If you have not tried the Snap search engine lately, you should take a look. Snap has added site preview screens, which will be familiar to those of you that use RSS readers, but may not be for others.
One of the most tedious parts of using a search engine is slogging through all the links that are not really what you want. Snap now puts up a preview of the site right in the browser window, so you can quickly see if it looks like what you are looking for. It is one more example of how far behind Google is falling in the search engine wars.
If you are one of the people who don't like the fact that Google keeps a record of everything you have ever searched for, Scroogle is one of a new breed of mostly nonprofit search anonymizers. Scroogle takes your search query, submits it to Google using a different IP address, and returns the results to you. Scroogle throws away all its search queries, so your privacy is protected.