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

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Post by thought_alarm » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:08 PM UTC

I suppose that's what $2.6 billion in annual operating losses buys you.

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

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Post by Leynos » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:11 PM UTC

hackermom wrote: post #25

Where's Altavista? :)

It kind of scares me that altavista.com still exists. It scares me even more that hotbot.com still exists.

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

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Post by officemonkey » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:13 PM UTC

Vivtek wrote: post #28

saucetenuto wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I used Altavista right up until I first heard of Google. Before Altavista I used Webcrawler (http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html).

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

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Post by CrazedGeek » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:14 PM UTC

Leynos wrote: post #32

hackermom wrote: post #25

Where's Altavista? :)

It kind of scares me that altavista.com still exists. It scares me even more that hotbot.com still exists.

Same with Lycos.

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

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Post by anedisi » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

rkalla wrote: post #30

Incase the result gets changed, here is the search result page (Bing is #1) http://i.imgscalr.com/kmPbJfLoV.png

and if you search for www yahoo is first.

http://i.imgur.com/mhDzY.jpg

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

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Post by reemrevnivek » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:18 PM UTC

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.

Interestingly, a Dogpile.com search now returns Google as #1 (it's a sponsored result, though), and 4 more sponsored results I haven't heard of before giving Yahoo as the top composite result from Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

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

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Post by d0m » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:19 PM UTC

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...

Yahoo and the recursion!

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

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Post by sixtofour » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:20 PM UTC

uvTwitch wrote: post #13

This makes sense to me. If you're using google to find 'search', you're probably not searching for google.

Unless you don't know what search is, and you don't know you're using search.

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

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Post by a1k0n » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:23 PM UTC

Leynos wrote: post #32

hackermom wrote: post #25

Where's Altavista? :)

It kind of scares me that altavista.com still exists. It scares me even more that hotbot.com still exists.

Ha, altavista.com is just a Yahoo! search box.

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

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Post by nycgags » Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 11:24 PM UTC

beforebeta wrote: post #5

Google appears as the last result on the search page!

same here, 1st result: newyork.citysearch.com - New York, NY City Guide - Reviews and Recommendations by Citysearch