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    Search Engine Survey

    I am doing a marketing survey on the customers' choice of Search Engine.

    For example, which search engine you use, how do you finally get your result (gotten from the first link or browse through one whole list of links before getting your answer). Also what do you want from the development of a search engine.

    I would also like to hear what other search engine are there in the internet. For example, search engines that are used in other countries.

    I know we have
    1) google
    2) Yahoo!
    3) Lycos
    4) Dmoz

    Any other contribution?

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    google... I use it mostly... if not that I use yahoo.

    dogpile.com is a search engine which searches all the engines for the answers I believe

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    I generally use Google. However, I also use AllTheWeb.com

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    I just use Google, nothing else!

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    Care to ask. What makes googles so popular?

    Does it able to provide the best answer within the first 3 page of search result?

    *Actually I like google because of it's simple design and easy search steps.

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    I like it for it's fast loading, and simple interface. Plus it brings back the most useful responses to the topic I'm looking for.

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    what other functions do you think a search engine should have?

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    Originally posted by JTY
    I like it for it's fast loading, and simple interface. Plus it brings back the most useful responses to the topic I'm looking for.
    Ditto.
    It's time to kick back, pop in a From Autumn to Ashes CD, and relax.....

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    Google. Simple, straight, and to the point. I see it everyday right when I click "Internet".

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    seems like everyone likes google here. Is there anything google is lacking?

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    Originally posted by acidbase
    seems like everyone likes google here. Is there anything google is lacking?
    Possibly more detailed site rankings? Like Alexa?

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    I use altavista. Just because i have used it forever

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    isn't altavista having the same results as yahoo now? since it was bought over. Well not sure. I used that quite a while ago.

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    Google is popular because its search results are not modified to suit their advertisers. The ads appear as a separate insertion to the right column along with the search results.

    The search results is calculated on the basis of the site content and its key words, its popularity on the basis of the votes it gets from other linked up sites, and the importance of those sites. Quite a complicated method but even they cant guarantee perfection.

    IMO I feel Google is not really giving pure search results. It kinds of averages it out if your search query is not refined. Sort of a guessing game along with some hints.

    There are search engines which give options of proximity of key words limiting to a specific sentence , paragraph, page, site etc. In layman terms call it light search and deep search. And then there are post search analysis tools which should be made available. The reason search engine dont want to give you the analysis tools is because they want you to go back to their search engine and make a new search. They just want you to use it more and more instead of allowing you to find what you exaclty want.

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    for me, it depends what I am looking for. If I am looking up a specific topic and want multiple sites related to it, then I would use google's directory (dmoz) or yahoo. Otherwise, google.

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    If i'm doing a serious search, i use Copernic. Its great, i love it! If i'm doing just a quickie search, i use Google. my daughter prefers Yahoo.
    g.
    "In youth we learn; in age we understand"
    Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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    I can't remember the last time I used anything other than google. I like the response speed, it supports the standard + and quotes, etc. and I find what I want. I go to google, even when I know what I want is probably on microsoft.com. lol

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    Google, google, and nothing BUT google!

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    Yahoo, sometimes google and MSN.
    Google was good a few years back but now it's search results are being manipulated by opportunist jerks.

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    Google.

    Sometimes, once in a full moon, I may use MSN if google cannot find something I need. Google find 99.99% of what I need.

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    Mostly Google, but if I don't find what I am looking for, I use specialist search engines.

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    Google, though in the last 6 months it seems commercial sites are getting the top spots too often no matter what you are searching for.

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