Which search engine do you use

Freefaller said:
I'm frighteningly entrenched in the Google ecosystem that I'd struggle to move out of it.
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This. However, I can't see any reason to bother using anything else. Everything works seamlessly in unison, is easy to navigate and doesn't cause me any problems.

The fact that Google are being pulled up on the fact that they're recommending use of their own products is absurd.
 
90% of the time I use Google, other 10% of searches I'll run through Bing just to see what comes up differently to make sure Im not missing anything.
 
I want to use DuckDuckGo but am to entrenched in Google and don't like how any other search engine displays their results.
 
I guess it might depend on what your searching for a bit - but other than the ad bits at the top and sometimes the first 1-3 entries I've never seen Google specifically favour their own results to that great an extent - I've never had to go 2-3 pages deep so far.
 
80% bing, 20% google.
Bing gives better results most of the time.
However news search and calculations/conversions google is far better at.
 
Bunka said:
This. However, I can't see any reason to bother using anything else. Everything works seamlessly in unison, is easy to navigate and doesn't cause me any problems.

The fact that Google are being pulled up on the fact that they're recommending use of their own products is absurd.
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It's incredibly absurd!

Google for me.
 
I use google here, but that's because 99% of the time it gets me what I wanted. ABP here, so I don't even need to worry about the shopping ads.
 
Bunka said:
Always google. Couldn't give a **** that they push their own shopping links etc. it's actually useful rather than a hindrance.
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It's called targeted marketing, which is indeed useful. Those who opt out of targeted ads will get generic ones that aren't useful.
 
Diddums said:
Man, I remember the days when the internet was new and we had to use things like "Altavista" and "Webcrawler".

In those days, you needed to know how to search for things because the algorithms that existed were rubbish compared to today's mind reading stuff. Spent hours and hours looking for a nipple and finally we'd find one, get all excited at watching it form on our 15" CRTs pixel by pixel as the model sang it's little alien soundtrack song thingy.


Then someone would call the house phone.
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I remember the days when the internet was only a couple of decades old and the only search engine was your notebook in which you wrote IP addresses and descriptions. There were no pixels, since a VT100 terminal only displayed text (either green or amber, depending on the monitor). There was still porn. Porno stories and ASCII "art". It's possible to create a picture from only text, if you make it big enough and view it from far enough away.

I also remember the first search engine - Archie. Which was amazing not because it was particularly good but because was a thing that had not existed before. Not only could you access things on other computers even in other countries, now you could search them (indirectly) for something. Amazing! All at 300 bits per second in both directions or 1200 downstream if you were willing to drop to 75 upstream.
 
I use DuckDuckGo. A silly name, but it's an effective search engine that doesn't treat you as a resource to be farmed for data.
 
Tad scary how much of the market they have

On the odd occasion I'm on a work default laptop (bing) everything is just 'messy'

The font,
The layout
The results are often way off

Its like reading code, all the results look like strings of text, no clear separation between results.... Or maybe Google have subliminally indoctrinated me
 
I use Google for the most, as the interface is nice, however I'm concerned that it's a pretty much total monopoly, I'd use duck duck more often of it means less intrusion of privacy, is duck duck the best alternative?
 
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