Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Surfwax

Surfwax features wiki search, news search (unimpressive), RSS feed search, and a blog search where you have to log in. You can sort alphabetically, by relevance, and by source.

I always laugh (not necessarily out loud or NNOL) at "relevance" wordage at search sites. If it isn't what I want it is all irrelevant. The various search engines and the people who write their algorithms are doing the best they can . . . well actually they aren't. Somebody like me who knows exactly what they want down to the punctuation is frustrated by so-called exact phrase searches. They toss out articles like "the" or "an" which may be essential to the phrase. Exact string search is what I want because I know what I want. Apparently no one else does because search engines get away with second guessing you. The internet used to have search engines that did exact string but enough ranting [somebody give me a couple of million and I'll code the next big search engine]. Needless to say, Surfwax does not have exact phrase or if they did I couldn't find it and it should be easy to find if you have it in an advanced search. Surfwax has something called Focus, meaning their focus words. Overused and most annoying word: "Whatever!"

Surfwax --
http://www.surfwax.com/

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