Personally I prefer "poogling" - Searching the internet while sitting on the toilet.

who gives a sh*t what google likes or doesn't like?

Just saying...

How about "duckduckgoobingixquickling"?

“Yesterday I duckduckwent the solution.”

I discovered Google when I punched "search engine" into Yahoo.

I'd agree that DuckDuckGo has some neat features, but is it really any better than (Yahoo, Google, Bing) when it comes to bigger concerns? It's nice to say that you're offering privacy, but how can you know that? It's not open source, and there's some very coercive eyes that would like to see everything you're searching for. One of those concerns is easier dealt with than the other.

I use google because, amongst other things, historically they were the only ones which worked. I still recall the days of trying to search for "Nine Inch Nail Lyrics" and seeing the search engine return "Did You Mean Nine Inch Black C****?" then displaying a page of genitalia.
Forgetting their problems at present, Google were the only people for a decade or so who gave a decent search result.

I agree. Copyright and trademark laws absolutely do not prevent us from using a trademarked name allegedly inappropriately. If I say "I Wal-Marted" as a silly way of saying I went to Wal-Mart for groceries, and Wal-Mart doesn't like it, too bad. Less ridiculously, what about phrases like "Ubuntu is the Windows of Linux distributions?" Neither Ubuntu nor Microsoft should like that, but I don't care.

At least Hormel was humble enough not to legally harass those who came up with an unrelated new meaning of their trademarked word "Spam." All they've done is grumble. (To my knowledge.)

They've not had to do much as the generic use of a trademark outside of its usual environment isn't as likely to dilute it, however, they have had to take some action:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%...ademark_issues

Thought of this thread on my way to work as a lady on the radio referred to a microsoft word document on her computer, think once with Linux only long enough I'll become more like Stallman or always was just didn't know until.edu? I say It's your skin let whatever you want under there . . .

I also find that Google is the best in almost any information search. One thing I keep in mind is that I have to avoid personalization of search to get the most vanilla results. Never search being logged in and delete Google cookies as often as possible (I have https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ecookiedelete/ to delete them automatically on each browser exit). This way I don't have to use browser private mode. A lot of people complain that Google violates their privacy, that it's too annoying and tries to manipulate people... While it's true, you can simply disregard all these features and use it the “raw” way: to always start search with a clean slate and never care about what's going on in this search engine. No cookies and no logging in means no search history and no personalization. (Also don't use social networks — it's gonna save you some nervous system resources.) I don't know how Google can annoy you with such an approach. (I think annoyed people are those who care about Google, that's their mistake.)

I admit I do use google as my main search engine. What attracted me to google when it came to existence was their simple clean website. Clean, meaning not cluttered with unrelated stuff, ads, banner ads and etc like many other search engines did in the day.

Thanks, that helped.