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Yeah - it's one of those things.
If I don't look at it, Eryl will have a go at her mothers PC, and she knows very little. Or worse, her husband will have a go, and he thinks he does know something! 
And then I'll have an even bigger problem to sort out, probably with him looking over my shoulder and "making helpful suggestions"... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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RugbyLeague wrote:
"I had to look at a friend's mother's XP PC yesterday"
I like how you say "had to look" as though there was no way out of it. We have all been there |
A mate of mine has got a "No, I will not fix your computer" T-shirt.
So far I've offered him EUR 270, but he won't part with it.
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OriginalGriff wrote: installs it's own stupid search
Java + Ask bundle[^] - as far as I know it's allways installed by accident ...
Espen Harlinn
Chief Architect - Powel AS
Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra
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You can only Google with Google, in the same way that only Hoover make Hoovers; Dyson make Dysons. Your comments about Yahoo do surprise me, I've never found it useful for anything.
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Are you sure you're British?
Everyone calls vacuum cleaners "Hoovers" in Blighty.
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For most searches I'll use Google, but every now and again I'll use DuckDuckGo[^], for those few searches you don't need logged. 
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Searches of Gentlemen's Special Interest websites you mean?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Yes of course, that is what I meant, nothing sinister lol
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I too use DuckDuckGo. I do not like Bing, but on occasion I will use Google.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: my curiosity wants to know what search engine people use to "Google" for information.
Err,Google. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Majority of the google results are SEO spammed, but still Google is best.
Other search engines are no where with google.
Google provide accurate search results, but filtering it is our duty.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I've always preferred the results given by Yahoo
 I gave up on Yahoo around 2000 when they sucked terrible. Never been back.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I second that. I am juste keeping my email there, and use it for their live-broadcast of soccer.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I have a feeling that their web-site was designed by colour-blind devs working for the visually impaired, but most browsers have a "Search with" function, that allows you to select a search-engine provider without going to their site.
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I guess that depends on which computer I'm using.
Currently, my work laptop, so Bing is the default search engine. And for what I've been searching for lately, I've found what I wanted, so, it works.
When at home, the default is Google, so Google is used.
And yes, I understand and agree that 'Google' has become synonimous with searching the internset.
It is much the same as asking for a facial tissue or Kleenex. A heinz 57 is a mutt or a type of condiment.
Tim
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Tim Carmichael wrote: It is much the same as asking for a facial tissue or Kleenex.
Good one. I oouldn't think of any other examples, earlier (and I couldn't be bothered to Google it).
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I "Bing it".
As a matter of fact, I set my chrome home page to bing... just out of spite 
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I never installed Chrome... just out of spite!
Life is too shor
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littleGreenDude wrote: I set my chrome home page to bing... just out of spite masochism
Try to keep your comment as accurate as possible.
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I use Google as my only search engine. For financial info, I favor Yahoo Finance because I find its response snappier. For news, I prefer Google News.
Aside: I switched to Chrome (from IE) a couple of years back and now use it exclusively.
/ravi
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I always use Bing to perform a Web Search. I avoid that other word like the plague that it is.
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Sydney Morning Herald, Aug. 29, "Google drones tested in Queensland:" by Cameron Atfield:[^]:
"Google X director Astro Teller said Project Wing's goal was ultimately to build a system for delivering small and medium sized packages within minutes to anyone, using self-flying vehicles."
Clearly in a drug-induced manic episode, Astro rushed on to this stunning non-sequitur: "There's no reason we should all have a power drill in our garage when, at any one time, the world is using one hundredth of a per cent of its power drills," he said from the company's headquarters in California."
p.s. I had never heard of "Cherry Ripes" before coming across this story, and I can't explain why the names "Astro Teller," and "Cherry Ripes" suggest something pronish that I would not want to hear about, let alone see.
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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BillWoodruff wrote: Clearly in a drug-induced manic episode, Astro rushed on to this stunning non-sequitur: "There's no reason we should all have a power drill in our garage when, at any one time, the world is using one hundredth of a per cent of its power drills," he said from the company's headquarters in California."
Well, it's obvious that he meant that Google should own all the power drills, and that we should pay them and look at lots of advertising if we want to use one.
BillWoodruff wrote: p.s. I had never heard of "Cherry Ripes" before coming across this story
I had to look it up (I'm sick of using the word "Google"*), too. You'd think that an international company would know to use internationally recognisable items.
* But I do own a Hoover, made by Dyson.
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