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What's Next For Google?
j_heisenberg writes "Technology Review has a nice story about the coming MS-Google showdown. I like especially the data comparison for different media on page 2 concerning data content."
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We all know Google is king, don't we? Who's gonna beat them, MSN? When you think about it, anything Google does is going to be amazing, even if it's been done before.
Global domination!!
AHHH!!!!!
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I live in the District of Columbia, so afro-American outbursts aren''t really all that unique. Anyway, about three years ago I was walking to a club area (Adams Morgan) with a bunch of friends and we stopped to wait for a traffic light (something only white DC residents do) and we hear this guy from behind us say something like: ""wait right there, I wants to hab a word wit ya bout some business.""
So we turn around and there is this older black crack head guy in typical ratty street clothes squatted about 10 feet away from us next to some stairs, right on the sidewalk. He is literally blowing mud all over some yuppies cement stairwell. Real geyser style diarrhea, punctuated with loud booming farts. The shit is splashing all aver the stairs and he is doing this while making eye contact with us and nodding.
I didn''t know whether to laugh or vomit. As we are all standing there slack-jawed he pulls up his pants and starts ambulating toward us. We ran away in horror as he called us all sorts of horrible names...... mostly ""white devil"" ""racist"" the usual sobriquets.
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It would be nice to have a simple MS-Paint like interface to sketch a little symbol (like the contamination sign, or some more obscure wiccan symbol) and have google return both definitions, and better images.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
Coontact Tale #15
Not sure if this qualifies as an outburst.
Yesterday, I was in line at the school bookstore to buy my $250 neurobiology book. Of course, there's 3 eggplants behind 3 registers but only one is working a register. The other two are talking on cell phones (I think to each other).
The line, of course, is moving so slow people are returning shit to the shelves and leaving. Finally, it's my turn. As she's taking her sweet-ass time, I notice a couple of things.
First, of course, is her malodorous flesh. Second, is what I at first thought was an enormous amount of dandruff on her head and shoulders.
Upon closer inspection (remember, it took her 10 minutes to ring up a fucking book) I realized it wasn't dandruff.
IT WAS FUCKING HEAD LICE!!!
Her entire head and shoulders were fucking crawling with these squirmy things. It was the first time I had seen head lice and I almost pass out. Seriously, as soon as I saw this I felt the blood leave my head.
Fucking sick. I almost didn't accept the change she was handing back to me.
... Or atleast I would hope so.
It's a way of life! But seriously, I don't think anyone - at least in the short term - can keep stride with Google. They are constantly upgrading their traditional services - search, Usenet archive, etc. - while at the same time implementing incredible additions, most of which can be found in beta. They're not following: they're leading. Unless they completely ignore any unforeseen future trend, I suspect they will be as dominant in the search market as Microsoft has been in the OS & applications market. And Google deserves it.
A blog like any other.
The only people who don't use google are those who haven't seen its full power. Take, for example, my father. He used any search engine, but usually MSN. Then one day he came to me, saying "What is this song called?" referring to a song he knew a few words to. I said calmly, "Go to google, and type the lyrics in quotation marks, and you will find the answer." It worked exactly the way I had said, and now he only uses google. And looks down at MSN.
You know, niggers constantly amaze me as to the depths of total niggerness they will subject themselves to in day-to-day living.
I went to an Albertson's Supermarket to pick up some milk, bread, and some specialty cheese that I like. When I walked into the store, I grabbed a cart, and began pushing it through the maze that was set-up by the grocery store.
I ran first across the shelf that offered the best seller books, and then made my way into the Deli section that was intentionally set up to be the shoppers' first visit.
After turning the corner into the Deli section, I immediately saw three niggers. Two of them were in one of those self-powered carts that you can get as an handicapped person, and the other one was about 13 years old, and able to walk onhis own. They were surrounding the free "Taste this!" island that had many presentations of food that Albertson's was selling. The two niggers in the self-propelled carts were making loud sucking noises as they repeatedly dipped their fingers into the food, and then brought the morsels into their mouths. The young nigger was on the opposite side of the samples, and scooping the free food into his mandibles as he and his relatives masticated the free food in the isle.
