Comments on: still no sunshine http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/06/still-no-sunshine/ Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:10:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: HNL http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/06/still-no-sunshine/comment-page-1/#comment-9751 HNL Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:01:35 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/06/still-no-sunshine/#comment-9751 er, the built in search box next to the firefox address bar? i actually click with the mouse... [blush] er, the built in search box next to the firefox address bar? i actually click with the mouse… [blush]

]]> By: drac http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/06/still-no-sunshine/comment-page-1/#comment-9715 drac Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:33:11 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/06/still-no-sunshine/#comment-9715 actually, that's a brilliant example. I just did the "jumbo packet" search on my alternative search engines. Clusty screwed up. Even their "Gigabit ethernet" cluster didn't have the most authoritative link first. Hakia screwed up. AllTheWeb actually got it right. Which more or less matched my experience too. AllTheWeb had a massive buildup of hype a few years back (they indexed more pages than Google did at the time), but they've sort of dropped off the radar a tad now. Not sure why that is, it's fairly decent. My muscle memory doesn't allow for those fancy Google suggest boxes, actually. I can do Ctrl-T, Ctrl-L, [google (search term)] very very fast. It took me ages to transition from using Alt-D in that shortcut (a Windows only thing) to Ctrl-L. Using a completely different search box? Horror :) actually, that’s a brilliant example. I just did the “jumbo packet” search on my alternative search engines.

Clusty screwed up. Even their “Gigabit ethernet” cluster didn’t have the most authoritative link first. Hakia screwed up. AllTheWeb actually got it right. Which more or less matched my experience too.

AllTheWeb had a massive buildup of hype a few years back (they indexed more pages than Google did at the time), but they’ve sort of dropped off the radar a tad now. Not sure why that is, it’s fairly decent.

My muscle memory doesn’t allow for those fancy Google suggest boxes, actually. I can do Ctrl-T, Ctrl-L, [google (search term)] very very fast. It took me ages to transition from using Alt-D in that shortcut (a Windows only thing) to Ctrl-L. Using a completely different search box? Horror :)

]]> By: HNL http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/06/still-no-sunshine/comment-page-1/#comment-9692 HNL Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:23:41 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/06/still-no-sunshine/#comment-9692 i went a full 7 days with just clusty about a year back, and back then it was manageable. i guess in my case what keeps me glued to google is the familiar format. looked at the new clusty and decided i don't like it anymore. hakia was uncluttered enough, but when my search for jumbo packets (in ethernet) yielded a first result of "Jumbo packets are excellent for suburban and rural gardeners...", i decided that hakia is not really living up to its tag line of "search for meaning". oh by the way. the Firefix google search box's auto-suggest feature is really good now. i never have to finish typing a search string anymore. i went a full 7 days with just clusty about a year back, and back then it was manageable.

i guess in my case what keeps me glued to google is the familiar format. looked at the new clusty and decided i don’t like it anymore. hakia was uncluttered enough, but when my search for jumbo packets (in ethernet) yielded a first result of “Jumbo packets are excellent for suburban and rural gardeners…”, i decided that hakia is not really living up to its tag line of “search for meaning”.

oh by the way. the Firefix google search box’s auto-suggest feature is really good now. i never have to finish typing a search string anymore.

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