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How about doing a proper search with the phrase in quotes like this or this so it only gets pages that really do say "Best viewed in Netscape" or "Best viewed with Netscape" rather than happen to have those words somewhere in the page. Add them together and you get about 702,800 results which does still seem like a lot if you forget they will be many pages on a single website which all say that and that google may be serving up links for pages that have since gone dead but are still in it's cache. Now compare that number to the number of pages with the letter a in them (which should be pretty much all of them and you get 7,690,000,000 results, so the Netscape results as a percentage of the "total" is approx 0.09% which is hardly significant. Though I wouldn't expect these results to be very accurate since those numbers are only a rough guess by Google since it doesn't actually produce any results past the first thousand.

I am so glad I switched to open office. Now whenever one of these things happens I send the article to my friends along with a link for OpenOffice

Do you send links to any of these OpenOffice vulnerabilities as well?

Cheers,
Ian

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=google+corr uption

About 5.8 million hits.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=google+corrup tion

About 2.9 million hits.

And they don't censure results, either.

It's not as if Google doesn't modify their search result display for some terms; see, for example, a search for "1600x1200". You're (or, at least, I am) given the Google Calculator response, and 3 image results.

I do agree that a second search box is pretty useless though. Perhaps there is a good reason for it to exist in some scenarios.

French Military Victories still works. Guess that one really must be objective information.

The problem is that the US is NOT the biggest CO2 emissions maker in the world, that title belongs to China, and India is right behind it.

Utter bollocks.

China is catching up with the US but it hasn't got there yet (something like 1/2 to 2/3 of the emissions of the US). India is about 5th behind Russia and Japan as well as China and the US.

Assorted years for different countries.
http://www.carbonplanet.com/home/country_emissions .php

2003 figures:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_co2_emi-envi ronment-co2-emissions

2002 figures:
http://timeforchange.org/CO2-emissions-by-country

1996 figures:
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/each- countrys-share-of-co2-emissions.html

Lots more here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=global+emis sions+by+country&btnG=Search&meta=

Tim.

I have little sympathy with companies sending marketing email getting branded as junk emailers they are sending Unsolicited bulk or bulk email.

This effects real people as well. Getting blacklisted is a way of life for me online because of my name. Yes Spamer really is my surname/family name. If you have any doubts try searching for me on uk directory enquires / electoral role

Its gotten me accused of being of being a joe-job for trying to do my job as the postmaster for a domain.

Its gotten my email addresses blacklisted, it's gotten me blocked from creating accounts on web-sites including utube and my local newspaper.

Professionals should start call junk email Unsolicited bulk or bulk email instead of using slang.

I have little sympathy with companies sending marketing email getting branded as junk emailers they are sending Unsolicited bulk or bulk email.

This effects real people as well. Getting blacklisted is a way of life for me online because of my name. Yes Spamer really is my surname/family name. If you have any doubts try searching for me on uk directory enquires / electoral role

Its gotten me accused of being of being a joe-job for trying to do my job as the postmaster for a domain.

Its gotten my email addresses blacklisted, it's gotten me blocked from creating accounts on web-sites including utube and my local newspaper.

Professionals should start call junk email Unsolicited bulk or bulk email instead of using slang.

Excellent detective work! I did half-wonder if I wanted to reveal all those clues to my ICBM coordinates on Slashdot, didn't quite expect this though. The write-ups are correct but the map ref is wrong -- as you say, there are lots of similar lumps and bumps around the area. this is the best Google Maps can do, not terribly impressive I'm afraid. images search finds it OK, though. Incidentally there's another local legend, that the grooves you can see running down from the top were to allow blood from the (still-beating?) heart of a human sacrifice to trickle down the sides. AFAIk there's no evidence whatsoever for that, and to my (non-geologist) eyes they look like erosion along the bedding planes of the rock.

Excellent detective work! I did half-wonder if I wanted to reveal all those clues to my ICBM coordinates on Slashdot, didn't quite expect this though. The write-ups are correct but the map ref is wrong -- as you say, there are lots of similar lumps and bumps around the area. this is the best Google Maps can do, not terribly impressive I'm afraid. images search finds it OK, though. Incidentally there's another local legend, that the grooves you can see running down from the top were to allow blood from the (still-beating?) heart of a human sacrifice to trickle down the sides. AFAIk there's no evidence whatsoever for that, and to my (non-geologist) eyes they look like erosion along the bedding planes of the rock.

...and on Google Video.

http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=peep+show+ series

Sniping is an automated, not a manual process.

Just because you assert it is true doesn't mean it is!

Google definition
Wikipedia

Not that there's anything morally wrong with it. You're playing within the agreed rules, unlike fake bidders.

Don't trust the makers of blinkx

At least their censorship doesn't include blurring out anything based on obscenity.

