Best way to find stuff on the net

Friday 6 April 2007 @ 1:07 am

Here’s a better way to find what exactly you are after on the net, using Google and a decent social bookmarking site (like digg.com).

Let’s say you are after a backup utility for firefox. Yes I know you could go and look through the Mozilla plugin pages, but you want to find something that is good (ie tested by many others).

in Google, type in site:digg.com “firefox backup”

The first result (especially in this example) is normally the best. And even more so with digg.com because it would of been ‘dugg’ by a lot of users. Try it yourself!

Tags: digg, Google, search



Better search engine than Google?

Tuesday 20 March 2007 @ 8:55 pm

I have found another search engine that is comparable (and in a lot of ways better) with Google.
It is called Factbites.
The best way to describe it is a search engine crossed with a encyclopedia.

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Better search engine than Google?

Tags: engine, factbite, Google, search