Searching on Google

requiem_for_a_starfury · Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:38 am

Why is it when you do a search with google you get a load of links that only have the slightest connection with one of the minor words you entered into your search, but when you reach the last page of results and click on the repeat search with ommitted results option, 9 times out of 10 you'll find what you where looking for on the first page of the new search.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:46 am

Because it's always a relaxed search

so if I typed something with more than 1 word, without using and/or (google is boolean, right?) I would get each one of those words searched for... try using quotes, or simply omit all the results and re-search every time.

requiem_for_a_starfury · Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:54 am

It's just as likely to happen when doing a search for one word, the first few pages are on topic but not what I'm after, the next start to go off topic, by the end I'm scratching my head trying to work out how the link has any connection to what I'm searching for.

The search with omitted results option usually only comes up on the last page unfortunately, just sods law I guess.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 3:53 am

iohkus wrote:google pwns

So quit yer whingeing...

Placenta Boy · Post by **Placenta Boy** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 8:55 am

Have you ever google wacked. It's kinda impossible now seeing as dicks are listing all the possible google wacks on there websites, though.

requiem_for_a_starfury · Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:07 am

Franz_Schubert wrote:
iohkus wrote:

As if I care what iohkus says.

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:38 am

Placenta Boy wrote:Have you ever google wacked. It's kinda impossible now seeing as dicks are listing all the possible google wacks on there websites, though.

Purple monkey dishwasher.

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 10:08 am

Try searching for specific combinations of words by applying quotation marks.

Placenta Boy · Post by **Placenta Boy** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 10:22 am

Kreegle wrote:
Placenta Boy wrote:Have you ever google wacked. It's kinda impossible now seeing as dicks are listing all the possible google wacks on there websites, though.
Purple monkey dishwasher.

Purple monkey dishwasher isn't a google wack, MISTAR SAMARTY MAN!!111

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:51 am

I still have no fucking idea what you're talking about

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:12 pm

google is shit

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 3:07 pm

And what would u advice to use in stead?

Killa-Killa · Post by **Killa-Killa** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 3:24 pm

Lynxer wrote:And what would YOU advice to use in stead?

Why dogpile, of course!

No, really, google is the best. Fast, easy, and not a sellout. READ: most searches sell search positions, obscuring your search.

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 3:56 pm

deliberately misspelling YOU happens to be my very personal, preeminent way of being ueberly 1337.

Slave_Master · Post by **Slave_Master** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:16 pm

Honestly, Killa-Killa, if you want to be a grammar and spelling nazi, you should have corrected the other two glaring errors in Lynxer's post.

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:45 pm

Yes, it borders to imperceptivity. It's your native language for Jawehs sake.

iohkus · Post by **iohkus** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:54 pm

stop hatin google you chodes, if you don't like it make your own search engines do whack off to

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:06 pm

Its amazing that this thread is so full of spam-shit. Get on topic you dickheads and spam only in the Wasteland!

That said and back on topic, Google is still the most intelligent engine out there, but you need to understand the best ways to perform the search. If you have a specific term that has multiple meanings, then you might have to add some other word that will help to define what you are looking for.

So if you want a page on the Fallout role playing game don't just enter "Fallout" but enter "Fallout Game Interplay" or something similar. The more words you enter will narrow down the search.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:10 pm

iohkus wrote:stop hatin google you chodes, if you don't like it make your own search engines do whack off to

I DID AHAHA

No but seriously, google and all search engines are shit because people are making shitty websites and shitty broken links, thus making you find a LOT of shittty websites.

Just try and type in duck and cover in google.
How many countless shit do you find there?

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:18 pm

s4ur0n27 wrote: Just try and type in duck and cover in google.
How many countless shit do you find there?

Which is exactly why you need to add extra terms to limit the search. So if you instead type "duck and cover fallout", this site will be the first one listed instead of other sites having nothing to do with it. This is one of those occasions when a big vocabulary comes in useful?