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Post by Gnom on May 9, 2002 16:49:33 GMT -5
*whimper* Google is down! How's that possible? Google never goes down, it cannot go down! It's infallible! And-- I need it. Right now. I've such a trust in Google's abilities that I seldom ask a second opinion and have pretty much lost my touch in the rest of the engines... Before being Googlized, I used Lycos or Nothernlight, and those are still my second choices, but... What's your trusted search engine?
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Post by Aurian on May 9, 2002 17:35:53 GMT -5
AltaVista still woiks for me.
Google is ok too.
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Post by Peter_Pevensie on May 9, 2002 17:59:55 GMT -5
I'm a Googler...or is that Googlite? Or Googlonian?
Anyway...it was down[/i]? Definitely bizzare. I wonder if the world is ending or something?
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Post by Christina on May 10, 2002 6:29:34 GMT -5
Not heard of northernlight, but I use most of the rest of them.
Also Excite, Infoseek, Mirago (uk) Yell.
Even get different results sometimes.
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Post by Andorian_Incident on May 10, 2002 8:43:03 GMT -5
I tend to use Ask Jeeves most often because of the variety of different choices they give you after you do your search, in case it misunderstands you or you type one thing and then discover that one of the options it gives you is an even better way of describing what you want to find. I consider it to be the most intelligent search engine. On the rare occasions that Ask doesn't give me what I want, I'll go to either Google or Altavista.
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Post by Gnom on May 10, 2002 9:59:37 GMT -5
I'm a Googler...or is that Googlite? Or Googlonian? Anyway...it was down[/i]? Definitely bizzare. I wonder if the world is ending or something?[/quote] Definitely scary! But-- it's up again so the End of the World must have been postponed for now. They also have a gool Dali logoogle today...
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Post by StolenThunder on May 10, 2002 12:49:57 GMT -5
Google, always... It's just so far beyond the rest...
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Post by Romana on May 11, 2002 12:04:12 GMT -5
I used Google mostly anyway, but since I got Opera, I have the little google serch box sittin at the top of my browser window, so I use it all the time now. How lazy is that!? Plus I love their image search. Very useful.
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Post by Gnom on May 11, 2002 13:41:07 GMT -5
^ I have Google Toolbar in my browser... I very much dislike reading large masses of text out of the screen, the Highlight and Find functions are just excellent in finding what you're looking for fast and painlessly. The image search is great, not to mention the Google ex-Usenet Groups search thingy: if I ever have question in my mind, especially a computer tech related one, that's where I'm heading first. Besides useful info, some things that can be found there in the groups are right out of the pages of history, like a message from a nerd called Linus Torvalds asking if anyone is interested in trying an operating system he's been fiddling with...
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Post by Romana on May 11, 2002 13:56:40 GMT -5
That toolbar looks pretty useful, but I don't like IE
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Post by Elric3960 on May 12, 2002 15:42:13 GMT -5
The Resident Old Geezer still uses Yahoo. I tried Ask Jeeves once, but it was frustrating to me. I've never heard of the others. AOL has its Keyword function, but it's unreliable and panders too much to a select number of websites.
I guess the http://www._______.com formula still applies with the above search engines. I'm kinda new at this so please bear with me.
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Post by Santaman on May 14, 2002 5:20:56 GMT -5
I use Google most of the time, in rare cases Hotbot or Yahoo.
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Post by UltimateTrekker on May 14, 2002 8:11:27 GMT -5
Yahoo! Am I WRONG for doing that.
I usually don't use searc engines at all, but since I still use Yahoo for messanger and maps, I use it for searching. I've used google when need arises though.
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Post by StolenThunder on May 14, 2002 13:47:41 GMT -5
Yahoo! Am I WRONG for doing that. Yep. You are now technically a bad person...
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Post by UltimateTrekker on May 14, 2002 15:58:01 GMT -5
Well, TECHNICALLY I'm fairly good. Looking at yet another promo in the future (before the year is up)
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