Status: 108% zombie
I'll admit it - I pretty much just use Google for my searching. It's there, and it's relatively painless. I could probably hone my searching skills a bit, but in general I feel like I get pretty good results. I'm familiar with the page layout, and know what to ignore. It's, well...comfortable.
I checked out the metasearch sites, and found that the results were fairly similar. I did a search on Yellowstone. I did note that both Mamma and Dogpile seemed the same, and more "commercially" (for lack of a better word). The Yellowstone National Park site was several spots down the list on both search engines. On Rollyo, however, it was the number one WEB result. At first I didn't really like Rollyo, but I can see how it could be very useful if you were conducting similar searches over and over again (or accessing the same sites repeatedly). I also found the result page layout to be easy on my eyes - and the useful information was buried under advertisements. I did not like the fact that Mamma had sponsored links at the top AND the bottom of the results page.
The best thing about Dogpile is the SearchSpy feature - a continuous stream of what other people are searching for. It can be very amusing!
Gotta run - the information desk awaits!!!
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