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class=930554315-10022009>IMHO - Google is the best one-stop shop
for just about everything. Page searches is one thing... I like to do
price comparisons with Google Shopping... Maps is great and I get a kick out of
using the API. I used to be big fan of searching newsgroups through them, but I
think web pages now turn up more relevant information.
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class=930554315-10022009>However, if I come across one site that beats one of
the facets of Google I'd probably use it primarily. Like if I'm aware of a site
that I can do comparison shopping with that is simpler or farther reaching than
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<DIV><BR><SPAN class=930554315-10022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
don't see how... but if some site did web page searches better than Google I
would use both until I was sure I was getting better results. I would sacrifice
some ease of use... but not much. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=930554315-10022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
thought there was a woman out there (ex-Google employee?) that was going to
start her own search engine. Funny that if you put in Search Engine as a
search term the first entry from Google is Dogpile Web
Search.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">I personally wonder who
will be the first to volunteer to stop using Google. In my experience,
it's the only search engine that finds exactly what I'm looking for almost
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<DIV>Its not about volunteering to stop using google, at least not
in the way you seem to be thinking. I'm not suggesting taking the GNU approach
of we will rewrite a perfectly good system so we can control it. Something
will come along that is better than google, and it probably won't be a search
engine like we think of them today. People will "volunteer" to stop using
google the way they "volunteer" to use google today. Not as some sort
of sacrifice, but because its in their best immediate interest.</DIV>
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<DIV>We already have plenty of websites that copy wikipedia (where google
often takes you) verbatim. and plenty of websites like <A
href="http://answers.com">answers.com</A> and stackoverflow that use
crowdsourcing in different ways. No one seems to have the magic formula yet,
but it will happen. Somewhere between google and Stephen
Baxter's scenario, will be a search engine thats different from google
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