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08-16-2007, 10:49 PM
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Alta Vista used to be my fave.
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08-16-2007, 10:54 PM
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A lot of those engines still exist, and since they work differently than Google (different algorithms, etc.), if you're doing an indepth search it can really benefit you to run it on several of them - you'll find things you never would just using Google or Yahoo. (Yes, I am a geek, lol.)
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08-16-2007, 10:57 PM
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And a five year report is revelant how?
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08-16-2007, 11:40 PM
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Originally Posted by DSTRen13
A lot of those engines still exist, and since they work differently than Google (different algorithms, etc.), if you're doing an indepth search it can really benefit you to run it on several of them - you'll find things you never would just using Google or Yahoo. (Yes, I am a geek, lol.)
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Yeah, I'm finding that Google is more and more crammed with ads and isn't all that great.
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08-17-2007, 12:12 AM
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Dogpile was where it was at. Taking all the search engines and finding all the searches. Yea SIGGGGGEP. :]
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08-17-2007, 04:04 AM
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Oh man, this brings back memories of being taught how to use the internet and search engines in computer class back in the day (meaning middle school :P) - Alta Vista used to be my favorite, along with Ask Jeeves, Lycos, Metacrawler, Dogpile, and Freeality and I know there's one I'm forgetting. Now I just use Google though...still serves me well. But I will always be grateful to Alta Vista for Babelfish.
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08-17-2007, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by mystikchick
Oh man, this brings back memories of being taught how to use the internet and search engines in computer class back in the day (meaning middle school :P) - Alta Vista used to be my favorite, along with Ask Jeeves, Lycos, Metacrawler, Dogpile, and Freeality and I know there's one I'm forgetting. Now I just use Google though...still serves me well. But I will always be grateful to Alta Vista for Babelfish.
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Jeeves brought up too much porn. We weren't allowed to use it at my school.
And I think there are several companies that will be always grateful for BabelFish, since that appears to be how they get their "Spanish" or "French" instructions for their products....
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08-17-2007, 09:38 AM
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And I think there are several companies that will be always grateful for BabelFish, since that appears to be how they get their "Spanish" or "French" instructions for their products....
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Haha it's so true. My roommate is Taiwanese, and she once posted an LJ entry in Chinese that I went to BF to translate - the original entry had been about a typhoon hitting Taiwan, but the translation came out reading something about giant urine drops from the sky...now I use WordReference - much better resource for the not-so-beginning language speaker.
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08-17-2007, 11:23 AM
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I still go to jeeves once in a blue moon.
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