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What is your preferred search engine and why?
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I appreciate that this may have been asked in the past, however, It would be interesting to find out recent preferences.
I appreciate that this may have been asked in the past, however, It would be interesting to find out recent preferences.
Which is your preffered search engine? 166 votes
Yahoo!
3%
6 votes
Duckduckgo
2%
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4 votes
bing
0%
Lycos!
0%
1 vote
Ask!
0%
Google
90%
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151 votes
Other
2%
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4 votes
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I also like to find out about people via their doodles.
Ironically, I use Yahoo! e-mail though.
I use Yahoo! Email too, but that is also my preffered search engine.
Interestingly, I just went onto the Lycos site, for the first time in a while and they now offer email too. (Again, I believe they stopped it for a while.) They have a free option and a paid option - something I've not seen for a while!
Never even heard of DuckDuckGo :eek: Just googled it
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" is well worth watching as it lets you know how your research is being filtered depending on your web searches over previous months.
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
They arent the only ones...
Right wing people get yahoo news articles that feeds to their worries about immigration.
Left wing people get yahoo news articles that confirms their view that capital is evil
If you didn't know about this its well worth watching as it is an eye opener.
See post 13 :eek:
I have never heard of these duck people before!
I won't touch Google with a three metre punt stick. They're like Big Brother online. I stopped using them after seeing that BBC2 programme about how the UK site creates highly detailed data profiles on its users, keeping the snoop data for 8 months, and selling it to advertisers, albeit in anonymised form.
That alone wouldn't be alarming enough, but I had a Google payment account and a few other accounts with them which required ID, in which case my static (fixed) IP address was linking my identity to all my Google searches, and recording the sites I visited from the search results and which URL I had come from. All this for a search engine.
Alarming really, and Google continues to make Microsoft look benign, such as the way they demanded updates to YouTube accounts (I deleted mine and all the uploaded files).
Another example of what Google is like:
http://www.information-age.com/channels/security-and-continuity/news/2114113/google-still-holds-uk-wifi-snoop-data.thtml
as if.. www.google.co uk