Full-up Google choking on web spam?

The Register ^ | Thursday 4th May 2006 | Andrew Orlowski

[nickcarraway]

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[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ah yes, more complaining instead of going out and building a better mousetrap.

I love Google, I don't care how liberal they are.

[ShadowAce]

[timsbella]

I have to say I find google less efficient these days (privacy issues?), but they are still more on the ball than any of the others. Pretty much tried them all. If anyone has good suggestions, clue me.

[Freeper]

Try www.DogPile.com

I am not associated with anyone!

[twigs]

The best one ever was Northern Lights, but it went to paid only several years ago. I got much more on that one than I ever did on Google, although that was the second best. How I have missed it!

[timsbella]

I've used:

dogpile, yahoo, lycos, webcrawler, ixmetasearch, clusty, and dmoz

and I think these are among the better ones, but still, a flawed google produces more good results

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

I don't think Google, "IMPROVED." I think they, sold out, to the spammers and hackers. The end result, is that they created more problems than they supposedly, solved...

[timsbella]

Yes, that was a good one. Wasn't it taken over by overture (which also isn't bad, but not among the very best). I like Highbeem for news headlines. Very nice. Technorati is good for blogs.

[macamadamia]

I thought Dogpile just organizes results from other search engines...?

[timsbella]

I agree, they sold out. I used an engine called Wisenut, which is still around, but after it was swallowed up by Looksmart it seemed like they "dumbed it down". I feel the same way about Google. As I posted before, not as good, but still better than the rest.

[twigs]

I really don't know what happend to my Northern Lights. I just know that I've missed it a lot. I do a lot of genealogical research online and it yielded a lot more dead people that I needed that any other. It was excellent on current news too.

[Flyer]

If some of these web sites would spend half that effort on their content and maybe buy a little paid advertising they may be more successful.

Some folks obsess over search engine rankings.

[stillonaroll]

I love Google, I don't care how liberal they are.

I quit using it because of FR reports as to Google’s leftist tendencies. Plenty of alternatives out there.

[rattrap]

Only a cynic would suggest that poor SERPs drive desperate businesses to the search engines own classified ad departments - so if you want to play, you have to pay. Banish that unworthy thought at once.

Far and away the most important part of the article.

[Old Professer]

I used to use google the way I would use the encyclopedia, now it's more like the yellow pages.

[timsbella]

If that's your thing, I like to bypass ancestry.com and use rootsweb - you can free search the SSDI. The Mormon's have an amazing site called familysearch.org - traced my husband's family back to the early 1800s and all of my Jewish relatives in Europe! No idea how they gleaned all this stuff. Great international links.

[navysealdad]

http://accoona.com/

[Centurion2000]

I quit using it because of FR reports as to Google’s leftist tendencies. Plenty of alternatives out there.

Got any good URL's for alternate search engines?