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Posted on 09-25-09 04:00:04 PM (last edited by Terra at 09-25-09 01:01 PM) Link | Quote

The verb "to Google" has entered the common vernacular, but do very many Julers use anything else?

I often alternate between Google and Yahoo!, although I wish the latter would save my results-per-page preferences, as I tend to prefer a few huge pages rather than many tiny ones

However, for gaming Web sites, I prefer dmoz.org I've found that Google tends to return almost nothing but large general gaming Web sites when I'm looking for a specific game, and I'm usually looking for the small '90s-style independent Web sites Like I search for (say) "Age of Empires" and get the official Web site, some very large fan sites, and a lot of IGN, GameSpy, MobyGames, etc. Dmoz.org is a human-edited directory that can be searched, so it doesn't have nearly as many Web sites, but it has a lot of the independent ones I want

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Posted on 09-25-09 04:09:18 PM Link | Quote
I only use google. Is that bad?

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Posted on 09-25-09 04:10:03 PM Link | Quote


Nah, it's not bad, I was just curious It's a free Internet, use any search engine you want

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Posted on 09-25-09 04:10:51 PM Link | Quote
I didn't mean it that way...it's just I don't like any other search engine but google. Strange.

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Posted on 09-25-09 04:23:47 PM Link | Quote
Similar case over here, other search engines (Bing for one, but especially the crap ones that only exist on official-looking URLs) don't appeal as much to me. And I did try to use Bing a few times, it's just not what I'm looking for.

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Posted on 09-25-09 04:25:45 PM Link | Quote
Hmm, the principal at our High School tells us to "bing" stuff rather than the rest of the staff that tells us to "google" stuff. xD
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Posted on 09-25-09 05:20:01 PM Link | Quote
I use google. To lazy to see if there is any better ones. This one works just fine so, meh.

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Posted on 09-25-09 05:25:21 PM (last edited by Darkdata at 09-25-09 02:26 PM) Link | Quote
I don't want to learn all the new advanced commands for other search engines. So, I'll stick with google.

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Posted on 09-25-09 06:29:48 PM Link | Quote
I used to use Yahoo for searching when I was... like, 10. Now it's all Google.

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Posted on 09-25-09 06:35:26 PM Link | Quote
I don't know any search engines other than Google.

Really, it's so dominant I forgot all my other options.

Though I have an old "Internet 101" from 1997 where IE 3.0 was just released and Google didn't exist yet. Ah the good times.

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I use Yahoo, but Microsoft's f#$king that up, so perhaps I'll have to use Altavista. For a while there I was hoping they were gonna just leave it alone and change the behind the scenes part.

I also hate Bing.

I just want my results, and I don't want to profit Google with them.

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Posted on 09-25-09 06:45:38 PM Link | Quote
I use Google Search, Google News, GMail, and sometimes, albeit less commonly, Google Blogs (blogger)

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Posted on 09-25-09 06:59:28 PM Link | Quote
I've used Yahoo, Altavista and a few others ... about 10 years ago, before finding Google

I haven't really looked elsewhere since then, or even tried Bing, since Google still usually works fine

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Posted on 09-25-09 07:12:40 PM (last edited by Terra at 09-25-09 04:12 PM) Link | Quote

Yeah, I remember when Yahoo! and AltaVista were some of the biggest search engines Some of them would use an implicit OR in searches of multiple words, which was annoying because if you typed, say, "San Francisco" (without the quotes) you'd get Web sites with just "San" or just "Francisco".

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Posted on 09-25-09 07:24:03 PM Link | Quote
Counting the past 6 or so years, I can count the number of times I've used search engines other than Google on one hand.

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Posted on 09-26-09 05:19:24 AM Link | Quote
Yeah, I'm a google guy.
I honestly can't remember ever using anything else.
Having it at the top of my browser counts for a lot of that as well though.

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Posted on 09-26-09 05:19:33 AM Link | Quote
At least a few years ago you had choices, although Yahoo and Altavista were usually the best ones.

Then Google... took over. :\

(And at least it's nice to not have to check 4-5 different search engines while trying to find something.)

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Posted on 09-26-09 05:27:48 AM (last edited by Drag at 09-26-09 02:28 AM) Link | Quote
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I started with Yahoo (and sometimes hotbot), but eventually moved onto Google. I don't know when this happened, but at some point, I started getting into the habit of putting my search terms in quotes. It usually helps center the results around what I actually want.

Also, almost everyone in high school would use ask.com, which was kinda amusing. I imagine these people all grew up to be the students here on campus that use IE to check facebook and myspace, even though the default browser on all of the campus computers (classrooms, computer labs, etc) is firefox.

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Posted on 09-26-09 05:41:15 AM (last edited by Juliet at 09-26-09 02:46 AM) Link | Quote

I use Yahoo and Google.

But google is better for me.

EDIT: On second thought, they're almost just the same... Except that google shows the page using your country's local language, which i hate. I dunno... I just dont like reading Filipino text, and i prefer english.

But google is better if we'll talk about searching...

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