Search engines are a farce

hmurchisonhmurchison
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
I just ran the same search "HM-DT100U" on 4 different search engines which all returned the same results!





Just as I thought. A total farce. What are they using all the same bots to find sites?



I contend that Googles success is not because it's better at finding data but that they were smart to eschew the "link laden Portal" strategy ala Yahoo and others. They kept the UI clean so that the page loads quickly.



Thus Google's benefit(thinking about its coming IPO) is not it's seach enging but rather its advertising tech with Gmail etc.



Cataloging the Internet is probably and impossibility for one company. Perhaps there should be a group created to share the power and expense and eventual profits from cataloging the Internet properly.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    or perhaps the folks who make the aforementioned gizmo don't promote their sites and keywords properly



    just my first thought when somebody complains about low search rankings...

    did they promote it? has the page been updated in content as well as keywords?

    was each engine submission unique to the idiosyncracies of its technology?



    is a hypenated product name useful for engines whose default boolean treats a minus as "not this term"?



    what is it anyway? killer robot? vacuum tube?
  • Reply 2 of 5
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    You're searching for one keyword of an item that has, apparently, only two pages on the entire web and you conclude that all search engines are the same





    I think more testing is needed.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,425member
    Well I understand the product I'm searching for is new. However that's what a seach engine is for. Finding data the is peritinent withing this thing we call the web.



    I find it very odd that all the seach engines report the same "hits" if their search engine IP was actually different from their competitors I would think they would pick up different links.



    While this particular search netted the same results I know in previous attempts I've searched for data that resided on a known page and non of the engines picked it up.



    My point really isn't to slam the engines or the technology but to examine just why I use one search engine over another.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    talksense101talksense101 Posts: 1,738member
    Hmmm... Here is a linky response for you.



    http://searchenginewatch.com/



    http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...ey/8704895.htm



    Search Engines are not a farce. Their capabilities are still restricted.



    http://searchenginewatch.com/serepor...le.php/3360261
Sign In or Register to comment.