Alternative search engine suggestions? I can not... - Mona Nomura

You'll be back...we're like a drug....yesssssssssss - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

How about http://keyboardr.com/ Mona ? - Juan Pablo González

yeah...i have to go with dogpile, too.... - Live4Emma (L4S)

Firefox + Addblock-plus http://lifehacker.com/5036881... - Tapio Kulmala

There's always cuil.com It's the Google Killer™ (If I had a rim-shot, I'd play it right now.) - Joey Gibson

Mona, check goosh.org you'll escape the logo for a while (Google Shell) - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Old faves include http://metacrawler.com/ http://cuil.com/ http://ask.com/ http://live.com/ http://socialmention.com/ http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Teachin... or, you could just Google search for "non-heinous favicon search engines" :-) - michael silverton

@Mona at the risk of being laughed off of FF I might suggest giving live.com a try .. I use it exclusively for image searches and am more than happy with the results - Steven Hodson

Hey Mona, try Live Search! ;-) - Rutger Blom

Amazing that Metacrawler is still around. - Amit Morson

/me inserts evil after-edit to my own list adding live.com; i do like what MS is doing there, including competition with iGoogle at http://start.com/ - michael silverton

http://www.cuil.com/ - Jemm

The Y! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

@amorson never underestimate the efficacy of antidisambiguation of ads from search results. ;-) - michael silverton

let others do the searching for you - Pascal

Mona, have you tried http://www.kosmix.com/? And I second Juan on http://keyboardr.com/, though its still kinda Google. - Kol Tregaskes

Subscribe all from the internets to a FriendFeed -room and use FF's search (when it is up) - Jemm

http://daymix.com - Tsega Dinka

http://goosh.org/ - AJ Batac

powerset? - Seth Greenblatt

http://www.hakia.com/ - Emrah Tokalak

Lycos? Although I bet their results suck, these days. :( - Tyson Key

it is pretty ugly.... Clusty is cool... http://clusty.com - andy brudtkuhl

Digsby Google search still uses the old icon: http://search.digsby.com/ - Phil G

Goosh. Google in shell mode. - Andrew Trinh from Nambu

CatholicGoogle.com? Also - new GOOG fav icon is nearly as bad as the 2012 London Olympics logo. - AJ Kohn

Can't believe I forgot about Goosh considering it was the first post I published on LGs site. DUH Yhanks for all the suggestions, I didn't realize how reliant I was on Google until today. LOL@ AJs suggestion!! Thanks everyone! - Mona Nomura from fftogo

Firefox search doesn't include the favicon - Keith - @tsudo

great question... google is such a monopoly of the search components - Susan Beebe

You know, Yahoo is decent. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I love the new favicon. Also, WTF? - Jason Wehmhoener

I was wondering the same thing yesterday. I really am disgusted with that favicon. - Dee S.

I hate the icon too, but bailing on GOOGLE? I mean, really... That's like me going Windows cause I don't like the little stickers that come in the Mac boxes... - Steve Isaacs

http://www.altavista.com/ - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Dude, just adblock that bitch. - ld

AdBlock the favicon :) - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Firefox with Stylish http://userstyles.org/styles... - LouCypher

Mona, did you go for any particular search engine here? - Kol Tregaskes

blackle.com - Will Higgins™

dogpile.com? - Jason Shultz from twhirl

@tsudohnimh my firefox start page uses the new google favicon - Jason Shultz from twhirl

The ultimate source of alternate search engines is Charles Knight's http://www.altsearchengines.com/ - Mike Reynolds

Just use greasemonkey to replace the favicon. Sheesh. Whiner ;-) - Dread Pirate PJ from NoiseRiver

I don't use Firefox unless I have to and Greasemonkey fonts are strange - Mona Nomura from IM

strange. i still see the plain blue lowercase g. Maybe it's cached somehow? - Laura Norvig

It is grotesque. It's time to start a pledge and send it to Google to change the heinous icon and fire the graphic designer who created it. - Shevonne

i like it. it's more gentle than the old one :) - Mario

http://tinyurl.com/8fjdhx :P - Hao Chen