This is false.
Whenever I am tricked into using a non-Google search engine (Bing, for instance), I am always impressed by how crappy it is.
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…
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.
Bing. I’ve been on a one-man boycott of Google, ever since they took away the ability to disable SafeSearch.
Only if we Google that for you. 
Are you sure this thread wasn’t mistitled “What web search engines do you still remember?”
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.
I’ll say it: Bing for porn searches. Google for everything else.
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.)
Google; sometimes Yahoo.
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.
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.
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.
Bing. Google, overall, creeps me out ever so slightly.
There is a reason it is specifically banned by the NSA on government networks…
Cite?
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?
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.