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I guess we all kinda knew that, but it's always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

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The main thing that got me switching to Google back then wasn't the better results, but their promise not to collect or use our data.

That all changed after 9/11, but by then Google had grown so huge it was hard to avoid them.

Even so, I still went back to Webcrawler and the others quite a lot and never really consistently used one search engine faithfully.