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Mr Anti-Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the proof-of-success dept.

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."

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  1. Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm Mr. anti-first-post!!!

    1. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      YES!!!!!!! I finally got it!

      Read it and weep, suckers!!!!

  2. Google, and WAP? by caluml · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone noticed that Google is sending wap pages out occasionally? Or is it just me?

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    1. Re:Google, and WAP? by zbob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yeah, I only seem to get this when I'm using mozilla, maybe they're trying something out?

    2. Re:Google, and WAP? by caluml · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I use nothing but... :)

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  3. obvious troll post by Ilgaz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh Google can't be evil since it runs Linux.

    Mark me troll but, grow up kids... A company running Linux/Opensource doesn't mean they are all angels... Yahoo runs FreeBSD for instance...

  4. First! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe not first...but damn close! Do I win a t-shirt?

  5. Re:Article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He didn't link to the article so some karma whore like yourself could find it and post the link.

  6. YOUR WHORING FAILED. THERE IS A SPACE IN YOUR LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  7. Re:Cookie? What cookie? by tiedyejeremy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the only cookies I accept are chocolate chip.

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  8. It was by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The site was brought down by the C [carrier lost]
    [ok]

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  9. Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Phoenix · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Really? Wow! That is just so tragic . That is just so sad.

    But wait a minute, didn't he die last week...and the week before...and the week before that...and the week before that...etc, etc.

    This is probally gonna cost me some karma but screw it. I have to ask the question.

    Why do you exist? Have you nothing better to do than to post the same bogus piece of news over and over again. Hardly an article on /. goes by without a Stephen King is dead post, or the story by that loser that can't get laid and probally (thankfully) will never will because he's a whiny little putz...or whatever.

    Goddess preserve me from these random pieces of wasted, self-replicating genetic material

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  10. Ode to Namebase/Google Watch by Whispers_in_the_dark · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why should I listen
    to a kook whose site cannot
    take some slashdotting?

  11. Re:unwarranted criticism by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yea, bitch about Redhat on slashdot, which is running on Redhat, be moderated -1 right? Your idea of opensource rawks.

  12. heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    slow news day, eh?

  13. Re:I HATE GOOGLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Yeah, and mine too comes perfectly fine.

    A. Coward

  14. This reminds me of.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a horse!

    of course!

  15. Re:It seems to me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes.

  16. Thank you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now I get it.

  17. Re:we'll fix that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i think the AC was making a joke

  18. Ironic? by PhreakinPenguin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How ironic is it that when I go to read the comments on this story, that there's a big as ad for MS Visual Studio .NET?

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  19. Re:Google Cookies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I swear, NanoGator, you are three seconds away from my foe list. Stop posting this garbage.