Re: Contrast in Search Engine Results - Phew!

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, RF <RF (AT) NoDen (DOT) con> wrote:

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.

Try searching: "disk structure" corrupted unreadable

http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22disk+structure%22+corrupted+unreadabl e
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22disk+structure%22+corrupted+unreadable

The link you cited "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311724" is
more specific.

Now, try searching: NTFS partition corrupt unreadable

http://www.google.com/search?&q=NTFS+partition+corrupt+unreadable
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=NTFS+partition+corrupt+unreadable

Also, try excluding the following terms from all of your searches,
and see if that doesn't clean things up a bit:

"free trial" "free download" "free offer" "free to try" shareware price

http://www.google.com/search?&as_q=NTFS+partition+corrupt+unreadable&as_ eq=free-trial+free-download+free-offer+free-to-try+shareware+price&num=30

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Ouija