search engins

[gert]

A while back some one mensioned a realy good search engin; I tried it and it was, but our computerguy here rebuilt our desks and its gone; does any one know it's name?
thx

[gert]

A while back some one mensioned a realy good search engin; I tried it and it was, but our computerguy here rebuilt our desks and its gone; does any one know it's name?
thx

[gert]

A while back some one mensioned a realy good search engin; I tried it and it was, but our computerguy here rebuilt our desks and its gone; does any one know it's name?
thx

[Mike Keers]

I like www.google.com (http://www.google.com) myself, but there are a few other "super" ones out there. Does that ring a bell?

[Mike Keers]

I like www.google.com (http://www.google.com) myself, but there are a few other "super" ones out there. Does that ring a bell?

[Mike Keers]

I like www.google.com (http://www.google.com) myself, but there are a few other "super" ones out there. Does that ring a bell?

[Wayne Jeffers]

I think someone posted a link to http://www.alltheweb.com/ a while back.

Wayne

[Wayne Jeffers]

I think someone posted a link to http://www.alltheweb.com/ a while back.

Wayne

[Wayne Jeffers]

I think someone posted a link to http://www.alltheweb.com/ a while back.

Wayne

[Ed Harrow]

Ahhh, Wayne, that's the one we use nearly exclusively. To give credit where credit is due, our daughter brought it home.

[Ed Harrow]

Ahhh, Wayne, that's the one we use nearly exclusively. To give credit where credit is due, our daughter brought it home.

[Ed Harrow]

Ahhh, Wayne, that's the one we use nearly exclusively. To give credit where credit is due, our daughter brought it home.

[htom]

The other one I have bookmarked is www.northernlight.com (http://www.northernlight.com) .

http://www.searchengines.com/searchengine_listings.html has a list of search engines sorted various ways at the bottom of that page (thank you to google).

groups.google.com has, now, I think, the last five years of most of usenet. Still not as nice for searching as the old deja but it's getting better.

[htom]

The other one I have bookmarked is www.northernlight.com (http://www.northernlight.com) .

http://www.searchengines.com/searchengine_listings.html has a list of search engines sorted various ways at the bottom of that page (thank you to google).

groups.google.com has, now, I think, the last five years of most of usenet. Still not as nice for searching as the old deja but it's getting better.

[htom]

The other one I have bookmarked is www.northernlight.com (http://www.northernlight.com) .

http://www.searchengines.com/searchengine_listings.html has a list of search engines sorted various ways at the bottom of that page (thank you to google).

groups.google.com has, now, I think, the last five years of most of usenet. Still not as nice for searching as the old deja but it's getting better.

[Mike Field]

Google is probably still my favourite, but another great one is Dogpile (yeah, I know),) at --

http://www.dogpile.com/templater.gsp?id=/help

[Mike Field]

Google is probably still my favourite, but another great one is Dogpile (yeah, I know),) at --

http://www.dogpile.com/templater.gsp?id=/help

[Mike Field]

Google is probably still my favourite, but another great one is Dogpile (yeah, I know),) at --

http://www.dogpile.com/templater.gsp?id=/help

[NormMessinger]

It isn't so much the search engine one uses but one's ability to select the correct words to search on. So it seems to me. Madam Librairian tells me the Google is the principle search engine they use at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Library so that is the one I use. She can find stuff I can't. No if then's and or's and not's about it.

--Norm

[NormMessinger]

It isn't so much the search engine one uses but one's ability to select the correct words to search on. So it seems to me. Madam Librairian tells me the Google is the principle search engine they use at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Library so that is the one I use. She can find stuff I can't. No if then's and or's and not's about it.

--Norm

[NormMessinger]

It isn't so much the search engine one uses but one's ability to select the correct words to search on. So it seems to me. Madam Librairian tells me the Google is the principle search engine they use at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Library so that is the one I use. She can find stuff I can't. No if then's and or's and not's about it.

--Norm

[Nicholas Carey]

Originally posted by NormMessinger:
It isn't so much the search engine one uses but one's ability to select the correct words to search on. So it seems to me.

--puts on software engineer hat--

That's exactly right. You've got to know how to ask the right question. That's one reason why the librarians (see below) get the Big Bucks -- an MLS is all about organising and categorizing information. They're trained to ask the right questions.

Madam Librairian tells me the Google is the principle search engine they use at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Library so that is the one I use. She can find stuff I can't. No if then's and or's and not's about it.

