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Technology Stocks : Search Engines - options and opinions - Ask, Bing, Google, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: scion who wrote (14)	2/29/2016 11:52:21 AM
From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22

Google is still the best at finding info, here is a comment from that article on search engines: I'm not a Google Fanboy but your article made me laugh. I'm wondering if you would be forthcoming enough to reveal your specific true motivaions/goals for writing the article? Honestly for most of the benefits you list for all the alternative search engines, my immediate reaction (and I imagine for many other too) was "who cares?" I've tried using Bing instead of Google for extensive periods of time even in recent months. Everytime the results on Bing for a search were "thin" and not very on-target, when I switched to Google and performed the same search, I found more and better results. The other features you list take a distant second place to the primary reason of using a search engine; finding the best information/website relevant to what you are looking for. No one does that better than Google. No one. I know for whatever real reason you are being anti-Google, that's a hard fact to live with. Good title though, in all the crap I get in my inbox it stood out enough to come here and read it.

To: scion who wrote (14)	2/29/2016 12:03:56 PM
From: scion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22

WolframAlpha WolframAlpha is a ‘computational knowledge engine’, or super clever nerd to you and me. Ask it to calculate any data or ask it about any fact and it will give you the answer. Plus it does this awesome ‘computing’ thing while it thinks about your answer (which can take a short while.) wolframalpha.com