Having heard good things about Dogpile, I decided to compare results from it and our ever-present Google in a search for "library 2.0." In the first 20 results for each, there were only 6 hits that the two search engines had in common. Of those 6 hits, only one was in the same position in both Dogpile and Google, and that was the first hit. Totally unscientific, but it seems to make a good case for trying multiple search engines. Some interesting tidbits: only Dogpile returned an entry on Wikipedia, Google returned the same link twice in the first 20 results, and Dogpile seemed to include more links to ads in their list of search results.
On another search engine note, I've discovered Sputter, which is kind of a one-stop-shop for search engines. It has a really attractive interface, too.
As far as browsing goes, I abandoned Explorer long ago. I'm a Mac user at home and began using Safari as soon as it was available. Then, as Firefox increased in popularity, I decided to try it out and really haven't looked back. It's a great browser. And I'm addicted to tabbed browsing. I always prefer to have links open in a new tab rather than a new window. I also enjoy having a tabbed homepage--here at work when I start up Firefox, my starting tabs are the staff wiki, my Gmail account (which I have synced with my work email address), and my Google notebook, which I use to keep track of my tasks. Anything else I do gets opened in new tabs.
And that concludes week 5.
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I don't think I've heard of Sputtr. I'll have to check it out soon.
I agree; Firefox totally beats out Internet Explorer, even though IE copied the tabbed browsing and add on's features.
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