[Web4lib] RE: Another Google question

Jeremy Dunck jdunck at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 11:04:13 EDT 2005


On 7/15/05, Roy Tennant <roy.tennant at ucop.edu> wrote:
> So, in other words, the Google "link:" search is worse than useless.
> Useless because it fails to work as advertised and worse than useless
> because it will return just enough so one could imagine it was
> working as they supposed (and as depicted by Google). Does anyone
> else feel the wheels starting to come off the car?
> Roy

I agree it'd be good for them to indicate that the results aren't
representative of the total index.

But it's still useful to me, unless you want to reach for technorati
or similar-- but those are opt-in ping-based services, anyway.


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