Life without Google: Today is Google free day

Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web has declared today Google free day. Among his rules:

• Don't use any of the five major search engines;
• Avoid meta search engines;
• Ditch vertical search engines;
• Consider changing your home page or uninstall everything;
• Document your experience.

Richard will be trying out Hakia. I'm perusing Kartoo as we speak. Updates tomorrow. Looks like this experiment is broadening a bit.