If you dont use Google to search online, what engine do you use?

Ryno

Ryno

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I ask because I think googles searches are getting shittier and shitter as time goes on and I'm open to testing out some new engines to see if anything else suits me better.
 
Anyone else noticing the quality of searchs on google decresing or is it just me?
 
I know what you mean. It seems like every first page whenever I google something is Wikipedia. I mean that gives me a basic answer but why always wikipedia. Then only a few results down some are unbelievabley random. I think the money went to google's head.
 
As a Google shareholder, I call shenanigans to you sir, and proclaim that google is the best search engine ever and people should give there money to google
 
i bet if you google search engines youll get some pretty good ones...toss that around in the ol noggin for a while
 
Pop-ups are a thing of the past these days. Or they are at least for people who are willing to download a couple programs.

 
used to use dogpile all the time back in the day, but then google was easier to type so i switched ;)
 
I love that south park episode when cartman thinks the new middle eastern kid is a terrorist, and it's like 24. and homeland security raids kyle's house to start researching things and they start using ask jeeves and old stuff like that, and kyle's like, "who the fuck uses ask jeeves!?"
 
I'm with this guy. haha. 100% of my business is google, so I'm going to support it.

But if you're looking for the future of internet searches.. I suspect it going in this direction:

http://www.msdewey.com/

Interactive video with a face behind it..
 
i use google. period end. in firefox I just hit [Apple]+[K], type what i want, and hit enter, and bam, problem solved. I think it's ctrl K on windows.

I'm a workflow junkie though; I know exactly how to parse things to find stuff in google, when to use quotes, what words to add to what to find stuff, and obviously I know all the key commands to get to what I need faster via the OS.

Also, having wikipedia pop up within the first couple of hits is great when I'm looking for basic information about something I don't know much about.

I'll even go so far as to throw in wikipedia INTO the search terms to get to it faster. (I know in firefox i could scroll down and acually use the wikipedia search, but that's slower.)

For example instead of searching for

[ talking heads ]

(which acually has the wikipedia article as the 2nd hit.)

i'd search for

[ talking heads band wikipedia ]

which brings it up as THE first hit.

This kind of is a shitty example because the talking heads are popular, but for something like nuclear propulsion, it would make getting a general overview easier.......

uhhhhh i seeem to have drifted a little bit but i'm pretty passionate about learning stuff, and as you can see i've gotten pretty good at finding information about things, using google and wikipedia as a launching pad to delve further into topics i find interesting.
 
yeah i use quotes and all the advanced features but it still seems like its changed recently...i dunno...maybe my standards have be raised :P
 
they've been upgrading their algorithms like crazy the past year or so.. in order to make smarter search results and boost quality-unique content sites. Alot of the sites that were playing dirty and using cheap SEO tactics to kick their website into the top spots, have been falling off.

As far as the paid/sponsored results. There's been some 'Google slaps', which ultimately did the same things to advertisers.

This ultimately is great news though, as it's a cleansing... Alot of the people who were flooding the search engines with junk got slapped hard, and some are even quitting altogether because of it.

So once again quality is back into play. Unique content with quality behind it is going to rank higher.. Which means better surfing.

You might have just been catching Google in the transition? All this stuff is just making it better, and it's only up from here.
 
I understand they constantly have to tweak their ranking algorithms to stay ahead of the people who want to take advantage of it, but it just seems that recently it has taking a bit of a wrong turn in terms of quality.

I like how wikipedia comes up quick when im doing general searchs and I think maybe that general searching has improved but if I'm looking for something unique, I find that Googles falls short with the quality of results more times then not.
 
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