Comments on: Search http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/search/ A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GRTerrerohttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/search/comment-page-1/#comment-389319 GRTerrero Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:12:43 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5138#comment-389319 I just use them all and hope I get lucky. Kinda like playing the slots in Vegas...you never know where the that red 7 is gonna pop up. François, c´est bon savoir cette info. I have been doing an awful lot of work with French friends online. I'll pass this on to them. Now, does this mean that MS is finally done trying to pimp Yahoo!? I just use them all and hope I get lucky. Kinda like playing the slots in Vegas…you never know where the that red 7 is gonna pop up.

François, c´est bon savoir cette info.

I have been doing an awful lot of work with French friends online. I’ll pass this on to them.

Now, does this mean that MS is finally done trying to pimp Yahoo!?

]]> By: joshuahttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/search/comment-page-1/#comment-388798 joshua Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:37:59 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5138#comment-388798 actually yea google image search is really improving, but flickr is always a better option. I just dont like the idea of one dominant company, it makes everyone so dependent on them. Just ask any blog that gets dropped off the google index, Darren Rowse from Problogger almost got his traffic halved for a couple months. actually yea google image search is really improving, but flickr is always a better option.

I just dont like the idea of one dominant company, it makes everyone so dependent on them. Just ask any blog that gets dropped off the google index, Darren Rowse from Problogger almost got his traffic halved for a couple months.

]]> By: francoishttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/search/comment-page-1/#comment-388083 francois Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:14:58 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5138#comment-388083 In France Google has 90% marketshare. For my part I've tried then switch to Yahoo engine 6 weeks ago and find it as good and in some aspects even better than Google (but not for pictures search). Also I use more and more dedicated search engine through Firefox keyword search which is a great feature. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html For example if I search for "paris": w paris -> wikipedia only results yf paris -> yahoo france results gm paris -> paris on google maps etc francois In France Google has 90% marketshare. For my part I’ve tried then switch to Yahoo engine 6 weeks ago and find it as good and in some aspects even better than Google (but not for pictures search).

Also I use more and more dedicated search engine through Firefox keyword search which is a great feature.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html

For example if I search for “paris”:

w paris -> wikipedia only results
yf paris -> yahoo france results
gm paris -> paris on google maps
etc

francois

]]> By: OAlexanderhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/search/comment-page-1/#comment-387972 OAlexander Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:50:34 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5138#comment-387972 Try searching for "freeware" - and try -"free download" -"free * trial" ;) Cheers. OA Try searching for “freeware” – and try -”free download” -”free * trial” ;) Cheers. OA

]]> By: darkkosmoshttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/search/comment-page-1/#comment-387740 darkkosmos Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:35:27 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5138#comment-387740 :/ don't like any of these and I can get all their functions on google with some greasymonkey(s), also scape torrent and other torrent searches get their torrents from public sites :/ don’t like any of these and I can get all their functions on google with some greasymonkey(s), also scape torrent and other torrent searches get their torrents from public sites

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