Sir Babydum GBE
07-10-2005, 10:15 AM
A pet hate: Search Engines that return other search engines or pages that are not what you asked for.
A made up example of this is if I typed "Aberystwyth" (a fairly small Welsh seaside resort) into google and clicked "search". A promising looking link will show up. I'll click it, then some stupid site will show up saying something like "Buy Aberystwyth cheaper than anywhere else at Kelkoo..." Or, "Find Aberystwyth on Ebay" - as if i can buy a whole flipping town!
This doesn't always happen - but it's irritating when it does because there is no way the site is going to be able to deliver on its offer anyway!
Also, don't you just hate it when another search engine is returned. I shout these thoughts in my head when this happens: "For goodness sake, I'm quite happy with the search i'm conducting at the moment, thank you very much!!! I want results - not more flipping searches, you search-engine-monkeys".
A made up example of this is if I typed "Aberystwyth" (a fairly small Welsh seaside resort) into google and clicked "search". A promising looking link will show up. I'll click it, then some stupid site will show up saying something like "Buy Aberystwyth cheaper than anywhere else at Kelkoo..." Or, "Find Aberystwyth on Ebay" - as if i can buy a whole flipping town!
This doesn't always happen - but it's irritating when it does because there is no way the site is going to be able to deliver on its offer anyway!
Also, don't you just hate it when another search engine is returned. I shout these thoughts in my head when this happens: "For goodness sake, I'm quite happy with the search i'm conducting at the moment, thank you very much!!! I want results - not more flipping searches, you search-engine-monkeys".