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How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows
orangerobot writes "The latest issue of Fast Company has an article about how Google has managed to survive beyond its peers and develop a culture of openness and innovation. The article also mentions Google memes and spin-offs such as: Googlewhack, Googlebombing, Googleshare, Googlism and Google Smackdown."
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the google operating system is a little program -- a small, insignificant ranking program -- who is trying at this moment to break free and interface with his user: google-one.
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
Bringing you every single fucking piece of news about Google you can dig up!!
Can I be a slashdot editor now?
The only and only Googlefight.com?
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Googleshare The invention of blogger Steven Berlin Johnson. Search Google for one word. Then search those results for the name of a person. Divide the number of results delivered for your second search by those from the first to get that person's "semantic mindshare" of the word.
Is it just me or does this seem like one of the most pointless ides for a web site ever? Why would you devise a mathematical equation that calculates nothing...
Google believes that users' productivity begins to wane after 0.2 seconds.
I must have problems, since it takes me at least 5 times that amount to decide what to search for!
"I only speak the truth"
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Wow - we've had a story up about somebody's website for at least 10 minutes and we haven't slashdotted it yet. Am I the only one who's noticed?
Alan.
You mean... You mean... a Google just for pr0n???
Oh, you mean that googlewhack!
Erm... Hem... Uh, never mind. Carry on.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
Much like your post.
Is there a good search engine I could check to see what this 'Google' is?
I hope this is an idea which catches on. Think what mankind could achieve if engineers were free to be creative, unhindered by the mindnumbing shackles of management and beaurocracy.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
From the article: ...without alienating neophytes who type in "amazon.com" to find . . . Amazon.com. ( Yes, people really do that. Google doesn't know why. )
I have watched users do this, and it is pretty obvious why. To the neophyte, there are just these boxes where you type in stuff. It is not clear that one is part of the browser and one is being generated by a web page. Advertisers take advantage of this same misunderstanding when they have ads that look like dialog boxes. Which reminds me, I don't know how to tell you this, but, your computer is not optimized for downloading!
Can I be a slashdot editor now?
Not a single misspelling in your post. Sorry.
Unlike other search engines their page ranking system is 110% fair...
Sure, 110% fair might be good enough for now, but as soon as another search engine comes along that is 120% fair Google will be left in the dust. If you ask me, they should stop focusing on things like Google News and starting working on raising their percent fairness. I personally don't like having to settle for less than 200% fairness.
Go to Google's home page, and search for "French military victories". Then, hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky button.
I think you will not be surprised at the results.
'bush' has a 13.53% googleshare of 'hitler'
'saddam' has a 7.7% googleshare of 'hitler'
from Googlism:
cmdrtaco is getting married to the fine woman this website is run by
cmdrtaco is still known to post hoaxes or wild
cmdrtaco is gay
cmdrtaco is brilliant
cmdrtaco is nothing more than a perl script
cmdrtaco is lame
cmdrtaco is my hero
cmdrtaco is the one that is laying on the purple couch with the notebook
cmdrtaco is a torvelian
cmdrtaco is an idiot
And my favorite...
cmdrtaco is psychic
Try
"best search engine"
and
"worst search engine"
Quite Funny!
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If he minded news being repeated 10 times a day, I don't think he'd be reading Slashdot