Sunday, December 23, 2007

Thing#7

One of the most useful things I found in Web searching is metaengines, such as dogpile.com I amquite amazed by the fact that these engines are not nearly as popular as google and yahoo. Dogpile, for instance, seems better at isolating the most relevant sites and gives some useful options, that are not readily available in other engines, such as bolding search terms. I wonder if the relevance filtering of this engine is not too heavy for some users. This might what turns them away. As for me, and I suspect for many others, the main problem with Google and Yahoo is that they return plenty of irrelevant stuff, so looking for what you need often feels like looking for a needle in a hay stack.

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