Forensic Pafology: Ought Googlers shun Google?

[etaoin22]

From where I sit far far away... (although not in another galaxy -- except when PM Harper is speaking), Googling many searches is like feeding marmalade to monkeys. Slow and sticky.

I note that other search engines claim speedier results, and a first try at either the current yahoo search engine or alltheweb.com seemed to save a couple of seconds on the Wallace searches.

Any comments?

[cindy.wellman]

From where I sit far far away... (although not in another galaxy -- except when PM Harper is speaking), Googling many searches is like feeding marmalade to monkeys. Slow and sticky.

I note that other search engines claim speedier results, and a first try at either the current yahoo search engine or alltheweb.com seemed to save a couple of seconds on the Wallace searches.

Any comments?

I usually have my laptop out when I'm watching the show. I practice using Google while Meredith reads the question. I type as she talks, so by the time she's finished reading, I can usually tell whether I know the question w/o reading the Google results.

I'll try out your theory using Yahoo and alltheweb.com to see if I notice any difference. Although I have 3-4 shows that I'll be catching up on tonight, I'm not sure if I'll notice how much a difference that I'll see because those shows have already aired, and other people have Googled the questions. Maybe I'll try and catch the show when it airs tomorrow.

I remember reading something, somewhere (nice specifics, ugh) that Google tailors your results based upon your past queries. Has anyone else read that? I wonder if that is true for the other search engines as well. I could see where that could hurt or help you. Since I normally Google many, many things, I could see that maybe my normal searches might cause any WWTBAM questions to be skewed towards what I'm normally Googling. If I'm normally looking for prices on cars, a question that was similar to the Maybach question might not come up with what would help me for WWTBAM. That probably isn't the best example, but it was the first that came to mind.