Compared to the other general purpose engines, it is good.
That quite literally depends upon:
- What is being searched for;
- What you have previously searched for;
The current fad in search engines is to deliver what it thinks you want. It does that based on what you have previously searched for, and clicked on.
By way of example, if you frequently do linux related searches, then a search of "Ubuntu" will bring up the Linux distro, and sites related to it. If, OTOH, one frequently does searches on Black Consciousness, and Pan-African Socialism, then a search for "Ubuntu" will generate a list of sites about the philosophy. That works pretty well, until the Linux searcher wants to know mopre about the philosophy, or the Black Consciousness searcher wants to know more about the Linux distro.
Keyword searches are useful only when one knows the specific parameters of what one is looking for. When one has a good idea of what one does not know. When one only has a general idea of the data that they do not know, keyword searches usually fail.
jonathon
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