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What is with everyone's obsession with Google? What makes it so much better than Yahoo! or another search engine (although most were shot down by Google)? Why is there such a cult following around it?

Please refrain from cult answers, not that NSGers are capable of that...

Why the hell should I use the others?

Yahoo sucks, obviously.

Google Knows All.

Look at Google's main page, then look at any of its competitors.

Google just has the Google image and the bare essentials needed for a search engine.

Yahoo/MSN/etc all have a page that is loaded with irrelevant shit that nobody wants to see. You are there to search, not look at some random bullshit article you don't care about because they decided to move where their search portion of the page is again. Also, until recently, Google did very little to censor search results.

Its easier to type. Try it.

Google sounds funnier than Yahoo.

Google is a funny sounding noun that can be turned into a funny verb. Example: I googled everyone in that bar over and over again last night.

Some people are stupid and like to pretend that Google is something other than an evil, faceless corporation. Hence, the Google-cult.
I just use it because it is has a simple main page and their translator isn't much worse than any other free online translator.

Some people are stupid and like to pretend that Google is something other than an evil, faceless corporation. Hence, the Google-cult.

Which, of course, has close ties to the Apple cult...

Back when Google just started becoming popular, I still had 56K Internet. And for all those ex-56Kers (or even 28.8), you learn to love clean, fast-loading sites. For me and my 56K, Google was clean and right down to business, no fancy ads loading or useless news. After that, I just kind of stuck to Google.

If knowledge is power than google is god.

If knowledge is power than google is god.

Google is more omnipresent than anything...If we're looking for all knowledge then Wiki is more along our lines.

Which, of course, has close ties to the Apple cult...
How do they feel about the free software cult?

Google is easy to use, contains only the bare essentials (for the most part), and has a wider search. While the "wider search" issue may be a double-edged sword (I search up "America" and get a picture of Ugly Betty), it is, for the most part, a good thing.

How do they feel about the free software cult?

Like all cults, they love them for as long as they benefit from them.

Back when Google just started becoming popular, I still had 56K Internet. And for all those ex-56Kers (or even 28.8), you learn to love clean, fast-loading sites. For me and my 56K, Google was clean and right down to business, no fancy ads loading or useless news. After that, I just kind of stuck to Google.
I agree. Also, Google has a more, what's the word, omniscient feeling to it. With a simple, minimalist web page you can search the entire web. Click on a small link, download a few files, and you can search the whole world. Click another button, you've got email. Click another...you see where I'm going. Using Yahoo makes me feel like I have a huge master control panel in front of me. Using Google makes me feel like I just have to touch something and it will be so, like a wizard.

Which, of course, has close ties to the Apple cult...

The apple cult is awesome though. Every five years or so the high priest culls the herd with a ritual slaughter.

Good times.

It's built into my browser. As I understand it when it came out it had a revolutionary way of listing or finding web pages that became more complete than other search engines, which again-as I understand it and I could be just talking out of my ass-were just directories.

I tried Ask.com and some of what it does is cool but I don't actually get what I want as fast or as easy as I do with Google.

I don't worship Google or anything, and sure their company can do wrong. They do some cool things, too. I try new search engines when I hear about them, but most of the time I just want the information I'm looking for. I'll probably move to whatever works better when I find it.

IIRC Google has the most websites on the searchable list. I could be wrong, though.

As the various other people have said, simplicity. I had 56k until just last year. Yahoo and the other major search engines are loaded with random crap. Google has their logo, the various search bars, a couple of unobtrusive links at the bottom of the page and thats it.
Hence, Google.

I use Google for several reasons. It's as good or better than any other search engine I've tried. I think it's slightly less evil than Yahoo (and quite a bit less evil than Microsoft). It's got great press. And it makes a really kewl verb (yahooing stuff just doesn't have the same ring).

I was using dogpile for a while, but ended up selling my soul to google as well. Not to sure why, I think it was the image search function. They had it before dogpile did, never really went back after...

