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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. Pagerank discriminates? No Slashdot readers do by Ilgaz · · Score: 1, Troll

    Just watching the comments here, Google seems "untouchable" because they run on Linux Beowulf etc.

    Grow up a bit, would ya? We are speaking about a www site storing your search terms in a cookie! Oh, turn off the cookies, yea right, average www people knows how to do it.

  2. Re:Google Cookies by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just tell if Google was running on Windows 2000 or something, you would post the same comment.

  3. Thank you linux fanatics by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now I understand Google is untouchable because it runs on Linux whatever it does and I switched my default search engine to alltheweb on Opera browser.

    Thank you very much and now I started to believe at that "whining" guy.