I've tried several browsers including vivisimo and have found much better hits on my surnames with google! Searching on the very rare surname of Clingdanel I got 10 unique hits with google and only 6 hits with vivisimo. My Fludder surname brought 581 hits on google and only 109 on vivisimo (when will people ever learn that a heart will "flutter", not "fludder" and that the swimming kick is a "flutter" kick, not a "fludder" kick!) I do,however, like the "outline" view of vivisimo. That's pretty close to a filter, but if I'm missing that many hits, what good is it??? Now, if there were only a search engine that used an "ignore" a hit if it included certain words on a page or previous hits or that would save searches (supposed I could save the pages in html).... I'd also like to see a search engine respect quotes around a phrase "william walton nowell" does *not* mean I want all instances of where william and walton and nowell show up on a web page! Sherry Don Nickell <dnickell@icehouse.net> wrote in news:3CB0712D.E98F1633@icehouse.net: > I used it for some time yesterday and found a dozen things for my > main line that I'd never seen before. One thing I like about > Vivisimo is the category "tree", it's almost a filter for the user > to select things he knows aren't of interest to him; something other > search engines don't do. > <snip> > > I Vivisimo well enough I've modified my Netscape Search button to > open Vivisimo rather than Google Advanced. As I noted earlier, it > will take a little getting used to because it is a little different > in format. > > Don