[ale] OT: Search engines

[Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu (Dan Newcombe)]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Me and another individual got into an argument where I stated that
> google was the #1 engine used by ppl in the It world.  Is there anyway
> to validate my claims with hard facts.

My home page is Yahoo - news and quick search all in one place.
However, if I really am going to dig into results and not just find a
quick answer, it's google all the way.

This is because of the viewing of a cached page, and viewing pdf/doc's as
HTML straight from google - this is a lifesaver if the remote site is down
or gone.  And html is faster than PDF to come down.

Plus, I can just click on "Groups" and run my query against usenet (or
vice-versa)
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