]

Yes I'm still using Altavista and am perfectly happy with it. There are occasions when something is hard to find that I also try searching with Google, but it never does any better.

Actually I often find that looking something up on Wikipedia and following the links from there is also very effective.

[Harrison]

Wikipedia is definitely very good for searching for something. I also use that a lot, plus you can really explore Wikipedia and end up in a completely different subject to the one you started with, with some great pages to read.