What to use for a thorough web search?

[NiceTom]

I know playainfo isn't the place to go for computer help, but there are some real brainiac types hanging out here.

Any ideas on how you do a "deeper" seach on the internet? I'm talking beyond google. For example, I do regular seaches using keywords and phrases, and get lots of hits, but in my other web travels I also run across web sites and references that have my keywords-so I wonder, why didn't google find it? Is it just a matter of using muliple seach engines (like dogpile), or is there a super-dooper search that I don't know about? Anything out there that searches newspaper classifieds?

Of course, part of the "magic" is how you use words and phrases to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

[Ginger]

Well, there's many different types of search engines out there. There are general search engines (google, yahoo, msn), Meta's like dogpile, metacrawler;

There are answer search engines, job, shopping, news search, blog search, medical search engines, scientific journal search engines....I could go on!

I guess it just depends on what you are searching for, and how you want your results presented. The results for different engines will vary...even engines in the same search category will index sites differently, so their results WILL vary eg. Google to MSN to Yahoo.

[louden48]

I like to use dogpile.com when I'm looking for something that's obscure.

[james]

I don't use anything beyond Google. The trick is learning how to use all the search options to find what you are after.

[sideways]

Originally Posted by james

I don't use anything beyond Google. The trick is learning how to use all the search options to find what you are after.

Me too...a googler from way back.

[louden48]

I will agree, I like Google, too. -Especially the "I'm feeling lucky" button

[sideways]

Originally Posted by louden48

I will agree, I like Google, too. -Especially the "I'm feeling lucky" button

That button just begs to be pushed...

[NiceTom]

I'm primarily a google user also, I was just hoping for something a little more comprehensive (like 10,487 matches isn't enough!). I'd always thought that google covers "everything" on the internet, but I'm finding that isn't always the case.

My endless search is for a type of industrial equipment (like I use in my day job) at auction, liquidation, fire-sale, salvage, etc., that I try to buy, then fix, for fun and profit. The hope is to move this beyond a hobby (and what kind of crappy hobby is that?-industrial robots!), but right now, I'm a bottom-feeder, trying to find what others (equipment dealers with deeper pockets) miss. So I do google searches, but then have to scour through auction websites-regularly finding items, and websites that didn't come up with google. It seems very hit-and-miss, and quite tedious.

[sideways]

Originally Posted by NiceTom

I'm primarily a google user also, I was just hoping for something a little more comprehensive (like 10,487 matches isn't enough!). I'd always thought that google covers "everything" on the internet, but I'm finding that isn't always the case.

My endless search is for a type of industrial equipment (like I use in my day job) at auction, liquidation, fire-sale, salvage, etc., that I try to buy, then fix, for fun and profit. The hope is to move this beyond a hobby (and what kind of crappy hobby is that?-industrial robots!), but right now, I'm a bottom-feeder, trying to find what others (equipment dealers with deeper pockets) miss. So I do google searches, but then have to scour through auction websites-regularly finding items, and websites that didn't come up with google. It seems very hit-and-miss, and quite tedious.

Like James said, if you dial in the advanced search parameters....Google is pretty effective. Personally, I get what I need on the normal search 9 out of 10. But I wish I was better for that 1 time on the advanced features. Other than Google, not sure, been using it for a long time now.