Look at Google's main page, then look at any of its competitors.

Google just has the Google image and the bare essentials needed for a search engine.

Yahoo/MSN/etc all have a page that is loaded with irrelevant shit that nobody wants to see. You are there to search, not look at some random bullshit article you don't care about because they decided to move where their search portion of the page is again. Also, until recently, Google did very little to censor search results.

What he said, also Google image searches tend to yield the best results for me and I use Google Calculator a lot too.

Because Yahooed doesn't sound right.

<quote>Google is easy to use, contains only the bare essentials (for the most part), and has a wider search. While the "wider search" issue may be a double-edged sword (I search up "America" and get a picture of Ugly Betty), it is, for the most part, a good thing.</quote>


You just need to learn to take advantage of Boolean operators. If you were wanting to search America without anything to do with "Ugly Betty" simply type:

America not Ugly not betty

Common operators:

and = In addition to

or = this or that, if you searched ugly better or america, it would return articles with america in it or ugly betty or both

not = without or exclude

What is with everyone's obsession with Google? What makes it so much better than Yahoo! or another search engine (although most were shot down by Google)? Why is there such a cult following around it?

Please refrain from cult answers, not that NSGers are capable of that...

Because they are a deity manifested in binary form. Duh!

Back when Google just started becoming popular, I still had 56K Internet. And for all those ex-56Kers (or even 28.8), you learn to love clean, fast-loading sites. For me and my 56K, Google was clean and right down to business, no fancy ads loading or useless news. After that, I just kind of stuck to Google.

That's about it for me, too. I was a Metacrawler and Alta Vista user before Google came along.

The apple cult is awesome though. Every five years or so the high priest culls the herd with a ritual slaughter.

Good times.

If by "ritual slaughter" you mean "ditching your whole computer when it's obsolete for you instead of just getting an upgrade to an individual component (say, a CPU)", then yes, ritual slaughter it is. I bought my first Mac in 1997, ditched it four years later after the 680 chips were replaced by the G series. I bought a G4 Cube in 2001. I now have a G5 iMac purchased in 2005. In 2009, I might just be buying a damned PC. I love my Mac, but it hates my wallet. If I add up all the programs for security and spyware and sound cards and peripheral drivers and other PC hassles I haven't had because I own a Mac, I suppose the cost is probably the same over each four-year period. Looking at it that way, I may just stick with what I'm used to, but when the 1.8GHz G5 Power PC I've got now can't run Civilization IV on it's lowest graphics settings...I get irritated.

Why is everyone against Google! ITS A FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE FOR FUCKS SAKE! The person who started the whole anti-google ordeal musta been one fucking idiot.

I repeat...

Its a search engine... if you really want to bitch about a search engine, then you must have some perfect life that the only thing that is a problem is Google. Get over it.

Why do I use Google?
Because, if you know how to use the Boolean system right, it cuts out all of the bullshit and gives me exactly what im searching for. Unlike Yahoo/MSN/WWW/Search/Ask, who give you something to this effect...

I search for 'How to declaw a parrot'

Google gives me a page that gives instructions on how to do it.

Any others give me 'Search Prices for 'How to declaw a parrot' On EBay
or
Search local classifieds for 'How to declaw a parrot'

Google is one fucking hell of a great search engine, period.

--EDIT.. I forgot one

Search for Hot Singles In Your Area Today!
With one or two that have something like this
| |
| |
| Random Girls |
| Picture |
| |
| |
Location :Missouri
Age: 21
Name: How to Declaw a Parrot

<quote>Google is easy to use, contains only the bare essentials (for the most part), and has a wider search. While the "wider search" issue may be a double-edged sword (I search up "America" and get a picture of Ugly Betty), it is, for the most part, a good thing.</quote>


You just need to learn to take advantage of Boolean operators. If you were wanting to search America without anything to do with "Ugly Betty" simply type:

America not Ugly not betty

Common operators:

and = In addition to

or = this or that, if you searched ugly better or america, it would return articles with america in it or ugly betty or both

not = without or exclude

Try square brackets for your quotes, Frankie.