I usually like to buy the Cole slaw from the deli, but this scene made me sick, and I was only able to buy milk, and some English muffins. I am NOT exaggerating the truth when I say that the main nigger momma had to be about 90" across, her other motor cart man was only a few inches smaller. The young nigger was about 13, and wearing pants that had to be at least 40" in diameter.
There these niggers were, making loud slurping noises while they shoveled this free food into their pies. No embarrassment, no apologies as I pulled my cart near their animalistic feeding frenzy, nothing...
Thank GOD I am white, and thank GOD I don't belong to a race that feels that this kind of behavior is normal.
All I can say is that Niggers are Niggers, and no matter WHAT these bongo-busters might post, when they look at the REAL facts, they are, indeed, niggers.
So, as I live my very happy life, remember, I am NOT a nigger, and all of these niggers know the difference.
Post whatever you like to promote your race as being at the very least "normal", but you all know, deep in your hearts, that you are all just niggers.
How about fixing your desktop search tool?
I'm serious. The MSN search tool is faster, offers more options and has a better UI. For example, with the MSN tool I can select specifically which folders to include and exclude from the indexing. I cannot believe Google fails to offer this option. And the UI... The MSN UI looks like a browser, but it's a rich client with far more powerful and just plain pretty controls.
I like you google, but you are getting your ass kicked. Get back to work!
I predict a resounding win for Google!
Of course I also predicted that DOS would beet windows.... I meen realy, who would want to waste 90% of their machine to just make things look pretty?
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I'm in Carl's Jr. for breakfast. Carl's is the most sedate of the fast food places but this morning: In walks a black couple in their 20s. They get one small drink between them and start attacking the salad bar. She is wearing a sports bra with the bottom one inch of one tit showing. She was actually in pretty good shape, not one of the shapeless ones.
Anyway I'm sitting their sorta stunned. The male gorilla walks by with the water cup and dips it into the cottage cheese.
I'm about ready to take off at this point, they finally leave, the manager and assistant are standing by the salad bar talking like maybe deciding if they need to clean the whole contaminated mess out and start over.
I take off and see the dusky pair sitting on the hood of some ancient dinosaur car laughing it up, in the fashion of their people.
I was totally grossed out. I mean, I think taking a sample cheese cube on each end of a toothpick is pushing it.
What REALLY pisses me off is that well mannered Blacks won't speak up about this shit. Like if Oprah were to say, act like a N****r and you will get treated like one, or if Jesse Jackson did, it might actually make a diff, though probably they would get a shitstorm of abuse for selling out to white people.
I was on the train in Portland (the Max) and this black woman and her two kids (one is probably 4, the other 9-10) get on. She is swearing at them non-stop. Like, "You better get the fuck away from the door" and shit like that. So this fat white guy says something like "You know, you shouldn't speak to your children like that" and she just goes apeshit. "You fucking don't tell me how to raise my kids. They didn't come out of your pussy!"
Her kids just look frightened. Finally, a black woman next to me says, "sister, please" and the woman finally calms down and leaves on the next stop.
Another time, a young black couple are on the train. They have a young son (maybe 4). The teenage guy is 'playing' with him, but hitting him pretty hard for a kid, and saying shit like "don't fuck with me!" like its a game.
His friend asks if his girlfriend is pregnant, he goes "not yet!". The whole train lets out a groan at the same time.
I'm still waiting for the Google instant messaging client that will link right Gmail. It strikes me as the one truely obvious thing that Google hasn't done yet.
The MS desktop search feature doesn't seem to work.
What am I doing wrong?
By contrast, Microsoft does not acquiesce to Beijing and has never removed "offending" links at the request of Chinese thugs. Microsoft also limits the number of H-1Bs that it will hire. I should know. I directly asked Microsoft's representative at a local job fair about favoritism towards Chinese and Indians, and the representative proudly said that the company prefers Americans.
Well, this isn't actually a "black" outburst, but sort of related...
