How much do you search?

April 27, 2006 By

Joe Schmidt asks "how much do you Google?" and then shares his stats.

I wish MSN had a feature like that so I could watch how much I use it vs. Google and share that with you. It would make a killer blog sidebar gadget, too. "Watch Scoble as he searches."

Hmmm.

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  • http://www.brandoncolton.com/ Brandon Colton

    I would guess that I search on average at least 10 times a day on Google. Although I use Google’s personalized web page, I turn off the search history feature.

  • http://www.brandoncolton.com Brandon Colton

    I would guess that I search on average at least 10 times a day on Google. Although I use Google’s personalized web page, I turn off the search history feature.

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  • http://winzenz.blogspot.com/ Ben Winzenz

    I have not used Google search in the last 6 months. At the last MVP Summit, we were challenged to start using MSN Search and report where it wasn’t as good.

    I have to say that since I switched to MSN, I haven’t had any problems getting the results I wanted. On a few occassions, just for comparison, I’ve done the same search on Google, and didn’t get any better results, so I’ve continued to use MSN.

    As for how many times per day, I’d guess on average 5-10 times per day, but I agree it would be nice to be able to see how many times I search.

  • http://winzenz.blogspot.com Ben Winzenz

    I have not used Google search in the last 6 months. At the last MVP Summit, we were challenged to start using MSN Search and report where it wasn’t as good.

    I have to say that since I switched to MSN, I haven’t had any problems getting the results I wanted. On a few occassions, just for comparison, I’ve done the same search on Google, and didn’t get any better results, so I’ve continued to use MSN.

    As for how many times per day, I’d guess on average 5-10 times per day, but I agree it would be nice to be able to see how many times I search.

  • http://thesoapboxprophet.blogspot.com/ Andrew Venegas

    I use both search engines, and both are rather good. What bothers me about MSN’s though is the cluttered feeling on the site. It has adds and all sorts of flashiness that I think detracts from what it’s job really is – just a search engine.
    This is especially important to me when I use RSS feeds. On my personalized Google site, all I have are my feeds and the search bar.

  • http://thesoapboxprophet.blogspot.com/ Andrew Venegas

    I use both search engines, and both are rather good. What bothers me about MSN’s though is the cluttered feeling on the site. It has adds and all sorts of flashiness that I think detracts from what it’s job really is – just a search engine.
    This is especially important to me when I use RSS feeds. On my personalized Google site, all I have are my feeds and the search bar.

  • Christopher Coulter

    Google is wiki, splog, blog and spam noised to all heck, MSN followed the same mold, Yahoo is cleaner, but still half unuseable. But the ‘watch me surf’ has serious privacy implications that should be looked into, before geeks demand new dog and pony tricked-up searching tricks. Just search Lexis/Nexis for real info.

  • Christopher Coulter

    Google is wiki, splog, blog and spam noised to all heck, MSN followed the same mold, Yahoo is cleaner, but still half unuseable. But the ‘watch me surf’ has serious privacy implications that should be looked into, before geeks demand new dog and pony tricked-up searching tricks. Just search Lexis/Nexis for real info.

  • http://surfmind.com/muzings/ Andyed

    Forget a watcher, the data’s already on your machine in your browser history.

    Generating a surf report would be a really easy thing to report from code that had access to history. Firefox’s move to sqllite for this datasource should make that easier. (I did it back in the day with RDF, man that sucked. mozwho.mozdev.org)

    I’ve asked the gadget team to expose browser history to .js for the Vista Sidebar.

  • http://surfmind.com/muzings/ Andyed

    Forget a watcher, the data’s already on your machine in your browser history.

    Generating a surf report would be a really easy thing to report from code that had access to history. Firefox’s move to sqllite for this datasource should make that easier. (I did it back in the day with RDF, man that sucked. mozwho.mozdev.org)

    I’ve asked the gadget team to expose browser history to .js for the Vista Sidebar.

  • http://www.moldavenger.com/ Mold Remover

    Is this a wordpress blog? or some other software?

  • http://www.moldavenger.com/ Mold Remover

    Is this a wordpress blog? or some other software?