One of Google's (http://www.google.com) big advantages is how it ranks pages. Google's weighting algorithm gives a Lot of weight to (A) the text of hyperlinks linking to a page and (B) the number of hyperlinks linking to that page, rather than the actual contents of the page.

The theory is that if someone goes to the trouble to link to a page, the link they use probably fairly accurately describes the page. Everybody tries to tweak the metadata on their pages in order to try and 'beat' the search engines and ensure that their page is ranked highest in the search engine results set.

Google's theory seems to be a pretty good one -- they feel confident enough to offer an 'I Feel Lucky' button that skips the display of the results set and just takes you directly to the top ranked link. It works pretty good for most queries.

[Nicholas Carey]

Originally posted by NormMessinger:
It isn't so much the search engine one uses but one's ability to select the correct words to search on. So it seems to me.

--puts on software engineer hat--

That's exactly right. You've got to know how to ask the right question. That's one reason why the librarians (see below) get the Big Bucks -- an MLS is all about organising and categorizing information. They're trained to ask the right questions.

Madam Librairian tells me the Google is the principle search engine they use at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Library so that is the one I use. She can find stuff I can't. No if then's and or's and not's about it.

One of Google's (http://www.google.com) big advantages is how it ranks pages. Google's weighting algorithm gives a Lot of weight to (A) the text of hyperlinks linking to a page and (B) the number of hyperlinks linking to that page, rather than the actual contents of the page.

The theory is that if someone goes to the trouble to link to a page, the link they use probably fairly accurately describes the page. Everybody tries to tweak the metadata on their pages in order to try and 'beat' the search engines and ensure that their page is ranked highest in the search engine results set.

Google's theory seems to be a pretty good one -- they feel confident enough to offer an 'I Feel Lucky' button that skips the display of the results set and just takes you directly to the top ranked link. It works pretty good for most queries.

[Nicholas Carey]

Originally posted by NormMessinger:
It isn't so much the search engine one uses but one's ability to select the correct words to search on. So it seems to me.

--puts on software engineer hat--

That's exactly right. You've got to know how to ask the right question. That's one reason why the librarians (see below) get the Big Bucks -- an MLS is all about organising and categorizing information. They're trained to ask the right questions.

Madam Librairian tells me the Google is the principle search engine they use at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Library so that is the one I use. She can find stuff I can't. No if then's and or's and not's about it.

One of Google's (http://www.google.com) big advantages is how it ranks pages. Google's weighting algorithm gives a Lot of weight to (A) the text of hyperlinks linking to a page and (B) the number of hyperlinks linking to that page, rather than the actual contents of the page.

The theory is that if someone goes to the trouble to link to a page, the link they use probably fairly accurately describes the page. Everybody tries to tweak the metadata on their pages in order to try and 'beat' the search engines and ensure that their page is ranked highest in the search engine results set.

Google's theory seems to be a pretty good one -- they feel confident enough to offer an 'I Feel Lucky' button that skips the display of the results set and just takes you directly to the top ranked link. It works pretty good for most queries.

[Bruce Hooke]

I mostly use Dogpile ( http://www.dogpile.com ), which goes out to a slew of other search engines and returns their results. What I like about this is that different search engines do well a finding different kinds of information and I can see it all brought together at Dogpile. However, this only works well if you are good at quickly scanning through a somewhat longer list of results and picking out the likely candidates.

- Bruce

[Bruce Hooke]

I mostly use Dogpile ( http://www.dogpile.com ), which goes out to a slew of other search engines and returns their results. What I like about this is that different search engines do well a finding different kinds of information and I can see it all brought together at Dogpile. However, this only works well if you are good at quickly scanning through a somewhat longer list of results and picking out the likely candidates.

- Bruce

[Bruce Hooke]

I mostly use Dogpile ( http://www.dogpile.com ), which goes out to a slew of other search engines and returns their results. What I like about this is that different search engines do well a finding different kinds of information and I can see it all brought together at Dogpile. However, this only works well if you are good at quickly scanning through a somewhat longer list of results and picking out the likely candidates.

- Bruce

[Steveo]

Gert, I like copernic 2001. A person can download it free from http://www.copernic.com/. It searches with at least 10 search engines simultaneously.
Good luck, Steve

[Steveo]

Gert, I like copernic 2001. A person can download it free from http://www.copernic.com/. It searches with at least 10 search engines simultaneously.
Good luck, Steve

[Steveo]

Gert, I like copernic 2001. A person can download it free from http://www.copernic.com/. It searches with at least 10 search engines simultaneously.
Good luck, Steve