Post #265,877
8/26/06 7:20:04 AM
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Google's Days Are Numbered
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/25/colly_myers_interview/|Says rival].
Can't see it myself. Just because teenagers use Wikipedia, YouTube and MySpace doesn't mean that the adult internet population will stop searching for things.
A cynical analysis of this article is "People bookmark their favourite websites! Film at 11! Please use our service instead of Google!".
Peter
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Post #265,878
8/26/06 9:50:47 AM
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There's also the fact that ...
Google has this thing called [link|http://answers.google.com/answers/|Answers] that they've had for years. Experts can sign up and give answers to questions and get paid for it. Google hasn't been ignoring this space - they've probably been doing it years longer than AQA. I haven't looked into the details, like whether the answer can show up on a SMS phone, but I don't see any reason why it couldn't.
There's no doubt that Google Search is slowly devolving into the way Altavista was near the end. At times 10^7 pages show up with little relevance to what I want. :-( It probably has a lot to do with Google's advertising model, since it seems that quite often the top hits I see are sites that are just aggregators of search results. But there are ways around these problems if you're smart in using Google's features.
Don't always automatically jump to [link|http://www.google.com|http://www.google.com] E.g. if you're looking for items to buy, you probably should use [link|http://Froogle.Google.Com|Froogle]. If you're looking for a recent news story, you should use [link|http://News.Google.Com|News]. If you're looking for a research paper, you should use [link|http://Scholar.Google.Com|Scholar]. If you're looking for a picture, you should use [link|http://Images.Google.Com|Images]. If you're interested in Linux, use [link|http://WWW.Google.Com/linux|Linux] (and similarly with a few other [link|http://www.google.com/options/specialsearches.html|SpecialSearches]). If you're interested in blogs, use [link|http://BlogSearch.Google.Com|BlogSearch].
There's always [link|http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html|Advanced Search], too.
It's all [link|http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=alpha_index.html|Google A to Z], if you dig a little.
I'm just a Google user. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who notices that [link|http://sketchup.google.com/|SketchUp] is available and it looks like an interesting tool. Win and OS X.)
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Post #265,880
8/26/06 11:46:04 AM
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I have "Personalized Google"
It works right nice, I get all my gmail features, News, Weather and anything else I can think of, that I'd want in a blink.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyFreedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;
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Post #265,881
8/26/06 12:02:18 PM
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It's nice to be able to do that.
There are sometimes, though, when one doesn't want search stuff to be kept track of. Especially if one would like to have personalized Google pages at several PCs.
E.g. some humor isn't appropriate for work, but is fun to keep track of at home.
I guess it would be possible to have several Google accounts, but then it can be easy to lose track of which is which...
Plus, there's the issue of - Do you really want Google keeping track of things in one place like that? It would make it much easier for an embarrasing [link|http://www.techweb.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CHEFV5UXQ2GM4QSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=191900799&site_section=700028|AOL MeToo]...
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who's selectively paranoid about such things...)
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Post #265,885
8/26/06 12:48:47 PM
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I have that AOL data
been looking at it with a slanted eye.
It really does goto show you nothing in this electronic world is safe.
Either "Deal with it and use it" or throw yours away.
Just tell me, exactly how did I chat with a zombie operator, even if he went to great lengths to hide his origin?
Tell me, you can do better?
Bah, we are all doomed.
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Post #265,887
8/26/06 12:58:34 PM
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Yes, we're all doomed. But so is everyone else. :-)
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Post #266,049
8/28/06 9:23:44 AM
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I was doomeder firster
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Post #266,235
8/29/06 2:32:00 AM
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'tis a big number...
no worries for a while yet
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #266,239
8/29/06 2:56:18 AM
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That was pretty much my analysis, too.
Peter
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Post #266,242
8/29/06 7:17:10 AM
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Much agreed
considering, especially, that a "pay for someone else to search" model is what they use as an example to knock it off.
Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry.Adrian Belew
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Post #266,263
8/29/06 10:46:45 AM
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Which is the exact same service...
Google provides as well, and for free if you wait.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyFreedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;
0 rows returned.
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