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Feb 23rd, 2005, 09:26 AM
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I've been kind of upset by the results dogpile has been showing. so for the last week I've been checking out a tone of search engines
the ones I chose to put into my safari google field (MAC OSX) are...
izito.com = it is a meta-search engine which uses all of the top search engines plus some lesser known ones like alltheweb, wisenut etc. (most meta search engines just use second tier engines. exept for dogpile and a few other meta search engines
izito has a good cluster feature,
james A. and for those looking for international searches you can go to advanced search and choose thailand or any other country and search for info based out out that country
turboscout= it is not a search engine but you can access 90 search engines without having to retype.. I especially like the reference tab it has direct links to wiki, google scholar, Lii and many other engines.
gosh me = it not a search engine but has direct access to specialized search aka deep web search engines and databases ( the invisible web). this site is good for doing research. some of the many engines it uses are incywinsy, findarticles, econpapers!, and travelquest.
the ones I chose to put into my safari google field (MAC OSX) are...
izito.com = it is a meta-search engine which uses all of the top search engines plus some lesser known ones like alltheweb, wisenut etc. (most meta search engines just use second tier engines. exept for dogpile and a few other meta search engines
izito has a good cluster feature,
james A. and for those looking for international searches you can go to advanced search and choose thailand or any other country and search for info based out out that country
turboscout= it is not a search engine but you can access 90 search engines without having to retype.. I especially like the reference tab it has direct links to wiki, google scholar, Lii and many other engines.
gosh me = it not a search engine but has direct access to specialized search aka deep web search engines and databases ( the invisible web). this site is good for doing research. some of the many engines it uses are incywinsy, findarticles, econpapers!, and travelquest.
Jun 28th, 2006, 04:56 AM
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Dogpile and those others show a combination of Google, Yahoo and Msn, and I am not impressed with any of them 'except' if you try Yahoo Thailand, Singapore or their Australia one ( Yahoo7 )
Results are ridiculous, you are supposed to think that the results are the 'best', but then see something like a million sites for some small town, crazy.
I guess they can't figure out that if you want something in Langkawi you don't want something in Italy, Budapest or Hawaii !!
If you actually skip right down to pages 35 or 40 you start to find some good websites !
Such a shame as there are so many websites that travelers would like to see and things to know about, certainly more and more people seem to be asking on forums.
My tech people tell me that if a website is hosted in Thailand, Malaysia and other places even if it's in English it has little chance of showing up because apparently because it suffers some kind of thing that shoves it down below, or something.
My money is on the tech geniuses of Udon Thani who are launching an Asia Search Engine next month, they will be putting the 'human touch' back so that if you want to know the time of the ferry from Satun to Langkawi that is 'what you get'!
They are going to be asking people ( e.g: people like us ) to suggest good informative websites to add, they will check and then sort it accordingly.
Oh, glad to see you are still around, we have all missed you !
Results are ridiculous, you are supposed to think that the results are the 'best', but then see something like a million sites for some small town, crazy.
I guess they can't figure out that if you want something in Langkawi you don't want something in Italy, Budapest or Hawaii !!
If you actually skip right down to pages 35 or 40 you start to find some good websites !
Such a shame as there are so many websites that travelers would like to see and things to know about, certainly more and more people seem to be asking on forums.
My tech people tell me that if a website is hosted in Thailand, Malaysia and other places even if it's in English it has little chance of showing up because apparently because it suffers some kind of thing that shoves it down below, or something.
My money is on the tech geniuses of Udon Thani who are launching an Asia Search Engine next month, they will be putting the 'human touch' back so that if you want to know the time of the ferry from Satun to Langkawi that is 'what you get'!
They are going to be asking people ( e.g: people like us ) to suggest good informative websites to add, they will check and then sort it accordingly.
Oh, glad to see you are still around, we have all missed you !
Jun 28th, 2006, 06:11 AM
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google and some others rank their results by popularity. So obviously some sites may be relevant but never make it to the top. and worse of some lame blogs with no info often end up in the top ten.
I just found an BETA yahoo search site. it seems kind of cool, You type in whatever. When the results show up you click scoll bar and move button to the left to give you result that refer more tho SHOPING or move button to right for REASERCHING results
http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/
www.earchenginewatch.com. has a new article on travel search engines farecast.com seems interesting it tries to help you predict when to buy a ticket or wait a few days till it drops in price.
james A post back on this thread when that thai search site comes online.
I just found an BETA yahoo search site. it seems kind of cool, You type in whatever. When the results show up you click scoll bar and move button to the left to give you result that refer more tho SHOPING or move button to right for REASERCHING results
http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/
www.earchenginewatch.com. has a new article on travel search engines farecast.com seems interesting it tries to help you predict when to buy a ticket or wait a few days till it drops in price.
james A post back on this thread when that thai search site comes online.
Jun 28th, 2006, 06:50 AM
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My tech people told me they rank the website by various criteria based on which country it is hosted in, how old the site is, but said popularity didn't matter, most important how many others link to it ( apparently that is the big one ), how many times a certain word is mentioned ( 5.5 or 6% apparently is the ideal figure !! )I took a look at the searchenginewatch, what an eye opener!
Most of our staff are tech college graduates and they have friends in Udon Thani, they showed me what they had set up for our tech assistance side and all I know is when I put in something like ' Chiang mai budget guest house " I didn't get gazzillion results, I got 11, each and every one a 'budget guest house in Chiang Mai', now that's what someone wants. I tried 'train times from Bangkok to Chiang Mai', it gave just 2 results, one was 'the ' Thailand Railways English language schedule, great, the other was the seat61 Thailand page with details of the classes and also the train times, exactly what was needed.
I will keep you posted but Fodorites would be a 'mine' of information and suggestions and in my opinion that is what is needed, you can always go back to the big guys if you want 4 million ideas for "golf courses on the moon" ( sorry, it's 8.2 million results for that one ! )
Most of our staff are tech college graduates and they have friends in Udon Thani, they showed me what they had set up for our tech assistance side and all I know is when I put in something like ' Chiang mai budget guest house " I didn't get gazzillion results, I got 11, each and every one a 'budget guest house in Chiang Mai', now that's what someone wants. I tried 'train times from Bangkok to Chiang Mai', it gave just 2 results, one was 'the ' Thailand Railways English language schedule, great, the other was the seat61 Thailand page with details of the classes and also the train times, exactly what was needed.
I will keep you posted but Fodorites would be a 'mine' of information and suggestions and in my opinion that is what is needed, you can always go back to the big guys if you want 4 million ideas for "golf courses on the moon" ( sorry, it's 8.2 million results for that one ! )
Jun 28th, 2006, 10:37 AM
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google is good for most things but when you really want to dig, try www.itools.com
click on the "more search tools" button
click on the "more search tools" button
