direct hit.com

Advantages: Accurate
Disadvantages: database not as large as say Google

Direct Hits (BANG) are what you get on this site. No irrelavant results, or spam, precisely what the doctor ordered, it is the most accurate search engines on the net, so if it's in their database it will find it. Other sites tend to bring in a lot of rubbish which you have to weed through or click through and find it actually isn't relevant at all. The site design is pleasant and refreshing and isn't a 'me too' layout, very clear and not cluttered ...
...experience is the opposite of Direct Hit and provides in a lot of cases totally irrelavant results! so I hope they don't touch the Direct Hit mechanism. On Macintosh computers the operating system has a built in multiple search facility called Sherlock and it searches anything up to 10 different search engines in one go (from the desktop), and statistically speaking, the best and most accurate results are from Direct Hit. Google runs it a close ... Read review

Advantages: Fast and direct
Disadvantages: not perfect

Direct Hit this search engine does exactly what it says in the name.When I need to find somethig fast I use Direct Hit.This search engine is better than most because it gets to the heart of the matter without having to weed through all the rubbish you don't need.I have been using this search engine for over six months now and it has rarely if ever let me down.Once you start using Direct Hit you will wonder why you ever bothered using any other search ... Read review

Advantages: More accurate search results on your first search
Disadvantages: Can be difficult to get your site included

Direct hit is a search engine with a difference. It uses a special popularity system to present you with the most accuracte search results, the first time. When you use direct hit to conduct a search, the popularity of each page clicked on is taken into account and the most popular listed first. This means the search results listed are more relavent to what you a searching for. Each search listing contains a rating out of 5 for how popular it is ... Read review

Advantages: quick,easy to use,reliable
Disadvantages: bit too much green

...use if i need a direct hit. the thing is reliably fast , has a little thingy to tell u how popular its users have used the links it comes up with and a whole load of different searches u might try to get a direct hit. i use it all the time for home work , research, looking for nething and everything and to date has only ever come up with one completely off the wall result. its fast and easy to use thanks to the great layout and always works for ... Read review