Some replies:
Dave said:
> Seems that there are different search engines that are more popular these
> days. But with any you should try to understand what it indexes and how to
> use it to be able to find things quickly. Maybe things have changed and a
> tool like you suggest is more useful now.
>
The whole point of this thing is that it queries many search engines. I'm now
an artist with altavista - I awarded myself that title when I poked in a
search which produced only one hit - highly relevant; end of search. But I
was never aware how good excite was until I noticed the regular hits from
that on weird subjects. And I repeat, I have failed with them all
individually, but found with copernic.
'Skippy' wrote:
> Well I went and looked d/l it and installed in vmware. It is very crappy
> insofar as its tightly integrated into IE and explorer and gives another
> way to attack M$. No wonder they cannot port it to Linux, and does linux
>need that sort of software.
IE? ugh! IE5 got in to my windoze and I'm afraid to remove it, but I surf
under Netscape. If Netscape wasn't there, I'd use arachne. The point of the
thing is that it's a handy tool. They don't want to go to linux, and I don't
particularly want their package - I just want that sort of handy tool.
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
A pat on the back puffs your chest out
On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:13, you wrote:
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > I'm in Electronics hardware, and have been rescued on another mailing
> > list many times by someone who uses the copernic search tool
> > (http://www.copernic.com)
> >
> > This is a simple browser-like thing. It comes up with a search entry and
> > queries all the major search engines, removes duplicates, and gives you
> > the results.
>
> Well, it's been a while since I was up to speed on the search engine world.
> But a few years ago, Yahoo had something like 5% of the web indexed (they
> didn't do it automatically). Altavista had ~80% indexed.
>
> Since I could go to Altavista and find >10,000 hits on most topics, it
> hardly seemed I needed something to submit to many search engines (back
> then I think dogpile did that for you in a web server).
>
> So I usually use Yahoo, if I'm looking for something obvious and general.
> I use Altavista if I can specify my query well enough that Yahoo doesn't
> give any results.
>
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