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Does anyone not use Google?

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edited October 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Looking at the Ask Jeeves bot, and wondering: do people still use search engines other than Google?
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  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    YAHOO!!
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  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    Nope
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  • adam42381adam42381 Kernersville, NC Posts: 2,515
    Google is my homepage because I always seem to think of something I need to search for. I haven't used anything but Google in years (other than trying out Bing which is nice but I'm trained to automatically go to Google). I noticed that one of my friends always uses Yahoo for searches and it just seems strange to me.
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  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    Does anyone have the Google thingy that you install where you can be working in another program and then double click the CTRL key and a little google search box pops up on your screen and then it automatically opens a browser for you? I love it.....the less I use my mouse the better! 8-)
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  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    I pretty much love everything Google. It's been my homepage since about 2001. I've had Gmail since it's inception. And, I have been on Chrome now for a couple weeks and it has quickly become my favorite and default browser, after using Firefox for several years.

    Google is where it's at.
  • Indian SummerIndian Summer Posts: 2,296
    cantkeepmehere wrote:
    YAHOO!!


    I'm a Yahooer for life. I don't know that i've ever googled.
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    cantkeepmehere wrote:
    YAHOO!!

    Yeah, Yahoo is my homepage, and I've used Yahoo mail for probably 10 years and use Yahoo calender for everything.

    I tried the switch to Google, and I like Yahoo better... I'm not anti-Google, but I just prefer Yahoo.
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    i remember like 10 or 12 years ago when i would search on yahoo, at the top of the results it would say something like Ksearch results by altavista". then one day it started saying "search results by google.com". out of curiosity i wnt to that website and liked the simplicity of it.... and have been there since. i still dont see much of a difference on bing.com. does anyone else?
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    i used Lycos back in the day. just cause i liked the dog in the ads :D
    >


    now its google all the way.
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  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    aNiMaL wrote:
    I pretty much love everything Google. It's been my homepage since about 2001. I've had Gmail since it's inception. And, I have been on Chrome now for a couple weeks and it has quickly become my favorite and default browser, after using Firefox for several years.

    Google is where it's at.
    same here...I remember when you needed invites for gmail
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  • rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    my e-mail is yahoo, so i am always yahoo'ing. never google.
  • mrveddersonmrvedderson Posts: 784
    Google gets credit for my intelligence
  • embraceembrace Posts: 849
    Blackle not Google ;)

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  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Google is my home page, and I have a massive amount of tabs on it, mostly news tabs, including Pearl Jam News, and I also have some fun stuff like Colbert Report videos and Calvin & Hobbes comics. And of course, the weather. It's convienent as hell, and I love the backgrounds you can choose - I tend go with some kind of outer space theme, because that's where my mind is anyway. I also use gmail, which beats out any other email system I've seen. I just got Chrome, but I'm still using Firefox for now because it seems to work faster.
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    embrace wrote:
    Blackle not Google ;)

    http://www.blackle.com/

    what the hell ? :o me likey ! :D
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  • Drowned OutDrowned Out Posts: 6,056
    Scroogle!
    http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroogle

    The home page updates frequently with info about why google is bad, while still giving you google results....with no ads.
  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    How many millions of dollars do you think Microsoft is spending on advertising Bing?

    Have you EVER seen one commercial for Google? Me neither. Google is more organic and natural if you will in the way it grew and gained the public's trust.

    Google really can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. To me they have proven themselves as an incredibly trustworthy company.

    It was only Google who put up a fight to the Bush administration when they wanted all US internet search companies to hand over their search records. Yahoo, Ask, and whatever Microsoft was calling their search engine at the time just bent right over for the government. It was only Google to say "ummm, why do you need this?" And "Ummm, no you cannot have all of that." Google rocks!
  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    I really like Google and have gmail, but google has controversy too. Like the way they censor search results for China.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4645596.stm
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  • stargirl69stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Always been google .. it's my email account and my homepage
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  • Drowned OutDrowned Out Posts: 6,056
    aNiMaL wrote:
    How many millions of dollars do you think Microsoft is spending on advertising Bing?

