saltpeter
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Post by saltpeter on Jul 2, 2007 17:02:34 GMT -5
There are so many search engines that I thought I would ask what search engine our forum users use the most? What's second? Third?
Examples: Google, Yahoo!, Netscape, MSN, Altheweb, HotBot, Dogpile, Vivisimo, Ask.com, WebCrawler, Clutsy, My Web Search, Aol.com, Mamma, Clusty, MySpace Search
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Brian Roebuck
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Post by Brian Roebuck on Jul 2, 2007 19:41:19 GMT -5
Mostly Google since it's built in my browser.
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Post by Sharon Faulkner on Jul 2, 2007 20:53:47 GMT -5
I use Google almost exclusively.
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Post by Azurerana on Jul 2, 2007 23:04:06 GMT -5
Google. Better results and easier to psych out, since I'm not usually looking for commercial sites which Yahoo seems to excel at.
I wish Google had a better people find, though.
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Tony Anders
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Post by Tony Anders on Jul 3, 2007 7:58:03 GMT -5
I have to say I GOOGLE more than anything. However I can customize firefox for about any search engine, I normally use google for the results it produces.
Alta Vista does good too though, depending on what your looking for. I have found that Google seems not to find alot of handguns , maybe there just isn't any for sell out there.
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L Roebuck
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Post by L Roebuck on Jul 3, 2007 10:55:08 GMT -5
Google is a good search engine. But it depends on 'what' I need to search because some of the other search engines seem like they are more efficient than google on certain topics. And I tend to like Yahoo! News search a bit more than the Google News search engine. So I use several search engines but prefer specific search engines over the clustering type search engines.
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Brian Roebuck
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Post by Brian Roebuck on Jul 3, 2007 20:04:07 GMT -5
Lynn do you have any advice for us googling buffoons such as what you recommend for basic types of searches?
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L Roebuck
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Post by L Roebuck on Jul 4, 2007 7:37:21 GMT -5
Sure Beaner ... DWRFY.  Here's a few tips....well Yahoo! News is great for news search, Google Scholar is great for searching scientific papers etc, Google Image Search can be handy at times, Myway.com and Clusty are great for quick searches that returning mega amounts of info. Ok so that's all that comes to mind at this time... |
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