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What Search Engine you use??

Hi Guys.
Just out of curiosity as I'm on process of telling search-engines about my web-site.
What is the one you normally use? For myself I'm a Google fan.
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Search Engines 54 votes

Google
88% 48 votes
Bing
1% 1 vote
Yahoo
1% 1 vote
AltaVista
0% 0 votes
HotBot
0% 0 votes
Ask
0% 0 votes
Other
7% 4 votes
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Comments

  • bob_man_uk
    bob_man_uk Posts: 517 Forumite
    why not just tell them all?!?
  • google 6 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0
    Nothing to see here, move along.
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    I just took a look at this months stats from my own sites. They all get most of their traffic from google. Lowest being 75% from google and the highest shows 90%. It's been similar for years.
  • Sublime_2
    Sublime_2 Posts: 15,741 Forumite
    Google .
  • Mrs_B
    Mrs_B Posts: 333
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
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    Easy Search so that I can raise a little money for something I support.

    www.easysearch.org.uk
    Work is not my Hobby
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
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    edited 9 January 2011 at 11:13PM
    I briefly used HotBot until AltaVista came out, and stuck with them for quite a while. They had great Boolean operator and nested brackets support - you could search for ((turnips and swedes) or "brussels sprouts") and not (cucumber or (lettuce and tomato)), which would never have been interpreted correctly by Google. Yahoo was good as a second option because it used to be a directory (compiled by humans), rather than a search engine.

    When Google came out I discovered it permitted far less sophisticated searches, yet the top 10 or 20 results were more relevant (I guess they favoured websites that were heavily linked to, and relied less on page content).

    Anyway, I've stuck with Google, (and I think AltaVista and Yahoo now use Google anyway) but am always on the lookout for something better... I hate the new search that updates the page with every keypress (when I enable scripting)...

    I also hate the fact that Google is so ubiquitous. It's a scary thought to think that a huge proportion of people would never find a website if Google decided to "make it not exist"... Freedom and democracy require choice and competition...
  • DD3006
    DD3006 Posts: 52 Forumite
    Google mostly followed by bing on the very odd occasion
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  • Mobeer
    Mobeer Posts: 1,853
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Academoney Grad
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    Altavista was great until it became a portal with a really complicated front page. After that I've used Google ever since.
  • free4440273
    free4440273 Posts: 38,438 Forumite
    The Googster :cool: Although I hate Evil Google :angry:;)
    BLOODBATH IN THE EVENING THEN? :shocked: OR PERHAPS THE AFTERNOON? OR THE MORNING? OH, FORGET THIS MALARKEY!

    THE KILLERS :cool:

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  • Google ...
    Leanne Loves :A

    What's up Doc?:p
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