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RE: Google hits

Subject: RE: Google hits
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: David -dot- Dubin -at- sage -dot- com
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:26:37 -0500

I may be silly (or lazy, or even stupid), but I'd rather get 76 good
(i.e. meaningful and relevant) hits that are actually useful to me
than 18000 incidental, useless hits that I don't have time to sift
through. It seems to me that Google is deliberately playing the
numbers game to make users believe that they are the only
definitive and complete search engine, and I think it winds
up hurting the usefulness of their service.



From: "Dubin, David" <David -dot- Dubin -at- sage -dot- com>
To: <jmalin -at- jmalin -dot- com>,"Barry Campbell" <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com>
CC: "Poshedly, Ken" <PoshedlyK -at- polysius -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Google hits
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:50:46 -0000

I just tried dogpile. I entered my name and got 76 hits. On Google, I
got "about 18000." Yahoo gave me 2150 hits and Ask.com gave 1980. The
same text entered the same way varies wildly, so I would use Google long
before I would use dogpile.


David B. Dubin
Senior Curriculum Developer
Sage Software
727-579-1111 x 3356
david -dot- dubin -at- sage -dot- com
Your business in mind.

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To: Barry Campbell
Cc: Poshedly, Ken; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Google hits

Heresy! Burn him at the stake!

I work at Google as a tech writer...

I think this is a good idea. Every search engine will have its own
strengths and weaknesses. Also, regardless of the search, be specific as
possible, look for exact phrases, and try some synonyms. Alas, the more
you know about a subject, the better your search will be! If you know
absolutely nothing, try a very broad search and then look through the
top results, even if they aren't exactly what you want. By digging
deeper, you may learn enough to make a good search.

Joe

Barry Campbell wrote:
> (1) Don't use Google as your only search engine. Yahoo still works
> nicely, as does Windows Live and Ask.com, but there are also
> metasearch tools like Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/) which will
> return results from Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, etc. with a single
> query.
>

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