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ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

Google has this though: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645

RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Omg omg it's the second time today.. google gave me total cr*p, so I then went to Bing and it got me right results at the top..

The first time was when I was looking for SpaceMonger (I always forget its name), googling 'folder size old version freeware' returned shareware hits, bing linked it in the second result and now I was looking for 'rbWebTeX' and again google came with irrelevant results but Bing returned sourceforge subpage Smiley

And I thought Bing was just rebranded and a bit upgraded live.com... I think google should be scared...

magicalclick

In reply to RoyalSchrubber

#Jun 16th @ 5:33 PM

Perhaps Live was never that bad to begin with Smiley

AndyC

In reply to magicalclick

#Jun 16th @ 6:47 PM

Live wasn't ever that bad. And to be perfectly honest, I much preferred it when it had that magical AJAXified continuous scrolling set of results that everyone else seemed to dislike.

What would be a killer search engine feature, for me at least, would be an "Always ignore these sites" option so that I could permanently add the stuff that always pollutes my results (experts-exchange, I'm looking at you!) with useless information. That'd get me much better results from either of the two big search engines.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

In reply to AndyC

#Jun 17th @ 2:40 AM

Is Expert Exchange that one where you can only see the question and have to sign up or something to see the answer to it?

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to ManipUni

#Jun 17th @ 2:49 AM

Yes! Experts-exchange is the bane of my searches, too

Herbie

EDIT: I'm convinced there's a way to get Google to exclude a domain name, but I can think what it is, or how to find out what it is ...

eagle

The NY Post is the #5 newspaper in a four newspaper town, Long Island's Newsday sells more papers in the city then the Post does.

News Corp desperately needs Bing ad $$$ that's what this is all about.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

In reply to eagle

#Jun 17th @ 3:39 AM

I posted this in the wikipedia Ad hominem article as an example. Tongue Out

AndyC

In reply to Dr Herbie

#Jun 17th @ 2:54 AM

Dr Herbie said:
EDIT: I'm convinced there's a way to get Google to exclude a domain name, but I can think what it is, or how to find out what it is ...

You can do it on a per-query basis with: -site:experts-exchange.com but that's kind of annoying to have to do every time (especially if there are a lot of sites you rather ignore permenantly.) I've yet to find a way on Google of making that a permanent setting (unless I can somehow persuade them to add it to the SafeSearch list....)