del.icio.us/

Today I explored http://del.icio.us/ and compared the results to google. I felt that google results were very "commercial" and I appreciated that the del.icio.us results could be helpful when you want to see what has worked for others. Also, it seems like google has a lot of the same ads that show up over and over again. I was searching for "cheap air fare". Google brought up more travel agencies, etc., where in del.icio.us showed me more websites where I can compare different discount airfare sites (hotwire, expedia, travelocity, priceline, etc.). I also liked that in del.icio.us it tells me how many people have added that link as a favorite and lists them in order by number of users. However, I found that farecast.com was listed as first with 10658 users adding to their favorite list and then was listed again further down the list with 2141 users adding it. I like in google that you can choose to search for web, video, news, or images and I also like that you can see pictures in your search. I still prefer google or other search engines, but will add this to my list of possibilities. Especially for times when I care about what others are interested in or when they can help save me the time of completing lengthy searches on my own.