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Google Updates Its Face
whereiseljefe writes "About 12:00 am Central Time, at least when I saw it, Google changed it's face. Before it was a simplistic search engine, with a minimal front page, and now has become even more so. Those pretty tabs we have become accustomed to are now gone, and in the search results, the "summary" section at the top is now a faded blue bar (see here with a search returning ads). And the ads are a little more low key. Nice to know they are cutting back on their interface rather than adding spastically like Yahoo." Other folks noted that they've added Froogle and Local Directory pages have now been given links on the front page. Which is good, since inclusion in the main page tends to mean ready for prime time.
I used to use Webcrawler exclusively for all my search and homepage needs. Then I noticed Google, which was still very much in its infancy. I switched to Google as I was still using an old 14.4 modem, and Webcrawler was becoming a bit more bloated than I liked. Even though I now have broadband I am very happy that both Webcrawler and Google have maintained a function over form attitude.
Uhm.. anybody else.. click "images"? :)
errm...
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You don't know SCO yet, do you? ;-)
If you're so smart, how come you don't know the difference between a contraction and a possessive pronoun?
It's "if they're so smart". This corresponds to "if they are so smart". What you said was more like "if the smart which belongs to them is so, how come they forgot to use the all so critical flash intro page?"
Now really, how hard is it to remember that?
WWJD? JWRTFA!
Are they still around? It's been so quiet lately that I just got the impression that they had all turned into zombies, lurching around and muttering incoherently about "intellectual property".
If you're so smart, how come you put your periods after closing quotation marks? You are writing in English, not some programming language which uses string literals.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
Shark is a poker term, which is the opposite of fish. E.G. - "I sat down at a table with about 8 fish and only one shark".
I am familiar with your "sharp" term, but I assure you, no one uses that term these days. If you called yourself a "sharp", the "sharks" might assume you were a "fish". Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, depending on your strategy.
WWJD? JWRTFA!
Wow. Thank you for that level-headed response to my snarky jab. It was above and beyond the call of duty. I will accept, and will have to consider adopting, the British convention.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
I've recently noticed that Google has started pulling pages in response to DCMA complaints. Has anyone else noticed this? I've tried to do a search for this topic on SlashDot, but I really must say that SlashDot's search engine returns crappy, useless results.
Anyways, I tried to submit this as a story, but it got rejected. But JOY, there's a new fucking tabless page and that gets posted! Can someone wake me up, is this the world we live in? Is this important news?
So. I've taken to a new strategy, of which this post is the first step. I will now begin submitting my stories to existing slashdot articles, no matter what the topic.
Furthermore, I will write an automated query agent to submit my story as the first post to the next available article that appears.
All bow down before the man who would not shut his mouth...