Which is your favorite search engine

[Pusspa]

Since 1999, when only linux geeks knew about google, i have been using it! i havent seen any reason to change.

 

[vicnard12]

google!

 

[Win7User512]

Hard to believe Ask is still around.

 

[Corelogik]

Hehe, AltaVista is still around too,.. don't know that anyone uses it, but it's there.

 

[Lemur]

We have our first Yahoo user.!

 

[bigmck]

The guy above just mentioned AltaVista. Man I had completely forgotten about that. I used that in the 90's. My favorite when I first started computing in the 90's was Web Crawler. I think I liked it because of the picture of the Spider and his Web. I just went to Web Crawler for the first time in 15 years and the picture of the Spider is gone. I could never use that search engine now. :>) == By the way, in answer to your poll Google...............

 

[Lemur]

So who remembers Archie, Veronica and Jughead?

 

[logicearth]

Google is better than Bing which is better than Yahoo which is better than ASK....

How is Google better?
The results between the two are comparable. http://www.bing-vs-google.com/

 

[Hopalong X]

Tried Bing didn't like it at all.

Google by default as others are worse. Google isn't best just more tolerable.
Turn off/delete 90% of the junk it wants to run.

Getting almost as bad as Adobe Reader or HP Imaging software.
Download everything but the kitchen sink.

 

[bobtran]

I use Google for the simple reason that I get better results when searching for solutions to software issues, Bing tends to trim the answers off of forum posts.

Search engines are like web-browsers, every ones choice is the best and they will tell you why you should be using it instead of what you prefer to use.

 

[bobtran]

So who remembers Archie, Veronica and Jughead?

are we giving a hint to our age......Sad that I DO remember them. They must be retired by now, right?

 

[Dj SharK]

Google got my vote. More like a habit really. Too comfortable with it and love it ever since.

 

[bh4mr1ck]

Been using Google forever, and still prefer it, but I do use Bing every now and then.

 

[smarteyeball]

Bing with an ever decreasing use of the google monster. (it's a hard habit to break)

 

[davehc]

I am the worlds worst typist!
I like the clean look of Bing, but I have found it doesn't seem quite as smart as Google. A small spelling mistake and it often cannot return any results, Google always has a good guess at what I meant to type.

 

[gregrocker]

The only feature on any other engine that will get me to leave the embrace of all of the world's knowledge in Google, is Fare Predict on Bing Travel - it never fails to tell me correctly whether to buy now or wait on buying a ticket.

 

[bigmck]

So who remembers Archie, Veronica and Jughead?

Oh I remember them and they still come up in conversation in our household. I tell my girlfriend that if she doesn't treat me right, I am going over to Betty and Veronica's place. They are my "secret" girlfriends.

 

[periboob]

So who remembers Archie, Veronica and Jughead?

are we giving a hint to our age......Sad that I DO remember them. They must be retired by now, right?

Yep, sadly I remember them also. But they were not quite the same didnt these systems predate WWW and search only a few databases? I guess there were only a few databases in those days.

But today, who would use only one search engine? I use Google as default, mostly out of habit, and because it finds what I thought I was asking rather than what I actually asked. But I have plenty more search choices on the context menu ready to roll, and more on a bookmarklets folder.

 

[gregrocker]

I love the rightclick Accelerators on IE8. Any text I come across I can highlight to quickly search, define, translate, map, etc. It gets me what I need without typing anything or even opening a new page myself.