What It’s Like To Stop Using Google Search

Most of the time I don’t notice a single difference

Clive Thompson
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Published in
9 min readFeb 28, 2022

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For almost twenty years, I used Google as my main search engine.

When it first appeared in 1997, Google was wildly better than the competition. You young’uns don’t remember this — shakes cane — but back in the ‘90s, search engines were a hot mess. You’d type your query into…

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Clive Thompson
Debugger

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net