A lot of the times, what you search on Google can be accomplished equally well by searching at other more specific locations.  For example, instead of using Google to try to find torrents, you can search torrent indexing sites (eg. IsoHunt or Torrentz), or directly search the tracker websites (eg. TPB, and whatever private trackers you use).  Similarly, for general info, you can directly search something like Wikipedia, for anime info, you can search something like AniDB, and so on.  

And a lot of stuff simply do not need searching.  For example, if you wanted to find the latest version of Firefox, you can simply go to the Firefox website.

In that sense, you can pretty much bypass general search engines like Google for all but the most obscure and uncategorizable stuff, and specific questions.

(This post was last modified: 05/10/2010 07:59 PM by Assassinator.)