Contrast in Search Engine Results - Phew!

 

I have just been astonished by the difference between two search
engines: Yahoo.com and Google.

The search was for: "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable"

In the Google search it was just like a flock of vultures coming in for
a feast - pure commercial with very little technical information.

In the search process I went to M*Shaft and got nothing useful.

Yahoo's results were the opposite - lots of technical info and far less
commercial AND there was a M*Shaft article precisely on what I was
looking for on the first page. Here is the URL:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311724

Are M*Shaft and Google cooperating? Whether yes or no, Google is off my
list of search engines.

Now you know which engine to support.

 

RF wrote:

Which Google did you use? <grin>
I just entered your search term in Google. The first 20 results were all
  forums and reputable sites for help/information. Of course, your
research has satisfied your criteria for a search engine. I just thought
you'd like to know I couldn't duplicate your results. Best of luck to you.

hth

Ron Moore

 

'RF' wrote thus:


Here's what scroogle produced, not bad:
<http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=%22The+disk+structure+is+corrupted+and+unreadable%22&n=1>



Right!


Got it!


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The google search didn't seem overly commercial, it returned
lots of forum hits with people having the same problem which
is sometimes exactly what is needed to resolve a problem...
but Google returns too many hits sometimes if you don't
specify more words when using very common ones to computer
problems... then refine the search to weed out hits you
don't want.

Sometimes it's better to go to the source... if Windows
gives you the error message, go directly to MS' site to
search for this string, OR include the "site:" limiter in
the google search like this link does:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asupport.microsoft.com+"The+disk+structure+is+corrupted+and+unreadable"

Unfortunately it looks like putting the quotation marks in
the link breaks it sometimes but even without them it can
work.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asupport.microsoft.com+The+disk+structure+is+corrupted+and+unreadable

 



" is %22

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asupport.microsoft.com+%
22disk+structure+is+corrupted+and+unreadable%22

notice the % gets escaped in this search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=doublequote+%2522+encoded+ |+escape+percent