Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] search engine alternative to GOOGLE
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:11:09 -0700
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020718230832.0513de40@earthlink.net> <001e01c22ed8$5d48a210$0a3aa8c0@almond>

Will wrote:
> 
> Apparently GOOGLE has instituted a new "feature" to their
> search engine.  When their program thinks you have
> misspelled a word, they force an alternate spelling on you
> and display the results for that spelling.  Prior to this,
> the program would ask "did you mean?" and allow the user a
> choice as to what they meant.
> 
> Since I  have used google to research photography and the
> older LUG goings-on and spend about 30 percent of my time at
> work searching for and harvesting data, Google's big
> advantage of using cached pages has been neutralized by
> their new feature.
> 
> Any suggestions for alternate search engines, preferably
> with cached pages?
> 
> Regards, Bill Larsen
> wlarsen@ocsnet.net
> 


I'm A Google kind of guy its my first search engine I'll try to use and
I've found the new spelling feature has saved many a search.  Never the
other way around. I have a severe spelling disability.



Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.markrabiner.com
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In reply to: Message from Carl Pultz <cpultz@earthlink.net> ([Leica] PAW: couple more pictures)
Message from "Will" <wlarsen@ocsnet.net> ([Leica] search engine alternative to GOOGLE)