What's the deal with search engines?

[ben2go]

I did a search for GS500,GS 500,GS500E,GS500 E,GS 500 E,And even put Suzuki in front of each search term.I would occasionally get GSTwin.com,Pablo's site,Wiki,and a couple other well known sites.I mostly got a bunch of crap about Panasonic camera or some electronic junk.I normally use PST,because I can search a lot of search engines at once.Even using this search tool and entering the search term into each search engine, gives me less than adquate results.Is there some tip or trick to getting the info that you're looking for?It's this way regaurdless of the search term used.PST allows me to search for exact word phrases,not just the words that maybe on the same page.Any advice would be great.




Here's the link to PST if anyone wants the add on search toolbar. http://www.powersearchtool.com/

[ohgood]

there are guides for better searches ... easily found with of all things google ...

with the advanced section of google's search features you can narrow it down.

if you use the 'advanced' portion enough you'll get a request from google to help improve their results. they do it allot for images, but for other content it takes a little more effort.

hope the additional search portion works for you, i personally don't use them but i'm a mac weirdo, so who cares what i use

[Cal Price]

Not sure if it still there but on the BBC's site there was a really good guide to search engines and how some worked differently from others, why some were better at some things, horses for courses. I think i found it by going to BBC using their search to search "search engines" clear as mud!

[ben2go]

Cool.Thanks.

[yooblonder]

... I think i found it by going to BBC using their search to search "search engines" ...

I love the irony!

An alternative is webferret. It combines searches from all the big search engines.

I've just started to use it and so far it seems not too bad. Give it a whirl.

[ben2go]

... I think i found it by going to BBC using their search to search "search engines" ...

I love the irony!

An alternative is webferret. It combines searches from all the big search engines.

I've just started to use it and so far it seems not too bad. Give it a whirl.

Kool.I'm gonna do it now.