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View Poll Results: Which search site do you prefer as your primary search?
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Yahoo
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Altavista
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Ask Jeeves?
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other, plese post
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04-07-2002, 10:46 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2002
Location: harvard, il
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.4,DD-WRT micro plus ssh,lfs-6.6,Fedora 15,Fedora 16
Posts: 2,900
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favorite search engine?
what's your favorite search engine?
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04-07-2002, 12:11 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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Right now I think google is hands down the best. I hear that Teoma is trying to take what google did and make it better, but that is a daunting task and it remains to be seen if this can be done.
--jeremy
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04-08-2002, 03:24 PM
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Cornwall, England.
Distribution: Debian + Ubuntu
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I'm affraid I can't answer. I use many of them on a very regular basis. I know that Yahoo uses the google search engine, but sometimes it is easier to find things with Yahoo. I also use some specific ones, like EuroFerret, for doc searching.
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04-08-2002, 03:40 PM
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LQ Addict
Registered: May 2001
Location: Arizona
Distribution: 9.2 Mandy 1.4 Gentoo 5.1 FreeBSD WinXP
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I use yahoo, Google, and Altavista, and I find that AltaVista results are usually more accurate to what I am wanting.
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04-09-2002, 11:40 PM
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Brisie, Australia
Distribution: Slackware 8.1
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Google of course, it's very fast and really accurate for my searchin' needs.
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04-10-2002, 08:05 AM
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i hate ask jeevs, alta vista usually shows a bunch of porn sites if there is an x in the word. so i would have to say, Google.
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04-10-2002, 01:05 PM
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: chicago, IL
Distribution: debian, redhat
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Google!! Makes other search engines feel inadaquate. 
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04-10-2002, 01:09 PM
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Cornwall, England.
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Quote:
Originally posted by TeRG
i hate ask jeevs
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You're not the only one.  It was, however, designed for people that don't really understand how to use proper search engines. (2x  )
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04-10-2002, 01:30 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: (Cashville) Nashville, TN
Distribution: CentOS 4.0, Slackware 10.2,
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Google all the way baby.............
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04-10-2002, 02:00 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2002
Distribution: Slack
Posts: 50
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Google,
two words
"Page Rank"
check it out, it is the reason that you get meaningful result as apposed to the other engines that return the site that has your search string appearing the most times.
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04-10-2002, 02:41 PM
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: UK
Distribution: Mandriva
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....and Google is run on Linux 
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