If you’re looking for a crappy search engine, there’s one right at acrappysearchengine.com (go ahead… click it… it’s not a joke). This search engine gives you results mildly related to, but not exactly, what you were looking for. The inventors’ reasoning is:
How can you really claim to explore the web when your search engine only returns the results you are looking for?
I think they’re somewhat right. For example, I was interested in finding GDB front-ends so I went to Google and looked for some. The 9th result I got (note: you might get a different result) was the UPS debugger, which declares itself as “not a GDB front-end”. I clicked the link and found a very interesting project I never heard of before.
Getting an opposite result to “GDB front-end”, namely “NOT a GDB front-end”, turned out pretty good for me. Now I know that if I run into trouble with GDB, I can also try UPS.
So maybe it’s not such a bad idea to have a crappy search engine.