What is with everyone's obsession with Google? What makes it so much better than Yahoo! or another search engine (although most were shot down by Google)? Why is there such a cult following around it?

Please refrain from cult answers, not that NSGers are capable of that...
maps.google,
images.google,
groups.google,
gmail.google
patents, finance, scholar...all at google.com

well, for one thing that crappy suggestion window that pops down when
i start to type things in.

it's like that especially super duper ultra extra mircosuxx suxx the big one windows word thing that automatically capitalizes words at what it "thinks" is the beginning of a sentence and automatically corrects the spelling of words.
THAT really sucks i totally ultrally HATE HATE it.
they should just go cook themselves in a shower for making that program.
fucking bastard pieces of gwshit.


but beyond that,
yahoo seems fine.
dogpile is probably better.

as long as a search engine does not keep track of my isp addy, its ok with me.
any one that does should just go cook themselves in a shower NOW
and do humanity a BIG BIG favor.
it will help prevent future wars and other assorted future cookings of human beings that such current technology is being used for.


:upyours::fluffle::headbang:

Which, of course, has close ties to the Apple cult...

i don't have an apple, but

PC is sooooooo big, its cult-ness is utterly missed as if
"the air we breathe" <---THAT is what is scary about it.

so I'd like to finally, publically state "fuck you, all you 'apple is a cult' asshole fucks". just go cook yourselfs, NOW!


it's like the Catholic church.
people don't see it as a cult because it is so huge and everywhere.
but it is still a cult.
(not pro-any other religion, just stating the above)


:upyours::fluffle:

but beyond that,
yahoo seems fine.
dogpile is probably better.I dogpiled 4chan.

4chan was not the first link--Wikipedia was.

I'm not entirely sure where the idea that google has a "cult" came from, but it is possibly the most efficient internet tools.
It is kinda creepy, because it actually does track your internet browsing for "reasearch and compatibility" purposes. They never do anything with it, they just know. Wierd.

well, for one thing that crappy suggestion window that pops down when
i start to type things in.

it's like that especially super duper ultra extra mircosuxx suxx the big one windows word thing that automatically capitalizes words at what it "thinks" is the beginning of a sentence and automatically corrects the spelling of words.
THAT really sucks i totally ultrally HATE HATE it.
they should just go cook themselves in a shower for making that program.
fucking bastard pieces of gwshit.


but beyond that,
yahoo seems fine.
dogpile is probably better.

*snip the unnecessary bit*



Uh...you do know that you can turn those features off, right? Word's Auto Format can be turned off with the little icon that pops up when it corrects most things. Auto Correct can be turned off from the menu bar. Same thing with the Google stuff. Get curious. Look around.

Uh...you do know that you can turn those features off, right? Word's Auto Format can be turned off with the little icon that pops up when it corrects most things. Auto Correct can be turned off from the menu bar. Same thing with the Google stuff. Get curious. Look around.

i just decided to not use that version of windows.

i want the default to be like this. if i want auto-spell check, i will turn it on.
talk about dumbing us down.
thanks a lot microsuxx

Why Google? WHY GOOGLE?! Because I want a search engine that retrieves everything when search for nothing! I want a search engine that uses blatantly under-worked graphic designers! I want a search engine that is capable of pulling off irrelevant April Fool's jokes! I want a search engine that... that... that... hmmm... I dunno. cuz it comes default on firefox... and has some nifty programs...

I don't like Google at all, mostly because you can't search for special characters, because its poor handling of things like whitespace in queries and indexing, and because of the way it does fuzzy searches. For example, if you search for "cat", it will also give you results for "cats". When I'm looking for very specific information, this isn't helpful at all as it hides the relevant hits among irrelevant ones. It also tries to detect typos and includes results for the word they guess that you meant. This again hides what you're looking for, often in a huge flood of garbage.

