On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Giancarlo Livraghi <[email protected]> wrote:
> My perception is that Google isn't as good as it was. As far as I can see,
> there are three possible reasons (or maybe a combination of more than one).
>
> 1. The net has become so big that the mess is unavoidable.
There is also the fact that a large percentage of the pages out in the
web are spam. And some of the websites are so poorly organized that it
is difficult for a search engine to properly index these sites.
> 2. They are trying to be "intelligent" and to "guess" our priorities - and
> of course that creates more problems than it can possibly solve (though I
> deliberately never use the "I am feeling lucky" option).
In my experience, I have actually found this to be quite helpful.
> 3. They are beginning to be "corrupted" - and in that case the time has come
> to drop them.
Do you have any specific examples that makes you reach this conclusion?
> So far, the problems aren't big enough to make me "break the habit". But for
> the sake, maybe, of a bit of experimenting... which alternatives do you
> wizards think are the best?
Sadly, there is (or will soon be) only bing and ask for English. There
are a few small ones, but none of these have been able to be a good
overall search engine IMO.
Thaths
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