What is the best search engine now-a-days?

[DavidofColorado]

I have been getting tired of Google following every PC rule that has been coming down the river. Is there a better one out there yet that will show sites based on what you need in spite of what they think you need?

[~Barn~]

You probably have your filters turned on in the Google preferences. When deactivated, it's never limited its returns for me.

[Devaclis]

Metacrawler

AND

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

[salsashark]

check out Clusty.com... I like it for deep web searching.

[PhL0aTeR]

google is PC? im afraid to ask..... but please explain

[MetaLord 9]

You probably have your filters turned on in the Google preferences. When deactivated, it's never limited its returns for me.
^^Agreed. Turn off your safety filters. Also, what are you looking for? Google's pretty much the most efficient, far reaching search engine for general searches. If you're looking for something more specific or in a specific category or genre, then you're going to want a specialized search engine. There are tons of engines out there, but it's really all about what you want most out of search.

[LambeauXLIV]

dogpile.com

google searches ~1% of all sites

dogpile searches google along with other search engines ... a total of ~10%

[MetaLord 9]

It's not about the number of sites searched though, it's about the algorithym used bring you the most relevant results from the list of sites searched. There's no point in having 100 results in stead of 50 if the first 10 results are nowhere near what you're looking for.

Also, I'm interested to see where you got your number of ~1% vs. ~10%. I'm not saying you're wrong by any means! I'm just curious to see where you're finding your webstats

[LambeauXLIV]

I'm taking a computer class...and if I remember correctly, that's just the numbers given to me by my prof

[Mel]

I'm taking a computer class...and if I remember correctly, that's just the numbers given to me by my prof

And you believe everything your prof says? That would be like believing what you read on the internet without searching for the backup to it.

To answer the original question, if you don't filter your Google searches, it'll return good search results most of the time....there are also ways to search with wildcards in there and other things to expand your search.

[LambeauXLIV]

he seems to be a pretty smart person...but the point is not really about the statistics...it's that dogpile is a metasearch engine

[DavidofColorado]

You probably have your filters turned on in the Google preferences. When deactivated, it's never limited its returns for me. How do get started doing that? I don't think I turned them on if that is what google requires in the first place.


google is PC? im afraid to ask..... but please explain Its hard to explain. I typed in serials for something and I keep getting the same lame site. And I get about ten results back and another 10 results that have been removed because of a digital pack. Maybe I wanted one of those? When I type in "Free porn" damn it that's what I want.



To answer the original question, if you don't filter your Google searches, it'll return good search results most of the time....there are also ways to search with wildcards in there and other things to expand your search.
I suppose there is a tutorial about how to do that. I will look for it.

[~Barn~]

Whatever you do, don't Google "Google".
:no:

[McVaaahhh]

Whatever you do, don't Google "Google".
:no:

Is that like dividing by zero?

[Mel]

It'll start an infinite loop....

[~Barn~]

It's like dividing by a googol zeros!

[MetaLord 9]

When you go to Google, click on "Preferences" and that should bring up enough options for you to happy

[DavidofColorado]

Thanks everyone. I haven't looked searched again. But I have enough to go on now that I should have better chances of finding the serials, torrents and other ill stuff I want.

[fook]

you also now have cuil.com (http://www.cuil.com/info/) - a new search engine created by ex-google employees.

they claim to have the largest index, I personally thought it sucked when they first came out middle of last year but lately i've used it a few times in technical searches and it seems to do a better job with relevance of returns, at least in a few anecdotal searches for tech info. of course searching for my name returns a bunch of irrelevant stuff still..

[Player 2]

I still swear by Google. Learning how to properly search for things can help out greatly though....

[Jason ON]

And you believe everything your prof says? That would be like believing what you read on the internet without searching for the backup to it.

To answer the original question, if you don't filter your Google searches, it'll return good search results most of the time....there are also ways to search with wildcards in there and other things to expand your search.

Lambeaux, You can't believe everything some woman on the net says without researching it and backing it up first. I mean, you never know, she might not be well read or published or have to meet institutional guidelines.

Otherwise, what everyone else said. Personally, when google isn't doing it for me, I use dogpile (plus they donate to animal charities with every search).

[Scer]

If you google "search engine", google comes up fifth in line. Kinda funny I thought. dogpile took the number one spot btw.

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