Changed Perspective

 

 

 

Thanks Andrew

 

 

 

Is it just me or has the quality of google searches getting worse and worse?

 

It used to be that I could type what I wanted and would always get rewarded with at least 3 or 4 useful items on the first page

more recently however I find myself needing to rephrase the search half a dozen times before google will give me back 1 or 2 useful links.

 

As always Microsoft Live's search is 90% useless, but increasingly Google is heading in the same direction.

additionally there are an increasing number of sites which google seems unable to index correctly.

MSDN and Symantec are 2 that I have needed to search recently that google seems to struggle with, in the past month though I have been forced to result to going to individual sites in order to be able to search for what I want rather then use site:blah.com as I have previously done with great success.

 

Maybe its time to find a new search engine...

 

 

 

 

Quick, easy to use, this rather neat set of apps has really raised the bar on expectations of web based applications

 

www.zoho.com may very well be the next google.... they are certainly starting out well, lets hope it continues.

 

 

I needed to parse the command line in c#, so I googled it ... what did I find?

lots of things and nothing

 

Some of the better ones I stumbled across were

 

This one and this one on code project

 

This one on sanity free dot org

 

and finally although its sure to move soon is this one on gotdotnet

 

of course I am amazed that in 2007 that such basic functionality is still not included in the .net framework.  It would be nice if Microsoft instead of trying to come up with the next best thing, took 1 year aside and instead solidifed the framework with all those little things its missing, win32apis that arn't wrapped - particularly for shell32 ad user32, better string library, better array/dictionary support, wider datastructure support, better statistics and maths library, and of course better command line parsing