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I am well aware this should be in The Net forum, shhhhhh!
What do you all rate as the best search engine? I've used yahoo since I first started using the net but I've slowly come to realise it's pretty shit. Any suggestions?
NB. Sorry for using the word 'shit' I know I swear too much. It's my only bad habit.
What do you all rate as the best search engine? I've used yahoo since I first started using the net but I've slowly come to realise it's pretty shit. Any suggestions?
NB. Sorry for using the word 'shit' I know I swear too much. It's my only bad habit.
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or if u wanna search just uk
www.google.co.uk then search uk only!
my website comes up on that one
In fact, Yahoo.com now shows Google results by default, and puts its directory results a bit out of site now.
Yahoo lists around 3 million websites in total. Each has been hand-reviewed by an editor. These are the Yahoo Directory, and results from this are the Yahoo "Web Sites" bit.
Yahoo then backs up this very limited database with Google results. Google is completely automated and robotic in function, and has over 2 billion web pages in its database. Google is specifically designed to find the most popular web pages, and does this by counting up all the links to any page that exist on all of the pages in the database.
There's another search engine of similar size, which is the only really big search engine not made in the US. The search engine is called FAST, but to get results in English, go to http://www.alltheweb.com/
All The Web / FAST has a database roughly the same size as Google's (the joint largest in the world) so has just as wide a choice to offer in its results. If you don't find exactly what you are loking for on Google (or if you just want a different view / more results) then always use www.alltheweb.com as your primary backup.
Alternately, you can search at HotBot (www.hotbot.com) which brings you results from 4 separate search engines all at once, one of which is Google. Therefore Hotbot really is sort of Google-plus.
Can you tell this is a specialist subject of mine yet?
I remember that from the olden days...
As others have said, welcome back!
though this british site askjeeves.co.uk helped me a lot when I had to write a report on the functioning of the heart.
Altavista is btw the wors search engine, as they never update or something like that.
Indeed, although I still can't find what I am looking for!
I want a pair of flared jeans or brightly coloured flared cord trousers and I can't find any anywhere!
TK Maxx, not sure if they do ecommerce, though...
http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/c_108301_clothes_women.html
When you want to look at lots of shops together, like when you go out shopping in the real world, you are best off using a web directory rather than a pure search engine.
The Google Directory (really data from http://dmoz.org/ ) is useful here.
http://directory.google.com/...UK/Shopping/Clothing/Womenswear/
Here you'll find lots of Womens' clothing stores all together, all classified.
Speciality searches:
Metasearch - Profusion
Refined search - Direct Hit (taken over now, nowhere near as good)
Translator - Altavista
Images - Google (image bit)
Mass search - Dogpile
BK, ever heard of it?
I'm not impressed Mr Turtle, get rid of that question mark, people here are most likely to lazy/stupid to delete it from the address bar....
I second that
Oh shut it you.
(I'm doing it, I'm doing it.)
http://www.dogpile.com
I think you get better results from a search engine by learning how to use the advanced features.
eg. +"Jessica Alba" +"idle hands" -"dark angel" +pics
Still gets 273 hits on google.
But for this, *really* need to know what you're looking for. One often uses search engines for broad searches, to refine ones knowledge. This is when they can be seriously daunting and borderline useless, and when directories come into their own.
The other side of the issue is the Deep Web. I can't remember the search engine addresses...in fact, all I can recall is that it's basically huge databases of information from "official" sources. Anyone got more info?
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