I remember a few years ago, when I made the switch to Google. I was impressed from the get-go, and have never looked back. Everyone I talked to, everybody who was using some other search engine, I turned them on to google. (It wasn't hard)
And now, in some places, rather than saying "do a search for [something]" people say "google-search it" (even if they don't use google).
You know something's great when people make a verb out of its name.
-- "Peace, Love and Apathy"
Nice description
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torqer
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· Score: 3, Informative
In case you were like me and really had no idea what the submitter was talking about in his description...
The link is to an article that gives some insight into how google searches through the hordes and hordes of webpages. And bashes other search engines.
Note to submitter: while brevity may be the soul of wit try to remember we haven't read the article yet and need just a little more information.
How to abuse Google
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AftanGustur
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· Score: 5, Informative
Re:How to abuse Google
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PeterClark
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· Score: 3, Informative
Well, this has been known for a long time. But really, it's not as big a deal as one might think. "Scientology" as a search term pulls up an entire page of Scinetologist sites, except for #4, which is xenu.net. However, the first page for "Scientology secrets" is full of sites that debunk Scientology. So yes, the Church of Scientology has a virtual monopoly on the search "Scientology" but is far, far from controlling other search items. It all works out in the end.
:Peter
More Google Links
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Schwarzchild
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· Score: 5, Informative
Wrong about email
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Karellen
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· Score: 5, Informative
He's wrong about one thing. Email does have links. It has links indicating who it came from and who it went to. Even without the content, that sort of information, about who is talking to whom, and in what patterns, can be really informative to those who know what they're looking for.
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I remember a few years ago, when I made the switch to Google. I was impressed from the get-go, and have never looked back. Everyone I talked to, everybody who was using some other search engine, I turned them on to google. (It wasn't hard)
And now, in some places, rather than saying "do a search for [something]" people say "google-search it" (even if they don't use google).
You know something's great when people make a verb out of its name.
"Peace, Love and Apathy"
The link is to an article that gives some insight into how google searches through the hordes and hordes of webpages. And bashes other search engines.
Note to submitter: while brevity may be the soul of wit try to remember we haven't read the article yet and need just a little more information.
Actually Google's system can, and is, beeing abused..
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
Undocumented Google Commands
Google Time Bombs
Google Science-Fiction
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think (July 1945)
Ben Schneiderman, Codex, Memex, Genex (December 1997)
Henry Jenkins, Information Cosmos (April 2001)
He's wrong about one thing. Email does have links. It has links indicating who it came from and who it went to. Even without the content, that sort of information, about who is talking to whom, and in what patterns, can be really informative to those who know what they're looking for.
If you include the content, it's a goldmine.
URLs embedded in email would make it better again
Aside from that though, great article.
Why doesn't the gene pool have a life guard?