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Wired Reports on 'Googlemania'
Decaffeinated Jedi writes "As a tie-in with its March 2004 cover story on the search phenomenon that is Google, Wired has posted its Complete Guide to Googlemania. Written before Google delayed its IPO earlier this month, the feature nevertheless offers a series of interesting articles focused on the search engine giant. Particularly interesting sections include Googlemaniacs (in which 'superusers' like Matt Groening and Garry Trudeau discuss how they use Google on a daily basis), a look at how blog comment spammers have taken advantage of Google's PageRank system, and a gallery of hypothetical interface redesigns by a group of artists and graphic designers."
weapons of mass destruction
french military victories
I, for one, welcome our ...reigning... Google overlords.
True story.
Google has improved my sex life, tightened my abs, and brought me closer to God.
- Lloyd Grove
Any other Google out there that I am not aware of?
Free XBox, PS2
well said. after looking at the wired page, i noticed they also have pictures of the designers of those "concept pages", which of course are all butt ugly. do we really need to see their faces? are they really THAT skillful? did it really require great emotional and psychological output to produce those conceptual google interfaces? do we care about their personal commentary? i'd say no, no, no, and no.
How does one get to be a Google superuser? Does one get special privileges like banning enemies from Google and altering search returns for certain users? Hmm, maybe I just need to get my search count up...
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
Probably Wired asked a dozen designers to improve google, eight said "What? It's perfect already!" and the other four made it into the article.
-Tom Duff
Agreed.
And I love the way that "Jenny Holzer" would redesign the page... I'm sure Google would be excited about expressing her personal political views right on the front page. How did that mess even make it into the Wired article?
I think that the main page should have a Flash game where you get to hit republicans on the head with a big hammer. I think that users would really like that.
-- Jenny Holzer, "Artist"
Ha.
reasonably free? as opposed to unreasonably free?
"That search engine was unreasonably free, I mean It was over 100x more free than other free search engines"
And I love the way that "Jenny Holzer" would redesign the page... I'm sure Google would be excited about expressing her personal political views right on the front page
It's actually a very good idea for the post-IPO Google. Alternate Jenny's idea with its opposite number: Republicans get a Flash game where they get to beat up homosexuals, liberals and non-Christians. The resulting controversy gets mentioned in every news story for several days. Traffic spikes and investors bid up the stock price. Of course, it has nothing to do with search results but that's business.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
You're right... IE 4 didn't just crash, it exploded spectacularly, and took down your whole desktop to boot.
To within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury. -- Tom Duff
Just give it to a graphic designer.
The ones listed in the story were appalling.
Wait a minute, I think that's Christina Aguilera.. on a Japanese site. Wow, she's all over the place.
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(O.o) This is Bunny. (> <)
WankRank?
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
someone who doesn't understand infinity talking about people not understanding infinity. I'd call it ironic, but I have a much better word for it...
retardedness!