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Search Beyond Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hand-that-mocked-them,-and-the-heart-that-fed dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "'Search Beyond Google', the cover story of the March issue of Technology Review, is one of the few current Google stories that discusses whether their technology can stay ahead of the competition in the months to come."

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  1. All good things ... by Ernest+P+Worrell · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... or bad things ... or pretty much anything, come to an end sometime. Except Microsoft of course.

    I think Google has deviated too much from searching, with their Blogger aquisition, and other stuff like that. We'll see how long they stay around.

    1. Re:All good things ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I suspect Google's goal is pretty much the same as Microsoft's: world domination. They just chose a different strategy - first a search engine, then a crappy operating system.

      Waiting for GoogleOS.

    2. Re:All good things ... by NewWaveNet · · Score: 4, Funny
      Google works approximately by modding up the sites that get linked to the most.
      I can't seem to find a link to the meta-moderate page on Google ;)
  2. Every good web developer knows... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    that content is more important than technology (or bells & whistles).

    Forget about Yahoo and Microsoft. If I was google I would keep an eye on booble. No way they can compete.

  3. Re:Search engine spam is the key... by millahtime · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Almost everything that comes up on the first page for most things I search for is a referral program selling either something I'm looking for information about, or selling something completely different."

    So, wait. All those products won't really make me bigger down there. Way to ruin my day.

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    Evolution or ID?
  4. Great calculator by jstave · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gotta love a calculator that can tell you there's 153,388,225 furlongs in a microparsec

  5. Google for google by DrugCheese · · Score: 2, Funny

    But google is an acronym for 'search the internet'

    Hey can you jump on your computer and MSN Search this for me ...

    Hey get on and Yahoo this term ...

    Nothing else will work ...

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    *DrugCheese rants*
  6. People who put the start by gnu-generation-one · · Score: 2, Funny

    of their message in the subject line

    remind me of

    tomshardware, and sites which think that too much information

    in once place might spoil things