    Have you EVER seen one commercial for Google? Me neither. Google is more organic and natural if you will in the way it grew and gained the public's trust.

    Google really can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. To me they have proven themselves as an incredibly trustworthy company.

    It was only Google who put up a fight to the Bush administration when they wanted all US internet search companies to hand over their search records. Yahoo, Ask, and whatever Microsoft was calling their search engine at the time just bent right over for the government. It was only Google to say "ummm, why do you need this?" And "Ummm, no you cannot have all of that." Google rocks!
    http://www.google-watch.org/
    Google is far from innocent, esp when it comes to privacy.
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    google for all exept mail in yahoo
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    i've used yahoo since leaving aol like 12 years ago...but a few years back i started using google for web searches...although i haven't done a comparison in quite a while, but when i was switching i would search both yahoo and google and the results were similar but over time google's results were better

    i've been using yahoo mail for too long to switch now :D
  • t0mMyet0mMye Posts: 821
    I strictly use Google for searches and I have an email there as my junk mail, contest sign up type email.

    All my offical stuff I use Yahoo.
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  • so-much-clearerso-much-clearer Posts: 303
    I'm sure plenty of people use Bing because they probably never changed their homepage from MSN. And then there are places like my mom's work, which doesn't let employees change their default search engine off Bing.

    I'm basically married to Google. Chrome user, Google search, maps, news, videos, and of course Gmail...
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  • Spot In The SkySpot In The Sky Posts: 1,175
    No one has mentioned the G1 phone in regards to google things...i have it- i love it.
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  • Heatherj43Heatherj43 Posts: 1,254
    cantkeepmehere wrote:
    YAHOO!!
    I use Yahoo also. I have tried to use google to find something and I couldn't find what I wanted, but always find it thru yahoo.
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  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    So Much Clearer wrote:
    I'm sure plenty of people use Bing because they probably never changed their homepage from MSN. And then there are places like my mom's work, which doesn't let employees change their default search engine off Bing.

    I'm basically married to Google. Chrome user, Google search, maps, news, videos, and of course Gmail...


    my old homepage at home was on MSN, and i STILL used google. i love google. now i have a mac and idk what i want to use as a homepage, nor what i will use as my main browser, hahaha.

    at work, IE is our default and thus bing is our default. however, i still at times choose to use google if i think of it. either way tho, i have found good results with both, so no complaints...


    what is chrome?
    i've seen mention of it earlier, but no idea what it is....
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  • Spot In The SkySpot In The Sky Posts: 1,175
    decides2dream wrote:
    So Much Clearer wrote:
    I'm sure plenty of people use Bing because they probably never changed their homepage from MSN. And then there are places like my mom's work, which doesn't let employees change their default search engine off Bing.

    I'm basically married to Google. Chrome user, Google search, maps, news, videos, and of course Gmail...


    my old homepage at home was on MSN, and i STILL used google. i love google. now i have a mac and idk what i want to use as a homepage, nor what i will use as my main browser, hahaha.

    at work, IE is our default and thus bing is our default. however, i still at times choose to use google if i think of it. either way tho, i have found good results with both, so no complaints...


    what is chrome?
    i've seen mention of it earlier, but no idea what it is....

    Its the google browser, super light weight and great features.
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  • LizardjamLizardjam Posts: 1,121
    adam42381 wrote:
    Google is my homepage because I always seem to think of something I need to search for. I haven't used anything but Google in years (other than trying out Bing which is nice but I'm trained to automatically go to Google). I noticed that one of my friends always uses Yahoo for searches and it just seems strange to me.

    This could be my description as well. I know someone that uses yahoo exclusively and when he can't find something I use google and we find it! So, no, I wouldn't use anything and I like the customized google homepage very much!
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  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Nope, using google is now second nature.
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