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Initially the no. 1 reason for me was peer pressure. It was simply unacceptable to use something other than Google in tech circles at some point. It was like ha
by michh 14y ago
Initially the no. 1 reason for me was peer pressure. It was simply unacceptable to use something other than Google in tech circles at some point. It was like having an @aol.com email address.
If your users are that passionate, you're doing something right.
After I gave it a go for a while, the other reasons you list made me stay.
- wickedchicken 14y ago> It was simply unacceptable to use something other than Google in tech circles at some point. From what I recall, it was also the most programmer-friendly search engine at the time. http://www.bing.com/search?q=DGGEVX http://www.bing.com/search?q=DGGEVX http://blekko.com/ws/DGGEVX http://blekko.com/ws/DGGEVX http://duckduckgo.com/?q=DGGEVX http://duckduckgo.com/?q=DGGEVX http://www.google.com/#q=DGGEVX http://www.google.com/#q=DGGEVX This is purely subjective, but Google is the only one that links to the Netlib 'real' LAPACK, straight to the file/documentation in question. The others have mixtures of Java packages and other examples...
- boyter 14y agoOfftopic, but do you consider these results any good? http://searchco.de/?q=DGGEVX&cs=on http://searchco.de/?q=DGGEVX&cs=on
- wickedchicken 14y agoBasically, but you're getting the opinion of a random person on the internet :). The third result is the 'real' one (the top two are unit tests for the named function.
- boyter 14y agoThat's fine, its who I am targeting! I was more curious to see if it was even in the ballpark. The relevance i'm not too worried about if the expected response is in the top 3. Thanks!