Pax (funcrunch) wrote,
Pax
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Search habits

Google unintentionally created an uproar today when previewing a new feature that displays full-screen background images on the Google.com home page. I was surprised at the reaction as I almost never go to the main Google home page to search. I use the location bar in Chromium on Ubuntu to enter my search terms directly, and when I used Firefox on the Mac I hit Command-K to enter my query in the search box. I'm curious about my friends' search habits in this regard.

Edit: And of course after laboriously creating and posting the poll I realize I left out my own preferred option in the first question, so those who search the way I do should choose "Something else" I suppose (since I can't edit the poll itself apparently).

Poll #1577018 Search habits
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 16

On my desktop computer, I primarily search by using:

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The google.com home page
6(40.0%)
The igoogle.com page
0(0.0%)
My browser's built-in start page
1(6.7%)
Bing, Yahoo, or another search engine
1(6.7%)
Something else (explain in comments)
7(46.7%)

On my mobile phone, I primarily search by using:

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The google.com home page
5(33.3%)
The igoogle.com page
0(0.0%)
My phone's built-in search page
0(0.0%)
Bing, Yahoo, or another search engine
0(0.0%)
Something else (explain in comments)
6(40.0%)
I don't have a "smart" phone
4(26.7%)

My opinion on background images on Google.com:

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Brilliant!
2(12.5%)
Horrible!
1(6.2%)
Neutral
2(12.5%)
I didn't even know about this
4(25.0%)
This is not a tickybox
0(0.0%)
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