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Search Engines .
Anyone found an effective internet search engine that they would recommend for Australian searches ?
Thanks in Advance.
CHEERS.
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Thanks in Advance.
CHEERS.
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For Oz stuff, try this one
Garriga's Australian Beyond ...The BlackStump
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Garriga's Australian Beyond ...The BlackStump
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try http://www.goeureka.com.au, you can select to search only oz or worldwideweb page.
Google is good for everything else
Google is good for everything else
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I normally use:
Australia and New Zealand Web Enquiry Research System
(ANZWERS for short)
It will search both Australian and New Zealand sites, and the world if you wish.
Cheers,
Capt EFIS
Australia and New Zealand Web Enquiry Research System
(ANZWERS for short)
It will search both Australian and New Zealand sites, and the world if you wish.
Cheers,
Capt EFIS
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I learned about this search engine about 6 months ago. (Thanks Jim!) 
. Copernic Basic . It is 100% free and well worth the download time for the install/set-up program. In effect it is a "master" search engine, and it uses a number of other search engines concurrently (slaves, ie; Yahoo, Google, Excite etc) to do the looking for it and it then delivers the results back to you. Works great for me. 
. Copernic Basic . It is 100% free and well worth the download time for the install/set-up program. In effect it is a "master" search engine, and it uses a number of other search engines concurrently (slaves, ie; Yahoo, Google, Excite etc) to do the looking for it and it then delivers the results back to you. Works great for me.
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Yup - have to agree, Copernic is the one. I got so carried away I even bought it! The 'Pro' version. At any one time it can scan up to 100 other search engines, it just depends what options you select and how you configure it, also has an update facility too.
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I find www.dogpile.com to be a very good search engine. It slaves in several others and you always get a good result. You could say it C***S over the others.
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I'm surprised that no one has come up with
http://www.webwombat.com.au
yet. A great little Australian search engine with lots of other resources, channels and directories. I particularly like the access to thousands of the world's newspapers (on the left).
Also http://au.yahoo.com
http://www.webwombat.com.au
yet. A great little Australian search engine with lots of other resources, channels and directories. I particularly like the access to thousands of the world's newspapers (on the left).
Also http://au.yahoo.com
The advantage google has over many others is that it ignores the META tags people put in their source codes that are meant to tell trad search engines what is in that page.
Instead google remembers every word in the body of the document, and records the number of times that it appears.
Instead google remembers every word in the body of the document, and records the number of times that it appears.
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Give Metacrawler a try.
It searches about 10 search engines including google and dogpile and rates and orders the sites most to least relevant starting at 1000. Excellent.
Best EWL
It searches about 10 search engines including google and dogpile and rates and orders the sites most to least relevant starting at 1000. Excellent.
Best EWL
