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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Wednesday April 22 2015, @02:35PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @02:35PM (#173989) Journal
    I don't remember which was the very first one, but I used Lycos, Infoseek and Yahoo for ages, before switching to AltaVista. I then started using Google in 2000 when someone at university introduced me to it, though I kept using AltaVista for backup because the search results were often better (but taking 30 seconds to load the search page on a 56Kb/s MODEM relegated it to occasional use). I switched to DuckDuckGo when Google decided that the up and down arrows should do different things in the Google search text field to every other text field in OS X, and stayed because it has a nicer UI and better privacy
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