Well since Google Instant came out I have been wondering if there is something better. I finally made my homepage http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en which disables autocomplete and the instant. I tried disabling it in my profile but it didn't work. I read on forums (Google forums about Google Instant sucking) that you have to delete your cookies, etc then turn it off but I am pretty sure I did this multiple times. They should have made it an option not a forced option that apparently is hard to even disable. To me Google Instant is annoying as hell. Why someone would want a bunch of random things flashing in front of them goes beyond me. The whole flashing part bothers me the most (most the time I type so fast it didn't flash too much but whenever it did I was extremely pissed). I read on some articles that if you try to type Google Instant sucks with instant on that it stops giving suggestions right when you start typing the word suck in. I am semi satisfied with Google again now that I have it disabled but I was still wanting to try something different. I heard Bing was alright by some and that it sucks by others.
I made a poll about Google Instant. I know it doesn't follow the title but I wanted to know how people thought about Google Instant. I saw in some "polls" that most people liked it but about 20-30% of users didn't. So Google went from almost all people liking their site to 20-30% users not liking it. This feature should have been optional. Now they have pissed off a decent amount of their users. Bad business move in my opinion.
Anyone recommend another search engine?
