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  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Black_Knight

    4 Stars Less Spam, by design. 10/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Less irrelevant listings in commercial categories than almost any other search engine.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Non commercial stuff is just the same Inktomi database you find in many other search engines.

    Goto created a totally unique way to decide which sites were most relevant to a query. They let the companies behind the sites decide, but make them back it up with cash. At goto.com the top-most listings are in order of how much each company was prepared to pay for EACH click on their listing. As a result, a company will carefully select the search words that most apply to their product. After all, if lots of people click, but are not interested in buying then the company is actually going to lose a lot of money. Of course, for quite a lot of searches there isn't really a 'product' or service ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Bryn_Pearson

    4 Stars The Pros and Cons 24/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages commercial portal.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages unreliable results, pay to list.

    GoTO is a great search engine for certain things and a terrible one for others. This review should help you make best use of it. Goto requires sites listed to pay for their position on the search results (nots for site promoters later). As a result, you will only find commercial sites on this engine. Furthermore, sites owners chose the keywords that will pick them up in a search. Many of these are not used acuratly - for example of you type in "search engine" you get a list of sites selling search engine placement, rather than a list of search engines. It is a good place to start if you want ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    NATALIA70

    5 Stars You can go here 30/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good fast

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    This is the second of a serie of ops I intend to write on search engines. ...if you need to get your site listed prominently and you are a hero of capitalism. From a web master/marketing point of view, GOTO.com is a saviour. The arbitrary nature of the majority of search engines makes GoTo.com a welcome change and a necessary evil. First you have to understand that GoTo.com is a search engine that auctions off the top positions of keyword search results to the highest bidder. So if you search "dog drool" the first results you will see will be those of companies or webmasters who have bid to ... more
  • 5 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Lad

    3 Stars It should go to ........ 23/07/2000
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Not many

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Commercialising the web

    Services like Goto are in danger of totally ruining the web. This search engine works, not by relevence, but by how much web site owners pay to have their site included. Try it for yourself with a search word like 'Yahoo'. You would expect to find Yahoo.com at least in the top 10 right? Not with Goto you won't, but you will find 10 irrelevant sites that have paid for the 'yahoo' keyword. This type of search engine will eventually kill off the non-profit websites. Big corporations will be the only ones that can afford to be listed in the search engines. I urge you not to use Goto. ... more
  • 5 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ashford

    4 Stars A good search engine ! 08/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Popular. Seems to have good coverage of Asian web sites

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not as quick as some

    I use many search engines but being based in Malaysia and often searching for web sites in Singapore,Malaysia,Japan and Australia as well as UK and US,I tend to rely quite heavily on goto.com.I find its coverage of sites in these countries is good and superior to that of several other major search engines. Of course each of the major search engines have their pros and cons and sometimes there are advantages in using the meta search engines such as alltheweb.com. However, if I am looking for say,e zines in Australia, I will often resort to using goto.com. Overall I find for my purposes this is ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    MarketWatcher

    4 Stars Good 28/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Original

    Disadvantages Disadvantages another search engine

    Goto.com has a lot of new lists, many could not be found in Yahoo. Goto.com's homepage however seems to be a bit monotonous. At first sight it may not be obvious that Goto.com is another search engine. The filing system look makes it easy to figure out where you are going to, eg. the Search, the Shopping and the Auctions. The homepage for the Search is good since I get an overview of what I am looking at without having to scroll down to see what the contents are. Though, I would not say the same about the Auctions page. All in all Goto.com is good and useful for doing searches which you cannot ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Smith24

    3 Stars Most People know about goto.com 31/01/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages good for the advertisers

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not that accurate listings

    Unless you are an internet search engine novice you will know how goto is slightly different from most other search engines. Companies can pay for results so when you search you do not necessarily get the best match to your query but you get the company who pays the most for that spot. But its not like this fact is hidden, it is quite visible to all users of the site and nearly all first time users to the site I am sure will notice this. Goto tend to be quite good in making sure that only relevant sites can have relevant words. For example a sweet shop can't just buy the word sex to get a ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    WAD1-2-3

    3 Stars Go to it 28/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages ok

    Disadvantages Disadvantages see text

    The site that powers result. I visited the site and immediately picked up a bad impression, the homepage is too bright, unlike yell.com it’s quite irritating yellow I ever think there could be. The site is probably better for comparing shopping prices before you buy that anything else. It can compare over 100 prices and therefore like kellkoo.com proved a ver valuable service. Which will save you time and money. They also have a really good search facility for searching auctions and if you are into that kind of thing then it will come in handy. There’s quite a lot of directories to chose from ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mattie542

    4 Stars Goto what you want 20/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Get more professional sites, saves you time

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can be filled with people advertising other sites

    Goto is a search engine which encourages websites to 'bid' for a position on the search engine. When you conduct a search, the sites that have paid the most will be viewed first. This means that you should get a listing of sites which are professional and not just a waste of time. This means it should take you less time to find the information you want. Goto UK has been recently launched and is great for searching for sites pecific to the UK. It works the same as Goto US with a bid system so you should receive good results each time you search. Goto has many features similar to other search ... more
  • 6 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    sid

    2 Stars DISAPPOINTING 07/01/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages read text plz

    Disadvantages Disadvantages dull, slow etc

    The site's motto is: "We power results' so they try to aim for us to be one click away from what we are looking for. DOES IT WORK Well, yes and no. The matches are quite accurate but most are American sites, so they contain a lot of waffle about nothing I am afraid. The matches take ages to open, If you try to open your fourth match, it will take long, your six match even longer. So, unless it's your first match, you'll have a lot waiting to do. LAYOUT & DESIGN I was fairly disappointed by the web site, it seemed so boring, nothing to entertain you while you waited for the pages to open. The ... more
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