The WELL: inkwell.vue.4: Reva Basch, Goddess of Cyberspace

#166: Gail Williams (gail) Mon 19 Nov 01 09:40

Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:40:00 PST

I posted a pointer to this topic, and realized that this one should have a pointer to the continuation for the second edition.

http://engaged.well.com/engaged/engaged.cgi?c=inkwell.vue&t=77 [Read entire topic]

#165: Gail Williams (gail) Mon 22 May 00 19:47

Mon, 22 May 2000 19:47:00 PDT

Google has a fun search puzzle up now.

A good little online treasure hunt. [Read entire topic]

#164: Reva Basch (reva) Sat 4 Sep 99 12:38

Sat, 04 Sep 1999 12:38:00 PDT

That's the trend, unfortunately. [Read entire topic]

#163: Linda Castellani (castle) Fri 3 Sep 99 19:09

Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:09:00 PDT

Taking your recommendation, I just went to google after a frustrating and fruitless search on Alta Vista, usually my search engine of choice.

What I liked was that, in addition to the highlighted link, google also displayed the text I was looking for highlighted and in context so I could actually find it when I went to the link.

I may have a new favorite, now that Alta Vista seems to be more interested in being a portal than in being a useful search engine. [Read entire topic]

#162: Paul B. Israel (pauli) Thu 2 Sep 99 17:33

Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:33:00 PDT

I spent some time yesterday doing some searches on google and found it to have a much higher percentage of useful hits than any other search engine I've used. [Read entire topic]

#161: Reva Basch (reva) Thu 2 Sep 99 16:38

Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:38:00 PDT

I find myself going to google a lot these days. I think partly because it's so much fun to type, and partly because the site isn't all crapped up with ads and portal-type distractions. [Read entire topic]

#160: first be a good (satyr) Tue 31 Aug 99 22:02

Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:02:00 PDT

Nice! But is strang me together on the same line with <sarfatti>... [Read entire topic]

#159: this bag is not a toy (vard) Tue 31 Aug 99 14:54

Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:54:00 PDT

I started using google after the review of it on Salon by <scottros>. I was particularly attracted by his description of its peer-review-type ranking algorithm. Then just for a lark I went to google and typed in "chocolate chip cookies" and MY OWN PAGE came up first!! I was so excited! [Read entire topic]

#158: David Gans (tnf) Tue 31 Aug 99 14:52

Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:52:00 PDT

I use google, too. Excellent! [Read entire topic]

#157: Gail Williams (gail) Tue 31 Aug 99 12:36

Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:36:00 PDT

Since this interview, i have become enamored of www.google.com for my first search in any quest. it prioritizes pages which lots of other pages link to... which weights things in a usually useful way... and it has a cache of the page as it appeared at indexing as well as the link to that URL now, so that if you are looking for "flower arrange thistle" and you find a craft-of-the-day-page but it now features model painting, you can see the thistle page from another day which the search spider found, still in that cache link. I have heard of sites which restoed accidentally deleted pages from that cache feature on google! So Reva, how do you rate it? [Read entire topic]