One of my friend's grandparents lived in a predomninantly black neighborhood (they are white). One day a black minister came to the door, trying to preach to them. My friend's grandfather let him in and listened to what he had to say for a while. Eventually the black minister asks my friend's grandfather "What do you think about black on black murders?"
my friend's grandfather said (deadpan) "I think they're great."
heh. I think the minister left pretty quickly after that.
I used to experiment with different search engines back in the day, From Infoseek, Excite, Yahoo, Webcrawler, HotBot (does this one really count?), etc.
After I stumbled on to Google via some friends at Georgia Tech, never looked back. I try one or two now, on occasion, but can they really say duopoly? Yahoo may have members et al, but for searching, nothing I've tried comes close to Google yet.
The ad market for adsesne will eventually dry up, either through click fraud or through a recession that kills ad spending. As Yahoo figured out in 2000, ad spending is the first thing to go when times get tight...which invariably leads to calls for revenue diversification. Google will end up going the Yahoo route of charging fees for some services once they hit this patch. When you have to report revenue every quarter, telling investors to hold on until ad spending comes back just doesn't cut it.
One potential problem point I see in most of the responses of "crowd" is:
"$1 is big and monopolizes. They don't do free software. I hate them."
"$2 is building applications to compete with $1. I support $2. I will think about $2's free software later."
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(couple of years later)
"$2 has grown bigger and sell/distribute applications. They don't do free software. I get a strange feeling out of it."
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(some more time)
"$2 is big and monopolizes. They don't do free software. I hate them."
Seach for animals and related information. Thx.
Is this a joke or am I missing something? Floppies with 800TB and CDs with 1TB! They've gotta be kidding.
I don't even remember the last time I saw a floppy.
What a moronic troll. If you were really serious about what you said, you wouldn't have post it as an AC.
I could troll the same and tell you that Microsoft is the "official" provider of spying-software used by the chinese government. This doesn't seems to disturb you...
As for your representative who said that the company prefers Americans, that's the most stupid statement ever heard, because if you prefer Americans: STAY INSIDE THE USA! Don't try to go outside...
I like Google too but come on, they are rolling out services other sites have had for years.
I think that Amazon a8 search is quite cool, and it comes with a link to it's crossplatform Firefox toolbar on the front page. It's cached searches and resizable image columns are quite cool. I don't use it more than google, but it could be a contender.
what we all here at /. always forget is that the success of anything is not largely determined by the technical superiority. Who cares if google is better than anything else when noone knows? I personally think google is the best, that's why I never use any other engines but soooo many people don't know that, or don't know how to use google correctly.
So, all MSN has to do is get enough people to use it, it does not matter how good it is and Microsoft is very good at that. Then they will get more ad-revenue and take that away from google. So while I very much agree with all the comments that google is improving itself and that it has so many services, it's page is lean and everything but unfortunately those are not the only factors that will decide success...
The recent destruction of GoogleGroups and the excellent interface to usenet that it used to offer are a pretty clear indicator of where Google is heading. Just like Microsoft, they will continue to dominate some areas by virtue of mind share and momentum, but the glory days are over. I didn't know any geek that didnt admire google up till a couple of weeks ago; to a person, they are shifting persectives, and think google has lost it. Some day there will be books written about the changes now taking place at google; but at the moment all we outsiders can see are sign of confusion and general creepyness.
What's next? How about a stock price crash.
Their main product is search. Search is easily to duplicate.
The next logical thing is for other companies to produce similiar products to google's and watch Google's overvalued stock tumble back to earth.
By contrast, Microsoft does not acquiesce to Beijing and has never removed "offending" links at the request of Chinese thugs. Microsoft also limits the number of H-1Bs that it will hire. I should know. I directly asked Microsoft's representative at a local job fair about favoritism towards Chinese and Indians, and the representative proudly said that the company prefers Americans.
Summary--Google's best moneymaking potential is in the black helicopter arena, where their assets will blow away startups like BayTSP, Cyveillance, and Genuone despite the startups having had the first mover advantage.
Yes, this doesn't square with "Don't be evil." Neither does helping the PRC subjagate its people by assisting with censorship. And a publically traded company, as any Cryptonomicon MBA here can tell you, cannot have the luxury of a conscience.
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
Let me use my amazing visibility into the future to predict what will happen...
