Search engines - Help me! The internet is full of crap!

As you already pointed out - that's not the problem with
search engines, that's the problem with amount of crap.
So far no algo, however smart, can differentiate between
text written by Nobel laureate and 11 yo kid. And while
Google has scores of PhDs trying their best to filter the
crap out, they are loosing.

Best,
Borek

 

No, Google is as hermetic as possible. But there are tricks to lift
your site up. It is called SEO.

Best,
Borek

 

It often helps to use not keywords but a phrase in quotes - only
pages containing this exact phrase shows up.

Best,
Borek

 

Like search for "miserable failure"?

The problem is, these directories are specifically optimised to be
high in the search results, while quite often pages you are looking
for are not. Reason is simple - directories are made by people knowing
SEO and making money out of it. Companies selling products are often
not aware of the fact SEO exists.

Best,
Borek

 

It's not a search engine, but if you want to find out useful information
then try the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

It can be edited by anyone, so occasionally the info is incorrect - but as
everyone on the net can edit it, generally the information is sound.
Scurrilous entries are soon corrected.

Great free resource.

**SS**

 

Secret Squiddle wrote:

I personally have edited a few pages (including deleting a reference to
Velikovsky from an archaeological chronology).

Democratic corrigibility...how ironic!

Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA

 

Bad recommendation. That is not a place to start.

Not occasionally.

Corrections cannot occur if cranks, who are ideologues, reedit
the bad information back in. Notice the behaviour on this
newsgroup (s.p.).

Yep. You get what you pay for.

/BAH