So no, I don't like Google. I think their search engine sucks. But every other engine somehow manages to be even worse. And I do like Google cache. I usually don't follow links from google, instead I just read the cache, without loading any images. You save a lot of time doing that.

i just decided to not use that version of windows.

i want the default to be like this. if i want auto-spell check, i will turn it on.
talk about dumbing us down.
thanks a lot microsuxx

Lazy much? What is it, two clicks of the mouse and it's off, and off for good? :rolleyes:

i just decided to not use that version of windows.

i want the default to be like this. if i want auto-spell check, i will turn it on.
talk about dumbing us down.
thanks a lot microsuxx

I don't like the speed the windshield wipers start on.
*pushes car off cliff*

I don't like the speed the windshield wipers start on.
*pushes car off cliff*

Exactly. Well said.

What is with everyone's obsession with Google? What makes it so much better than Yahoo! or another search engine (although most were shot down by Google)? Why is there such a cult following around it?

Please refrain from cult answers, not that NSGers are capable of that...

Because on Google you get more results. You can also use it for different things e.g Maps, Shopping etc.

It's simple, and has lots of other good features (I use the maps and calendar also), and I like their company model of providing things free to customers while not making adverts too intrusive.

Its a search engine... if you really want to bitch about a search engine, then you must have some perfect life that the only thing that is a problem is Google.Or you're a webmaster whose income is largely dependent on getting good search engine ranks--and you WOULD HAVE a perfect (financial) life IF ONLY you could get your sites to be #1 under their relevant keywords in Google, but for no discernible reason that hellspawn of an engine has decided it hates your sites, forcing you to spend loads of energy caring about their stupid algo--despite the fact that your natural interest in stuff like search algorithms would otherwise be less than zero!

What is with everyone's obsession with Google? What makes it so much better than Yahoo! or another search engine (although most were shot down by Google)? Why is there such a cult following around it?

Please refrain from cult answers, not that NSGers are capable of that...

Google's search engine is clean, and effective. Whilst places like MSN are completely covered with Flash ads, pictures, completely irrelevant articles, not to mention the various pieces of software that Microsoft are constantly trying to peddle to people, Google has a search box, their logo, and a couple of important links. And that's it.

The scope and sheer flexibility of Google's main search engine is also extremely useful. You can narrow down your search extremely specifically if you know all the tricks, and that simple search box can be used for many more things than simple web searches (it is even a dictionary, a calculator, etc). Simply put, unlike other search engines out there, I almost always find what I'm after with Google (and at the end of the day, what else do you really need from a search engine?).

One of the biggest pluses here is Google's AdWords system. Rather than mindlessly selling sponsorship to companies based on who offers them the biggest bribes, Google's adverts are typically highly relevant to your search - even I have found them useful sometimes, and I never click on adverts anywhere else. Moreover, they're not gigantic Flash ads, with annoying sounds and in-your-face rollover effects, they're just text. Google's reluctance to simply plaster their pages in irrelevant adverts (unlike many companies) is one of their best features, and probably helps with the myth that they 'serve the people' rather than themselves (this may once have been true). And if you have to use the AdWords administration system behind the scenes, as I do, you'll come to appreciate it even more.

As for a Google 'cult', I'll never understand why a cult arises over any commercial product - at the end of the day, we're all statistics for their shareholders to drool over. Likewise I don't know why cults form around Apple, Microsoft (believe it or not), various computer games, even television programs, etc. I just use the product that I find to be the best for my needs, and invariably that tends to be Google.

well, for one thing that crappy suggestion window that pops down when
i start to type things in.

Umm, Auto-form-complete is a browser feature, not a feature of Google.

Umm, Auto-form-complete is a browser feature, not a feature of Google.The Google Toolbar has a suggestion thing, which is of dubious usefulness.

