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Digging Holes in Google
Kurt LoVerde writes "Though google has become synonymous with searching, the folks over at MSN have written up an interesting article on our favorite search engine's pitfalls. Included among these are a tendency to skew results toward shopping, a lack of diversity for searches containing synonyms and its impact on research."
Real links on the www.msn.com home page today:
And they show their socialist bent away from shopping with their hardhitting piece:
I'm much funnier now that I'm a subscriber.
Wow, sounds like those Google guys AND the MSN guys are biased. For shame! We at Slashdot poke fun at you!
Google is infallible.
Hey! You got a permit for that?
In case it gets slashdotted, here's the google cache of the page (heh)
e =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fslate.msn.com %2Fid%2F2085668%2F
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&i
No Norm, those are your safety glasses; I'll wear my own thanks...
Gee... Microsoft complaining about the competition beating them? When does THAT ever happen?
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
Can you spell F-U-D? I knew that you could.
I think we will see this go the way of MS Bob, "Trusted Computing", MSN as a popular ISP, etc.
You ever notice that with the exception of hardware, most people only use Microsoft products as they are forced to?
The only reason people in the outside world use it is because even they feel like they HAVE to use Word, Windows, Excel, etc. When it comes to options in other parts of life, most people recognize that MS sucks donkey balls.
(Interesting side note: I used to work for Blue Cross of California. This was back in the NT 4.0 days. BCC has a support contract with MS.
A co-worker of mine took an NT server, set it up professionally to interface with the network as a real server, then installed MS Bob on it.
He promptly called Microsoft for tech support, and used the "Bob" terminology: "Yes, I'm having trouble getting the IP stack up. I keep telling the dog inside the living room to connect to the outside world, but he just keeps barking at me and asking if I want to make a document." My friend played dumb, only referring to MS Bob jargon as if it were the operating system
Needless to say, the call lasted many hours while the MS tech tried to trouble-shoot the problem using as much of the MS Bob terminology as possible.)
JoeLinux
... set up a special Google site
... so that the author can find all the tulips and apples he wants.
www.google.com/botanist
That settles it. I'm officially old.
*sniff*
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
And all the shopping, paid links, popups, and crap that goes with it. Let them have their limited, corporate sponsored internet. Let them be spoonfed information, rather than blasting them with it and having them make an informed opinion or judgement. Let them have their MSN.
Just makes it easier for the aliens to take over, and until then, keeps them the hell away from me!
Ofcourse Google is not the Oracle. Anybody who's seen the Matrix Reloaded knows that the Oracle was actually an evil program in cahoots with the machines.
Google is not like that. Google is more like...um...Trinity: smart, beautiful, intelligent and always there for you when you need it.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I think the author wants Google to "search what I mean, not what I say". I guess when I finish my telepathic AI I'll be well on my way to search engine glory.
Google already has this covered!
well, a .. umm... friend of mine told me that when I sear.. when he searches for celebrities/supermodels on the internet, the first couple page are sites like altocelebs which gives you two or three links to other sites, but they themselves have almost no content on the star. It sucks to wade through two or three pages of search results linking to these kind of sites when I'm jacki...researching...when some other person that is not me is reasearching the trials and tribulations of a particular celebrity
Who would have thought indexing the Internet was hard?
Search for apples and you get the fruity kind of apples as result.
Logically actually.
"Apple" is the company name.
And it's Fiona Apple's last name.
But who on earth wants to know anything about a single apple?
Search for apples and you get apples.
Search for apple and you get apple.
Fact is Apple the company is more popular then singular apple, but
And his bias:
I wonder what happens whenI search for windows...
Is the world really so messed up we are more interested in a shitty OS then in real life windows?
Although maybe I should search for window...
Go to Google UK and enter keywords "weapons of mass destruction" and hit "I'm feeling lucky"
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
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