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#1 Postby Derek Ortt » Tue Jul 22, 2003 7:03 pm

Google may be the most useless search engine in the world. Yesterday, people were looking for info regarding TD 6. Where did Google direct them to, the NWHHC Archives for TD <b>2</b>, lol.
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#2 Postby JetMaxx » Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:06 pm

Nobody's perfect :D
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#3 Postby Colin » Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:21 pm

LOL! :lol: :roll: Yeah well... some people just aren't that "weather smart" :roll:
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#4 Postby Air Force Met » Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:40 pm

Not sure how that makes Google bad. Although...anyone looking for info for TD 6 on google...and not wise enough to look up the NHC for info (among a million other sites) is in mbig trouble if they live along the coast.
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#5 Postby Derek Ortt » Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:57 pm

The people were not specifically looking for a forecasting site, merely info on TD 6


Also, I think I know what happened. Something as simple as the google search bot didnt access the TD 6 info and focused on the words Tropical Depression as there is quite a bit of TD 2 info if one searches TD 6. This makes sense based upon the formula that google uses to compile its searches
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#6 Postby wxman57 » Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:11 pm

Perhaps these people didn't know how to search? I went to Google, typed in Tropical Depression 6 and all the top hits were correct - TD 6 info. Hits lower down were from another TD 6 in 1995. As a matter of fact, I couldn't get Google NOT to find the proper TD 6 in the top links. Try it yourselves.
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#7 Postby Derek Ortt » Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:27 pm

I did the search a few minutes ago and got the proper results. Prehaps it was just the lag time before the search was updated, as would be expected It was just a bit of a shock when looking at the log files before I went into the office this morning
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#8 Postby Steve » Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:53 pm

Also, if it's a relatively generic term like TD or Tropical Depression, the most hit sites will come up first. With Google, you have to use the " " qualifiers if you want to find consecutive text.

On the other hand, if you do a GIS (Google Image Search), it comes in handy for a quick page of T&A (that's Tropical and Atlantic ;)).

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#9 Postby Steve » Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:53 pm

Oh yeah, be sure to turn 'safe search' off in _preferences_.

But you all knew that.

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