Google

[T-Man]

I use it a lot but lately it is crap. I get useless sites. WHat's up. ANyone have a similar problem?

[Boston&Maine]

Give me a specific example of something you searched for an all you got was garbage sites... I really have not seen any problems :dunno:

[T-Man]

My "Marklin parts" search - z thread. One site took me to chevy parts. All the urls were shop. biz, compare, buy. I had to go to page two or three. They swiped the titles, some were companies. I finally got to eurohobbies.

[tworail]

try searching for this in google:

marklin z scale parts

I got quite a lot of relevant results. You need to basically beat the search engines over the head, if you don't like what you see, keep hammering them.

:thumbsup:

[Boston&Maine]

Yea, I think that just "Marklin Parts" was too broad... Also remember (this is not aimed specifically at you T-Man) to put phrases in quotes to help get more specific results...

[tworail]

Yes that is a good idea as well, to put things in quotes.

[T-Man]

marklin z scale parts in quotes had no finds.
I got an ackids site to compare and a where to buy site came in third

The 3rd site had selections but I am use to finding just one on google.

Euro hobby was at the end of the page.

shopwiki beat it out!

I have had problems on three computers.

Have you clicked to go to one?
The title looks OK but the URL doesn't match.

[Boston&Maine]

Like TwoRail said, you really need to manupulate what you type into the search bar to get quality results... Putting stuff in quotes makes it a phrase, so for a site to show up when searching for "Marklin Z scale parts" it would have to have that exact line of text somewhere in the website... I think it would be better to search for "Marklin parts" "Z scale," that way Google lists the sites which include both individual phrases...

[T-Man]

I am not use to getting such a variety of results. Thanks for the input. I did find a good Z scale page. I will post a link at that section. A lot of stuff on 5 pole conversion.

Thanks again.

[tworail]

Awesome, glad to hear you found the info. Now let's get that little loco running!

[T-Man]

Well it is only with the XP puter. I did find one way to bypass and that was to use the advance search. That works fine. The regular search still had bizrate ans shopzilla as tops. Google is a massive site and it was nearly impossible. The had everthing divided up but no area for the normal search engine. So I wrote a testimony to their site. Told them that this would affect them and picked up webcrawler instead. We added malware and spy bot but it was a waste of time. I guess we will deal with Norton. I could not find anything in Hijack this, boy, did my google get Hijacked.

[stationmaster]

Google has been acting funny on my computer lately also. I've been using the Yahoo search a lot more lately.

Not worried about getting bugs or viruses here. The security on my system, including Vista, is pretty good. If a site or file is compromised, the machine goes ballistic.

[T-Man]

Today I got online with Norton # 53 in queue for chat. One hour later an Indian with a name four syllables long. Gets on and types that I have virus and I will be upgraded to the Virus Removal team. Evidently they remove more than Viruses . They wanted to clean my wallet of 100 too! Hey it was a remote fix with a 30 day guarantee. I ran out of time and had to go to work. So the daughter downloaded freeware Avast and squashed the bug :lol_hitting:a File attached to windows. Let's see if this is the end.:)

[stationmaster]

I use Windows Vista. with their advanced security, Ad-ware and Adwatch from LavaSoft, AVG virus. I really don't care for Norton. Very much overrated IMO. I had a pop-up, pop-ups NEVER happen on my machine. It wanted me to download Microsoft Security 2009, Ran a virus scan, nothing. Ran my spyware program, again nothing. Ran the adware program, BINGO!!! Now removed and we're running fine.

Google and Yahoo are my main search engines. Still use both. I'll just be careful as always.

[T-Man]

Adware is good. I used AVG with Me and the adds drove me away. I got them after I removed it too, but I did find it.
The only search that worked right was Sears! It seems to be a shopping virus. Everthing is working ok. Now Norton wants a poll survey now.
I heard Yahoo, MSN, amd Google were affected. I found it interesting that the advanced search worked.

[stationmaster]

My browser is Firefox. It seems faster than IE. With the sheer numbers of people using IE, I can understand it being a target. Odd, your experience ithe advaced search.

[Casey-Jones]

When using the big G their are some tricks.
Try putting your search in quotes ""
and something like "model Train" + "marklin z scale parts"
Also use the advanced search options.
Yahoo answers is a good place to find model train info

Hope that helps

[T-Man]

The bug was so bad I tried parenthesis as you sugessted and zero came up on the search. The advance search worked. It works now. Big difference when you search and you don't get close to what you want.

Reminder
QUOTE=gunrunnerjohn;52480]You need to flush your DNS cache on your machine.

In Microsoft Windows, you can use the command ipconfig /flushdns to flush the DNS resolver cache. Open the command prompt and type the following:

C:>ipconfig /flushdns

Here's the direct link to the reference pages: http://pictures.olsenstoy.com/searchcd1.htm[/QUOTE]

As near as I can tell I ran ccleaner and restarted. The next day was fine.