Google my bing, you yahoo. : Othor Games

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:43 pm

I know this is a bit random. Today, for the first time in years, I ended up on Yahoo! I even used its search function. I didn't really like it. Does anyone use search engines besides Google? What are they and why?

I use some deep net search engines for academic articles, but otherwise it's always Google.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:03 pm

Nah I only use Google. I think it must have been like 7-8 years ago I used any other search engines (norwegian ones etc). Google serves me well.

» Sun May 13, 2012 11:44 pm

I use Bing all the time. I like the pictures on the Bing homepage and it looks a lot better to me.

Spoiler

Google seems pretty shady to me but that's something else entirely.

» Mon May 14, 2012 1:39 am

My only problem with Google is that it's highly dangerous to search for My Little Pony pictures..

And I suppose that's the case for most stuff when searching for images, even on nun-mode.

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:04 pm

I use Google. It's quick and simple.

» Sun May 13, 2012 10:35 pm

I use bing for 'me' time, and google for every day use

:stare:

» Sun May 13, 2012 3:20 pm

I use bing, I don't really know why just a personal preference.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:22 pm

I use the Firefox search bar, filled with different search engines.

» Sun May 13, 2012 1:55 pm

Only use Google these days. Bing seems like it's Microsoft trying to weaken Google. Google Groups, Google Code, Google Docs, Google Mail, and their flavor of the month services just give the company so much depth. I'll be damned if Microsoft takes that away from me.

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:15 am

Google is a badddd badddddddd company... I still use their search, they're just hungry

» Mon May 14, 2012 4:21 am

I used Yahoo when Google didn't even exist.
Then I used Google almost exclusively for a long time.
The past year or two I've started using Bing about 50% of the time, because I dislike the direction Google is going in.

I prefer my search engines to feel more like search engines, not multi-media social web portals that aggressively push/market their other services on me. Bing isn't great either, but they (so far) annoy me a bit less, at the moment, than Google. At some point I figure I'm going to hate all the "search engines" and using them will become an occasionally necessary evil.

*get off my lawn*

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:26 pm

i used to use ask jeeves than they fired the mascot and renamed it ask.com ...

» Sun May 13, 2012 10:43 pm

Ah yes. I still remember being forced by my Elementary School teachers to use Ask Jeeves instead of Google. They also demanded that we typed in all our inquiries in the form of a question, because the people on the other side wouldn't know what you were searching for if you didn't.

They tried to give me a detention for explaining how a search engine actually worked, with web spiders and whatnot.

» Mon May 14, 2012 4:44 am

DuckDuckGo is pretty nice.

» Sun May 13, 2012 11:05 pm

i used to use ask jeeves than they fired the mascot and renamed it ask.com ...

I loved Jeeves. He was a brilliant mascot. Stupid, stupid!

Ah yes. I still remember being forced my my Elementary School teachers to use Ask Jeeves instead of Google. They also demanded that we typed in all our inquiries in the form of a question, because the people on the other side wouldn't know what you were searching for if you didn't.

They tried to give me a detention for explaining how a search engine actually worked, with web spiders and whatnot.

Spoiler

Google seems pretty shady to me but that's something else entirely.

I agree, to a degree. That's part of the reason for my asking.

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:43 am

My only problem with Google is that it's highly dangerous to search for My Little Pony pictures..

And I suppose that's the case for most stuff when searching for images, even on nun-mode.

I just googled MLP pictures to see what would happen. All the girly pink horselike stuff was somewhat disturbing, but I saw nothing that should dishearten a brony.

» Sun May 13, 2012 1:48 pm

I just googled MLP pictures to see what would happen. All the girly pink horselike stuff was somewhat disturbing, but I saw nothing that should dishearten a brony.

There are stuff out there alright! I usually don't search for just "My Little Pony" or anything, it's usually more concrete. Strange/sick/bad images are a very common sight on Google, trust me.

» Mon May 14, 2012 2:29 am

Ah yes. I still remember being forced my my Elementary School teachers to use Ask Jeeves instead of Google. They also demanded that we typed in all our inquiries in the form of a question, because the people on the other side wouldn't know what you were searching for if you didn't.

They tried to give me a detention for explaining how a search engine actually worked, with web spiders and whatnot.

I remember those days...

MOAR ON TOPIC: there is an xkcd picture that i believes represents where google stands to the internet, but I cannot find it to save my life. somebody help me out?
I use google. Their algorithms are far more complex and produce more accurate results than any other search engine I have seen.

There are stuff out there alright! I usually don't search for just "My Little Pony" or anything, it's usually more concrete. Strange/sick/bad images are a very common sight on Google, trust me.

why is your safesearch off?
:biggrin:

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:46 pm

why is your safesearch off?
:biggrin:

I said it earlier, its on nun-mode!

» Mon May 14, 2012 3:41 am

In school, I use bing to get to google.

» Sun May 13, 2012 10:07 pm

In school, I use bing to get to google.

So do I, Google secretly rules the world so I use that.

» Sun May 13, 2012 10:41 pm

DuckDuckGo is pretty nice.

Yeah, I use a combo of https://duckduckgo.com/ and Google. I'd like to use DDG more than I currently tend to, but habits die hard :shrug:

. And sometimes I switch engines when I'm having trouble finding what I'm after.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:56 pm

Anybody remember Metacrawler? I used to use it. But now I use Google.

Apparently Metacrawler is still around too.

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:46 pm

DuckDuckGo is pretty nice.

Yeah, I use a combo of https://duckduckgo.com/ ...

I've heard good things about it. I'll try it out.

Anybody remember Metacrawler? I used to use it.

Ah, yes. A long, long time ago. 15 years or so...

» Sun May 13, 2012 1:53 pm

Google, all day long. I'm not fussed if they want to rule the world. I just dislike Bing, and none of the others are really on par with Google.

Not to mention my email account is with Google, as are a lot of other things that they provide features for.