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Augie De Blieck Jr.
writes "Google.com has just added a bunch of information to its site, including job listings, company info, and general Google FAQ. I think it's the best search engine out there already and it's still only in BETA release. "
I've noticed that the "Cached" version of Slashdot is from april 15, but
besides that its looking good. I've had pretty good
luck with google.
I started playing with google a little while ago, though most of the time it turns up good results, there is one thing that sometimes gets me. I'll do a search with around 4 words and google will turn up something totally strange for the first match and turn up reasonable things on all the others. For instance I searched for information about a Microsoft product (Don't hurt me) and it turned up microsoft.com as the first match, even though that particular page had almost no matching terms. Doesn't this seem weird? I've gotten yahoo.com in the same way. Can someone give me a reasonable explanation to this occurance? It's kind of funny to see a simple address like www.yahoo.com followed by rows of complicated addresses full of slashes and letters.
As I'm sure everyone knows, Google works off links. It knows a page is good and relevant if lots of (good and relevant) pages link to it. So when people are mentioning said Microsoft product on their website or whatnot, they probably just link to www.microsoft.com instead of the specific page for the product. e.g.:
Microsoft's SuperCool is a really good product.
That's just the way Google works. All in all, though, www.microsoft.com isn't a terribly bad starting point to find Microsoft's products. I mean I'm sure you could think it up yourself, and you still have to do some searching from it, but it's better than the pr0n ads Altavista will give you.
Google is a decent engine, which I use a lot. But I really liked Altavista's advanced search... it really gave you a lot of control over what came back.
Now a RegExp search engine... that would be sweet!
Notes:
:( Things seem a little better now.
Google has had trouble with their service provider over the last week.
Text-only AltaVista won't give you the refinement suggestions, which I think are really neat. For example, searching for "Explorer" gives you "Ford Explorer" and "Internet Explorer" as suggested refinements.
There's also a text-only HotBot at:
http://www.hotbot.com/lite/
Amit
Um, why does everything have to be denominated in dollars? Or do you just assume that enthusiasm has to be paid for any more on the Internet?
/. its well deserved check for promoting the Phantom Menace, then let me know.
In a world where Marimba has a market cap of maybe $90 million at the moment, I find it laughable that CT is constantly being accused of highlighting companies, web sites, products or whatever, in exchange for filthy lucre.
But hey, when Lucas gives
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Bill Gates Is My Evil Twin.
In addition to the reasons people already wrote here, it could also be something really simple.
Google, if it finds several pages on the same site that match in varying degrees, it will list the one that is the least buried in nested directories (microsoft.com in this case) first, and under it, indented, will be all that page's "children", each with a score of its own. A child might well have a higher score than its parent, but will be listed after to show the relationship between the two.
Personally, I think this feature totally rocks. Google rocks! Any time I ever start a search somewhere else, I later wonderwhy, because Google is always the one that finds what I want. It is my default web page, in fact. Slashdot would be, but it doesn't load fast over my 26,400 modem connection (USWEST is a bunch of crooks, if you ask me) Google loads like *snap* that.
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Google is a really great search engine and I now use it for all of my research, but none of the items that were listed are new, they have been on the google site for some time now!
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Yes, Google is fast and returns the right results more than any other search engine... if it returns a result! Unfortunately Google doesn't find a lot of things - it seems, that there are only a few websites indexed.
Google also lets you search the same term on other search engines, to show you who gives better results - this is nice. Unfortunately Google doesn't give you this option, if it didn't find anything. But exactly this is the situation, where I need to use another search engine, so I'm really missing this option.
This is why I still prefer Altavista over Google.
For you Google folks: please insert the "Try your query on other engines" also when the term didn't match any documents in Google's database.
Thanks,
Markus Senoner
Hi all.
:-(
I think google is a great search engine.
But as always what search engine to use depend on what
you are looking for.
Use it, if you are looking for the best page on a specific subject.
Google ranks page by links pointing to them.
Where link form high ranking pages weights more.
This means that link from yahoo have more weight.
While this wasn't a problem with the Stanford version,
it sometime seams to be a problem now.
Another thing is that you used to be able to make searches
like
link:www.lycos.com link:www.infoseek.com
to find all the pages which have links to both
lycos and infoseek.
This was very useful, but it has been removed.
When searching with yahoo you get
your results categoriesed.
This means that if you feels like
dancing and search for samba you can find some dance sites.
But yahoos weak points is small size
and sometimes bad categories.
That is yahoo don't have a category for blue cheese and
sometime categories have to many links.
This is this type of problems I try to
solve in Aeiwi.
It is not that big only 150000 links
but I hope to update it to 250000 links soon.
So, stop by and take a look.
Knud
In case you missed it last time around on /.
Search on "more evil than the devil" at Google. See what comes up. Idiosyncracy or...?
Andy B.
-- This
You may all be interested to know that he said they were planning to start indexing on a regular basis in the near future. So this will cure my major complaint that it doesn't have the newest things in it.
Steve