OT, but since you asked...
...I still like AltaVista's advanced search. The only engine I know if where you can still formulate a boolean search with nested AND's, OR's, NOT's and NEARs (do not underestimate the power of this last operator in winnowing down the "1,826,751 matches found" problem...).
jb4
"About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. "
-- Edsger W.Dijkstra (1930 - 2002)
(I wish more managers knew that...)