Other Search Engines

We'll try thirty days starting 3/19 to stay Google free(Yahoo and MSN as well, but Google Free sounds pretty interesting.) This isn't a knock on these engines by any means... they obviously are great at what they do. However, thinking back about 7 or 8 years ago, when someone asked you a question, what was your first reaction? To check Alta Vista, WebCrawler or Go? Today its practically second nature to hop on Google and get what you need. Its now a tool similar to Excel, Word or Photoshop. Therefore, can we eliminate these tools and "function" in work and at home. One search engine we can start with is http://www.quintura.com/. As these other search engines are developed are these new types of searching good? Or are people content with a set of links, granted probably what they need, returned to them and nothing else? If you know of any other search engines that could be used please let us know. We'll be watching our search habits and see if what changes, if anything. Stay tuned.