When you search the web a lot, you start to feel the rough spots of the search engines. Working with a handful of different frameworks and languages requires to me visit a search engine several times a day. Whether I’m checking for the existence of some obscure PHP function or trying to figure out the proper way to do something in a framework, Google is my friend. I’d bet that this is pretty standard among web developers.
Due to some light anti-Google rebellion that has be brewing within me, I seem to have decided to avoid using Google to perform my daily searches.
The plan is to use a different, old school search engine, everyday; instead of Google. Going in to this, the only prediction that I have made is that: these, most search engines probably return results of a similar quality. Besides search quality, I’m not sure what else to expect. Google has been my goto search engine for a long time. I’ve definitely used other search engines in the past, but am straining to remember when I defaulted to Google.
Today was Day One of my Week Without Google Search.
