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> I have been using a different search engine for about a year now

Which one?

> when I do go back to Google it's almost always to use it as a dictionary

I've also found it great for dictionary + thesaurus + etymology. I wonder if there's something better so I can shed my reliance on google here.


Wiktionary is pretty solid for etymology, but doesn't have quite the panache of etymonline. Dictionary/thesaurus, I don't know.


you.com it allows you to customize it to some extend.


what would happen if you do touch it with a 20-foot pole?


many commenters say CS is too big to fail. I wonder if the Swiss government would do a referendum on this.


you email your mom? why not talk over the phone? or text her?


One can do all three, right?


How do you send documents that your mom kindly ask you to scan?


you mean yahoo finance and yahoo sports.


should have been: "Bing Is Not Google"


unironically this.


even these days, true intellectuals have to censor themselves to please modern religions (yes, they are religion).


It's a good thing "true intellectuals" are not motivated by the desire to please any particular audience, except perhaps Σοφία.


The alternative is to be deplatformed, lose your job, or both


because then it would be apparent that blacks make up 13% of the population, yet commit 56% of violent crimes.


"Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."


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