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If so, what do you use and why?
I couldn't get to Google at work this morning so had to try a couple of others. Could only think of Yahoo and Excite, and they were rubbish.
Is there ever a reason not to use Google?
I've never found another search engine that comes close to it. Maye that's just because I'm so used to it.
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There are reasons you may wish to:
https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html#s1
It may not bother you.
Bing for OS maps.
Bing all the time for me.
Bing isn't too bad but google seems to be the best. Google has gone a bit downhill recently by trying to be too clever (eg searching for words like the one you want rather than the actual word) but I still use it all the time.
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ah, no, hang on.
Oh, and not quite a search engine (they call it a "Knowledge engine"), but similar, and I use it a lot..
There are other search engines? 😯
Been using Google almost since they started (so circa 1996) and can't see it changing.
Just started using http://duckduckgo.com/ and https://ixquick.com/ both are Privacy friendly and both allow you to set the UK for relevant results.
I used to use Dogpile a lot back in pre-Google days. It was an aggregator for all the other engines (Lycos, Alta Vista, Yahoo et al) and worked well.
Last I looked it was Just Another Search Engine, which is a bit sad. Dunno if it's still going even.
Google is getting bad, Bing is bringing up better results most times. 😯
+1 for DuckDuckGo
I got fed up with google. I like to search something, then refine my results by searching again based on what I see from the original search. This isn't possible with google's auto-fill-search thing. You can turn it off, but I use multiple computers and don't want to have to sign in to google whenever I want to search.
Fed up with my results being tailored to what it thinks I want them to be, when I use the internet to learn more than to fester my original viewpoints.
Fed up with it assuming I want things like 'social search' involving social network posts from people I don't know in my searches, enabling them by default.
Fed up with it telling me to use Chrome when I use Firefox.
Dissapointed that hundreds of talented software engineers were duped into working for the world's largest advertising broker.
The company seems determined to be the one-stop-place for everything on the internet. See also: Early 00's AOL
I could go on and on...
I just deleted my search history and paused the recording from Google.. Seems a sensible thing to do as it'll preserve it from bias.