Category: Safe Haven
Hi all,
Well, I have been busy adding horror shortstory ezines to my favorites, which I gathered from dogpile. I think I like dogpile better than I do google now, because although you don't get quite as many hits with dogpile, most of them are relevant, and it fetches your search to other search engines. I have 40 short story ezines in my favorites folder now. I was enjoying myself doing it, until I started running to good sounding sites that would put a bunch of ads in front of you, or try to force me to download macromedia player, and I don't want that thing. I tried to alt f4 out of the macromedia download, while it was still downloading, but my computer froze.
I found a really good site called old wifes' tales, where she has a lot of thrilling horror stories. Unfortunately, some of them might not be for younger readers. I usually don't write a site owner, but when she had it there to sign her guest book, or send an email, and she said, I'm just dying to hear from you, how could I resist?
I wrote to her, told her how much I liked her sight, and I was blind and using screen reading software to read the screen. She wrote me back, and said she was glad to hear from me, and to write her whenever I felt like it. I actually got a response from an author, wow!
wonderwoman
Hi Wonderwoman! I love search engines too. And I also think Dogpile rocks, though I use Google more than Dogpile. I still use Dogpile a lot and get good results with it. I hate ads, and when sites try to force you to download stuff. That's so evil! Heehee. And that's so cool that you heard from an author! I love it when I get replies from people like that. It's awesome!
Hope you continue to have fun with the search engines!
XOXOX,
Caitlin
Hi Caitlin,
well I still use google first, but when you look up the same things with different search engines, you get different results. Oh yes, I also looked some up on,
www.usearched.com.
At least I think it was the url. I know of a sighted woman I talk to who has that macromedia media player, but I'm not sure it's even useful to us blind users. It was really wonderful hearing from an author, and she said she talked to an author who used a screen reader, I don't know what he writes though. Most of her links were labeled, and all the stories were, except those that were in different rooms, and they were marked, cellar, master, dine, and so on, for different rooms of her house. There were some buttons below her story links that weren't labeled, and jaws read them like, images/but_13, images/_but2, and so on, but since it was a story web site and she seemed like a nice lady with a ghoulish sense of humor, hahaha, I figured it would be ok to click on one of those buttons. There were pictures in some, and a little about her in one, and a list of sites and webrings.
wonderwoman
Hi WW, Cool cool. Yeah I like Google and Dogpile but they're both good. Hehehe. And it's cool when pages are accessible. I love that hehe.
Caitlin
so do I, it's great. It'salso a disappointment though, when you find a sight that sounds cool, only to find when you enter on it, it seems blank, and jaws can't read it.
wonderwoman
That doesn't happen very often though. Google is the search engine that all the best people use.
Besides, ssearch engines are but a mere functional tool, n'est-ce pas? Surely it is what is found that counts.
When I learned to use the internet, MSN was my home page, and still is, so that is what I feel the most comfortable using. In fact, I hate Google. I have tried others and like some of them, but I still just prefer searching on MSN.
Hi Catlover,
I never tried msn, but might give it a try sometime, just to see what comes up. When I first got on the internet, using search engines was a real pain. I started with yahoo, and it just dumps the results at random. I like looking for the same kind of things with different search engines, because you get different sites. Google can be good for some things, and it was the first search engine that was halfway easy to use, but you usually get more than a million hits, and after you go down several pages, google starts to repeat the same sites. I just use search engines for fun and entertainment, and to pass the time looking at whatever relevant sites come up.
wonderwoman
Also www.fuzz.com is good. Lol. Caitlin
Funny name I know. It comes up with pretty rare results.
Caitlin
Thanks Caitlin,
I'll have to try that one out too. pretty soon, I may have to have a search engine folder, lol.
wonderwoman
What other search engines have you found, WW? Caitlin
thisbloodycountry.blogspot.com is a bloody good one as well.
Everything you see on my website (provided you go to my profile and click on the website url on here.) I found on google. Thats right all of my search needs weather it's pictures or info I found it all on google. I can never get away from that search engine.
www.gigablast.com is a good one too
Yeha Google is awesome. I've heard Yahoo is good too, for sighties, i find it too cluttered though, being a blindie. And LL, is your Blog a search engine, then? Lol. Caitlin
Thanks Jessica, I'll check them out, and well Caitlin, I haven't found too many, I think there's all the web.com. Oops, shouldn't've put spaces, www.alltheweb.com, which I didn't find user friendly. Also, I don't lycos or excite are too friendly either. Aside from that, I can't remember any others I've tried. Oh, did I mention www.yousearched.com? I used that along with google and dogpile tofind all my short story magazines. I'd post the link to them under the favorite website topic, but it isn't easy to get the link and copy and paste it from the browser to here. But if I can figure a way to do it, I will.
wonderwoman
Hi WW, Thanks you gave me a couple new ones to test out there. I don't like Lycos at all. i tried to join their Tripod deal to get a free web site, also Angelfire, which is run by them and it was horribly inaccessible! I don't know how some blindies run Freewebs doobs either, that's horrible too! Caitlin
Hi Caitlin,
well on some of the web pages the search engines found, I would be taken to the angelfire main home page, and I'd have to altf4 out of it, and just hope it wouldn't take me out of internet explorer altogether. I tried www.fuzz.com, but when I chose online horror fiction ezines, then mystery and suspense ezines, the pages or whatever it took me to weren't working. I got an internet redirection dialogue, and when I chose to let it take me to the pages, I got the thing about the page can not be displayed. It happened twice. That was really too bad,because there was only one link, and the simple edit field, not all that clutter you usually get with most search engines. Oh well, maybe I'll try again another day.
wonderwoman
Hello. I use Google. In fact, Google is my home page when I go to the internet. I have heard of Dogpile, although I don't use it.
Hello, I use googgle, have heard of dogpile but don't use it really. Another one which I do use and like very much is called open directory it's interesting the stuff one can find on there.
I have never heard of that. I'll check it out, though.
the web address for open directory is:
www.dmoz.org
Wonder Woman,
That is wonderful!
I work for one.