Which search engine?

[Spinal]

So google has (quietly) announced that they will start ranking based on a pay-to-play model for their shopping results.

Hence, the results you see will be only from those merchants who outbid the others.

Bing operates a similar policy sadly...

This leaves me a little "empty" when it comes to search engines, I've started using froogle quite a lot to search for things when shopping.

Does anyone have a valid alternative?

M.

 

[wemorgan]

Kelkoo Shopping Search Engine | Online shopping & Price comparison

 

[John]

Do you know if other search engines do or don't do the same thing though (Bing excepted)?

 

[Benzowner]

So google has (quietly) announced that they will start ranking based on a pay-to-play model for their shopping results.

Hence, the results you see will be only from those merchants who outbid the others.

Bing operates a similar policy sadly...

This leaves me a little "empty" when it comes to search engines, I've started using froogle quite a lot to search for things when shopping.

Does anyone have a valid alternative?

M.

So start looking from say page 5, that then leaves out all the top bidders and totally messes up googles or bings intentions.

 

[balge]

Copernic, very good metasearch

 

[Spinal]

Do you know if other search engines do or don't do the same thing though (Bing excepted)?

Which others?! Even altavista uses bing now...

I found duckduckgo; but the results aren't so great...

M.

 

[John]

Ones like Yahoo and Ask?

 

[Spinal]

Ones like Yahoo and Ask?

Yahoo - powered by Bing...

Ask... I thought ask jeeves had dissapeared, but clearly not!

 

[jaymanek]

You mean there are others?!

 

[Ted]

Ireland has developed a new search engine.
Doogle

 

[Frugal]

The competition regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are still looking at Google's dominance so the landscape may change again in the future ... EU, US antitrust officials to discuss Google investigations | New Europe

 

[Spinal]

Ireland has developed a new search engine.
Doogle

Quite funny - results are powered by google though

 

[Frugal]

I've only used it a couple of times but the Russian search engine Yandex.com is available in English and helped me find what I was looking for.

 

[John]

Yahoo - powered by Bing...

That explains why it is sh then.

 

[artyman]

Lycos.com still seems to be around.

 

[0ptic]

https://ixquick.com/