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Newspaper Article: The Dirty Little Secrets of Search

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J-Mac:
This is one reason I have been using Twitter more lately for searches. Mouser, I gave up on trusting top results a long time ago. It's often just too apparent that the results aren't reflective of reality. And as far as "…the possibility of an eventual revolt against these "top of the page" high ranked results...", How do we revolt?! I don’t even want to try to list all the alternative search engines I have tried in a quest to get away from this kind of fraud! There just aren't any worth using presently - at least IMO.

Thank you.

Jim

Paul Keith:
How do we revolt?! I don’t even want to try to list all the alternative search engines I have tried in a quest to get away from this kind of fraud! There just aren't any worth using presently - at least IMO.
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The Revolution will not be Televised.  :P

On the flip side, if you're an avid bookmark addict, Diigo's Chrome Extension shows if you have bookmarks relevant to your search.

There's also a realtime Twitter search result for Firefox that integrates into Google searches.

...and of course there's DuckDuckGo and the ever changing search engine Yippy.

Of course true revolution comes from social not web service. Not sure if there's a Facebook Page for that.

Edit: Forgot about this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jiicbcimbjppjbckmoknagndlhjbeohb

Now this is more like a true revolution. Too bad the rest of the internet/browser users suffer.

Edit #2:

Actually I was thinking about this but I got reminded by that link from another blog:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mmnbhiajmalgdjlojjamonklladcijim

nudone:
I must say I'd forgotten about Wolfram|Alpha, and I admit it's still not something I'll be using any time soon. This Guardian article was published over the weekend: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/12/stephen-wolfram-alpha-interview-google

It does make me believe that, one day, Wolfram|Alpha could be the true meaning of search on the internet. Well, that is, if you are searching for a "factual answer".

housetier:
I go to wolfram alpha for all things math and numbers. And for converting too.

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