Re: Google - how far do you go?
I've been known to go to page two or three on Google results when searching
for work information.
And when I'm searching for some of my more obscure hobby information, I've
drilled down as far as 10 - 15 pages in Google results. Because some of
the things I'm researching are so darned obscure that no matter how well I
form my search queries, and no matter how many things I exclude, I still
tend to find useful information in the remote neighborhoods on the
Internets. Also, sometimes Google thinks it knows what I'm looking for
(and it doesn't!), and the only way to get around their matching algorithm
is to go past the first couple of pages of results.
I find that Wikipedia is a mixed bag. Sometimes it's exactly what I'm
looking for (oh so that's what that is...). And sometimes it's mostly
useful for giving me other keywords to search in.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Haim Roman <haim -dot- roman -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
I need a reason to spend time looking past page 1 of searches. What would
make me think that there is better information via the links on page 2, 3,
etc.? If it's clear to me that I'm not getting the info I want via the
links on page 1, then I'll check further pages. But that's often a sign
that I need different search text.
For explanations that are more than a definition, then I normally search
google. But among the results, I tend to go to the Wikipedia links.
Wikipedia is not divine revelation. But what on the net is? In fact, what
in print is? (I'm excluding religious texts from this discussion)
- "Unadulterated dreck on *all* fronts" is quite a strong charge. How
do you know?
- I tend to trust it for information on computer & network protocols,
types of computer equipment, etc., though I can't prove it's reliable
for
that.
- I'm suspect of it on political issues, but that's true for most
political material (online, hardcopy, or broadcast).
- If you can find a reliable source of information for a given area of
knowledge, then of course you should prefer that.
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On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:44 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin <
Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
In your normal, everyday interaction with public search engines (Google,do
Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.), for roughly what percentage of search instances
you bother to look past page 1 of the results?1
Why?
That is, I'm assuming that most people check page 1 of search results and
start clicking likely links, or else take a look at what came up as page
and decide right away that they need to revise their search, and onlythen
occasionally (if ever) proceed to page 2, 3, or (shudder) further.
So ... why do you mostly consider page 1 far enough (if that's what you
do), and why do you go past page 1 on those occasions that you do?
I mostly go with hits from page one of search, until I've exhausted the
links (or skipped, based on an obviously low-probability summary), and
I might try page 2 or three, though my perusal of links from page 1 hasyears
usually given me some hints as to how I might usefully refine my search,
instead of going further in the current results. It's been literally
since I went past page 10 on any search. I'm more likely to switchsearch
engines and retry a search than I am to 'go deep'.Bing
On a related note, when you want to look up a term, and want more than a
dictionary definition, do you automatically use a standard Google (or
or...) search, first, or do you go directly to something like Wikipedia?bothered
Finally, if you are one of those people who think that Wikipedia is not
merely ... er.... uneven, but is generally unadulterated dreck on all
fronts... is that based on recent visits, or on the last time you
in 2007... or was that 2005... ?online
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