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What do you "Google" with?

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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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              • L littleGreenDude

                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!

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                • Z ZurdoDev

                  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

                      My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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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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                        • 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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                          Espen Harlinn
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                          OriginalGriff wrote:

                          installs it's own stupid search

                          Java + Ask bundle[^] - as far as I know it's allways installed by accident ...

                          Espen Harlinn Chief Architect - Powel AS Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra

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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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                            PIEBALDconsult
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                            I always use Bing to perform a Web Search. I avoid that other word like the plague that it is.

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                            • R Rage

                              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.

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                              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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                              Mark_Wallace
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                              Rage wrote:

                              *google, in that case

                              This I like.

                              Rage wrote:

                              I like Yahoo for many things, but the last thing I'd ever want to use again is their SE !

                              That's what I tend to think, too, but when I try these anonymous trial tools[^], the Yahoo results are almost invariably the ones I choose as the best*. * There must be some way to get paid by Yahoo for that comment.

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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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                                RugbyLeague wrote:

                                "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

                                A mate of mine has got a "No, I will not fix your computer" T-shirt. So far I've offered him EUR 270, but he won't part with it.

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

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                                • L Lost User

                                  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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                                  Mark_Wallace
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                                  Are you sure you're British? Everyone calls vacuum cleaners "Hoovers" in Blighty.

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

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                                  • Z ZurdoDev

                                    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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                                    Mark_Wallace
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                                    I have a feeling that their web-site was designed by colour-blind devs working for the visually impaired, but most browsers have a "Search with" function, that allows you to select a search-engine provider without going to their site.

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

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                                    • T Tim Carmichael

                                      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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                                      Mark_Wallace
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                                      Tim Carmichael wrote:

                                      It is much the same as asking for a facial tissue or Kleenex.

                                      Good one. I oouldn't think of any other examples, earlier (and I couldn't be bothered to Google it).

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

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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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                                        Mark_Wallace
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                                        littleGreenDude wrote:

                                        I set my chrome home page to bing... just out of spite masochism

                                        Try to keep your comment as accurate as possible.

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

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