He probably is referring to that. Its suggestions are distinctly different from what the browser does, and only affect the Toolbar's own entry field.

Fergi America;13150625']The Google Toolbar has a suggestion thing, which is of dubious usefulness.

He probably is referring to that. Its suggestions are distinctly different from what the browser does, and only affect the Toolbar's own entry field.

Well that's what you get for having Google Toolbar installed :rolleyes:

Google is more succinct, concise and efficient than other search engines. Much easier to navigate and customise to my own preferences. I find the other search engines are not nearlly as streamlined. Google wins hands down because it keeps to the KISS principle - Keep It Simple Sugar [you could put in Stupid but I like to keep it sweet :) ].

If I'm searching, I want what is relevant to my location and needs immediately and while I may be contributing to Google's world-wide domination :p, I still remain an avid Googler.

I used to have dial up and google would load fast. Also, I am easily distracted by all the crap on Yahoo and places like Ask.com

my daughter uses Ask.com because she likes all that crap.....different search engines for different people.

Fergi America;13150550']Or you're a webmaster whose income is largely dependent on getting good search engine ranks--and you WOULD HAVE a perfect (financial) life IF ONLY you could get your sites to be #1 under their relevant keywords in Google, but for no discernible reason that hellspawn of an engine has decided it hates your sites, forcing you to spend loads of energy caring about their stupid algo--despite the fact that your natural interest in stuff like search algorithms would otherwise be less than zero!

have you tried making your site relevant? Google's web crawler doesn't look for keywords and meta tags, it looks for relevance. If you want you can TG me your URL and I can look and see if there are any obvious problems.

Look at Google's main page, then look at any of its competitors.

Google just has the Google image and the bare essentials needed for a search engine.

Yahoo/MSN/etc all have a page that is loaded with irrelevant shit that nobody wants to see. You are there to search, not look at some random bullshit article you don't care about because they decided to move where their search portion of the page is again. Also, until recently, Google did very little to censor search results.
Also, Google doesn't want to shove a "Google Toolbar" down my throat whenever I download some random program.

Also, I simply just trust Google to give me the most comprehensive search results by sheer virtue of them being "the" search engine out there. Circular logic, if you will.

Why not? Does the job better, in my opinion, than the others I've used.

I used to use Dogpile; I like Google better.

Google is God, God is omnipotent, thus Google is omnipotent. There is only one God, therefore Yahoo and other search engines are not omnipotent, thus Google is the greatest.

See it's simple when you use teh logic!

All the cool kids use google.

Because on Google you get more results. You can also use it for different things e.g Maps, Shopping etc.

Besides, which other search engine would tell you to swim across the Atlantic Ocean? (I know the bug got fixed)

I like its features and simplicity, my Gmail account has a working spam filter, it translates random crap, and it's got image search (I know many other search engines have it, but I just like Google), it comes with Firefox, and I'm on Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+guide+to+railways%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) (second site down).

Which, of course, has close ties to the Apple cult...

QFT. Apple has all the weirdness of a cult, while Microsoft has all the corruption of a mainstream religion. Right now, Google is like an emerging religion, close to Christianity in the 200s.

It's the default toolbar on firefox. Yup.
Although at the moment I'm using GoodSearch (http://www.goodsearch.com/), which donates to a charity of your choice when you use it. My dad's using Blackle (http://www.blackle.com/), which is an energy saving version of Google.

I also use gmail because it works without all the bullshit of other email services like yahoo and hotmail.
Besides, when the Google cult takes over the world I will already be a member. Mwahaha.
Why wouldn't I want to support my fellow Montessori geniuses?

