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Our friend Google

What's a google??? I just ask all my questions here.

0% (0)

Not often

6% (3)

A few times a week

13% (6)

Several times a day.

46% (20)

More than ten times a day

11% (5)

It is my home page

20% (9)

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(last vote on : 11/24/2008 7:13:57 AM)
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Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 8:32:26 AM

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How often do you use Google (or other search system)?

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 9:06:19 AM

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several times a day.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 9:08:09 AM

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Its wonderful as a home page.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 9:08:25 AM

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it's not my home page, but it probably SHOULD Be ...
I Love the google serach engine!!!

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 9:18:49 AM

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Hey, R, glad to see you back in P&ORS! I don't tend to search much, so I'd say that I only use it a few times per week. When I was at my daughter's, we were having such fun discussions that I used it several times a day. So it just depends on what's going on in my brain.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 9:24:25 AM

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I'm one of those people that has a ton of random questions popping into their brains daily... so yup Google and the other search engines are all my friends!

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 9:58:09 AM

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I still stick my head in, L. Good luck with the new hours.

I don't run Google as my home page, but it generally gets it's own tab pretty quick. It is my yellow pages, my dictionary, multi-volume encyclopedia, and personal fact-checker. Even when I know what site I want an answer from, Snopes or Wikipedia, for instance, I still find it faster to plug that into my search terms, and let Google pull the particular article.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 10:03:18 AM

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Google has been my home page for about a year now. Prior to that I was a die hard MetaCrawler fan and was finding that I was starting to use google to search when my original search engine wasn't quite up to snuff. Ended up setting it as my ho,me page and been using it ever since! Another newer search engine I use sometimes is Cuil.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 11:34:59 AM

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I used to have google as a homepage, then an extra tab when you open explorer. Now my homepage is iplayer.... but google will be used several times a day

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 12:17:27 PM

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I have it as my home page, just cause I got tired of looking at the crap on comcasts' home page.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 3:35:51 PM

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Love google. It can take a while to narrow down the right keywords to search under, but eventually you do find what you're looking for.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 3:41:24 PM

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Yup I google a lot, i always used to like ask but google took over.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 3:54:42 PM

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we wuv google

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 4:35:18 PM

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I love google. It's not my homepage (MSN is) but I do have the google toolbar always visible so it makes it even easier and I love the spell check feature that comes with the google toolbar . It can be used on collarme message board postings and emails sent. A few days ago though me and a friend were looking up the same thing at the same time on google, as we were on the phone..we typed in the exact same words (a restaurant) and we both received the same items to search but they were in a different order..i thought everyone received the same items back in the same order but i guess not.

I forgot to mention...The google toolbar has a great "Autofill" feature to fill out information like your address and credit card # etc when ordering online and it also has a feature when you get a UPS or Fedex number for an order you have order to make it easier to track it.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 5:25:18 PM

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Home page. And I absolutely love gmail.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 6:41:53 PM

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I rarely use google, I use goodsearch.com instead. It donates money to a charity of your choosing with each search, and I search a LOT. I donate to CARE USA, the one based in Merrifield.

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 9:27:40 PM

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Google is my favorite since Altavista in the 90's

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RE: Our friend Google - 11/23/2008 10:24:05 PM

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How often i use a search engine? Oh, i'd say a few times a week.

Which search engine? i've been using Yahoo, and i've used Google a few times as well. Though, bear, i'll definitely have to look at Cuil, too.