From: Jenny...@hotmail.com Subject: Yahoo! Is Becoming The Worst Of The Search Engines Date: 1997/05/29 Message-ID: <5mksk8$872$1@bilbo.reference.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 244806107 Organization: Reference.Com Posting Service Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc Originator: pan...@reference.com () Yahoo is really becoming the worst of the search engines. They have so many dead links a lot of the areas are now almost completely useless and you can't find new popular sites because they don't add the new sites submitted for 6 months to a year. -- Posted using Reference.COM http://www.reference.com Browse, Search and Post Usenet and Mailing list Archive and Catalog. InReference, Inc. accepts no responsibility for the content of this posting.
From: y...@cs.buffalo.edu (Yanhong Li) Subject: Re: Yahoo! Is Becoming The Worst Of The Search Engines Date: 1997/06/02 Message-ID: <5mt8q4$ksa@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 245528002 References: <5mksk8$872$1@bilbo.reference.com> <5mrdrg$nhr$1@nuke.csu.net> Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Computer Science NNTP-Posting-User: yli Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc Take a look at Rankdex -- the next generation of Internet search engines. It ranks the results by a combination of Quality and relevance, you only get the best! http://rankdex.gari.com
From: whit...@cwu.edu (S. Whitmore (no big E!)) Subject: Re: Yahoo! Is Becoming The Worst Of The Search Engines Date: 1997/06/03 Message-ID: <3393672f.370531606@news.cwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 245710550 References: <5mksk8$872$1@bilbo.reference.com> <5mrdrg$nhr$1@nuke.csu.net> <5mt8q4$ksa@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> Organization: CWU Reply-To: whit...@cwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc According to y...@cs.buffalo.edu (Yanhong Li): >Take a look at Rankdex -- the next generation of Internet search >engines. It ranks the results by a combination of Quality and >relevance, you only get the best! And according to the referenced page: >This is the internet's most successful approach to automatically >ranking web sites. Compare the results to those of other web >search services! I find this to be substantially inadequate. Simple searches (2-3 words) that should have generated MANY results instead brought up short lists of pages with low-to-medium relevance. Nothing even close to other search engines. I'm not trying to sound insulting, but this was the worst "search engine" I've tried yet. It's more usable than some, because it's simple, but its dataset is much, much too tiny. And this wouldn't bother me a bit if the search was introduced as "experimental" or "in development" or even the web-trite "under construction" -- but instead, it is presented as complete and better than other search engines. Sorry, but it just doesn't cut it. I would strongly recommend making the service better than at least a few of the others out there, before making wild claims about being better than the much-more-comprehensive and much-more-focused engines available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stuart Whitmore (http://www.cwu.edu/~whitEmore) whit...@tahoma.cwu.edu (Remove the capital E to make a valid address) PGP mail preferred over plaintext messages. Inquire for details.
From: y...@cs.buffalo.edu (Yanhong Li) Subject: Re: Yahoo! Is Becoming The Worst Of The Search Engines Date: 1997/06/03 Message-ID: <5n27ak$h3s@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 245930525 References: <5mksk8$872$1@bilbo.reference.com> <5mrdrg$nhr$1@nuke.csu.net> <5mt8q4$ksa@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <3393672f.370531606@news.cwu.edu> Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Computer Science NNTP-Posting-User: yli Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc In article <3393672f....@news.cwu.edu>, S. Whitmore (no big E!) <whit...@cwu.edu> wrote: > >I find this to be substantially inadequate. Simple searches (2-3 >words) that should have generated MANY results instead brought up >short lists of pages with low-to-medium relevance. Nothing even close >to other search engines. I'm not trying to sound insulting, but this >was the worst "search engine" I've tried yet. It's more usable than >some, because it's simple, but its dataset is much, much too tiny. This is a "demonstration site" as stated clearly in the home page http://rankdex.gari.com, it is not meant to compete with those commercial search engines, because they do different things - If you are looking for information on a certain topic, and you want all the information available, you probably need to go to Alta Vista, but if you only want to see ONE site, you should let Rankdex tell you WHICH ONE.