Google will continue to innovate, developing new features, integrating new capabilities into the developing 'user portal' centered around GMail. They will continue to develope advanced ways to organize, search, and use huge amounts of data.
Microsoft will wait to see what the users gravitate to the most, and will create a nearly identical version of the feature. They will extend it in a few minor ways to integrate more tightly with their operating systems. Since it will be in the OS by default, they will quickly gain a large market share.
On a lesser note, other 'competitors' like Yahoo, will continue to innovate in areas of banner advertising, and flash advertisement integration. They will add new features only after Google releases products that make theirs look primitive by comparison.
The only question my visions have not answered is: How large will Google have to become before slowing their innovation and playing it safe.
Getting rid of google-bombing search engine results within your search results! I don't even know what it's really called, but I think you'll know what I'm talking about. If MSN manages to do this, then I may just have to do the unthinkable.
Do 90% of users really need more information ? Most of my googlems (google problems) occur because I can't formulate the question properly - E.g., the other day I wanted to know what all the numbers on a plain old fashioned check are for; it took me 30 minutes, and I still never got an explanation of how the transit number ( the 3 part number upper right with a bar, not the aba number) works.
So, rather then more info, we need the ever elusive electronic expert (or perhaps, starting in middle school, a class on searching - the most useful class i ever took in high school was typing).
Another big problem is redundant pages, which would only be made worse by more info - already, google does a lousy job of filtering similar content; e.g., if you look for a laboratory protocol for, say, how to make PBS buffer (don't ask) you will get hundreds of redundant pages,of widely varying quality, many of which are straight copies (unattributed of course)
My prediction: people were willing to pay experts (librarians, consultants) in the old analog digital days; they will pay for them again, once the model becomes clearer. I wd not be surprised if this is already happening on an ad hoc basis at the more savvy consulting, law and engineering firms - a full time search person is cost effective.
Also, much of the technical web is proprietaty, for profit stuff - like the serious academic serial Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, several articles from this journal cost me (well my company) quite a lot. Of course, you can always postulate a major revolution in how this stuff gets publishec, but right now it is for profit.
For those who are interested, there is a flash animation of the possible evolution of google. Its quite possible, also makes you think. http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/
This article is a collage of beaten subjects : possibilities of search, advertisement means money, and how Microsoft's Bill Gates will do anything to win this new war. It is SOOOO cliche it almost feels like someone paid for it.
- Technology means money, cites Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and IBM. (We didn't know that.)
- Those who prevail will have more chance to set the standard for the industry to follow. (This is news to me.)
- Says search will go through email, PDF, and even phone conversations(whatever they mean by that, to me sounds like spook work). (WILL? It already does, AFAIK...)
- Recruitment PR work included: says Google is great place to work at, allows pets, gives drinks, meals, massage and car wash (Who paid for this?).
- Says Google is based on citations, tells love story of Brin and Page inventing PageRank in Standford PhD(which they didn't finish). (Who paid for this?)
- Says advertising means money. (We didn't know that either.)
- Says only a few will prevail.(That neither.)
A strong contender for the christmas-weekend-cliche-of-the-year on Non News category.
Broken Hearts are for Assholes. - Frank Zappa
We know, based on documents provided by the U.S. Labor Department, that Google hires many Chinese H-1Bs. In fact, 30% of Google's workforce is H-1Bs, of whom many hail from China.
There may be a correlation between the Chinese workforce at Google and the fact that Google has stagnated. Note that the company was originally started by 2 Americans; at the early stages, Google had few Chinese H-1Bs and was quite innovative.
Into scat? What you want is Poogle.
If you were really serious about what you said, you wouldn't have post it as an AC.
Don't you fucking USian pricks have a past tense?
haha.. you're a good laugh
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Is that your come back... wow that was crappy.
This isn't a reflection on their site, the entire NASDAQ is once again woefully out of line with reality. YHOO GOOG EBAY ASKJ etc are all looking at 50% sales in the next twenty four months.
Perhaps it was a temporary destruction?
Google Groups is still there but I had not checked earlier this week : http://groups-beta.google.com/
Weird though it says BETA...hasn't this been out there forever now?
