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Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result

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Post by reinhardt »

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #7
Daniel_Newby wrote: post #6

On Bing, "search" goes to Yahoo.

Which (unsurprisingly, as noted by the replies) itself yields Yahoo when you search "search" [1] [1] http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AjCXgFY8lSKJSSw5JLdr1HSb...

So Yahoo is the fixed point of search engines.

Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result

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Post by saucetenuto »

highace wrote: post #21

"Dogpile.com makes searching the Web easy, because it has all the best search engines piled into one." My brain just exploded.

Don't knock it, in the late 90s every search engine sucked in its own special way. Dogpile was great back then, and IIRC that's how I first encountered Google.

Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result

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Post by freakwit »

autumn_ wrote: post #23

Google is first on google.com.au

Yeah, I did the search, saw google.com.au first and wasn't surprised at all.

For those interested, but not interested enough to visit the AU site the results are: 1. www.google.com.au 2. www.bing.com 3. jobsearch.gov.au 4. www.dogpile.com 5. www.seek.com.au 6. www.search.com 7. www.webwombat.com.au 8. au.altavista.com 9. www.peoplesearch.com.au 10. www.search.org.au

Basically a bunch of search engines, a couple of job sites and a couple of sites with search in their name.

Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result

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Post by Vivtek »

saucetenuto wrote: post #24
highace wrote: post #21

"Dogpile.com makes searching the Web easy, because it has all the best search engines piled into one." My brain just exploded.

Don't knock it, in the late 90s every search engine sucked in its own special way. Dogpile was great back then, and IIRC that's how I first encountered Google.

Yeah, there was a brief window in the mid-90's when Dogpile was definitely in the top 2. It replaced Metacrawler as my main search for a few months, as I recall.

Re: Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result

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Post by js2 »

A few years back, Sergey and Larry were on NPR's Fresh Air. At one point in the interview, Terry Gross says "I tried searching for 'Google' by putting 'Google' into the search box and clicking I'm Feeling Lucky, but it didn't seem to do anything." Larry tries to explain what happened, but it seemed to go over Terry's head. At one point during the explanation I think Sergey mentioned recursion, and Terry asks "Recur-what?" To which Larry's reply was something like "Sergey is just geeking out, nevermind."

edit: maybe I'm misrembering the details a bit. From http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/17770.htm -

"Yah, it was a pretty interesting segment. Sergey talked about idempotence. :) The host (terry gross?) wondered why when you go to www.google.com and type in google and hit I'm Feeling Lucky, it went back to the main google page. Larry called it recursion. I could just imagine NPR listeners' heads shaking all across America. :)"

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