With the issues I am having with my Yahoo! account and the innanity of Google’s legal goons attempting to dictate the public’s use of language, I find myself wondering what my options are in regards to a new search provider. Of course, like most other web developers, I use Firefox predominantly (Firebug being a big part of the reason behind that) and therefore want to add a new default engine into the search dropdown it provides.

I wandered over to ask.com (they’ve always done a nifty thing here and there and might be able to provide the quality of searching i require). The URL is also nifty short in case I need to type it. The offer a pox looking toolbar that makes me think ‘Web Browser Helper Object’ (that is not good).

A quick wander through a few links on Ask I find this page…

Its been updated for IE7 to guide you through setting Ask as the default engine but then goes on to give directions for… Netscape Friggin’ Communicator!?! No quick add link for the ‘Ask’ engine? Wikipedia.org, Dictionary.com and even our ticketing system at work has implemented one of these… Why not Ask?

Has anyone switched? Anything worth checking out and potentially switching to?

Stumble it!