>Am I the only one that fails to see a problem with Google search?
I agree with you about google's spell check, relevance, and speed.
DDG's !bang search is a killer feature for me, though. I can type "!wikipedia topic" in the omnibar and it gets me to the exact page I'm looking for, without stopping at a middleman. The same feature makes google maps, images, videos, and youtube easier to use to with ddg as my default search than with google as my default search. I have been surprised by the amount of search traffic that I redirect to something other than a general web search now that it is convenient for me to do so.
Most browser support custom keywords for "search engines". For example in Opera you can rightclick any form field(?) and "create search". Enter a keyword like w for Wikipedia and from now on you can simply enter "w whatever" in the address bar. That way you truly have no middleman.
In Firefox this feature is called "keymarks" I think. Add a bookmark from a search result page, then edit it, replace the searched string with %s and add the keymark (letter or short string, same as with Opera).
Thank you for that, I hadn't found that feature. It specifically isn't working for me with wikipedia or google maps, although it works beautifully for a couple other test cases.
Those are all good resources. On top of that, Xach just posted[1] the number of times that libraries have been recently downloaded from quicklisp. I have been having fun checking out the most downloaded libraries.
I prefer common-lisp.net for finding a project's webpage and mailing list, but cliki has a useful section that lists projects by category.
How often do you see a comment on hn with positive votes that tells people to "Cry me a fucking river"?