I use Google. ALl the time. I like Google. I have, from the very beginning. I remember when I began using Google - late 90s, or whenever they first got started. The simple, streamlined interface was (and is) a refreshing change from the confusing, overly busy, WTF interface of many other (some of them long-gone) search engines. Ask.com must like Google's interface, too - they've borrowed heavily from it. Here's a question for ask.com - "why did you get rid of Jeeves?" Jeeves was, potential Wodehouse-estate lawsuits notwithstanding, cool!
Anyway, I have been really impressed with the way, over the years, that Google has progressively supplemented their basic web-search capability. Google maps, newsgroup searches, blog searching, and Google Books are all features that I use regularly. Even though I have serious reservations about how Google has become the monolithic Wal-Mart of online information-seeking resources, I feel like their success is well-deserved. Sort of like Starbuck's.
Anyway, aside from those slight reservations about Google taking over the planet, I am 100% OK with Google. I just don't see anything at Yahoo or Ask that really even makes them much of a serious competitor to Google.
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I seriously once attempted to use Ask Jeeves to find a wine that goes with Indian cuisine. I figured, British servant, probably spent time in India when it was a colony -- who better to find a wine that stands up to curry? Sadly, Jeeves hadn't a clue.
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