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Thread ID: 36315 2003-08-06 01:47:00 Relevant Search Engines to NZ Dolby Digital (160) Press F1
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165735 2003-08-06 01:47:00 Greetings from Wgtn on another fine crisp winters day.

Anyway, has anyone come across a website which lists popular search engines that New Zealanders use and what percentage use them (ok I don't know how they would track this information, but that is what I would like). I have a list of the most popular search engines but not in any particular order, i.e. is XtraMSN the most popular (Xtra would like to think so).

Thanks.
Dolby Digital (160)
165736 2003-08-06 02:11:00 > Anyway, has anyone come across a website which lists
> popular search engines that New Zealanders use and
> what percentage use them (ok I don't know how they
> would track this information, but that is what I
> would like).

Nope :(, But that would be nice! :) :D

> I have a list of the most popular search
> engines but not in any particular order, i.e. is
> XtraMSN the most popular (Xtra would like to think
> so).

Can/could you e-mail me stuartw77 *at * hotmail * dot * com with your list of most popular search engines...... :) ;)
stu140103 (137)
165737 2003-08-06 02:31:00 I use www.google.co.nz and if I am looking for NZ specific, I prefix my search with NZ (e.g. "NZ vineyards", "NZ News", etc.) KiwiTT (4082)
165738 2003-08-06 02:38:00 I use www.searchnz.co.nz first for NZ sites then over to google nz for further searching. Allways found what I'm looking for NZ wise in these 2 sites. Breezzee (2913)
165739 2003-08-06 02:45:00 > I prefix my search with NZ (e.g. "NZ
> vineyards", "NZ News", etc.)

You can also use:
Search for this site:nz
adding site:nz will search for websites ending in *.nz iirc :-)

For me, Google rules the roost!
Chilling_Silently (228)
165740 2003-08-06 03:46:00 When we use to run SearchNZ I'd benchmark it against Google. Google's NZ results are damn good and if you go to www.google.co.nz instead of .com they just have a simple radio button to enable NZ searches only. Biggles (121)
165741 2003-08-06 03:54:00 > When we use to run SearchNZ

Dont you mean searchnow ????? :D :)
stu140103 (137)
165742 2003-08-06 05:29:00 > When we use to run SearchNZ

> > Dont you mean searchnow ?????


Yup, indeed I did .
Biggles (121)
165743 2003-08-06 06:04:00 Yeah google has ruled the roost since the demise of searchnow. -=JM=- (16)
165744 2003-08-06 06:30:00 > > When we use to run SearchNZ
>
> > > Dont you mean searchnow ?????
>
>
> Yup, indeed I did.

OT: question:

What happened to all the sites that where listed in the searchnow database??? Did they get sold to Altavista???
stu140103 (137)
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