[michh]

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]

> 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://blekko.com/ws/DGGEVX

http://duckduckgo.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]

Offtopic, but do you consider these results any good?

http://searchco.de/?q=DGGEVX&cs=on

[wickedchicken]

Basically, 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]

That'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!