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Search engine, which is the best?
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Sat, 03 September 2005 08:21
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I was gonna post this in a tech forum of some kind but they are all being picky about membership these days, What search engine do all you guys use?.
I have been using google for a while now (before that I used dogpile and before that altavista) and recently I have noticed that whenever I search for anything, the list is dominated by these sites which seem designed to be at the top of ALL searches .The heading of the page is whatever you search for but the rest is just ads and totally unrelated to the search.
Usually after failing to find a site which contains the information I want someone will give me a URL which has what I am after, what I don't get is why can't any of the search engines find these useful sites instead of the spam.
Does anyone know of a search engine that avoids this?
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I Supported Toymods
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Sydney
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December 2002
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Re: Search engine, which is the best?
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Sat, 03 September 2005 16:46
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It's not google thats causing this buddy... you've had your browser hijacked.
I bet when you see the search results you think you've found what you're looking for but then when you actually follow the links you get sent to another search engine type site.
This = browser hijack crap
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September 2004
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Re: Search engine, which is the best?
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Sat, 03 September 2005 17:54
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| Toobs wrote on Sun, 04 September 2005 02:46 |
It's not google thats causing this buddy... you've had your browser hijacked.
I bet when you see the search results you think you've found what you're looking for but then when you actually follow the links you get sent to another search engine type site.
This = browser hijack crap
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Spot on.
You got yourself some spyware buddy.
Use a combination of different spyware removers and hijack removers to get yourself cleaned up.
I would say I find what I need from google. I've never really had the need to use other search engines.
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I Supported Toymods
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Re: Search engine, which is the best?
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Sun, 04 September 2005 01:42
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Or just use Opera or Mozilla Firefox instead of IE. 
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I supported Toymods
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sydney.au
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Re: Search engine, which is the best?
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Sun, 04 September 2005 07:14
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I already use Mozilla firefox amd have tried running both microsoft anti spyware and another one called Avast in conjunction with ad-aware and spybot.
Everyone I talk to claims this will prevent/remove the spyware but it doesn't, it just sort of keeps it in remission so long as you make spybot and ad-aware do checkups every time you boot. I find I can usually go around 3-4 months before having to reformat becasue the registry etc is screwed.
I was once fairly up to date with my tech knowledge but my expertise basically ends where the internet starts (I didn't own a computer between my old p200mmx and an athlon tbird 1200 so any development that happened in that time I know nothing about)
thanks for pointing out the browser hijack problem which I have rectified (for now) but I still think it's harder to find things you want by searching than it was back when everyone used yahoo.
I used to be a tech nerd but newer computers shit me so much I only use them out of neccesity. Back in the day if there was a problem, it would go away when you fixed the cause but now every machine I see has at least one completely inexplicable issue ,i.e. random crashing(even during windows installation) or certain programs failing to work even though they work fine on another machine with the EXACT same hardware configuration and the same versions of every peice of software involved.
Probly i'm just to dumb and can't keep up with added complexity.
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February 2003
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Re: Search engine, which is the best?
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Sun, 04 September 2005 08:07
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fixed
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