Google is Overrated and Inaccurate. Need A Lesser Evil? Try Clusty.com

[from ThatsJustPlumDumb.com]

For all its billions of dollars, a huge campus of “research and development,” thousands of smarty employees from UC Berkeley and Stanford, blah, blah, blah, Google is highly overrated as a search tool. Worst of all, it’s inaccurate when it comes to obscure and unusual searches. I commented previously about Google PageRank, which is worse than a junior-high popularity contest, so I felt it only fair to round out my general critique of Google with a comment about its search engine.

When it comes to finding common items, names, places, themes, books, etc., any decent search engine will do fine, simply because there’s enough information, plenty of websites out there in the WWWsphere to satisfy anyone’s need. Which means, Google can do simple searches just as well as anyone else. The limiting factor is organization, and Clusty.com handles it much better than Google. Clusty takes each search and “clusters” like items into, well, clusters that are then listed off the to left of the search results. The highest number of web pages within each cluster is listed at the top, with lower numbers in descending order.

Google clusters, too, but it predefines what the clusters are, and you have to choose the link Web: Show Options at the top left of the search results. Who the heck would know to do that? Google’s smarties aren’t all that smart, you ask me; in fact, they’re user-unfriendly, probably because they’re all misfit geeks and nerds who have no idea how to properly interact in the real world where you and I happily reside and work and play and, uh, do online searches. Personally, I’d suggest to Google to hire some normal people. Like me, for instance. I’d revamp their whole look, make it accessible enough for a 12 year old, and even change that stupid logo. Oh, and the name, too. When Google entered the market ten years back, I said, “Oh, shit, that awful peanut-butter-and-jelly combo is back to give us more diarrhea.”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and liberty. He writes and speaks about the dangers of The First Sphere of Influence, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.