How do you find the Chicago Review Board--the Jones Report or somesuch?  Can't find it.

Shouldn't you be asking this under the Chicago Discussion board?
Or is that what you're trying to find?

http://theeroticreview.com/msgBoard/MsgListBody.asp?BoardID=10

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Having Google.com looking at you when you go onto the WWW is like having the LOC at your fingertips.
You simply plug in "female escort reviews Chicago," and you get 3000 hits.
TER of course has by far the largest and most detailed review database in North America, with the dying embers of TBD in second. There are several others.

If sifting through 3000 hits is your idea of 'fun', sobeit. But, www.copernic.com (a free download) is more discriminating and makes wading through the results of a search much quicker.


PS It is not necessay to change your home page to use google search.

Time Magazine ran a piece on 8/12 covering Google vs. other search engines, but not Copernic. Conlusion was that Google was still best for one-stop focuse results, but that others offer features Google lacks.  It graded Alltheweb.com an A cause it indexes more pages, it tries to hone in better by deciphering the intent of a query by analyzing language patterns and IDing common phrases, it updates pages more frequently, and other stuff; major flaw apparently is distracting pop-up ads atop search results.  It graded Teoma.com a B cause it breaks query results into catagories of themes (I guess "escort" would break into automobile, dating, naval tactic, etc.); major flaw is that you have to scroll down through top-positioned ads to even get to the good stuff.  Finally, it graded Kartoo.com as a C cause it has a unique and pretty interface (showing findings like stars in a universe with size of star representing the likely better quality of results), and is fun and eye candy;  major flaws are that it is a metasearch site (shifts results from other search sites rather than searching itself), is slow, is confusing, and not really for serious searches.  As said at the outset, article said nothing about Copernic, so apparently shows what Time knows!  I'll have to give it a try.

qp4 - one other thing about Copernic, ask it 'why do women love to suck cock' or 'why do men crave anal sex' and it won't return 90% pay porn sites with dozens of annoying popups.

Did I mention Copernic taps into several (10 ?) search engines?

personally i use google exclusively (it ranks my web site #1 in its category) and when i was in the internet biz we regularly ran comparisons on the major search services; google usually came in at the top on our measures (which included things like response time and number of missing pages).

search engines use different parsing strategies and crawlers for collection web content and indexing schemes and so forth, and these can affect the results *you* care about, which is the bottom line. run five or six searches on each, compare the results for relevance to your interests, and choose the one that works best for you. that is what "best" really means.