Without drawing up a survey thread,I was wondering
how many people who come here actally do some research on
"Search Engines?
When I went to school,I barely made it into a Library and they had the Best reference material when it came to doing school work.
Now ,with the Information Highway(the Internet) the world is at our fingertips.
Some of the answers to questions asked here are on the web accessed by "searching for them First".
I mean sites like Altavista,Google,Yahoo,Excite,AOL,Webcrawler,Sprin t.
for example to me have an un-believable amount of information on them.

I think I've actually acquired more brain matter.

IN FACT, That's how I found the FTE site.
Go figure !
I sure wish this TOOL was around when I went to school.

Dennis



Please Don't Ask Me Any Tough Questions As:
"I'm Saving My Memory For When I Develop Alzheimer's"


78 F-150 429CJ,Silver
w/Explorer Pkge.
641/2-Mustang 260,Pre-World's Fair Car.
64-Fairlane500 S/C waiting for a 390-4spd.
68-Mustang 289-Sunlit Gold 80,892Mi
78-Buick LeSabre 403 4V
84 Volvo DL Wagon

 

i use search engines for school work and random stuff but when it comes to my truck im www.fordtrucks.com all the way.

 

The information is there, the only problum is that there is so much crud too. Anytime i'm serching for info i either go to www.about.com or to ask jeeves, much more reliable than search engines.

 

I hated doing research in High school and College because of the slow clumsy and often misleading trails.
You could get lost so easily.
Now with the I-net we have so much available, and you can even contact libraries who can get even more that we can.
I doubt if it would have made me a Better Student, but I'd have been a lot more knowlegable.
I'd like for our Tax dollars to put a PC in every houshold, and take half of Congress' salary to do it with.

I use Dogpile.com as it has several search engines it looks through.

 

I second dogpile. Only problem I have is trying to search right subject (ie: trailer plans or is it utility trailer plans, or is it homemade trailers, etc.)

 

I've used Dogpile, Excite, Yahoo, Mamma and Northern Light and they all work pretty well. The best by far that I've found however is Google. It just seems to have the most relevant links come up faster than most.

 

I get the assignment of doing research all the time for both work and home. Think I'm the only one at both places that has the patience for it. The info you can get for business use is amazing. Don't know how we ever survived without it.

Found this site while searching for a 40 or 41 Ford truck back in 1999.

 

PATIENCE Carlene says PATIENCE....

One place where the I-net wont help a lot is in CHemistry.
That class destroyed my Patience....
Those Research projects could go on for the Rest of your life!!!

I have too much arragonce. I sit at this PC, and while it's working at the speed of Light, I'm thinking it's sooooo sloooow.

Now there's a guy whose lost all the parts and pieces of his patience.

 

I've tried all of those mentioned, but when I want to cut to the chase - nine times out of ten I'm going direct to "Metacrawler" at:

[a href="http://www.go2net.com"]www.go2net.com[/a]

Check it out, you might like it as much as I do.

Like Google, it uses the combined results of other search engines. But it has slightly different search parameters, that work out better for me personally.

 

I decided one night I was going to make a list of search engines and write them down as to which was best for individual topics. That way I would know which to use to search for certain areas. So I did a search for 'search engines'.

Bad idea.

There are more search engines out there than there are Fords on the road!!!

I finally gave up, and decided to save those decision making skills for such hard topics as "Which smiley face should I use for this message?!?!?!"


If I can't find it using google, metacrawler, or askjeeves, then I am looking up something that is either:

a. going to get me in trouble w/ the gov't
b. going to get me fired from my job
c. going to get me in trouble with my wife.

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 01-Feb-02 AT 10:56 PM (EST)]I use primarily a search engine (www.google.com) for unbelievable amounts of searches and info.

In fact that specific Search engine is my main home page. Sound like a boring homepage? Not when one uses the "Home" button as much as I do.

For Ford (I-beam, baby) information it can help to search out the internet and get full size Bronco information from Bronco internet boards, and some people just have their own comments on pieces and parts.

Thudpucker, and to anyone else who has been out of college awhile, let me say this: The internet and various school electronic libraries almost certainly would have made ya better students (or at least look like a better student).

My first foray into college was in 1990. The internet wasn't around in the capacity it is now (heck, I'm not even sure if I knew about it then), and schoolwork-related research was tasking and trying, to say the least.

I stopped going two years later, lived life, worked, entered a local community college in about 1995 or 1996 (& kept working), then finally gave it all up to come to a major university in 1999 (and here I am). Somehow I managed to be a student through the whole electronic revolution (hmm... is this really something to be proud of?) and I can attest to the benefits the Internet has given average students.

Not only has the Internet helped, but the eventual adaptation of "Search Engines" to the intra-library book searches, when compared to that evil system (sent from Hades) called a 'card-catalog,' has proved to be a God-send.

Computers, alone, have aided the compositional fields immensely (though some would, and do, argue that texts aren't cognitively built the way they used to be - but no one is sure if this is a good or bad thing in as far as the quality of the end-products).

In some ways Academia seriously went from the middle-ages (1400's, 1500's, 1600's, etc.) to being space-age and user-friendly in one decade. The change leaves me a little awestruck when I think about it. Apparently I was born ~10 years too early for a serious go at academia, but now my grades are great and research isn't as hard as it used to be. Sure, we still have to read the books once we find them (in fact I just took a bunch of books out of the library to research Margaret Fuller and her book Summer on the Lakes, in 1843), but i will say to anyone here that if you made it through college before the Internet, you would kick some serious butt if you came back (and my hat's off to ya for getting through it).