How much do you "Google"?

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I've only had my iPhone a few years. But yesterday, it dawned on me how much I 'google' to find info. I mean really where else can you find out if a giraffe is born headfirst or feetfirst. ( Standing up, front legs and head come out first). With all this information in your hand, how much do you "Google"?
 

I use other search engines. Google runs my life enough and I preferred it when they minded their business and let us live our lives while providing a service we enjoyed without wanting to go take over TV, banking, health, medicine, real estate and politics. I won't aid and abet my own destruction.

I do the same to Amazon too. I'm unrepentant about preventing major corporations from intruding further into my private life.

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I have a windows 10 laptop that comes with the "Bing" browser. I discovered yesterday that it automatically lets you ask Google AI questions and a female voice tells you the answer. Sometimes it is quite long. It also lets you have a chat with the AI. I find it very entertaining. :)
 
I believe you mean "Internet Search," as there are a number of search engines besides Google, I prefer DuckDuckGo myself but as someone already mentioned, Bing is another alternative. Suffice it to say, and for those that may not know, there are over 20 Internet search engines in 2023. Google is fine but it tends to guide you to results that lean toward their interests as opposed to yours, just saying. In fairness, just know there are options when it comes to your searches :coffee:. Don...
 
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I use other search engines. Google runs my life enough and I preferred it when they minded their business and let us live our lives while providing a service we enjoyed without wanting to go take over TV, banking, health, medicine, real estate and politics. I won't aid and abet my own destruction.

I do the same to Amazon too. I'm unrepentant about preventing major corporation sfrom intruding further into my private life.
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Same here. I use duckduckgo search engine and a Firefox browser 95% of the time. I detest Bing.

I recently learned that Amazon owns GoodReads.com. Killed that site for me.
 
I use Google about ten times a day
first page or two gets me what I need
That's only on my laptop

If I try using Google on my iPhone, it messes with me
Don't know why.....it just does

and if I need to call a store....siri
 
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Every day.
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same...I use google, Duck Duck Go... Alexa... and Google home Hub.... I ask Google 20 questions a day.. such as what's the forecast... who was the singer of a song.. how far it is from A-B... what time does the store open..

I ask Alexa.. some of the same questions..depending on where I am in the house... and what gets the question first ...plus Alexa is programmed to do things around the house..so I ask it to turn on or off the lights, play music,.. tell me if there's a delivery coming , and so on
 
I Google a lot. I prefer the researched facts over those that are not. I once Googled what kind of music do Parakeets like and they told me "only classical.."

So, I inquired from many Parakeet owners what kind of music their Parakeets liked. They named a variety of types of music and especially rock and roll ❤️. I asked that question to a large FB Parakeet group.

It seems Google isn't always right. So do research and take surveys and polls.
 
Since the mid 1990s working at tech corps have frequently used Internet search for much. Before the Internet had AOL and myriad ordinary people using it during its early text only era, it was more a business tool.

Google itself, tends to annoy me at times by tending to return commercial hits even when the terms have nothing to do with buying whatever. And then Google may continue to display the same paid commercial hits on subsequent pages in slightly different ways page after page annoyingly getting in the way. Probably use Yahoo the most but there is a list of others.

To get skilled at web searching beyond the obvious, one must study advanced syntax use with each SE.
 
I mainly use duckduckgo for information. google just takes you to adds trying to sell ya something. duckduckgo is starting that crap though.
 
Never Google other than the occasional use of Google Translate and Gmail, Gboard.

If I'm researching the internet, for years it was DuckDuckGo on Brave browser. Nowadays, it's Edge so, it's either Startpage dot com or BING.

But my go-to website for research are Wikipedia and Yell.
 
I probably google every day but who is counting? It's good for finding if a store I am visiting is open and if I need info on a product I read about. We have Google Home too but I don't use it much as half the time it doesn't know what I am talking about but its good for displaying family pics. I have Siri on my iphone and use as a timer.
 
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I believe you mean "Internet Search," as there are a number of search engines besides Google, I prefer DuckDuckGo myself but as someone already mentioned, Bing is another alternative. Suffice it to say, and for those that may not know, there are over 20 Internet search engines in 2023. Google is fine but it tends to guide you to results that lean toward their interests as opposed to yours, just saying. In fairness, just know there are options when it comes to your searches :coffee:. Don...
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i started using DuckDuckGo most of the time as soon as i learned of it. But i still also tend to go to the most informed fact providing source, even if i use a search engine to find who that source would be.

Suspect Google algorithms tend to reflect the trends in searches and unless you are very specific will throw up results that reflect not just what statistical majority of others searched for in relation to a topic, but which of the results those people clicked on and viewed.
 
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