Search Engines Suck!

[Feisters]

Is it me, or do search engines (services) suck these days? It seems to me anymore that any heading returned that actually adresses my search, the link results in a 404. And any About.Com link results in a blank page. Ask.Com doesn't even work for me anymore; I just get a heading page back!

I'm using Navigator 4.75 or IE 4.0 (no, I'm not going to upgrade IE. Dollar Bill already has too much control over my OS).

I think it's time for these search services to clean out their databases.

 

[Pastore]

yahoo is the only search engine i use...

 

[toph99]

i use metacrawler.com, i find it's the best. search yahoo, about, lycose, altavista etc. at once

 

[Feisters]

Metacrawler is what I usually use too. But the hits I get more often than not result in 404's.

 

[prodigy]

I like Google

 

[The Stigenator]

I use
"bestoftheweb.com"
pretty much targetted specific searches & fast too.

Otherwise I use "yahoo" for companies
Else "webferret" searches several search engines from my desktop.

 

[prodigy]

<< yahoo is the only search engine i use... >>



Yahoo is not a search engine, it's a web directory.

 

[Pastore]

Well slap my ass and call me charlie, i type in words and i get websites about those words, qualifies as a search engine to me....

 

[SSP]

Googles all the way!

 

[Feisters]

Maybe I should ween myself from my usual search engines and try some of the others.

 

[DaveJ]

Google rocks, especially the cache!

Dave

 

[Warpo]

Google is by far the best. Yahoo! sucks, if you want to use a web directory, use dmoz.org