What search engine you usually use ?
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Aramazd
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AltaVista
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Sharwood
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Should probably be a poll. I was using Google before it was famous.
What this kid said.
QuoVadisNation
keeping your angel alive
Google google. Google google gmail google.
I actually kind of like Altavista's image search a little better than Google's in some ways. But I'm too lazy to type anything other than Google into my URL bar anyway.AltaVista
Genocidicbunny
Bug squasher
Google! I've been using it since I heard about it in 2000, back when it was still a fairly...crappy search engine.
Plus Brin is an indirect acquaintance. (My father and a friend at one point helped one of the first engineers for google, so they met Brin once)
Plus Brin is an indirect acquaintance. (My father and a friend at one point helped one of the first engineers for google, so they met Brin once)
Almost exclusively Google (exclusively enough to use it as a home page). My only complaint is its image search that sends you to the page the picture is from instead of directly to full sized image (especially annoying when looking for porn).
aimeeandbeatles
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I've used Google as long as I remember. I did use some before I found Google, but I can't remember them.
Abaddon
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Google. because thats what i am used to
Fetus4188
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Google via Firefox's search bar thingy. I also have Amazon, Wikipedia, IMDb, Webster, and YouTube in there, but those are single site searches, so I don't think they count. I use something other than google for web search maybe 1-2 a year if I have some specific need, usually trying to find a file.
Yahoo! was the web search engine before Google, and Yahoo! was powered by Altavista, which was the web search engine before, IIRC.
Please feel free to disagree.
GoodGame
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Google, because I'm a mindless noob.
Going way back, used to use Yahoo (cause it was first), then AltaVista (because it pioneered some kind of search efficiency, IIRC), then Ask Jeeves (because I loved the search syntax), and then finally peer pressure switched me on to Google about 4 or 5 years ago. Amusingly, wikipedia is usually number 1, behind a *.com for any search ( I wonder if this is a Google-plot).
Going way back, used to use Yahoo (cause it was first), then AltaVista (because it pioneered some kind of search efficiency, IIRC), then Ask Jeeves (because I loved the search syntax), and then finally peer pressure switched me on to Google about 4 or 5 years ago. Amusingly, wikipedia is usually number 1, behind a *.com for any search ( I wonder if this is a Google-plot).
Perhaps it was. I always found that Altavista was more complete for some reason. Yahoo! always seemed more like a big list of favourites to me rather than a full search engine.
Before that there was Archie (even before the web).
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Almost always Google. It seems to give me the results I want earlier in the results a higher percentage of the time. Every so often I try MSN or (more rarely) Yahoo to see if they've improved, and am almost always disappointed.
If Google isn't doing the job (a rare occurence), I'll see if AltaVista or AskJeeves has any better luck (and on even rarer occasion they have). IIRC I've been using mostly Google since about 2000 (though I didn't use the Net very much until 2006), and the rare times I used the Internet before that either AltaVista or AskJeeves. I was pleased to recently see that Jeeves had returned to AskJeeves - it kind of lost its unique flavor after Jeeves left a few years back.
Images I default to Google Images (although a Google web search and then visiting sites is more effective at times), and maps either Google Maps (probably more often) or Microsoft's Live Maps. Also have a few other default search engines such as YouTube and Wikipedia, but those aren't really general-purpose. And now I've added the CFC custom search, which is of course powered by Google.
If Google isn't doing the job (a rare occurence), I'll see if AltaVista or AskJeeves has any better luck (and on even rarer occasion they have). IIRC I've been using mostly Google since about 2000 (though I didn't use the Net very much until 2006), and the rare times I used the Internet before that either AltaVista or AskJeeves. I was pleased to recently see that Jeeves had returned to AskJeeves - it kind of lost its unique flavor after Jeeves left a few years back.
Images I default to Google Images (although a Google web search and then visiting sites is more effective at times), and maps either Google Maps (probably more often) or Microsoft's Live Maps. Also have a few other default search engines such as YouTube and Wikipedia, but those aren't really general-purpose. And now I've added the CFC custom search, which is of course powered by Google.
Maniacal
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Google for a long time. I don't know why so many websites have their own search engine or want you to install their own useless toolbar with it's own search engine...
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Google. For research purposes I use Google Scholar, nice and simple. (Though if anyone knows if it's possible to search within results, that'd be great!) Most of google's other apps have decent alternatives, so I tend to stay clear of them, because otherwise google "will know to much". I also make sure google leaves no cookies at my PC, but they probably track my IPs, so it wouldn't really matter. I'm not really concerned that they'll use info on me for "evil", they'll only want to show me useful ads, but I try to make sure I don't put too much of my information in one place. Except if that place is my mother of course! 
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