[Search-l] Dice poll?

[peter burden]

Jeffrey Adkisson wrote:
> I think it will take over the larger share of the market, especially if 
> it gets enough
> press and links, and if the format keeps it as advertising-free/neutral 
> as google used to be
> (finds you the most accurate links without dragging you through sales 
> sites).
>
> One thing most people don't know how to do is the extra quotes and 
> marks to get
> specific information from general searches (used to be + in between 
> words, now in google
> it's " before and after, or so I'm told). Do we have these type of 
> search tools included?
> Can they be called out somewhere to make it more obvious?
>   

A fair point. Google does however provide information, after
some effort I found the details at 
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/help/basics.html

I'm not sure how many of Google's fairly extensive set of search options we
should attempt to support. It would probably be best to implement the most
important ones first - these, IMHO, would be the basic implicit AND, the
phrase search and the option to include common words in the query. Others
could follow later.
> Everyone I speak to complains about google. A replacement is overdue!
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mar 20, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Aerik Sylvan wrote:
>
>   
>> This was on dice.com - I thought it was interesting.
>>
>> Jimmy, if nothing else, you sure have created a lot of buzz.
>>
>>
>> Tech Topic
>>
>>  The founder of the popular Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia says he 
>> plans to launch a new search engine to compete with Google and Yahoo. 
>> How much success will the new search engine have?
>> Lots. People love Wikipedia, and I think they're sick of manipulated 
>> results on Google.
>> <pixelDiceRed.gif>  29%
>> Some. If users are allowed to participate in the design, it could 
>> really take off.
>> <pixelDiceRed.gif>  24%
>> A little. Some Wikipedia addicts will use it, but it'll be hard to 
>> convert new users.
>> <pixelDiceRed.gif>  31%
>> None. Take on Google and Yahoo in this day and age? I don't see this 
>> ending well.
>>
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