# What Web Search Engine Do You Prefer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268 "2016-09-07T14:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/21 "2016-09-08T17:54:29Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Your “IT” guy should be fired for putting spyware on everyone’s computer. Chrome should be on the naughty list on any managed network. This is false. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/22 "2016-09-08T23:25:31Z")
Whenever I am tricked into using a non-Google search engine (Bing, for instance), I am always impressed by how crappy it is. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/23 "2016-09-09T00:51:30Z")
Way back when I first got high speed internet I used Yahoo! for a while. Then I was watching _The Screen Savers_ and Patrick Norton recommended the then new-ish Google. Been my default Home page on every PC ever since… ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/24 "2016-09-09T02:30:31Z")
Does the Straight Dope count as a search engine ? 😃 To be honest Yahoo meets my needs. I have used Google a few times but I don’t see a compelling reason to use it. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/25 "2016-09-09T02:37:47Z")
Bing. I’ve been on a one-man boycott of Google, ever since they took away the ability to disable SafeSearch. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/26 "2016-09-10T00:30:09Z")
> [@DrumBum](#): > > Does the Straight Dope count as a search engine ? 😃 Only if we Google that _for_ you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/27 "2016-09-10T18:00:33Z")
Are you sure this thread wasn’t mistitled “What web search engines do you still remember?” ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/28 "2016-09-10T18:59:34Z")
There’s still a thing like “AOL search”? And it’s the fifth most used search engine in the U.S.? Does it only work on geocities sites? Is this bizarro world? Color me baffled. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/29 "2016-09-10T21:17:29Z")
I’ll say it: Bing for porn searches. Google for everything else. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/30 "2016-09-10T22:16:01Z")
I use Google for almost everything, but videos. Bing has a much better “tiled”/grid approach to video searches, while Google just spits out a vertical list (unless I’m missing some sort of “grid view” option.) ---
**Author:** ![appleaday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@appleaday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleaday)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/31 "2016-09-11T08:39:02Z")
Google; sometimes Yahoo. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/32 "2016-09-11T09:03:51Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > Bing. I’ve been on a one-man boycott of Google, ever since they took away the ability to disable SafeSearch. Ha! That’s exactly when I switched over to Bing. Not that I need to see boobs in every search result, but the fact that Google went all Mother Superior about it annoyed me. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/33 "2016-09-11T09:36:00Z")
Would have said Google not long ago. But recently I noticed that they seemed to be capping their image searches at random places. Bing still caps them eventually, but it gives a whole lot more images before it does. I tested it by searching for _cat_, and seeing if I could reach the bottom. I should not be able to do so–at least, not for a long time. I’m not sure why this started. I know I used to be able to scroll forever on much less common pictures. I’d only stop when I’d eventually get to images that were too far gone from what I was looking for, just like with text search. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/34 "2016-09-11T09:40:30Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Your “IT” guy should be fired for putting spyware on everyone’s computer. Chrome should be on the naughty list on any managed network. That’s ridiculous. Many, many networks use Chrome as their main web browser. And, by your definition of spyware, using Windows 10 would be right out, forcing people to switch to Linux. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/35 "2016-09-11T09:48:45Z")
Bing. Google, overall, creeps me out ever so slightly. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/36 "2016-09-11T18:36:12Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > That’s ridiculous. Many, many networks use Chrome as their main web browser. And, by your definition of spyware, using Windows 10 would be right out, forcing people to switch to Linux. There is a reason it is specifically banned by the NSA on government networks… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/37 "2016-09-12T17:19:54Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > There is a reason it is specifically banned by the NSA on government networks… Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/38 "2016-09-12T17:43:46Z")
I expected Google to be No. 1 in the poll, but didn’t expect it to be so overwhelmingly dominant. What’s the breakdown for the non-SDMB population at large? ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268/39 "2016-09-12T18:21:18Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I use Google, but Bing does have pretty screenshots, so sometimes. I’m forced to use Bing most of the time by virtue of living in China (btw maybe Baidu should be in the list). I like the daily screenshots on Bing, if they could only make the actual search work better I’d be sold…I have no loyalty to google / issue with MS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-search-engine-do-you-prefer/765268.md?page=1)