On Thursday 01 October 2009 11:40 PM, divya manian wrote:
I google mainly for webdesign/tech information which I think
delicious.com covers very well. I use it like a curated search
engine, but their search could be a LOT better than what they offer
currently. delicious is awful for anything
On Thursday 01 October 2009 05:01 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
I frequently chain Scroogle in front of Google, and nowadays Tor.
I used to use Tor (got into it when I was in college), but I've given up
on it for regular browsing. It is just *too* slow. Has anything
improved in the last eight months
If I may... one more question.
If bing is microsoft (out of the frying pan into the fire) is ask the
only worthwhile alternative to google?
(I am doing my best to stay away from yahoo.)
I haven't quite figured out, so far, what ask is and how it works. It
seems to be related to excite...
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 01:21:06PM +0200, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote:
Any words of wisdom?
I frequently chain Scroogle in front of Google, and nowadays Tor.
I suggest using meta-engines. Long-term, p2p search is the way
to go. No practical crawlers and queary scather/gather yet exist,
though.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote:
If I may... one more question.
If bing is microsoft (out of the frying pan into the fire) is ask the only
worthwhile alternative to google?
(I am doing my best to stay away from yahoo.)
Yahoo uses bing too nowadays.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote:
Any words of wisdom?
I google mainly for webdesign/tech information which I think
delicious.com covers very well. I use it like a curated search
engine, but their search could be a LOT better than what they offer
Biju Chacko wrote, [on 10/1/2009 11:13 PM]:
Yahoo uses bing too nowadays.
Business reasons apart, I suspect that one driver of that decision is
that Qi Lu runs bing these days [1].
Udhay
[1] http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_23/b4134040743599.htm
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