Challenge not to use Google search
Over the years I’ve had few search engines of choice.
Before 1999 it was infoseek, but I used to hop from infoseek to several other engines if something was hard to find.
Hotobot
Altavista
Excite
Lycos
2001/2002 when google was overrun with spam I would occasionally switch to alltheweb or yahoo.
Apart from a few rare occasions I’ve had google search as my home page for 5 plus years now. Thinking it’s about time I gave another engine a trial. So for the next week I’m having live.com as my home page - going to try not to do a single search on google - going to need a lot of willpower! 
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I tried the “google free” thing a few weeks ago; it was tough but made me branch out more and try other tools: http://pwoessner.com/2008/06/16/google-still-addicted-but-not-as-dependent/
Best of luck!
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:51 pm
struggling already, but will continue. noticing how much better google is at correcting my spelling and guessing what i was really after