Broken Hearts are for Assholes. - Frank Zappa
The author mentioned a few times that it would be important for search engine companies to think beyond the PC in their search infrastructure and that providing some form of APIs to the search engine would setup standards.
I am not sure about the former but I do agree with the later. Thinking beyond the PC is too difficult, I think. If a tool can be connected to a computer and data can flow between the tool and the computer, then this tool becomes part of the computer. Mapping MP3 player just turns this player into another harddrive, so I am not sure what the author really meant, besides, we do not have our MP3 players on the web, so it would be a desktop search engine that would have to crawl the devices (like Google's desktop searching tool - bar.) So for now atleast, whatever the author meant by this is covered already.
The search engine APIs is a more interesting subject. I suppose Google's desktop bar could be used by desktop applications for running searches from within, that's first.
Developers already can tap into Google's search API (I tried it myself,) but as the author mentioned, these are limited to a thousand searches a day and to a very small set of utilities.
I wonder if it would be possible for a search engine to provide a set of APIs with much more functionality than a simple search API. Incremental searching, time period based searching, topical searching, who knows what else.
Any ideas what functions could be useful in such an API?
You can't handle the truth.
Or maybe US engineers are just crappy, have you actually seen the students in a good US engineering department: mostly Asian. You know why? Because unlike US parents their parents made them study, so they're not lazy bums. Also, Microsoft is outsourcing a lot.
Or will it remain the same?
Thanks for expanding my vocabulary today :).
A web development company has a different view of the future showdown between Microsoft and Google. They "predict" it moving beyond the realm of search engines and into the realm of a total mainstream media takeover.
They call it Epic Granted, it is a bit over dramatic, but it does make you think. Make sure you give yourself five minutes to view the whole thing.
Very interesting article, with many implications.
From a business standpoint, Google will need a lot more resources to compete with MS. Swallowing Yahoo might not be enough. A consortium between Amazon, Google and Yahoo and a number of universities might still not be enough.
Microsoft; "I spit on your meagre $2-12 billion."
Since the point is winning an architecture standards 'war', the context for these standards needs to be defined first -or last as the case may be. Will these standards ultimately be commercial, governmental (international or national), military or none of the above? Microsoft with greater resources has the advantage of being able to hedge more alternatives.
Microsoft's Windows vulnerabilities grafted onto entry into everyday technologies make the 'Y2K' scenarios a year by year (day by day) nightmare. I don't like the idea of a hacker using either Google or MSsearch to gain access to my thermostats or my refrigerator. Or my Slashdot password, either.
If search is to be a $20-30 billion a year business, what will the computer/cellphone/intranet/PDA/various electronic device security business be worth?
To paraphrase Eistein, 'I don't know how this architecture war will be fought, but the next one will be fought with pencil and paper.'
E.g., the other day I wanted to know what all the numbers on a plain old fashioned check are for; it took me 30 minutes, and I still never got an explanation of how the transit number ( the 3 part number upper right with a bar, not the aba number) works.
I actually found it right away. I think you are just lame at using google.
Slashdot:
We're sorry Google, but we appear to have linked to you on our front page on a day when a lot of people are on their computers.
Google:
Heh. Bring it on.
Of course, Google already has such a service at Google Answers and I think the service and the business model is actually quite innovative. Too bad Google barely even markets it and the average person isn't really aware of what the service really is or what it does.
swanker than you
TV adds and payola go on through a recession.
All that 'Google' has to go is attract people to the Internet and away from the TV and radio and attract some of that grass roots advertising revenue.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
It goes far beyond this. Research into genetic and herdity has revealed that there are large differences between intelligence of various races. Perhaps you might be interested in the work of Arthur Jensen who has studied this for many years, unfourtunately his work has been largely ignored or censored by publications due to its highly contraversial (but nonetheless accurate) subject matter.
Simply put, the average Caucasian male is simply not gentically equipped to compete with the large number of Asians out there who are in same fields of study and scholastic advancement. The free-market of education and companies who want only the best and most talented mind have brought about this change in racial composistion.
It's the FP.... how can it be redundant?
