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Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi by wickedchicken on Thursday May 03, 2012 @02:04PM (#3924968)
> It was simply unacceptable to use something other than Google in tech circles at some point.

From what I recall, it was also the most programmer-friendly search engine at the time.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=DGGEVX

http://blekko.com/ws/DGGEVX

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=DGGEVX

http://www.google.com/#q=DGGEVX

This is purely subjective, but Google is the only one that links to the Netlib 'real' LAPACK, straight to the file/documentation in question. The others have mixtures of Java packages and other examples...

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Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi by boyter on Friday May 04, 2012 @09:07AM (#3928184)
Offtopic, but do you consider these results any good?

http://searchco.de/?q=DGGEVX&cs=on

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Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi by wickedchicken on Friday May 04, 2012 @12:18PM (#3929071)
Basically, but you're getting the opinion of a random person on the internet :). The third result is the 'real' one (the top two are unit tests for the named function.
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Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi by boyter on Friday May 04, 2012 @06:39PM (#3930647)
That's fine, its who I am targeting!

I was more curious to see if it was even in the ballpark. The relevance i'm not too worried about if the expected response is in the top 3.

Thanks!

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