I don’t know about you but searching is sometimes a very frustrating experience for me. The more the search can concern commercial products the more difficult it is to find what you were looking for.
The case in point today is that at work I use a Fujitsu-Seimens Lifebook and using it for long periods of time causes strain on my eyes after a few hours. I’ve asked for an external monitor but this could take time so a co-worker has kindly lent me a spare Dell 17″ LCD.
At home I use dual monitors so I had hoped that this would be possible and that I could “park” documents on the notebooks LCD while working on the external monitor.
After trying myself - and not succeeding - I decided to search for some help. The only problem is that search results lead me to pages and pages of commercial sites that want to: sell me the lifebook; sell me some memory for the lifebook ; sell me gadgets for the lifebook ; sell me external monitors ; usb hubs ; ebay auctions and an unbelievable number of sites comparing the prices of the aforementioned sites.
I swear we need a “commercial filter” to filter all this stuff out so I can get to the information I need.
To be honest I swear … end of story.
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I fully agree. Despite being responsible for putting commercial sites online I find the same problem when ever I want to find out something a little more technical.
My last attempt to find a driver for a budget wireless network card that I had installed in my Fedora box failed miserably (although I did find out that the card was manufactured and re-branded by Texas Instruments).
I suspect that this is the outcome of SEO as it’s only really commercial entities that are really worried about first page rankings on Google.