Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
by nicholassmith on Friday May 04, 2012 @05:05AM
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With the new DuckDuckHack project as well it does make it a lot easier for very quick 'cheap' results. More complex queries I do seem to find myself !g'ing them. Getting better though, improved over the last 3 months I've been using it.
Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
by rkudeshi on Thursday May 03, 2012 @02:44PM
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What search query tells you about the next scheduled episode of a TV show?
Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
by rkudeshi on Thursday May 03, 2012 @03:11PM
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Well, color me amazed. I always just went to Wikipedia's "List of <name> episodes" page, but this will save me a lot of time. Thanks!
Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
by lifeisstillgood on Thursday May 03, 2012 @03:10PM
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Weird - I was totally blind to the top box - I ignored it because it was too banner like and kept scanning the results.
Note to DDG - put the cool useful bit Under the place we all expect ads to be.
I miss very often the top box too.
I have learned the relevancy of this top box, but I still miss it very often.
My eyes usually go right to the link with "Official site" tag.
I've heard the effect is called banner blindness.
However I use adblock on every browser. Therefore I have less training than others to ignore ads. When I see one, it just hit me stronger (it's a side effect of adblock).
Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
by thrownaway2424 on Thursday May 03, 2012 @07:29PM
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Pretty depressing. At least on Google there is a top-10 result for the actual big bang theory, instead of irrelevant pop culture garbage.
If I just want to know when the next episode of Big Bang Theory is out or what the weather is today I rarely need to even click on a result. For more obscure technical searches at work, Google still finds more answers.
But remember - the barrier to change for a search engine's customers is very very low