Tail searches: Is Google still the best??????
An year ago whenever I googled for queries which existed in some post in an arcane news group, Google would find it. However it looks like google is losing that edge.
Try out the following query on google.
“Internal buffer inconsistency. flushbits <> ResvSizeError: MAX_HEADER_BUF too small in bitstream.c”
It would return zero hits.
Then try out the same query at Yahoo search. You would be pleasantly surprised how relevant the only search result Yahoo returns.
This is the third time within a week, where Google has flagrantly lost to Yahoo for my search queries. I am seriously considering switching my default search engine now.
When you can’t find something at Google, what do you do? Do you try other search engines? Have you had any experience where one search engine totally beat the rest left and right for your queries? Please share in the comments.
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:59 am
Thank you for sharing!
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
An idea to get answer would be : reward the ‘better’ search engine by sticking to it till you get a better answer from the other search engine.