My Tipple on Google-Free Wednesdays appeared in the FreePint Newsletter #247 this week.
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Our first Google-Free Wednesday was a resounding success. We searched for people and found them. We searched for telephone numbers and addresses without difficulty. Information on companies, both domestic and foreign, was uncovered. The main players in an industry identified. A government programme was examined. All without Google!
Accoona proved to be particularly useful in its EU version. For more information about this search engine read this article.
Have you noticed how one falls into a rut? For instance, Google is just so easy to use. It sits there in my browser as a toolbar. I use it all the time, dozens of times a day. But what if it wasn’t there today?
I’ve decided to declare Wednesday as a Google-free day. I will use Ask.com, Canuckster.com, CanFind.ca, Exalead.com, Live.com, Yahoo.com. I will use Graball to compare search engine results side by side. I will use Copernic Agent to search multiple search engines.
This will be an opportunity to learn the features and weaknesses of these search engines. It will be an opportunity to get out of the Google rut.