Mods...... Mod correctly!
Google runs a developers contest every year, I've seen topical searches come up, so I'm assuming that google already has some ability to do this.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
What A9 does is offer an interesting way of presenting search results. In that way, A9 is almost more of a portal than a search engine in and of itself.
/.ers won't see A9 as a contender to Google because its not truly a search engine. However, Joe User wants something that looks nice, and he might like A9 more than Google because of the way it lets him play around.
Most of us
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Why dont you read about what this man has proven through decades of study before just blatantly modding down? For god's sake, this is a white man himself saying these things, if he can accept his own truths, surely you can too.
I argued that if it was to survive, Netscape needed to imitate Microsoft's strategy: the creation and control of proprietary industry standards. Serenely, Barksdale explained that Netscape actually invited Microsoft to imitate its products, because they would never catch up. The Internet, he said, rewarded openness and nonproprietary standards.
I suspect the characterization of Netscape is a little starry-eyed, but I can't be the only one who thought, "No, that Netscape executive was right!" His point (someone else can argue about how accurate it is), though, is that rewards for "openness and nonproprietary standards" did not go to Netscape: MS trashed them, and in the business world Netscape lost horribly. We (as in the users of the Internet) may have won, but we won at Netscape's expense.
And then:
In contrast, the losers in these contests have usually made one or more common mistakes. They fail to deliver architectures that cover the entire market, to provide products that work on multiple platforms from multiple companies, to release well-engineered products, or to create barriers against cloning. For example, IBM failed to retain proprietary control over its PC architecture and then, in belatedly attempting to recover it, fatally broke with established industry standards. Apple and Sun restricted their operating systems to their own hardware, alienating other hardware vendors. Netscape declined to create proprietary APIs because it thought Microsoft would never catch up.
IBM's opening of the PC architecture is thought of by geeks as A Good Thing: by letting go, they created the market we have today, even though they didn't benefit from it. TFA says IBM lost market dominance as a result. It's interesting that he doesn't address the question of whether the PC architecture would have taken such hold of the market if it had not been opened up to competitors in the first place...but again, what we see as a win for PC users, he presents as a loss for the people who came up with the PC.
It's also interesting that he doesn't explain the contradiction between failing to "create barriers against cloning", and Apple and Sun's "alienating other vendors" by making their OS only work on their own hardware. He needs to pick a side on this one...
Anyhow, no grand point -- just some things that stuck out for me in TFA.
Carousel is a lie!
you read the whole 9 pages. Slow day?
You are right on target. Google has the good policy of keeping a cookie until the year 2038 to identify you. That way, everytime you either search for something, or visit one of the (gazillion) sites with adwords, your id, timestamp and url are written in a tiny little line in one of those 250000 boxes.
With the years, they become like old pals of yours, since they know a good part of your browsing history. They do that in order to serve you the most interesting ads, to improve your internet experience. In ten years, 2014, they will have a whole diary of your browsing experience, quasi a profile of your personal development (online). Again, they need that to serve you the most appropriate ads.
Now let's hope (some: pray) that they stay good. And buttoned up.
I wish they would implement some type of spam filtering for search results.. Ever try searching for a drug? You get like 20 of the same exact webpages when you click on them it brings you to a huge spam site with the words of like 100 drugs all over the page. I find it very annoying nowadays when I goto search for alot of terms and the first 2 pages are completely spam pages with no content on them at all but a bunch of words to move up in googles pagerank
Since the html-ized article is spread across 9 whole page ad-filled pages, maybe you should read the printer friendly page instead.
Software Wars
Gbay!
microsoft just cant stop picking on smaller companies. mozilla, then google. 10 bucks says that sooner or later, MS is going to try to compete with slashdot
One of the links notes from a M$ exec that Gates wants to be known as an inovator and not someone who has made it rich by taking other peoples ideas and making mediocre products out of them... Well, start inovating instead of following everyone around and trying to out do them. Here is one I would love to see for starters -- research and implement one of the best software automated testing tools ever developed and USE it!
That's already happened. I work for a huge company in their research center, and I was told that if you can't find a result in fifteen minutes or less, we have an entire library staff to do it for you. Also, you can put things out on watch and have a staff member give you a monthly report on specific subjects from periodicals and journals. It is quite a nice service and is well worth the staffing costs if it is indeed utilized.
if tomorrow a new site comes up with a better search engine (the way google did in its infancy) and more satisfying results, i don't think it will take time before everyone moves from google to newgle.
jj
Just to show I did RTFA: Content aside, it always, drives me nuts, when people, such as the author, of that story, use way too many commas, in obviously improper locations. Isn't he, supposed, to be, like, a professional writer? It's hard, to take, him seriously.
#DeleteChrome
is a way to search for sites with installation keys and illegal s/w on them.
MS has never been good at search engines. (Who else uses another search engine to search microsoft.com for tech support articles?)
Just wait...I bet we'll see, in little tiny MS fineprint 3pt font, "powered by google" on the new "MS" search engine.
Inject.
The task is called Question Answering. Google does a lot of Information Extraction and retrieves results very well. But other parts of QA include analyzing the question as well as extracting the answer. So, assuming you get many results from your database of relevant documents, you analyze the documents and look for answers within them and then present that to the user.
What some people like to do is Information Browsing and sometimes don't have clear intent or have multiple interests. And sometimes, answering some questions lead to others and so you have Context Question Answering. Research in ongoing in these fields and Google has many highly qualified people working the Natural Language Processing field.
Ask Jeeves first tried this commercially. It's much easier to design a system if you have a given database and know the intended audience (Wall Street Journal archives and the NY Times archives are often used). I say within 5 years, the commerical consumer systems will be much better in handling NLP tasks.
It's shouldn't be the job of humans to rephrase questions, use precise terminology, learn complicated UI to use computers. The computers should know generalizations about humans and then adapt to the users and properly phrase questions in case of ambiguities. Humans can learn, but we can adapt only so much, especially if not trained at an early age. Sure you want to give children some experience with computers, but money would be better spent elsewhere in education, or in research in NLP or UI AI.
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey
No, apparently the switch to the new format is for real, despite the beta tag.
Previously, gg was a tap into usenet, with excellent retention, searchability, and formatting. Google wants wants to "own" usenet, or more properly, co-opt the usenet discussion idiom, by mixing in it's own groups and features in with the usenet stuff. That wouldn't be so bad in itself, except that they've gutted most of the utility of gg in the process. Some business head is in charge of the gg project, not a person that would actually use usenet as a resource, else it'd be apparent to them that they've cut the head off of the best part of google's featureset. Things would have never come down this way.
focus on making money has distracted Google from providing "true" and "unbiased" search...it is getting sicker by day!! i am looking for a "real" search engine
Google had net cash of 608m$ on revenues of 805m$ for the third quarter and a measly market cap of over 50b$.
Just guessing, but people might think of Google in 10 years like they do now about MS. Having 75% of internet visibility at your disposal gives you some power... You could insert any amount of conspiracy as what could happen if you displease them... As a starting point: sliding down 2 or 3 places for a major retailer can hurt significantly. Talk about serious $.
I'm not saying that Yahoo, Msn, Amazon etc. do anything differently, but Google could be the ones with the key assets. Consumer access
The article was previously posted and discussed at slashdot.
while Apple has been demoing the Tiger/Flashlight search? OK the article was MS vs Google, and MacOS 10.4 isn't on the streets yet, so on p.6 we see .pdf streetmap, and another out of a .zip mail attachment. Searches can be directed by context, format, date, etc. I know Apple are notorious for failing to profit from licensing cool technology, but does that make them irrelevant to this article?
Today, a user cannot possibly conduct a search such as "Show me everything about the Chinese economy that has appeared in the last month in my e-mail attachments, Word documents, bookmarked websites, corporate portal, voice mail, or Bloomberg subscription."
and p.7 For instance, if desktop search tools enjoyed deeper access to the internal document structures of Word and Excel, they would be much more useful.
I have seen Flashlight pull one word off a
... "Is" is more. As is evidenced by Google's late venture to catalog library content, information that is potentially good for searching is best marked up at the source -- indexed if you would. Search engines are ultimately bound to fishing under thier original paradigm. I believe it is such that Google sorts results based on how many references a given result has and/or how many other results or pages link to it. Since even that concept is specious, it behooves the search user to "keep the result pool clean": Don't post false or misleading information, and in the face of this reference searching, don't quote specious material! - Steev.
Slashdot should have an automatic post for every 'someone' vs Microsoft story that points out that Microsoft has only two winning products, Windows and Office. They pretty much lose in every other major competitive battle (with the exception of giving stuff away free ala the netscape war). Yes those are two big cash cows but it is a myth that Microsoft can take over whatever it wants.
since web searches are already free Microsoft won't be able to give it away to drive google out. I'm hoping they start paying people to use it.
1. Isn't this familiar?
Tell me if you've heard this one before- upstart company led by a couple of charismatic characters who build a piece of technology that transforms the way we go about doing things....
The big difference is that this time Microsoft may well be a giant with seemingly unlimited resources as opposed to a rising company that toppled Apple rather neatly with a mix of good business and mean business.
Google is Apple this time out- the interface is cool, the engine has become part of the lexicon (can we ever escape Googling?) and anything Microsoft does will not be able to eclipse a tool that is so simple and deceptively powerful. We are just seeing the tip of the iceberg.
2. Whither the Internet in all of this? In such a short time, the public Internet has grown into a web of mind-boggling power and complexity. When considering Google, isn't also important that we consider exactly how seamless the experience of working with the Internet will become in the near future? As I write on a wireless laptop, I know that the machine has become a font of information for me. As I teach, the Internet is an ever-present part of my existence.
I don't think that Microsoft is really a player in this area- we can search with MSN all we like, but Google has a substantial head start, and the brain power is still in force. And, they don't really have to worry about anyone buying it- just consuming it.....
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and let them know how much their project Orkut utterly stinks?
.NET (PHP would be a good choice)
If I was Google I would have those developers all sacked, hire a new agency and have that shitty piece of software all re-written in anything but
Orkut's lameness brings Google such a bad image.
The BETA groups now replaces the old way Google Groups works (worked?), and as most Usenet readers know, there's someone unhappy enough about it to spam their unhappiness to every group.
But someone posted a solution. Just use Google Groups from other English-speaking countries, such as:
http://groups.google.com.au/
Tag lost or not installed.
There was a weekend "Masterminds" program on Court TV...one of the episodes was about Carl Gugasian "The Friday Bank Robber"...I did a search "carl gugasian friday bank robber Court TV" on both Google and Yahoo...Google results did not pick the Court TV episode...I was trying to look for the details of the episode...Yahoo nailed the Court TV result...see for urself by searching the following terms on both Google and Yahoo: carl gugasian friday bank robber Court TV
Ever tried Gmail notifier? (windoze only, unfortunately) It's not quite IM, but it notifies you as soon as an email shows up in your Gmail inbox.
Combine that with near-instant email transmission times, and my emailing tends to be very IM-like, especially with other Gmail users...
C'mon Google! GIM! Like AIM, only better!
This is a nice idea. There is an advantage in that an API would nature a huge ecosystems that would keep google relevant. But there is also a problem, abuse. Lets see how long it take before someone write a M$ window virus that utilize the huge power of google cluster to do havoc. How could they prevent that considering he is already whining that they limit their current API to 1000 querries a day. And does anyone know why he think its a good idea to licence their search algorithm as a fluid software instead of a linux appliance? I can't see any advantage of that
Every single day I see some news on Google, I die a little inside. When their stock went public at around 80 a share, if memory serves, I wished I had about 100 large to invest in them. I Knew they'd do well. Now, about six months later, they've more than doubled their stock value, and still rising. Something like 190 a share. Damn glass ceilings [Need money to make money]. Bitching aside, kudos to Google and it's innovations. Interesting.
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I want to see something along the lines of "google banking" or "google/paypal" with a similar interface as Gmail. It would be great to "lable" new transactions automatically instead of having to enter them into your "quicken-like" program.
I like the idea of archiving the scientific journals. The archiving of the books out of copyright appears to be similar to the guttenberg project though.
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