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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."
A google search of two terms that only results in one hit. Unfortunately observing and documenting a googlewhack on the web usually results in it losing it's googlewhack status.
Google is one of the finest search-engines around but I use several different search-engines quit often. There's Kartoo that has great looks and vivisimo that has the abillity to group results.
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Might I point you to what I feel is the superior news.google.com
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the fact that google does maps?
You quitting proves that the karma kap worked. The most annoying of the whores shut up. --CmdrTaco
I use google, but I find using niche search engines to be much more useful. Google is great for getting a bajillion returns, and the first 2 or 3 pages worth are mostly relevant, but for specifics I use some of the niche search engines. A good one is diysearch and sites like Outersound for finding indy music and other resources.
Yeah, it takes a bit more work to find these niche search engines/resources, but they are out there, and the noise is much much lower.
Just my $.02
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> Funny that the article didn't mention the fact that Google's lawyers recently
> asked [linguistlist.org] Paul McFedries to remove the word 'google' from his
> excellent wordspy [wordspy.com] lexicon. A company that 'gets it' indeed.
Erm, thats odd, because that never happened. Did you just make that up on the spot or did it take you a while to prepare?
Google asked them to change their definition of 'google' from "To search for something" to "To search for something using the google search engine"
But they never once _DEMANDED_ that they remove the word google.
The wordspy.com listing was clearly incorrect.
Google simply corrected them.
So no its not too funny that the article didnt mention lies and FUD. Its a refreshing change actually.
What I _do_ find funny is you even link right to the article that proves me right and your own statements wrong! Did you even read it?
Direct quote from the article you linked:
> we want to make sure that when people use "Google," they are referring
> to the services our company provides and not to Internet searching
> in general.
The email then ends with:
> We ask that you help us to protect our brand by deleting the definition of
> "google" found at wordspy.com or revising it to take into account the
> trademark status of Google.
Hell, even keeping the clearly wrong and incorrect definition would be OK with google if they simply added a (TM) mark after the word Google from how their email reads!