I noticed a change for the worse in Google starting a few months ago. Many less hits than I'd expect. Yesterday I wanted a definition of "field exit" and I was surprised to get only 23,000 results. (I needed to know the difference between field exit and field +).
Right now, if you Google google, you get 2.6 billion results and if you Google Microsoft, you'll get 650 million results. Yet a Google of IBM yields only 174 million results. I think they changed their greatest asset, their search algorithm, and to their detriment.
Bryan Burns
iSeries Specialist and early adopter of Google
ECHO, Incorporated
Lake Zurich, Illinois
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Subject: Google
Trying to search some midrange stuff on google lately and, man, does
google stink. Searching for strings surrounded by double quotes is not
respected - it still breaks apart the phrase. specifying site:ibm.com
still lists links to numerous other sites. Am I doing something wrong?
Rob Berendt
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