If by "ritual slaughter" you mean "ditching your whole computer when it's obsolete for you instead of just getting an upgrade to an individual component (say, a CPU)", then yes, ritual slaughter it is. I bought my first Mac in 1997, ditched it four years later after the 680 chips were replaced by the G series. I bought a G4 Cube in 2001. I now have a G5 iMac purchased in 2005. In 2009, I might just be buying a damned PC. I love my Mac, but it hates my wallet. If I add up all the programs for security and spyware and sound cards and peripheral drivers and other PC hassles I haven't had because I own a Mac, I suppose the cost is probably the same over each four-year period. Looking at it that way, I may just stick with what I'm used to, but when the 1.8GHz G5 Power PC I've got now can't run Civilization IV on it's lowest graphics settings...I get irritated.

They just recently had one. cliky (http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/6273)

Apple is basically pure evil. Yet it's worshipers refuse to see it for what it is. Like all religions I suppose.

Uh...you do know that you can turn those features off, right? Word's Auto Format can be turned off with the little icon that pops up when it corrects most things. Auto Correct can be turned off from the menu bar. Same thing with the Google stuff. Get curious. Look around.

i thought this might be the case, but microsuxx is just to plain jackass to be bothered with.
oh, yeah, that's really a feature most customers want.
i'm sure you did some sort of polling for that too?
what? of future college graduates on their way to procrastinating for their term paper.
if there's one thing i disagree with with almost all college profs, it is the spelling issue.
language, and the written language should be no exception - and isn't really, is always evolving.
dictionaries are guidelines, not law books.
do they need to take an introductory class in linguistics or something?
damn. the colleges around here don't offer that.
oh, well.
go learn a pidgin language then.

Umm, Auto-form-complete is a browser feature, not a feature of Google.

i'm actually referring to yahoo in this instance.
when i type in a word a section pops down with possible things to fill in.


now that i think about it,
that actually might be a good thing.

if you cannot remember everything of some sort of phrase start to type a bit
you remember and compound words or phrases start to appear.
i guess i take this one back

All the cool kids use google.

sounds like the one truest reason not to use it

damn google using football players (and the even worse baseball players.worse!)

Besides, which other search engine would tell you to swim across the Atlantic Ocean? (I know the bug got fixed)

That wasn't a bug; but anyone who asked how to DRIVE to London, England from the U.S. got what they deserved there.

It's like my students going, "Well, DUH, miss!"

i thought this might be the case, but microsuxx is just to plain jackass to be bothered with.
oh, yeah, that's really a feature most customers want.
i'm sure you did some sort of polling for that too?
what? of future college graduates on their way to procrastinating for their term paper.
if there's one thing i disagree with with almost all college profs, it is the spelling issue.
language, and the written language should be no exception - and isn't really, is always evolving.
dictionaries are guidelines, not law books.
do they need to take an introductory class in linguistics or something?
damn. the colleges around here don't offer that.
oh, well.
go learn a pidgin language then.

Capitalization is nice, too. So are proper paragraphs, as long as we're complaining.

Capitalization is nice, too. So are proper paragraphs, as long as we're complaining.

I see why he deals with auto-correct so much.

Google.com isn't filled with ads
The Church of Google (http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/)
Google's Youtube hosts conspiracy theories about Google (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_GzA9Xu_oEo)
In anywhere, including Soviet Russia, Google searches YOU!!

That wasn't a bug; but anyone who asked how to DRIVE to London, England from the U.S. got what they deserved there.

It's like my students going, "Well, DUH, miss!"

Yeah, but unfortunately it no longer exists. Fun while it lasted, though.

I don't like Google at all, mostly because you can't search for special characters, because its poor handling of things like whitespace in queries and indexing, and because of the way it does fuzzy searches. For example, if you search for "cat", it will also give you results for "cats". When I'm looking for very specific information, this isn't helpful at all as it hides the relevant hits among irrelevant ones. It also tries to detect typos and includes results for the word they guess that you meant. This again hides what you're looking for, often in a huge flood of garbage.

So no, I don't like Google. I think their search engine sucks. But every other engine somehow manages to be even worse. And I do like Google cache. I usually don't follow links from google, instead I just read the cache, without loading any images. You save a lot of time doing that.

