Best way to find stuff on the net

indi — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:07:16 +0000

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!

Better search engine than Google?

indi — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:55:14 +0000

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.

If you try a few searches in Google and then factbites you’ll see the difference. Also some examples of searches in these two search engines
( http://www.factbites.com/factbites_vs_google.php ) will show you what I mean.
As it says in the example of searching for alligator, ” Buying an alligator on eBay, anyone? Google gives you two sites about alligators – as well as irrelevant eBay advertising”.

Having said all that, I still use Google for 99% of all my searches. But it’s handy to have another decent search engine available if you just can’t find what you’re after.

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Best way to find stuff on the net

Better search engine than Google?