by Youri Kaplan

Created on: April 17, 2010   Last Updated: April 18, 2010

Of course, you can Google anything. But this is exactly the reason why you get unsorted results when you are Googling things – the search engine is going through the web and collecting all sorts of sites, simply trying to give you the sites that are used most commonly. Moreover, since Google results are affected by SEO (Search Engine Optimization), you would first and foremost get the results that are financed by companies that spend great time, effort and money on making you first get the results that they want you to get.  So, you Google and “you get what you get” and you shouldn’t get mad (why would you? This is how Google and most other search engines work). If, however, you do get mad and feel that you waste your time looking through thousand of attractively looking but, nevertheless, useless links, we suggest you to try Yursearch.com.

The difference between Yursearch and majority of other search engines is that it conducts search differently. Instead of pulling of the web all kinds of sites, it categorizes them into themes and also calculates not only how often people did visit the site but also takes into account how long people actually stayed there (hoping that if they did spend some time looking through the content, then it is logical to assume that the content was indeed worth looking). So, for instance, submitting your term paper, you would click on the category of references and type into the search field whatever it is you are looking for your paper. The engine then will go through all the sites for references and not the others. As a result, you will get your results faster and the proportion of junk sites will be much lower. Similarly, if you are looking for a job, instead of receiving millions and billions of unrelated results, you would have to click a job category and then enter your search words. The site will match your searching words only to the sites related to the job and you will get your results preliminary sorted.

In addition to those two categories, Yursearch also has music, video, health, shopping, travel, games, news, adult/personals, computers/internet, and business/finance. Finally, in case your search theme does not fit in any of the above you can always use the general field of search. This is also a suitable option for those who develop Google nostalgia. The only problem is that even there you would get more accurate results.  

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