Do you Google?

Post by **DarkAuron** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 1:33 am

I do!

(Quite possibly the most random thing I've done on this forum)

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 1:36 am

in case anyone has been wondering, I've been feeling very depressed right now. Not that you care. I'm not boring you with this post am I? You're probably having a terrible time reading this. This is so depressing.

Post by **benryves** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 2:02 am

No, I do not Google.
AltaVista is a much better search engine - but I might switch over to the new MSN one as it looks very interesting...

Post by **DarkAuron** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 2:34 am

By the way, I've got a link in that post if you didn't notice it.

Post by **benryves** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 2:40 am

DarkAuron wrote:By the way, I've got a link in that post if you didn't notice it.

I did, and didn't even need to click to know answer

shadowing · Post by **shadowing** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 3:17 am

Well, doesn't everybody? I say hate MSN and all the other ones. Google is the best.

blueskies · Post by **blueskies** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 3:42 am

reason I wouldn't use MSN search:
a few months ago, I read an article that showed how MSN was filtering their searches to best match their interests. For example, a search for "XFree86" first poped up a warning like "the following matches contain pornographic content, do you want to proceed?" It was assumed that just because there was an "x" in the search, this warning came up, instead of showing matches to the linux display project. But, a search for "Xbox" showed no such warning. After reading that article, and testing it out for myself, I was done.

They've changed that specific example since, but still, things like this make me question Microsoft's motives.

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 5:43 am

DarkAuron wrote:By the way, I've got a link in that post if you didn't notice it.

I did too. What do you think MY post was about?:P My favorite character.
MSN = horrible. Google = great and no ads :D. Even worse though is anything to do with AOL. (vivisimo)

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 5:59 am

HAHAHA 42 is just one of those numbers that pops into your head ... and now we know why!

.

Post by **benryves** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 8:30 am

Spengo wrote:Google = great and no ads

Excuse me?

Those look like ads to me...

Post by **Kozak** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 8:36 am

Many people including me feel that Google has alot of power, it controls what people find on the internet. With that you can control how people think, what they know about...control their mind actually. I just hope they don't misuse it.

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 9:38 am

Seeing that lots of people are asking questions everywhere that could have been answered by typing a keyword and feeling lucky, I don't think search engines in general have really big impact on the masses... You might be in the top 10 hits, if your content doesn't keep people around, it's all in vain. And those who have a bit more experience with the web already know of alternatives like those mentioned so far.

Duck · Post by **Duck** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 11:16 am

Kozak wrote:Many people including me feel that Google has alot of power, it controls what people find on the internet. With that you can control how people think, what they know about...control their mind actually. I just hope they don't misuse it.

And how to think about gmail? I dont think anything really bad will happen, but this reminds me of the following flash movie:

http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 2:38 pm

Google is great, and the ads aren;t as annoying as other search engines.

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Thu 27 Jan, 2005 3:50 pm

I use google too, its easy & fast

MaxCoderz

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