__/ [ John Bailo ] on Thursday 27 July 2006 19:02 \__
> Linonut wrote:
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, John Bailo belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>
>>>Seems like the google.com site has been hard to reach the last two
>>>days....
Have you tried heading towards particular datacentres? You can do this by
entering IP addresses (rather than allow the google.com domain to have you
assigned to one near you), This can also affect search results during time
of flux (typically around updates).
>> Not here. Maybe a dog peed on your cable box outside. Or ants are
>> eating the insulation.
>>
>
> It came back...but only after an hour. We here in Seattle,
> surprisingly, are in the back water of the Interet (restricted by big
> hubs in SanFran and Chicago).
"Seattle", you say? Maybe someone is responsible [sarcasm /]. It's funny when
people come to the search engines newsgroup and blame Google's use of
bandwidth for Yahoo downtimes. This has happened several times and it
reminded me of how some people blame Microsoft for conspiring against its
competition. Hmmm.... how can that be...?
> Anyway it gave me a chance to try out the "other" search engines:
>
> Clusty http://www.clusty.com
> This is my favorite for replacing Google. Based on "clustering" results
> by topic
>
> Alta Vista http://www.altavista.com
> Still very powerful -- it's been biding its time -- might be a big
> launch soon (I'm buying CMGI).
Not enough crawling though. Don't expect depth and breadth.
> Yahoo!
> Still as crappy as ever
Better than MSN search.
> Creative Commons
> http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=abc&sourceid=Mozilla-search
> What gives? It just takes you back to Google?
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