Bing jumps on the bandwagon

[fiundagner]

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/0 ... ore-150423


The online ammo sale ban is becoming a moot point, as the second largest search engine available has just jumped on the bandwagon of bans. Bing now bans firearm, weapon, and ammunition related searches. Despite my searching I have yet to find a replacement search engine of comparability to either of these. In fact, many of the online search engines use aggregate results from these engines, and are not themselves an actual search engine. It's enough to make you wonder if it isn?t a deliberate attempt to deny you access to weapons and ammo by a nongovernmental unaccountable agency

So has anyone found a search engine that will actually sort the chaff from the wheat, because I don?t want to have to sift through a hundred message boards to find the one actual online seller in the results?

 

[Enjay]

shopping.yahoo.com still works, or at least it turned up a couple of magazines and a brass collector when I did a search for FN PS90 just now.
also, duckduckgo.com didn't have too many non-relevant hits when I typed in 5.7 ammo. I think of the 30 results it showed only 4-5 were not to shops, and if I'd added something like order, buy or sale to the search terms it probably would have winnowed more of those out.

 

[thebrasilian]

Just tried bing and everything was still there. Even ads.

 

[Choot-um]

Bing still works great for me. It even still gives me related searches that are right on subject.

 

[bigfutz]

And the guns are back in the Google Shopping results from what I can tell, at least for now. I use some phone apps to look up prices for various things, but I would not be suprised in the least bit if they were driven by one of the big boys' database.

Bing is still showing this...

 

[bigfutz]

If this is Bing's new policy, it could be for political show, or it could be that they just haven't had time to implement it on existing content.

Either way, what's next? Blocking out searches on Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, oh and don't forget Uncle Ted!

 

[John Canuck]

Ammo Engine

http://www.ammoengine.com/find/ammo/.45_ACP

 

[fiundagner]

i just tried ruger 10/22 under google shopping and as far as google is concerned it doesn't exist. when i tried 5.7 x 28mm i got some mags and a few reloading dies and snap caps, but n actual ammo or firearms. Nothing at all for any keltec products. is their an update i can get somewhere that brings them back?

 

[Treedodger]

I have just started to bookmark anywhere with ammo or gun sites I prefer, but here is an ammo search engine i have used.

http://ammoseek.com/

As long as it remains legal they will not be able to stop searching for guns/ammo online. Their efforts to control searches will only result in additional niche search engines for guns and ammo croping up everywhere.

Frost - Is there any way to add some type of search function to this webiste for guns and ammo??

 

[bigfutz]

This site seems to have a bit more product and functionality:
http://gun-deals.com/ammo

Frost, check this out. It lets you put a search box on your site which searches only sites you specify. I know a guy who has worked with it a bit. PM me if you want to look into it.
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/

 

[tigerfan00]

There is always www.slickguns.com too

 

[Pops]

What search engines would we want to post? there are several mentioned in this thread

Pops

 

[melloyello]

Back to my original search engine YAHOO.

 

[fiundagner]

Yahoo's search engine is powered by google (AKA you search yahoo, yahoo searches google and shows you the results as thier "independent" results). most "search engines" do this these days

 

[Treedodger]

What search engines would we want to post? there are several mentioned in this thread

Pops

I would like to suggest ammoseek.com.

I tried those mentioned here and some others as well and you could not narrow the search to specifically what you might be looking to buy. Ammoseek allows you to narrow search to caliber, grains, mfr, and even a keyword. It only brings back exactly what you're searching on and it seems to return the most web site options. It returns the websites sorted by price/round which is nice also. This is hands down the best ammo search engine I have ran across.

I have no affiliation with this website whatsoever, but have used them since they started back in early 2010 with good results.

http://ammoseek.com/

 

[armedpig]

http://www.dogpile.com/

 

[bigfutz]

http://www.dogpile.com/

Dogpile! Is that still around? I remember it from the earliest days of the Internet.

 

[armedpig]

http://www.dogpile.com/

Dogpile! Is that still around? I remember it from the earliest days of the Internet.

They are and don't appear to be on the bandwagon.