Which Internet search engine do you use?

[Puni/Void]

Which Internet search engine do you use and why?

[Stephen Coates]

I use Google almost exclusively. I will have to start using others occaisionally, as I was looking for a website which I visited a few years ago and again about 6 months ago but could not remember the address or find it on Google. The guy I was talking to on IRC at the time diid a quick search on Lycos and found it.

Back in the day I used to use quite a lot of search engines. I would look at Google, Ask Jeeves, Lycos etc. One good reason for not using Ask Jeeves any more is that they got rid of Jeeves. Ask on it's own is boring.

[FOL]

Google, finds everything I need, so no point in using others.

[TiredOfLife]

Used Yahoo years ago but Google finds a lot more these days.
Should try a few others I suppose.

[Tiago]

Google,

and for Portuguese websites works much better then our own national search engines.

[Submeg]

Meh google finds almost everything so I don't use anything else. Used to use Yahoo sometimes and a few others, but always Google now

[Demon Cleaner]

Google, finds everything I need, so no point in using others.Same for me.

[Sharingan]

www.booble.com :thumbs:

Actually, Google too. The term 'googling' has become part of our vocabulary - I don't think the founders of Google expected it to become quite so big.

[Teho]

I use Altavista. Only because I wanted to try something other than Google. I do use Google when Altavista fails to find what I search for, but then I don't find it in Google either. So couldn't really say which is actually better.

[Buleste]

When i first stated using the internet i'd use yahoo or ask.com and then i found google and as it finds most the stuff i look for (even some of the obscure stuff) i only ever use that.

[J T]

Google, finds everything I need, so no point in using others.Same for me.

Me too. Recently added the iGoogle thing for my home PC. Good to see the weather forcast and news snippets when I first fire up the interpipe-browsings.


www.booble.com :thumbs:

Actually, Google too. The term 'googling' has become part of our vocabulary - I don't think the founders of Google expected it to become quite so big.

Ha ha, I do like Gizoogle (http://www.gizoogle.com/) to 'gangsterize' pages :p

[TiredOfLife]

www.booble.com :thumbs:.


That site appears to have been hijacked.
It is now some sort of porn search engine would you believe.

Absolutely disgraceful.
Took me three hours to get off that site.

Mainly because I was having some problems typing.
No longer seem to be able to make my hands hit the correct keys.

[Submeg]

www.booble.com :thumbs:.


That site appears to have been hijacked.
It is now some sort of porn search engine would you believe.

Absolutely disgraceful.
Took me three hours to get off that site.

Mainly because I was having some problems typing.
No longer seem to be able to make my hands hit the correct keys.

Sure, you definately wanted to get off that page...

@Teho...

Altavista USED to be good. Now....it's average at best I find.

[Buleste]

Isn't it strange how nobody has mentioned MSN??

Microsoft. World Leaders in crap.

[burns flipper]

Google, what's the point in using anything else??

[woody.cool]

I always use Google - always have, always will. Nothing else comes close.

[J T]

I can't remember what I used before Google. I switched when I saw a guy at my work placement was using it - in around 2000 (I only first went on the internet properly when I started uni in 99).

Probably Yahoo or Ask Jeeves :no:

[woody.cool]

Ha ha, I do like Gizoogle (http://www.gizoogle.com/) to 'gangsterize' pages :p
Problem is ..... the site doesn't work. No matter what you search for or what URL you enter, you just get back a blank page !!!

[J T]

Ha ha, I do like Gizoogle (http://www.gizoogle.com/) to 'gangsterize' pages :p
Problem is ..... the site doesn't work. No matter what you search for or what URL you enter, you just get back a blank page !!!

Nuts! It's broken. This makes me very sad :(

I hope it isn't permanently busted. ALthough I haven't used it for a long time...

[v85rawdeal]

Search engine???

I just type random letters into the address box and hope for the best.

www.qwertyuiop.com (http://www.qwertyuiop.com) is REALLLLLLLLLLY boring!

[Harrison]

Mostly Google these days. I often just type key words directly into the address bar and it is set to search google. I say mostly because my favourite is astalavista ;)

When I first started using the internet back in 1996 I used Yahoo and Altavista. They were really the only two available at the time.

[Demon Cleaner]

I also used Astalavista a lot. I saw that it still exists, but can't reach it from here due to Websense.