Quatrux

Feb 17 2008, 11:24 AM

I prefer to use Google over most Yahoo services, for example Google mail is much better for me than Yahoo, for me Google mail is quite faster, due to it doesn't need to load so much things in webmail I don't need and so on.. but if talking about Google search, for several years now, when the pagerank thing appeared, seems google search doesn't search as it used to search content, it gives results as if it would be very smart and know what I want I mean the site which appears in top doesn't even include all my search strings, sometimes it's good but sometimes it isn't..

I remember I could copy paste some text from a site, like 10 words and do a google search with them I would definitely find it in the top link, but Today whenever I do that, I get some stupid sites in the front because they have more links pointed to them, due to pagerank and it isn't even associated with what I search and doesn't have all the words I made a search for OR I just get that no results were found, even though I know that there is a site with those keywords and it is indexed by google engine.. I don't know if it's better or not, I just am saying the difference.

 

 

 

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wutske

Mar 12 2008, 12:39 PM

I like and dislike google at the same time. I do use google services as gmail, picasa (and I used to use calendar, but I don't use anymore since I use my PDA as my main organizer) but I don't use google as my main search engine. I don't like the idea of google being able to link my search results to my name. I'm not saying they do so, but they can if they want to. Neither do I use iGoogle, I'm not interested in a customized start page everytime I open my browser, it's a wast of resources imho and another way of google to link data to my name .
I may sound a bit paranoia, but these days you just can't be safe enough on the internet.

ps. I use yahoo as my main search engine, it works as good as google, I enter some keywords and I usefull results, that's all I need .

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Athlon1600

Aug 7 2008, 03:31 AM

yes, infact it's my homepage

google results are nice and clean compared to yahoo's or ask.com. Plus I believe google search engine itself is smarter than any other search engine out there, so you know you are getting the best results.

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Lydubs

Jul 31 2008, 04:33 PM

Personally, I almost always use Google. I can't really think of any time I don't use Google or wouldn't want to! It's probably because Google is probably more developed and a has a lot more technology to it than other search engines.

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Havok

Jul 31 2008, 04:13 AM

QUOTE(Maxfelgar @ Jul 30 2008, 11:06 PM)

Google has never failed me (although the information I need is usually on Wikipedia ). I really like Google's interface, and although the more "specific" searching could still use some work, the basic searches are pretty good.

However, when I searched ALL the keywords of my website (which has had about 100 hits so far) it didn't show up, and I went to page ten. All of the pages that came up were completely irrelevant to my website, and I don't know how I'll get any new visitors :S.

Ya, Google has never failed me either. I can just go and search anything and it will be there. No matter how stupid the question is or how hard the question is, for me it will be there. You just have to look.

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Maxfelgar

Jul 30 2008, 11:06 PM

Google has never failed me (although the information I need is usually on Wikipedia ). I really like Google's interface, and although the more "specific" searching could still use some work, the basic searches are pretty good.

However, when I searched ALL the keywords of my website (which has had about 100 hits so far) it didn't show up, and I went to page ten. All of the pages that came up were completely irrelevant to my website, and I don't know how I'll get any new visitors :S.

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meee

Jul 25 2008, 01:05 AM

i like nether because they dont giv you a short answer. it all ways has to be every page that contains this word.

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