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DevynCJohnson
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The first website I went to was Wikipedia.
I used Lycos, Yahoo!, HotBot, Altavista and Webcrawler back in those days for search engine.
Numerous times, before Google, I encountered some computer error which I carefully copied to the Yahoo search box, only to get links to 20 forum sites like this one where twenty people asked the same question, with no answers. Oh. Yahoo thinks I'm searching for people who are asking the question. Great! How can I convince the stupid search engine to find answers, not questions? Google immediately did shockingly better on that front.Odd to think how much of a giant search monopoly Google has become.
(...)But, alas, Google does not have a monopoly (...)
I'm torn between seeing Google as the good-guy, the anti-Microsoft, the free software champion (to a degree) vs. the filching identity thief. But StartPage acts as a buffer. It hides me from Google. I'm not sure I've done a fair comparison, but I almost always get what I'm looking for with it. Once in a while if I can't find something, I go directly to Google (but never for pressure cookers ).Startpage uses Google, I still refuse to use much of anything associated with Google, known liars and identity thieves.
In case you needed another reason to not like Google:
??Please don't turn this into a holy war.