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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".
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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
 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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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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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 
(Why is she still using XP: because she hates Win8, which she has on her lappie...  )
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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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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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!
And then I'll have an even bigger problem to sort out, probably with him looking over my shoulder and "making helpful suggestions"... 
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 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.
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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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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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Are you sure you're British?
Everyone calls vacuum cleaners "Hoovers" in Blighty.
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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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Searches of Gentlemen's Special Interest websites you mean?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Yes of course, that is what I meant, nothing sinister lol
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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: my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information.
Err,Google. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
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I'm on-line therefore I am.
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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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Mark_Wallace wrote: I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo
 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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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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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.
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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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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).
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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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