More than one search engine
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I take google's word for it. I am a probable marketing victim on this one, but I really think that what google spits out is the best I can find. OTOH, I pretend as well to do what probably not everybody does: looking the search results sometimes until page 10. There are also interesting results on the 2nd+ pages.
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Well it does returns the best of the results...but not always. At times I shift to Altavista's Advanced search where many a times I found better results with its Advanced Web Search www.altavista.com/web/adv[^] Though Google's +,~ etc. Operators work...but as said not always.
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Google gives the result most of the time but if I feel that information returned by google is not enough then I use altavista.
Altavista - the former search top dog. How is it these days?
Kevin
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Why did they come up with such a silly name?
Kevin
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Altavista - the former search top dog. How is it these days?
Kevin
I use altavista mostly for Image and Mp3 search. Though it may not be best mp3 search engine, but it gives me what I am looking for.
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As most of us 'google' now, does anybody do a secondary search using a different engine to see if any different results are shown or do you take google's word for it?
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
Just for sake of visitin please visit http://www.gahooyoogle.com/[^]:laugh: I haven't been doing any comprehensive search thru it but just as a peice of info
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As most of us 'google' now, does anybody do a secondary search using a different engine to see if any different results are shown or do you take google's word for it?
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
Apart from Google, i use this
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I like using Google... Don't think of using any other search engine... By the way now I use Blackle blackle - black google As i read some where that bcoz of white screen of google search page, more power is used by monitors... so blackle is google itself but with black background... :rolleyes::rolleyes::):)
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gvisgr8 wrote:
bcoz of white screen of google search page, more power is used by monitors
:confused: Now that is something I would really like a real scientific explanation for.
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Rage wrote:
Now that is something I would really like a real scientific explanation for.
Every pixel illuminated means that some electrical energy is been turned into light energy.
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Why did they come up with such a silly name?
Kevin
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As most of us 'google' now, does anybody do a secondary search using a different engine to see if any different results are shown or do you take google's word for it?
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
I just use Google, MSDN (yeah, MSDN, because I often search developer stuff) and website's build-in search
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Rage wrote:
Now that is something I would really like a real scientific explanation for.
Every pixel illuminated means that some electrical energy is been turned into light energy.
Are you guys using CRT's or what???
Wout
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Are you guys using CRT's or what???
Wout
wout de zeeuw wrote:
Are you guys using CRT's or what???
Well, it should not be limited to CRT alone, I cant be sure about the LCD coz I did not study its working. Anyway, LCD would also consume energy to illuminate a pixel though quite less than CRTs, also not everyone uses LCDs.
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wout de zeeuw wrote:
Are you guys using CRT's or what???
Well, it should not be limited to CRT alone, I cant be sure about the LCD coz I did not study its working. Anyway, LCD would also consume energy to illuminate a pixel though quite less than CRTs, also not everyone uses LCDs.
LCDs use constant power if on. They shine a bright light behind the screen and then open or close pixels in the screen to block or transmit the light. This is why the black on an LCD is a shade of gray not a true black like a CRT.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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As most of us 'google' now, does anybody do a secondary search using a different engine to see if any different results are shown or do you take google's word for it?
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
I really like the image search offered by [www.live.com](http://by www.live.com)[^]. It's so cool! But I must admit that google's web search results are most of the time more relevant than the ones provided by the competition.
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LCDs use constant power if on. They shine a bright light behind the screen and then open or close pixels in the screen to block or transmit the light. This is why the black on an LCD is a shade of gray not a true black like a CRT.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
ahhh, thanks for the info. so it is the opposite in LCD, it would consume more power (still less compared to CRT) to block the blacklight to make the screen appear black.
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I just use Google, MSDN (yeah, MSDN, because I often search developer stuff) and website's build-in search
I always used to search on google for api help like this "apiname msdn", this way it is faster and better than MSDN search on the api.
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I always used to search on google for api help like this "apiname msdn", this way it is faster and better than MSDN search on the api.
good tip! because even if google is faster I sometimes want to search on MSDN only and I'm too lazy and forgetful to type the special google syntax that will restrict my search on MSDN.... (whereas your tip is more simple than google site search syntax and I think it might do the trick)
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As most of us 'google' now, does anybody do a secondary search using a different engine to see if any different results are shown or do you take google's word for it?
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
I google now being that google is the default search engine on gecko based browsers. I have tried other search engines in the last few years but none of them worked anywhere near as well as google. [EDIT]The only time I use another search engine now is if google did not find any relevant info and I really need an answer quickly.[/EDIT]
John
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As most of us 'google' now, does anybody do a secondary search using a different engine to see if any different results are shown or do you take google's word for it?
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
I use google primarily, but often it returns allot of garbage when doing programming searches. Recently I have started to use a specialized google custom search engine SearchDotNet[^] . I get my programming results back with great ease and little frivolity. The engine only polls about 60 trusted sites(CP included). If your interested there is allot of information about the idea and site itself at the link. Want good answers fast, I highly recommend it. Aaron
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ahhh, thanks for the info. so it is the opposite in LCD, it would consume more power (still less compared to CRT) to block the blacklight to make the screen appear black.
it depends on the type. Some default to black pixels, others to white, but my laptop draws the same amount of power regardless of the displayed color. It's a negligible amount compared to the backlight. IF I remember tonight I'll measure my CRT.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer