From: Doug Jones (djones@xcor.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 10:40:23 MST
the animated silicon love doll wrote:
>
> taken from Slashdot:
>
> Google Juice
>
> The Internet | Posted by timothy on 7:06 Wednesday 13 March 2002
> from the matter-of-time dept.
> mpawlo writes: "I guess it is time to start using them bookmarks again,
> since favourite search engine Google seems to be on the verge of Altavista
> doom and search engine chaos. BBC News reports of Google bombing (often
> referred to as 'Google juice' by the infamous Crackmonkey subscribers).
> 'The users have found a way to "bomb" Google to improve the rankings of
> particular webpages, and ensure a site is near the top of the results for
> particular search phrases.' There is also the sport of Google Whacking
> affecting your search results."
For every measure there is an inequal but opposite countermeasure.
Google will be strengthened by this if their programmers are any good at
all.
> BBC article is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_
> 1868000/1868395.stm
> Slashdot article at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/13/141202
> &mode=nested&tid=95
>
> So, if Google starts dropping in accuracy, what will replace it? I've used
> Wisenut (www.wisenut.com) a bit, and it seems pretty good too.
I've gotten good results from http://vivisimo.com -which orgnaizes your
search into a (fairly) logical tree, rather than page after page of
dubiously relevant miscellany.
See, for instance, the 4th entry for "reliable rocket engines"...
-- Doug Jones, Rocket Plumber
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