# Is "Google" Dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 2, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874 "2001-02-02T15:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874/1 "2001-02-02T15:46:37Z")
I haven’t been able to access my favorite search engine, google, for a week or two. Is it one of the many dot.coms that have expired in the past month? Alta vista and dogpile don’t really do it for me. If google is defunct, anyone know of a similar search engine? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874/2 "2001-02-02T15:49:54Z")
Heck no. I have Google set as my home page, and it comes up fine for me. Just used it a little while ago. I love Google. About a year ago I sent them a little note about how I like the little holiday decorations. They responded by sending me a T-shirt! Great PR. ---
**Author:** ![Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dec6dc/32.png) [@Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Friday)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874/3 "2001-02-02T15:52:51Z")
google is not dead. Maybe it’s your dns, try connecting with the ip address: [http://64.209.200.100/](http://64.209.200.100/) ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874/4 "2001-02-02T15:54:34Z")
I use it all the time and haven’t had any problems this week, at work or at home. It’s probably a problem with your internet service provider - you might want to give them a call. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874/5 "2001-02-02T15:58:55Z")
Thanks for the link, Friday, that seemed to do the trick! [Do you change your user name every day, like days-of-the-week undies?] ---
**Author:** ![Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dec6dc/32.png) [@Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Friday)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874/6 "2001-02-02T16:10:54Z")
Heh. I supply the facts, just the facts, ma’am. [obscure reference] But I do have on clean underwear today. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874/7 "2001-02-02T16:14:11Z")
Eve, Have you ever given Dogpile a shot? It’s one of them there metacrawlers that searchs an oogle of search engines for ya… Oh, and Google’s fine here, too. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874/8 "2001-02-02T18:11:34Z")
FWIW, google also powers Yahoo!'s search engine (taking AltaVista’s place). Not the sites they have actually reviewed and satisfy your search, mind you, but the search engine that kicks in when they don’t have any pre-indexed sites that meet your search terms. Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-dead/52874/9 "2001-02-02T18:51:51Z")
The day Google dies will be a sad one indeed. Wouldn’t bet on it in the near future. Works fine for me, Eve (as usual).