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Merve
10-17-2003, 06:41 PM
What search engine do you use? I personally use Kart00 and Google, sometimes Metacrawler.
n00854180t
10-17-2003, 06:48 PM
I pretty much just use Google.
Moonglobe
10-17-2003, 06:50 PM
Originally posted by n00854180t
I pretty much just use Google. amen!
Merve
10-17-2003, 06:52 PM
I think I should be more specific. I use Google for quick searches. I use Kart00 for research. I use Metacrawler when I want to zone in on a specific topic, and I use AltaVista for complicated searches.
n00854180t
10-17-2003, 06:53 PM
You know what though? Ever since Google announced that it was "improving" its searching methods, I have noticed that sometimes it will not strictly match the words you give it, even if they are in quotes. It seems like it was more powerful before they changed it. Has anyone else noticed this?
Merve
10-17-2003, 07:01 PM
Yup
Moonglobe
10-17-2003, 07:03 PM
sorry, ya got a google bigot here..... its one of my bad points but o well.
n00854180t
10-17-2003, 07:05 PM
Damn, that was pretty much the sole reason I liked to use Google exclusively (other than no ads, no bs crap on their site). It used to get such perfect results, and now it is pretty much as bad as Altavista (don't know if they have changed it since the last time I used it...2 years ago or something).
Merve
10-17-2003, 07:18 PM
Use kart00; it's got cool maps and is really cool if you use their expert version.
Merve
10-17-2003, 07:20 PM
Originally posted by n00854180t
Damn, that was pretty much the sole reason I liked to use Google exclusively (other than no ads, no bs crap on their site). It used to get such perfect results, and now it is pretty much as bad as Altavista (don't know if they have changed it since the last time I used it...2 years ago or something).

AltaVista has changed a lot! Their search engine is good now, and compares with Google. I like it and I use it quite often.

I also like Metacrawler because it includes topics as a whole (as Google used to do).

I hate Ask Jeeves. It is the worst search engine on the net. It is a piece of crap.
n00854180t
10-17-2003, 07:28 PM
AskJeeves? That crap is still around? It can't even be considered a search engine. More like an advertising engine lol.
Moonglobe
10-17-2003, 07:30 PM
ya know it's creater was runnin for guvna' of California?
n00854180t
10-17-2003, 07:55 PM
LOL who was it?
Moonglobe
10-17-2003, 07:56 PM
Garret Gruener (gg4g.com)
Merve
10-17-2003, 08:14 PM
roflmao! That's fresh!

The kids version of Ask Jeeves actually has an ad with a baby's bare butt. There are four-year-olds looking at this stuff, they should really not have that one on.

Besides; it's a piece of [ahem].
jebster
10-17-2003, 09:18 PM
I use google for normal searches, alltheweb sometimes for normal searches too, and alltheweb for image searches. Tho a promising(IMO) search engine that is still much smaller than either of those(which have 3.3(google) and 3.1(alltheweb) billion pages) is http://www.gigablast.com/ (only has 202 million pages so far) I like its real time spidering feature! :)
dalecosp
10-21-2003, 01:07 AM
Google, no time for anything else.

Heard about Froogle ® (http://www.froogle.com/) ??
Merve
10-21-2003, 09:09 AM
Originally posted by dalecosp
Google, no time for anything else.

Heard about Froogle ® (http://www.froogle.com/) ??

sure heard about it. :) Not like I'm ever going to use it though.
jwb666
10-21-2003, 11:13 AM
google, definetly. its image search is brilliant and it is very quick.

ASK JEEVES IS TERRIBLE! I hate it so much, i wish someone would hack it.
goldbug
10-21-2003, 11:27 AM
Suprised nobody's mentioned astalavista.box.sk :)
bad76
10-21-2003, 01:30 PM
I think because
is going down, now it's all behind payment...

1) i search a crack to not pay a program
2) yuo give me a crack behind a payment

What tells you i will pay for it? :)
piersk
10-21-2003, 01:46 PM
Google all the way
goldbug
10-21-2003, 02:38 PM
Alright... I have to mention it, because in my eyes it is a form of a search engine:

http://www.pricewatch.com/

mmmm computer parts.
Merve
11-14-2003, 07:32 PM
Originally posted by piersk
Google all the way

Try something new. :)
LordShryku
11-14-2003, 10:33 PM
For a guy who posts a thread about not bumping....you sure bump a lot...
Merve
11-15-2003, 12:44 PM
Read my post carefully...it says something about interesting discussion topics...besides, I wasn't the one who bumped it off the second the page and onto the first. I'm just replying to the discussion.

I have heard that pricewatch was good for that kind of stuff. They have vacations, autos, computers, etc...it's still a search engine, just with a limited scope, products!
LordShryku
11-15-2003, 01:39 PM
Ah yeah, pricewatch is real good for computer parts. I built my last computer almost completely off of pricewatch