Comments on: Could You Live Without Google?

By: adogstar

adogstar — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:23:36 +0000

Never used google. Why bother when I can have copernic

By: cartridge

cartridge — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:28:51 +0000

It is very difficult to live without google because google is a best source of getting information about any thing.

By: MartYn

MartYn — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:10:52 +0000

Dogpile.com or uk is my ‘back-up’ search engine. Works pretty well

By: PCTechBytes

PCTechBytes — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:35:23 +0000

I encourage our users to use metacrawler, as it combines the top results of all major search engines.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:35:38 +0000

Although I use Google extensively, yes I could live without it. There are other services that do the same thing, even if I’m not as familiar with them. Especially with problems like the recent Google outage (and then a Google News outage shortly after), it may be something to consider.

Forbes asked a similar question to yours: “The real issue was access to now-vital tools for work and life. And the glaring question was, Have we become too dependent on single large providers of our services?” (as quoted by Newsy)

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:29:39 +0000

I originally started using AltaVista because of the Babel Fish translator (it translates languages), and even though that points over as a Yahoo! product now http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ it’s still really good.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:09:38 +0000

I remember using Google back in the beta days in 1997, before it went ‘live’ live in 1998. But I also remember using MetaCrawler very heavily, which was a meta search engine that at the time searched through Yahoo!, Ask.com and a couple of other different search engines. When I wasn’t using Google, I was using MetaCrawler. Then once Google started hitting just about every search result known to man, I pretty much left MetaCrawler lying in the dust.

Until I read this post I hadn’t really thought about it and decided to check it out again – it now searches Google, Yahoo! Search, Windows Live Search, Ask.com and About.com along with a Yellow Pages/White Pages search option. I think I might play around w/ it again and compare it to some Google searches.

BTW – In answer to the question in the title, I’m not a Google ‘cloud’ freak as I usually only use Google for searching, so if it was to go, I guess I’d head back to http://www.metacrawler.com full time

By: SAP

SAP — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:29:16 +0000

Anyone remember the AltaVista search engine?

That was an excellent resource initially, and then it went portal (or should I say portly .

I thought it had expired, but it seems to still be around, and has slimmed down again.

By: Awais Imran

Awais Imran — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:38:22 +0000

Living without Google would be fine for me. Because I don’t use Blogger, Chrome, Gears, Gmail. And I’m sure I can live without it’s search engine. Yahoo and Live Search do fine.