Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:36 pm
Made it look like a url?
Climbing, hiking, mountaineering forum
http://www.summitpost.org/phpBB3/
https://www.summitpost.org/phpBB3/duckduckgo-now-has-a-summitpost-operator-t53418-15.html
WouterB wrote:Made it look like a url?
mvs wrote:In todays web world there are specialized databases that we use, and they have their own search functions that can be more appropriate than external crawlers. For example, if I search for "Whitney" on Summitpost, I don't care if a crawler found that more links go to an album about the mountain, I just want the Summitpost page on Mt. Whitney (even if it's unpopular).
http://tinyurl.com/2wvsnbpmvs wrote:But more importantly, they have a neat feature that lets you run a search directly in an important site.
nhluhr wrote:http://tinyurl.com/2wvsnbpmvs wrote:But more importantly, they have a neat feature that lets you run a search directly in an important site.
Welcome to the internet.
Bill Kish wrote:you don't even need to us the "site:" operator to get good summitpost results from google. just append "summitpost" to your search (e.g. google "cathedral peak summitpost") and 9+ times out of ten you will quickly find the summitpost content you are looking for.
I can see how ddg is different than google but I can't see how it is better. I spot checked several mountain-related searches on both ddg and google; google produced better results 100% of the time. The fundamental problem is that ddg seems to rely on summitpost's native search engine, which is like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
It may differ but you get worse search results, as nartreb demonstrated earliermvs wrote:nhluhr wrote:http://tinyurl.com/2wvsnbpmvs wrote:But more importantly, they have a neat feature that lets you run a search directly in an important site.
Welcome to the internet.
I'm sick of trying to explain to you guys how the !summitpost operator DIFFERS from the Google site: operator. Thanks for your snarky link though it was funny.