Poll: Which search enigine do you use most of the time? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Which search enigine do you use most of the time?".
This poll was originally submitted by Hester Eymers. View the poll results »
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Ty Kendall 
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:16
Hebrew to English
| You forgot "Ask Jeeves".... | Feb 26, 2012 |
....anyone remember that?
I'd say Google has pretty successfully monopolised the market. The results so far seem to attest to that.
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| The GREEN Machine | Feb 26, 2012 |
My favourite:
http://www.ecosia.org/
Great results - great cause!
Check it out!
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 07:16
Spanish to English
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Because it's there and it works for me. I don't like Chrome, though they say it's better for some things.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 07:16
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Ixquick Search Engine | Feb 26, 2012 |
because they track neither my searches nor my IP address or any other information - something which Google is well known for.
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But specifically for Russian terms or expressions I also use national search engine: yandex.ru
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I use DuckDuckGo, which returns results from both Google and Bing but doesn't track me and doesn't bubble me.
In fact, I've stopped using all of Google's services, including Gmail. I've migrated to Hotmail and I find it much better, both when accessing it through Outlook and when accessing it through my Nokia phone.
[Edited a... See more I use DuckDuckGo, which returns results from both Google and Bing but doesn't track me and doesn't bubble me.
In fact, I've stopped using all of Google's services, including Gmail. I've migrated to Hotmail and I find it much better, both when accessing it through Outlook and when accessing it through my Nokia phone.
[Edited at 2012-02-26 12:16 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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Caro Maucher
Germany
Local time: 07:16
Member (2005)
English to German
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| Ecosia is also missing | Feb 26, 2012 |
I try to use Ecosia (who donate for the protection of rain forests), but unfortunately it gives much less results than Google, so I usually end up searching with Google.
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I also use mostly Ecosia. only when I do not find anythinge useful - which doesn't happen too often - I switch to Google.
Perhaps I should better try DuckDuckGo now - never heard of it before.
Thanks Epameinondas!
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Chun Un
Macau
Member (2007)
English to Chinese
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| Google and Baidu | Feb 26, 2012 |
Baidu for anything related to China and Google for everything else.
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Google with Dogpile and Kvasir.
Google is increasingly "infected" sponsored results and bias in their search algorythm, so I generally search twice for most items.
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Isabelle F. BRUCHER (X)
Belgium
Local time: 07:16
English to French
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I mostly use Copernic, which in turn activates a series of search engines according to the type of search.
You can search the whole Internet or the Internet in one language, which you will have chosen upon installing the program (I chose my target language).
It used to be possible to restrict the search to one country also (I had chosen the country where I was based).
This is where to download it for free... See more I mostly use Copernic, which in turn activates a series of search engines according to the type of search.
You can search the whole Internet or the Internet in one language, which you will have chosen upon installing the program (I chose my target language).
It used to be possible to restrict the search to one country also (I had chosen the country where I was based).
This is where to download it for free: www.copernic.com. On the right hand side of the home screen, under "Popular pages", click on "Agent Personal Download" (or access it directly by clicking on this link: "http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/download.html").
It is a "meta search engine" (méta-moteur de recherche) which I learned about during a computer science course at university in the early 1990's and I feel not enough people know about it.
Results are classified by pertinence. The search engine(s) that found it is/are indicated next to the pertinence level.
It does not seem to use Google, though, so a parallel search in Google might prove useful. Google can sort your results by country or language too, after the results have been found.
[Edited at 2012-02-26 21:08 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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I tried a bunch of search engines (yahoo, altavista, etc) before I found out Google... never looked back. Don't care really if they track my searches, much good will that do for them
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