CL totally sneezed all over fj.life.in-japan with a withering cloud of snot:

>John W. wrote:
>>> And Google IS an industrial vacuum cleaner, so... what to expect?
>>>
>> I've practically stopped googling (actually I've always used Yahoo!,
>> present NG excepted). Too much information and it's hard to know if
>> it's good, reliable, current, etc.
>
>For long term research, I still use the subscription to Copernic I
>bought to use with my upgrade to WIN98. It was originally intended to
>work with IE and Netscape, but a smooth link to Firefox and the addition
>of CJK language input happened about a year, or so, ago. It does the
>search, weeds out the dead links, then flags any site that redirects you
>away from the front page or appears to be a phishing link. You can save
>searches, set it to monitor sites for changes and new links, and have it
>auto-run saved searches on a set schedule and report on what has
>changed. Unlike Google and Yahoo, it stores search criteria locally, 
>which I prefer.
>
>On the downside, the interface has never gotten the makeover to smooth 
>and pretty that a lot of other programs have.  You switch it on and, 
>suddenly, it's 1997 again.

Heh. I still use MS/Shogakukan Bookshelf from 1997. It works for getting
synonyms for words, etc., but is totally useless now for statistics.


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