It may have been a dream dashed for Brian Emmett, but it most certainly was a dream come true for headline writers. They leave no cliche unturned:

* There are no free rides to outer space
* Dream free trip to space brings black hole in wallet
* Win a free ticket to space? Read the fine print
* Taxes ... the final frontier for space rides
* Space tourism yet to take off
* Free trips to space pose some taxing dilemmas

etc etc etc.

I used to work at a UK government weapons facility, AWE, that isn't even slightly blurred, weapons manufacturing, massive conventional weapons storage ... all there in full colour from the google maps site.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=aldermas ton&sll=53.098145,-2.443696&sspn=12.55008,28.43261 7&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=51.365297,-1.145024&spn=0.009726 ,0.027122&t=h&om=1&iwloc=addr

Surprising level of detail, way more than I ever expected. Even the well hidden (from the ground) Burghfield site is perfectly visible, with its Trident storage.

Look what someone's done to the Sellafields nuclear plant in the UK! They've blurred all of the surroundings as well - presumably to stop you from navigating there by landmark.

Bizarrely Sizewell in the UK is the exact opposite. The area around the reactor is blurry, but the reactor is clear:

Sizewell

Drive 100m up Trolley Loop. Now take a left. Honest, it's safe.

There are a couple of places I've seen near me on Google Maps with huge logos on the roof. There's a branch of B&Q here, with a branch of Sainsbury's next to it. That sits a little to the west of one of the approaches to Glasgow Airport. Also, there's the roof of the Yarrow Shipyard workshop, almost faded away to nothing, just like the post-Thatcher shipbuilding industry. I can see what there is of that sign from my window. It looks a lot clearer than it does on Google Maps' photo.

There are a couple of places I've seen near me on Google Maps with huge logos on the roof. There's a branch of B&Q here, with a branch of Sainsbury's next to it. That sits a little to the west of one of the approaches to Glasgow Airport. Also, there's the roof of the Yarrow Shipyard workshop, almost faded away to nothing, just like the post-Thatcher shipbuilding industry. I can see what there is of that sign from my window. It looks a lot clearer than it does on Google Maps' photo.

Like System Settings (kcontrol) in KDE and the Gnome Control Centre?

The few occasions when I have resortd to editing text files has been when doing things that the majority of people do not do.

There are lots of things for which Windows users need to edit the registry. This is usually more complicated than editing a Linux config file.

Stop Spreading FUD.

What does a TLD have to do with finding porn, or anything else? Are you gong to make a list of words, append .xxx, and type them into your address bar: aardvark.xxx,.... zygote.xxx?

What does a TLD have to do with finding porn, or anything else? Are you gong to make a list of words, append .xxx, and type them into your address bar: aardvark.xxx,.... zygote.xxx?

What does a TLD have to do with finding porn, or anything else? Are you gong to make a list of words, append .xxx, and type them into your address bar: aardvark.xxx,.... zygote.xxx?

Surely this changes lots of things.

If google is now discounting the wording other people use to link to a page, then isn't google themselves becoming like old fashioned engine, ie only specifically accounting for information on the actual page and not based on what other people who link to this page thinK?

By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return commentary, discussions, and articles about the Googlebombs instead.

reworded becomes:

By ignoring the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return only results which are from the actual page itself rather than looking at how other people link to each other.

A googlebomb is not a bad thing, its making use of the algorithm to expand the keywords which a page is associated with.

Sidenote:

I did a search for google, and the snippet that comes up under each google entry does not exist on the page itself, where does it actually come from?

for example:

Google
The local version of this pre-eminent search engine, offering UK-specific pages as well as world results.
www.google.co.uk/ - 4k - 24 Jan 2007 - Cached - Similar pages


I thought google weren't meant to display a different page to bots as to users? (didn't they get in trouble for something similar not so long ago?)

2 (ns / foot) = 5.456 * 10e-14 weeks / rod
1 fortnight is 2 weeks so the answer is 2.728 * 10e-13 fortnights per rod or 0.002728 nano-fortnights per rod.

I think, anyway. This is just 5 minutes of Google bashing.

In all seriousness, I know how long a London Bus is, I know that an elephant is pretty heavy, I know roughly how much shelf space the Encyclopedia Britannica takes up and I know tall buildings can be quite tall.

But I have no real concept of how big a white blood cell is, or how much some thousand words (how many thousand? It's out my mind now that it's off the screen...) really is.

For all I know, the hard drive in my computer could be storing 600 birthday cards per germ already and I wouldn't have a clue.

Anyone care to quote how fast the Concorde went in Ford Escorts per millisecond? (the link will give you a good start)

The creature's 'cuteness' and helpfulness will ingratiate the software with the child, so that he or she will respect it and listen to it

live yeast really gives you gas of doom

And that's what yogurt's supposed to be good at killing off.

Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't the British Police the home of Scottland Yard?

No, London is the home of (New) Scotland Yard...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+tag

it certainly isnt what we see on blogs and web2.0 sites (except in the source code)

</endtag>

God knows what Sealand thinks this means, but a quick google search reveals that all references to 'Kopimistic' are Sealand-related stories. Dictionary.com certainly doesn't have a clue. Making up words is a fabulous way of raising the somewhat dubious credibility of Sealand! Someone, please prove me wrong...

Now, I realise that I only have a degree and dropped out of my Phd before completing it (due to intense boredom), but what is "academic-grade" supposed to mean? (Before anyone suggests it, Google is being less than helpful...)

This is the same paper which after 911 was advocating bombing ISP's with cruise missiles if they did not prevent encrypted messages from passing through their systems. NO - I am not making this up! I am suprised anyone pays money to listen to the drivel they publish.

The Daily Telegraph is calling for the bombing of "uncompliant" ISPs "on foreign territory", in response to the atrocity in America.

In an opinion piece, John Keegan, the newspaper's eminent defence correspondent, blames the Internet for facilitating the attacks.

"The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet, without question," he writes. "If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the transmission of encrypted messages - now encoded by public key ciphers that are unbreakable even by the National Security Agency's computers - and close down any provider that refuses to comply.

"Uncompliant providers on foreign territory should expect their buildings to be destroyed by cruise missiles. Once the internet is implicated in the killing of Americans, its high-rolling days may be reckoned to be over."

Next thing you know, they'll be mandating a terrorism futures exchange

Oh, wait...

Carlsberg don't do Apple drivers... but if they did, they'd probably be the best drivers in the world...

I was going to post a few more examples but so much easier to post the Google link. I would only like to mention "lead poisoning" --> gunshot wound and "CTD" --> circling the drain

Video of the giant rabbit in action.

Since nobody else has answered, Two hundred and thirty-one, apparently.

Oh wait, actually, it depends on the gallon!

Since nobody else has answered, Two hundred and thirty-one, apparently.

Oh wait, actually, it depends on the gallon!

The redistribution of land was simply an excuse for Mugabe to attack his political opponents. By number, the vast majority of those discriminated against by Mugabe were black. His actions, such as destroying housing (Operation Murambatsvina) under a flimsy environmental/social pretext, have little to do with the redistribution of land and everything to do with destroying those in the population most opposed to his rule.

I would go further than suggesting that Mugabe does not care about the country's economy; I suggest that he is intentionally destroying parts of the economy and infrastructure in an attempt to hurt his opponents and cement power.

It's also clear that the Chinese government are supporting Mugabe (see http://www.google.com/search?q=zimbabwe+china and http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=zimbabwe%20china as a starting point). His loyalty is more likely to be to them; not the poor in his own country.

Ahem... Meh, I guess that works too.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1+british+thermal +unit+in+electron+volts&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org. mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

It's easy to convert when you know how.

Then it wouldn't be very streamable because of the filesize would it? That is what I asked for in the GP, I'm all for open source but no-one ever seems to come up with an alternative to streaming.

Streaming divx/mpeg1/2 just isn't viable and none of those are technicially open source anyhow!

Are you sure you can't download from youtube? or have you just not tried to look?

Now, I'll ask again. Can anyone tell me a suitable alternative to streaming video files? Preferably open-source that isn't Adobe Flash for webpages? Obviously the filesize will be important!

DugUK

The Royal Society recently issued a fairly unprecedented public warning to Exxon to stop perverting science in the name of $$$. I'm sure the UCS are a very worthy body, but the Royal Society are somewhat more prestigious and authoritative (what with having been founded by Newton, Boyle and Hooke, amongst others, being the oldest such learned body in the world, and still representing the elite (in a good way) of UK science. Exxon ("Esso" here in the UK) are still, as the Greenpeace campaign from 5 years ago pointed out, "#1 Global Warming Villain".

You must have missed the memo. Gates' pet "rewrite the kernel as managed code" project lunacy was written off after three years' work back in 04. (the reset.) Mini-Microsoft said it was 12,000 man-years of work that was simply written off. I suppose it's a good thing (for Microsoft) that they retain the ability to recognise the writing on the wall and not subject the OS group devs to the deathmarch to end all deathmarches...

The Vista kernel currently pouring down the channel from Redmond to the OEMs is a point revision of the Windows Server 2003 kernel. (What's it show up as internally - 5.3 or 6.0? or something else? IIRC, W2K was 5.0, XP was 5.1, XP SP2 would presumably be 5.2 (?))

Definitions of 'portable':

Definitions of portable on the Web:

• easily or conveniently transported; "a portable television set"
• a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried
• of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull; "a portable outboard motor" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn