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How does Google do it?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Doc Tagle writes "With Google reportedly on the verge of going public, more and more people want to know what makes Google tick. The Observer, serves up the answers to our questions."

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  1. Re:Soon to be everything by nacturation · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Google already has spell check...

    What, as in "Did you mean french military defeats"?

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  2. Google remembers. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    What can possibly be more revealing about a person than all the searches one makes, (and which are never forgotten.) What kind of searches have YOU made in the last two years?

    What drives the Google architecture? I dunno. Borrowed muscle/money from the shadow government?

    I mean, Google already has 'ex'-NSA guys (no such thing as 'ex') on their payroll.

    Ho hum. . .


    -FL

  3. Google started to make me mad by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Its not Google in fact, its some geek coder uses google himself and forces USERS to use it too.

    I give you a list
    1) Safari
    2) Omniweb
    3) Opera 7.x versions
    4) Camino
    5) Of course, Mozilla

    Those browsers come with google search default, in Safari its more than .ini hacking, you must HACK EXE WITH HEX EDITOR, I mean, the application, .app whatever.

    Opera is commercial, so as Omniweb. I understand they make money with referring searches to google by default, just like paid bookmark inclusion. I of course feedback to them too.

    Do I have to use google? We all have to? As a guy paid for OSX, I have to hack the Safari app itself just to use another engine?

    Oh, on OSX, guess which browser gives users choice for Search Engine? IE 5.2 :)

    1. Re:Google started to make me mad by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Yes, Mac rot my brain. I won't click on address bar and type Lycos.com , I will use another browser and will send complaint feedback to Apple.

      I don't have to use Hixie's or whatevers favorite search engine on an OS I paid.

  4. Re:Tinfoil Hats by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you tell me what NSA does and what does an ex NSA guy at Google does, I wlll even let them to inject Google chip in my brain as they dream of.

    Wake up! Just because a damn thing runs on Linux, it doesn't be automatically good.

    Sorry but I had enough with the reasonless Google defending posts for years.