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    New Search Engine.... Vanoogle.com

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    • EGOL
      EGOL @Matt-Williamson last edited by

      I was surprised last week when I searched for "georgia" and then searched for "guitars" a moment later and found that google was delivering results contaminated by previous queries.  http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-query-contamination

      They monkey with the SERPs and don't tell.

      So, I agree, sometimes vanilla is the best flavor.

      That's why I want Vanoogle.com

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      • EGOL
        EGOL @Jinx14678 last edited by

        Never Seen BS tags before, is that a way to rank higher in Vanoogle?

        Heaven's no!

        We will need yet another search engine for that....  Bulloogle.com

        Lots of what I write should be indexed there.

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        • EGOL
          EGOL @irvingw last edited by

          ha...  That's really funny.... and I think you are right!

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          • Jinx14678
            Jinx14678 @EGOL last edited by

            Now Bulloogle.com, that is something I can get behind

            all BS all the time, you never know what you will get!

            🙂

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            • EGOL
              EGOL @MattJanaway last edited by

              SEOs would like to have it to know "where they really rank".

              The average guy would like to have it just to enjoy "crap-free SERPs".

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              • EGOL
                EGOL @EGOL last edited by

                Right!   It might replace StumbleUpon.

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                • activitysuper
                  activitysuper last edited by

                  I don't think so EGOL, maybe you are just looking at it from the SEO side of the fence.

                  When im searching for my own purposes Google 80% of the time delivers everything I want, whether its a map of places to eat in my local city or youtube rich snippets of a band ive heard about.

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                  • DenverKelly
                    DenverKelly last edited by

                    Nice Post, EGOL. You don't like Google with all the "improvements" - like to I rank 6th on page 1 or 17th, depending on what Google decides to display on the SERPS.

                    How about DuckDuckGo? They are pretty generic and without personalization.

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                    • EGOL
                      EGOL @activitysuper last edited by

                      So, you would use vanoogle for the other 20%?

                      I think that most people would use it all of the time.... so if 80% of people use it all of the time and the rest use it 20% of the time that would be 84% market share.

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                      • EGOL
                        EGOL @DenverKelly last edited by

                        I like it.  The Faveicons add character. (... and my sites rank well)

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                        • DenverKelly
                          DenverKelly @EGOL last edited by

                          Your sites ranking well is the most important criteria for Vanoogle!!

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                          • activitysuper
                            activitysuper @EGOL last edited by

                            The other 20% with the yellow pages.

                            No need for vanoogle, why don't you just go back to the very beginning and use http://www.dmoz.org/.

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                            • SEODinosaur
                              SEODinosaur last edited by

                              It would be nice if they gave you google classic (AKA Vanoogle.com) as an option. That way everyone would be happy.

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                              • activitysuper
                                activitysuper @SEODinosaur last edited by

                                Yeah that would be nice, the nearest thing I got to that is going 'incognito' in chrome.

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                                • EGOL
                                  EGOL @activitysuper last edited by

                                  I used to have a "clean machine" that I used to check rankings, never signed in and never clicked anything in the SERPs.  That has stopped working because previous searches are stinking up the SERPs.

                                  I want a button to "turn off all bias".

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                                  • DougRoberts
                                    DougRoberts last edited by

                                    That's all well and good, but how do you get the average man on the street to switch?

                                    For example, my dad has never "chosen" a search engine in his life. He just goes with whatever he browser defaults to / manufacturer set up as a default and failing that "google" because it's the only one he's heard of... He thinks any weakness in the results returned are because he "must have types the wrong thing."

                                    It would be really nice to be freely toggle all the factors your mentioned on/off (and set defaults) so that you could have the search that you wanted.

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                                    • EGOL
                                      EGOL @DougRoberts last edited by

                                      Thanks for your dad's perspective.

                                      He thinks any weakness in the results returned are because he "must have types the wrong thing."

                                      That is eyeopening!

                                      Experienced people might enjoy the toggle feature you suggest... that will allow them to filter the "fluff" and get pure results.

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                                      • DenverKelly
                                        DenverKelly @EGOL last edited by

                                        For pure results we should have all the sites that match the search term listed in alphabetical order.

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                                        • JustDucky
                                          JustDucky @EGOL last edited by

                                          When I want to access the "official" site without having to dig through the commercialized sites on the SERPS, I use Bing instead of G.   Much more pleased with the results when I'm not searching for "long tail" phrases.  Vanoogle (your idea of a toggle to get "pure" results) is a great  idea but G wants ALL the ad revenues it can bleed out of a page.

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                                          • APICDA
                                            APICDA last edited by

                                            I would most definitely use it!  Dare to dream, dare to dream.................

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