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What do you "Google" with?

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  • M Mark_Wallace

    Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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    Rage
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    Mark_Wallace wrote:

    the name has become the generic type of product

    Mmmhhh... I beg to differ. To google means using Google to search the interweb, and no other SE, in this part of the world.

    Mark_Wallace wrote:

    I'll often Google with Yahoo

    [pedantic] *google, in that case [/pedantic]

    Mark_Wallace wrote:

    I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo

    :omg: Now this comes as a surprise : I like Yahoo for many things, but the last thing I'd ever want to use again is their SE ! I never use other SE than Google. Google is my SE. There are many like it, but this is mine. :) Well, I digress. Honestly, in the many attempts, I have never found any other SE give more accurate results than Google.

    ~RaGE();

    I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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    • M Mark_Wallace

      Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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      OriginalGriff
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      I Google with...Google. It works. And it gets better all the time. What really p*ss*s me off is when an application or extension installs it's own stupid search without asking...I had to look at a friend's mother's XP PC yesterday, and she was up to nine or ten spurious search engines :mad: (Why is she still using XP: because she hates Win8, which she has on her lappie... :laugh: )

      You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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      • M Mark_Wallace

        Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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        Lost User
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        You can only Google with Google, in the same way that only Hoover make Hoovers; Dyson make Dysons. Your comments about Yahoo do surprise me, I've never found it useful for anything.

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        • M Mark_Wallace

          Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          Asgard25
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          For most searches I'll use Google, but every now and again I'll use DuckDuckGo[^], for those few searches you don't need logged. ;)

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          • A Asgard25

            For most searches I'll use Google, but every now and again I'll use DuckDuckGo[^], for those few searches you don't need logged. ;)

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            Dalek Dave
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            Searches of Gentlemen's Special Interest websites you mean?

            --------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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            • M Mark_Wallace

              Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              Keith Barrow
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              Let me just bing the answer for you.[^]

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              The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

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              • A Asgard25

                For most searches I'll use Google, but every now and again I'll use DuckDuckGo[^], for those few searches you don't need logged. ;)

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                Corporal Agarn
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                I too use DuckDuckGo. I do not like Bing, but on occasion I will use Google.

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                  Mark_Wallace wrote:

                  the name has become the generic type of product

                  Mmmhhh... I beg to differ. To google means using Google to search the interweb, and no other SE, in this part of the world.

                  Mark_Wallace wrote:

                  I'll often Google with Yahoo

                  [pedantic] *google, in that case [/pedantic]

                  Mark_Wallace wrote:

                  I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo

                  :omg: Now this comes as a surprise : I like Yahoo for many things, but the last thing I'd ever want to use again is their SE ! I never use other SE than Google. Google is my SE. There are many like it, but this is mine. :) Well, I digress. Honestly, in the many attempts, I have never found any other SE give more accurate results than Google.

                  ~RaGE();

                  I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                  Slacker007
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                  :thumbsup:

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                  • M Mark_Wallace

                    Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    JimmyRopes
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                    Mark_Wallace wrote:

                    my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information.

                    Err,Google. :rolleyes:

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                    • C Corporal Agarn

                      I too use DuckDuckGo. I do not like Bing, but on occasion I will use Google.

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                      megaadam
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                      I will second that! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

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                      • M Mark_Wallace

                        Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                        pandu web dev
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                        Majority of the google results are SEO spammed, but still Google is best. Other search engines are no where with google. Google provide accurate search results, but filtering it is our duty.

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                        • D Dalek Dave

                          Searches of Gentlemen's Special Interest websites you mean?

                          --------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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                          Asgard25
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                          Yes of course, that is what I meant, nothing sinister lol

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                          • M Mark_Wallace

                            Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

                            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                            ZurdoDev
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                            Mark_Wallace wrote:

                            I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo

                            :wtf: I gave up on Yahoo around 2000 when they sucked terrible. Never been back.

                            There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                            • M Mark_Wallace

                              Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

                              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                              Tim Carmichael
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                              I guess that depends on which computer I'm using. Currently, my work laptop, so Bing is the default search engine. And for what I've been searching for lately, I've found what I wanted, so, it works. When at home, the default is Google, so Google is used. And yes, I understand and agree that 'Google' has become synonimous with searching the internset. It is much the same as asking for a facial tissue or Kleenex. A heinz 57 is a mutt or a type of condiment. Tim

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                              • M Mark_Wallace

                                Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

                                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                littleGreenDude
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                                I "Bing it". As a matter of fact, I set my chrome home page to bing... just out of spite :)

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                                  I "Bing it". As a matter of fact, I set my chrome home page to bing... just out of spite :)

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                                  megaadam
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                                  I never installed Chrome... just out of spite!

                                  Life is too shor

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                                    Mark_Wallace wrote:

                                    I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo

                                    :wtf: I gave up on Yahoo around 2000 when they sucked terrible. Never been back.

                                    There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                                    Rage
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                                    I second that. I am juste keeping my email there, and use it for their live-broadcast of soccer.

                                    ~RaGE();

                                    I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                      I Google with...Google. It works. And it gets better all the time. What really p*ss*s me off is when an application or extension installs it's own stupid search without asking...I had to look at a friend's mother's XP PC yesterday, and she was up to nine or ten spurious search engines :mad: (Why is she still using XP: because she hates Win8, which she has on her lappie... :laugh: )

                                      You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

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                                      RugbyLeague
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                                      "I had to look at a friend's mother's XP PC yesterday" I like how you say "had to look" as though there was no way out of it. We have all been there

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                                      • M Mark_Wallace

                                        Inspired by a comment I made in a thread below (about owning a Hoover made by Dyson), my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information. "Google" has become the de facto term for Internet searching, but, just like when my mother went out to buy an "Electrolux Hoover", the name has become the generic type of product, and not just the name of a company that makes one such product. e.g. I'll often Google with Yahoo, because, when I've tried search-engine-comparison sites, I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo -- but I still call it "Googling".

                                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                        Ravi Bhavnani
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                                        I use Google as my only search engine.  For financial info, I favor Yahoo Finance because I find its response snappier.  For news, I prefer Google News. Aside: I switched to Chrome (from IE) a couple of years back and now use it exclusively. /ravi

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                                        • R RugbyLeague

                                          "I had to look at a friend's mother's XP PC yesterday" I like how you say "had to look" as though there was no way out of it. We have all been there

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                                          OriginalGriff
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                                          Yeah - it's one of those things. If I don't look at it, Eryl will have a go at her mothers PC, and she knows very little. Or worse, her husband will have a go, and he thinks he does know something! :laugh: And then I'll have an even bigger problem to sort out, probably with him looking over my shoulder and "making helpful suggestions"... :sigh:

                                          You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

                                          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                                          "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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