[WEB4LIB] Impressive New Search Engine: Google

[Nancy Lin]

I think there was a discussion a while back on how google searches.  

Personally, I find it very hard to use.  It doesn't seem to return the
results I'm looking for.  Are there a particular way you should phrase your 
search to get the results you want?  For example, a search for "web security"
and another search for "web and security" consistently returns the
"Social Security Online" page.  It's clearly not what I want.  I don't see
how they think web security and social security are the same thing.  
Another example....searching for "ehousing" on yahoo returns their
website. But with google, the top results are pages containing the words
"arE HOUSING"...

-- 
Nancy


On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Jim Harold wrote:

> Good Afternoon:
> 
> There is a very impressive new search engine available at:
> 
>      http://www.google.com/ 
> 
> I just started using and have stopped using all the other one (at least for the time being).
> 
> For some background information on it, please see the recent 'Washington Post' article:
> 
> http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-02/22/035l-022299-idx.html
> 
> Hope this has been of help.
> 
> 
> Jim Harold
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