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Mr Anti-Google
MrNovember writes "Salon is
running a story on some guy named Daniel Brandt who they call "Mr. Anti-Google." Mr. Brandt runs a sort of anti-establishment database of citations called NameBase as well as Google Watch. He claims that Google's PageRank system is undemocratic primarily because it doesn't rank his NameBase information very highly. He also points out that Google maintains a log of all you've ever searched for associated with a long-term cookie. Google's system seems to work the best if you ask me but, on the other hand, link popularity may not provide the most intelligent top rankings."
And I think the Us Monetary system is unfair because I dont have enough of it!!!
No I didnt spell check this post...
a few links will fix namebase's spot on the list
So he feels let down that no one is interested in linking to his site? Is that what this is all about?
It isn't like Google is going out of their way to bump him down the list.
I have been pwned because my
...he'd increase his page ranking on google if he removed the little tin foil hats from his servers.
yeah I hate google because:
1) When I type in my name IT DOESNT SHOW IT!
2) My websites are not listed #1 NO MATTER WHAT YOU TYPE IN!
3) There image search doesn't have PHOTOS OF ME!
4) I hat all other search engines for THE SAME REASONS!
wa wa wa......
Ave Molech Setting
His site isn't loading for me. Guess I'll have to go Google's cache to - oh, wait a minute... it's not in there! How rare!
Come to the University of Mars! Classes starting soon!
I just tried visiting google-watch.org, but it seems to be down ("document contains no data"). So I google for it.
Caching has been disabled for the site.
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Google is a very good search engine. And I don't know what the hell this Mr. Anti-Google is talking about, "undemocratic" everyoney knows google is powered by pigeon clustetrs, millions of pigeons voting on the relevant sites
Hrm, both namebase and googlewatch seem to be down. Is this just an innocent slashdoting?
Or have the Google gods turned their clusters towards more sinister deeds, silencing their critics.
We may never know.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
So this link from /. should help him out quite a bit? Hooray for everybody!
I don't know about everybody. It might draw him here and the next thing you know, he'll have a site called slashdot-watch.com to complain that his posts aren't being modded up to 5.
Paul
Google responds by stating that now all of their pigeons will go through an "intruduction to democracy" short course, and all "bird seed" websites are now ranked by humans instead of the patented "pigeon rank" system.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
In the meantime, anyone who would like to cover their tracks can use my cookie:
.google.com TRUE / FALSE 2147368045 PREF ID=111439b95052c72a:TM=1030056425:LM=1030056425:S= v7T9QSFKEkI
;)
Of course, if it turns out that Google is planning to give a prize to the most active user, or they have some kind of search engine green stamps, you're screwed.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
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Search: Mali Timbuktu empire
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Thank goodness Google is here, even if it's not 100% perfect.
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
I am apparently unable to form coherent sentences while trying to type around the chili I spilled on my keyboard.
Please disregard the horrible mangling of the English language which took place in the parent comment.
The cookie is named 'PREF' and has some cryptic data stored in it. It took me a while, but this is what it says:
All your search terms are belong to usA web search engine favours established and reputable sites?!?!?!?!!! Why was I not informed! All this time I have been using Google to search for unreputable, poorly constructed websites that nobody likes! I've been mislead!
Really, can someone go and LART this guy? He sounds like he was given a computer for Christmas, and found this thar Worldy Widey Web thingy, but now hes pissed because it doesn't quite work as he expected.
Ironically, when www.namebase.org was /.ed, I found a google cached snapshot of the site...
"If you and I always agreed, then one of us would be unnecessary."
Now that he's being slashdotted (I get DNS not found) I'm sure that he won't be getting ranked by *anybody* for at least a few hours... heh
-Steve
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
I think of Google like a mirror; it just reflects what it sees. If your site is good enough, people will link to it, regardless if it's listed on Google or not. You don't need Google to get your site viewed. How did we ever get popular websites before Google? Such things as word-of-mouth, IRC, etc. are ways people can spread their URLs. Google isn't the only medium out there to get your site seen, and my point is that you shouldn't be relying on Google, because it's just a mirror.
He's so worried about privacy and such, why did my search at Namebase.org get truncated because "No one at has donated money to namebase"? The site noted and probably logged my IP, looked up my organization in its database, and found that it had not donated to his cause.
Fsck him.
"Is it just me, or did anyone enjoy/learn from that article?"
What, you actually read the articles?
sheesh, whats next, perfect grammer and spelling?
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Where do these people come from? Is there an agency out there that reads the Net and says "Oops, not enough morons on this group," and then assigns some slack jawed, inbred, grit-eatin' stooge to gum up the works?
- Jim Cowling
"Understand you're having a little Jimmy Page trouble."
To Salon's discredit, they appear to agree with this idiot, evidently finding some sort of nostalgia in his fact-averse crusade.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!