I'd most rather, of the following, search with:

Because it has been shut down recently?

Once upon a time, when all search engines pretty much sucked, Metacrawler was the way to go. It still exists, though the hamsters must surely be tired after all these years...

Dogpile isn't a rank and search engine, it's a bunch of them. Anyway Duck Duck Go.

Duck Duck Go. Unlike most of those other options in the poll, it's new enough to take the last 10 to 15 years of search development or so into account.

FWIW, you can use near: on Bing queries - it's a bit limited, because it defaults to 10 words distance, but still better than nothing. See here [microsoft.com].

Google search supports AROUND(n), which limits results to those pages on which the two words are within n words of each other.

The guy who set up the poll obviously had no idea how gopher works - gopher isn't a search, it's a protocol for server assisted fetch; in many ways equivalent to http. It doesn't belong on the list more than http does.

Most searches of gopher towns are done through archie or veronica, one of which should have been the choice here instead of gopher.

But if they have a place, surely ftpsearch.ntnu.no should be there too. It was BIG.

It's also rather telling that when listing old search engines, HotBot isn't one of the choices, while a lot of less successful but better advertised and provider-specific options are.
Hotbot was probably the second biggest engine in the mid nineties, used a lot because it was so much faster than Altavista.

The forgotten Tech Search Engine for STEM research.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/