Google didn't work for me either. I currently have Google Yahoo and MSN search windows on my browser and pretty much use Google. I think most people have one favorite search engine and am dubious as to if it will catch on.
I don't know what happend to the 2 mentioned search engines. But i recently got by a search engine called Avasearch.com and search technique is so simple but it actually provides with fantastic results. The same company has also developed a simple search engine called Clasearch.com which is a search engine that searches the best of the classified ads websites, all at once. Brilliant