Which search Engine do you use daily?

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Quasmo taught me you can customize the search for any website, it's pretty freakin' awesome. Unfortunately I only use it for Google out of habit.

Same with firefox. I've got g for google, gg for google + I'm feeling lucky, w for wikipedia, a variety of different dictionaries, online man pages, imdb, and rfcs. It's way better than any other method of searching, the only thing that bugs me is that firefox doesn't keep history of the shortcuts so you can't do autocompletes.

How do you do that in FireFox? I still :heart: Opera though.

 

[compman25]

Google

 

[SmoochyTX]

Google

 

[LtPage1]

I used to use Yahoo! when it was my homepage, but Google homepage+Gmail is just 10 million times better. I've been exclusively using Google for a couple of years now.

 

[Leros]

Google has been wonderful. I always wonder how sites like ask.com exist. I mean, people either are going to use Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft search.

 

[jpeyton]

Hahahaha, this poll is utter domination.

Yahoo! board members should've looked at it before spurning Microsoft's overly generous offer.

 

[0roo0roo]

ctrl-e gets me to the firefox quick search..and its always set to google.
google has to fail pretty hard before i'll bother using another search engine. not an event that happens often.

used to use excite and yahoo in random order before google came out.
sometimes alta vista..

microsoft trying to buy yahoo is missing the point. google didn't become awesome by being a behemoth company. they were awesome first then became a behemoth company

i do use yahoo for some mail/boxoffice info type stuff.

 

[amdforever2]

Yahoo today, yahoo tomorrow, yahoo forever!

 

[novasatori]

first: http://altavista.digital.com

AltaVista was created by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory who were trying to provide services to make finding files on the public network easier. ... AltaVista was publicly launched as an internet search engine on 15 December 1995 at http://altavista.digital.com.[3][4]

WP: AltaVista

second and last: ze Googles

 

[Locut0s]

Long long time ago back when the internet was young I used to use Alta Vista, Lycos, and occasionally Yahoo or Hotbot. Long gone are those days.

 

[sswingle]

Used to use yahoo, for the last year have used google for everything. Love the image search.

 

[meltdown75]

lmao, didn't expect the results to be this lopsided! Go Google!

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Quasmo taught me you can customize the search for any website, it's pretty freakin' awesome. Unfortunately I only use it for Google out of habit.

Same with firefox. I've got g for google, gg for google + I'm feeling lucky, w for wikipedia, a variety of different dictionaries, online man pages, imdb, and rfcs. It's way better than any other method of searching, the only thing that bugs me is that firefox doesn't keep history of the shortcuts so you can't do autocompletes.

How do you do that in FireFox? I still :heart: Opera though.

All bookmarks have a 'Keyword' field, which is where you put the 'g' or whatever other shortcut. The, for the url, you take a real one and substitute the variable part with '%s'. So, for example, another one of my favourites is gm -> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s

I'm thinking I should make 'y' equivalents of all my 'g' ones to try yahoo out a bit and do my part to resist the monopoly

 

[tfinch2]

GOOG

 

[secretanchitman]

google. simple, fast, easy, to the point. no bothersome ads like windows live and yahoo's search just plain SUCKS.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Quasmo taught me you can customize the search for any website, it's pretty freakin' awesome. Unfortunately I only use it for Google out of habit.

Same with firefox. I've got g for google, gg for google + I'm feeling lucky, w for wikipedia, a variety of different dictionaries, online man pages, imdb, and rfcs. It's way better than any other method of searching, the only thing that bugs me is that firefox doesn't keep history of the shortcuts so you can't do autocompletes.

How do you do that in FireFox? I still :heart: Opera though.

All bookmarks have a 'Keyword' field, which is where you put the 'g' or whatever other shortcut. The, for the url, you take a real one and substitute the variable part with '%s'. So, for example, another one of my favourites is gm -> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s

I'm thinking I should make 'y' equivalents of all my 'g' ones to try yahoo out a bit and do my part to resist the monopoly

Thanks!

 

[akshatp]

Google owns *

What a one sided poll.

microsoft gets no love lol

 

[kamper]

I find it odd how skewed this poll is. I mean, obviously google is dominant in the real world, but not that dominant. Most articles I've read suggest somewhere in the 50%-60% range. Why is it that ordinary people (assuming we're mostly geeks here) use alternatives more than us? You'd think the technical crowd would venture farther from the status quo than the rest.

I can hardly believe that MS has 0 votes, usually somebody votes for the underdog in these things just to be contrarian I tried it a while ago and even though the interface was ugly, the results weren't that bad.

 

[Pabster]

Google runs around 60% of the market on search.

Here on AT, clearly, they are unanimous.

 

[JS80]

Google = Internet

 

[BW86]

google

 

[Twista]

Yahoo