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ChurchCat
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:57 am Posts: 1652
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I have used Bing as my default search engine for about a month. I have come to the conclusion that compared to Google it comes a distant second.
Tonight I wanted to know more about the Skepchic Calendar but in my haste miss-spelled calendar as calandar. As a result no hits.
Same search in Google gives 5440 hits and a suggestion as to how to really spell calendar.
No contest.
Google FTW
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bally199
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:52 pm Posts: 1036 Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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I have one thing to say to you. Told you so.
_________________Kimmotalk is where all the cool people hang.
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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Google > The rest of the Earth.
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Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:19 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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Google invented the Internets.
Seriously. I remember the days BG, and even if you knew the information was there it was still out of reach. I'm trying to remember which search engine I was using, but I can't!
*goes to Google deceased search engines*
_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:16 am |
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:29 pm Posts: 5975
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I used to use Lycos, I think, and Excite.
_________________ "I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet." - Stanislaw Lem
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:28 am |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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I used "alltheweb" and AltaVista back in the BG days.
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:39 am |
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trigen_killer
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:37 pm Posts: 835 Location: North Wales UK
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But Google also pi55e5 me off, suggesting that I don't know what I want. I have been desperately searching for reference material for an essay and one of the things I wanted to find was information on the impact of ineffective mentorship. So I put "ineffective mentoring" into Google and it says- "Did you mean effective mentorship?" NO. I [LIFTED] Didn't. I know what I [LIFTED] want to [LIFTED] search for you [LIFTED] smart [LIFTED] search engine.
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:23 am |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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I used Altavista, Yahoo, Lycos, Webcrawler and Ask Jeeves. These days... guess...
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:47 am |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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Come to think of it, I actually relied quite heavily on a printed publication. I can't remember what it was called either, but it had cool links in and it was A5 on cheap paper and quite hard to find
_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:19 am |
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm Posts: 5490 Location: just behind you!
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I only get 48 hits on google.. whos stolen the other 5402 hits? Or am i doing something wrong
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:14 am |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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I used Alta Vista, to be honest, the results it used to give were more reliable than Google. Google's biggest problem today is that when you are looking INFORMATION on a product, they assume the only relevant information is the price! I tried to get some info on the exact specifications of an HP notebook, the first 4 or 5 sides on Google only listed price comparison sites and retail sites, which contained a brief overview of the machine (Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD), but not which graphics processor, how many USB ports, whether it had a docking station available etc. I tried Bing as well, that wasn't any more helpful. In the end I went to Yahoo! and it gave me about a dozen really good in-depth reviews of the machine!
_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:35 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Now you mention it, I've noticed I've had that problem while researching snowboards. However, in general, I still find Google to be the best overall.
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:51 am |
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tombolt
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:38 am Posts: 2967 Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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I've found researching snowboards on the web very hard myself. The best way is to go to a shop. I'm very lucky in having a good local shop who really know their onions and also let you try out their boards and bindings on a local dry slope once a week.
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:00 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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I've got a 45 minute drive to my "local" indoor slope. Unfortunately the shop there doesn't have the board I'm looking at. They do have test nights, but only every month or two. I'm heading down there again in just over a fortnight.
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Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:12 am |
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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm Posts: 4932 Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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I agree with Dave. Alta Vista was where it was it back in the 90s and very early 00s. It was rapid, gave great results and far better to use than Yahoo, Lycos and all the other nonsense. It even got quoted by Mike Skinner in a Streets record Google's good, but since it became the Walkman/Xerox/Sellotape of search engines it's become a little complacent in my book. Now they're all about making loads of money and acquisitions. Damn capitalism.
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