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Old Mar 7, 2011 | 07:56 PM
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Getting Off Google

I am switching my search engine to Bing or Yahoo, cant really decide, just tired of all the bad news with google accounts, anyone else?
 
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Old Mar 7, 2011 | 08:20 PM
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No, kinda hard to. Have everything set up through google like phone and email. I never have had a problem with google.
 
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Old Mar 7, 2011 | 09:21 PM
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You will go back to Google... it is still the best SE in the interwebnet..
 
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Old Mar 7, 2011 | 09:58 PM
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I use google exclusively for search engine stuff. I didnt care for Bing at all. And my internet email has been with yahoo since....I think 1999....and will probably be that way until yahoo goes out of business.
 
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Old Mar 7, 2011 | 10:38 PM
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Bing sucks
 
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Old Mar 7, 2011 | 10:57 PM
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It has long been known that Google tracks & keeps track of your searching.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 12:11 AM
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Whats the bad news with Google?
 
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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by cigarxtc
I use google exclusively for search engine stuff. I didnt care for Bing at all. And my internet email has been with yahoo since....I think 1999....and will probably be that way until yahoo goes out of business.
Same here.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 02:53 AM
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Originally Posted by jake00
Bing sucks
You beat me to it.

I can't stand Bing. It somehow planted itself as my default search engine awhile ago and I had a hell of a time getting rid of it. A-holes.

That, and I really hate how you can't even scroll around a page without accidentally passing over some highlighted text that immediately pops a new window up. If I want to read it, I'll click it dumba$$!!
 
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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 05:27 AM
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Ditto on the Bing...Came linked in (somehow) with my HP Computer. It sucked and I had to jump thru hoops to remove it!!
 
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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 05:56 AM
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Originally Posted by fz1dave
I really hate how you can't even scroll around a page without accidentally passing over some highlighted text that immediately pops a new window up.
What browser are you using that doesn't have an option to turn off rollovers?

This is in Javascript and easy to defeat.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 06:44 AM
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i think bing is great. i type in what i am looking for, and it takes me exactly to that.
not 500,000,000,000 hits on everything BUT what i am looking for like google does.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 06:52 AM
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Google is skynet.





Resistance is futile.




If you can read my words. You ARE the resistance.




J/K. Google is terrific. It's sync'd to my phone and my email. It's so big onthe web that we no longer tell people to search for stuff. We say "Google It." I wish I had invested in it when it was a fledgling .com.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 07:19 AM
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Bing is nothing more than an unwanted marketing vehicle. IMPO it should be treated as a trojan, virus etc.

My wife snagged it onto my company laptop and I haven't taken the time to get rid of it. Form what I understand, it is difficult and very time consuming.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 07:23 AM
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I only use Google as a search engine for on-line shopping, otherwise I have Yahoo set as my home page to do all my other primary searching on.

OJ
 
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