When You Can’t Find It on Google…
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It might seem like blasphemy but there are some things that the Google search engine misses. - The common assumption is that, if Google can not find it, then it does not exist online. That is not always the case.
If Google can not find it, my fall back preference is Dogpile. Yes - that really is the name of the search engine. As Dogpile states:
“…different search engines often return different search results for the same query. Based on everything from how information is arranged on a web page, to what each search engine pinpoints as most relevant, search results can vary widely across each search provider.”
link: Dogpile
The Dogpile approach is a metasearch. It is combining a number of search engines to produce a result. And sometimes, it does find something that Google does not have… yet.
Catherine Forsythe
[tags]google, search engine, dogpile, metasearch, query[/tags]
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marc klink
June 23rd, 2007
at 5:03pm
My fallback is Lycos, which everyone except a certain hardcore lot have abandoned. But it works well, and finds stuff that Google doesn’t. In the good old days, everyone used a few…Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista…all still there, just not flavor of the month.
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Lumpy
June 25th, 2007
at 6:54am
I couldn’t agree with you more. First, I use Google with some “pluses” and/or “minuses” and then I try Dogpile. I have liked it for a long time.