Do no google! Update!
In a post on 28 May Do no google! we put the challenge to ourselves and anyone else to not use any Google product for 1 week. It has been a couple of weeks now and some of us in the office not only managed week 1 but have continued to do no google ever since. Google search has to be the major test in this experiment and to be honest I’m not sure if I miss it or not. Certainly I miss the layout (bizarrely) but I do not feel I’m missing anything in terms of results. Could it be that we are just all familiar with Google now rather than it being that much better?
Interesting point - but how have you been replacing google? If, for example, you outsourced your google searches to twitter (as i would imagine i might do to some degree) then it wouldn’t be quite so effective, eh? so i’m curious: which tools have you been using since going cold turkey on google?
P.
same here,
what did you use as an alternative?
Thanks for the comments.
I deliberated over whether to mention the alternate search engines that we used (we used a few). I decided not to say as I felt it was important to focus on Google rather than divert the conversation onto the pros/cons of other engines.
However, as the question has been asked the main two that we switched to were Yahoo! and Live.