I believe thats what the " "'s are for to reduce "Fuzzy" results by requiring an exact match

They just recently had one. cliky (http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/6273)

Apple is basically pure evil. Yet it's worshipers refuse to see it for what it is. Like all religions I suppose.

Doesn't apply. If I ever claim to "need" an iPhone or anything remotely resembling one, I'd like to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a Stilson wrench.

i thought this might be the case, but microsuxx is just to plain jackass to be bothered with.
oh, yeah, that's really a feature most customers want.
i'm sure you did some sort of polling for that too?
what? of future college graduates on their way to procrastinating for their term paper.
if there's one thing i disagree with with almost all college profs, it is the spelling issue.
language, and the written language should be no exception - and isn't really, is always evolving.
dictionaries are guidelines, not law books.
do they need to take an introductory class in linguistics or something?
damn. the colleges around here don't offer that.
oh, well.
go learn a pidgin language then.

Sounds like someone got up on teh wrong side of the semicolon. Spelling counts. So does grammar. Both help to make what you write easier to understand. Speaking of which, punctuation? Yeah, that helps, too.

Which, of course, has close ties to the Apple cult...

Now you're being obscene.


As for why I use Google... back in the ol' days you had to use several search engines to find what you wanted, and they mostly found bullshit: look for "lion", and you get porn on the 4th site. Search for an actrice, you get it on the second site... not that this is a bad thing per se :), but I like to find what I actually search for. Hence my joy when they introduced Google to the world.

Down with Google and up with Blackle!

Blackle.com is actually just google but it has a black background and white text instead of vice versa to save power. Pixels turn off to create black, so, you save power by using Blackle!!!


Nonetheless, Google owns because it actually works...
Half the crap Yahoo gives is completely useless and irrelevant to what I searched!

I believe thats what the " "'s are for to reduce "Fuzzy" results by requiring an exact match

Thanks. I didn't know that quotes worked around single words. That at least takes care of one of my problems.

For the sake of comparison, I searched "game theory" (without the quotes) on Ask.com, Google, and Yahoo. Here are the results:

Ask.com (http://www.ask.com/web?q=game+theory&search=search&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir)

Yahoo (http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu7zkyxpH_7kAlylXNyoA?p=game+theory+&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-471)

Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=game+theory+economics&btnG=Google+Search)

Notice that eight of the top ten results Google gives are from universities, or at least institutions that have the .edu domain. Altogether, seven different schools are represented. Yahoo gives three (although the other seven sites aren't too shabby) and Ask.com has six, but only four different universities are represented.
This is actually the first time I've used Ask.com, and I was surprised how good it was. I like how it doesn't have a Wikipedia article first: if I want to read a Wikipedia article, it's easy enough to search Wikipedia; it's annoying when Google always has that first. Still, Google has other more reputable sites, and they are in general better.

Down with Google and up with Blackle!

Blackle.com is actually just google but it has a black background and white text instead of vice versa to save power. Pixels turn off to create black, so, you save power by using Blackle!!!


Nonetheless, Google owns because it actually works...
Half the crap Yahoo gives is completely useless and irrelevant to what I searched!

You apparently do not know how LCD's work my friend, the back light is ALWAYS on when the screen is on reguardless of what color is coming out the front.

In fact I think black has the most number of change pixels so it is potentially MORE power intensive

Thanks. I didn't know that quotes worked around single words. That at least takes care of one of my problems.

No problem ... I learn then forget all of googles little secrets once a year when competing in a 50 hour trivia contest lol but some of them stick

sounds like the one truest reason not to use it

damn google using football players (and the even worse baseball players.worse!)

Pft, it's the best reason to use it. What's more important that being cool?

I used to use yacy (a decentral search engine), but it killed my computer with its demands of RAM and processor time (yes, my rig is old, twen-cen even), now I use alltheweb or metacrawler.

Because I sold my soul to them, can't break the contract.