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bladesparkIt's interesting what you have to do, sometimes, to find things via google.
For instance, when looking for my Firey Boots Of Doom, the froogle search never did turn up anything useful. It was an image search that located the correct sort of boot, and then from there I was able to visit the site, find the brand name, google that, find the maker, find their website, and buy my boots.
Today I was hunting for the "Crystal Keepsakes" brand of plastic ornament globes, which I use in fursuit heads for eyes.
"Crystal Keepsakes" got me nothing but unrelated kitch.
"Crystal Keepsakes globe" still returned kitch.
"Crystal Keepsakes globe 60mm" returned nothing but an expired e-bay auction.
"Plastic globe" didn't give me anything useful at all, weird random stuff.
"Plastic ball" got me toys and more random stuff.
"Plastic ball 60mm" had a useful result in it! But was mostly full of 60mm ball bearing fans.
"Plascti ball 60mm -bearing" yeilded a dozen sources for what I wanted. Woot! I win!
(This is why some people, if you tell them to "just google it" will never get useful results, because they're using the wrong search terms for what they're looking for, and lack either the brains or the patience to find the right ones.)
For instance, when looking for my Firey Boots Of Doom, the froogle search never did turn up anything useful. It was an image search that located the correct sort of boot, and then from there I was able to visit the site, find the brand name, google that, find the maker, find their website, and buy my boots.
Today I was hunting for the "Crystal Keepsakes" brand of plastic ornament globes, which I use in fursuit heads for eyes.
"Crystal Keepsakes" got me nothing but unrelated kitch.
"Crystal Keepsakes globe" still returned kitch.
"Crystal Keepsakes globe 60mm" returned nothing but an expired e-bay auction.
"Plastic globe" didn't give me anything useful at all, weird random stuff.
"Plastic ball" got me toys and more random stuff.
"Plastic ball 60mm" had a useful result in it! But was mostly full of 60mm ball bearing fans.
"Plascti ball 60mm -bearing" yeilded a dozen sources for what I wanted. Woot! I win!
(This is why some people, if you tell them to "just google it" will never get useful results, because they're using the wrong search terms for what they're looking for, and lack either the brains or the patience to find the right ones.)