If you remember the days when Yahoo was the number one search engine, you may appreciate the new search engine Vivisimo. Like the days of Yahoo, you can browse search results by category, but instead of the categories being predefined, the categories are defined by the results. This is definately an interesting way to search.
Research on document clustered search engine shows that users try them out, are awed by their niftiness, and then soon decide they are totally useless and stop using them. Are you still googling?
I can see the usefulnes of clustered results at times, but I haven't pulled away from Google yet (It has such a nice little toolbar).
Who doesn't love the Google toolbar? This Vivisimo thing is kind of fun, though.
who needs a toolbar when you can type your search in the firebird address bar?
My firebird has a built in text box just for searching, and it can do Google, Vivismo, and a host of others.
the search box is redundant.
By default, if you enter a search term in the address field and press Enter, a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search is performed, and you're taken to the first result of that search directly. If you prefer to see the standard search result list instead, add the following code to your user.js file:
// Change to normal Google search:
user_pref("keyword.URL", "http://google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=");
Of course, you could also change to a completely different search engine by changing the string to something else. The default search string is: "http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=".