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Google Search By Number

Posted by Zonk on from the google,-where-are-my-car-keys? dept.

fizz writes "Well, Google has done it again. This time, simply enter any tracking number or id number into the Google search box, and Voila! You have a link to the shipper and tracking information. They have a funny little mom/son tech talk bit on the blog about this."

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  1. Little by little by winkydink · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google is becoming the one-stop shop for information. While I know their motto is, "Do no evil", I can't help but feel a little squeamish about it.

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    1. Re:Little by little by WD_40 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I've often wondered how long it's going to take, and how big Google will have to get, before it's considered 'evil' alongside Microsoft in the eyes of geeks.

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    2. Re:Little by little by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful
      It's sort of like how the definition of sci-fi has been twisted to exclude Star Wars.

      Ummmm .... the definition wasn't 'twisted' to exclude Star Wars. That was a literary definition which pre-dated Star Wars -- you know, by people like Asimov and his pre-cursors who were writing sci-fi back in the day. (eg, this or here)

      Star Wars does not attempt to fulfill the role of exploring how technology affects man.

      It is pure and simple Space Opera. Even Lucas will concede that point, as he never tried to make anything else.

      If you took the story of the Alamo, placed it on a moon, and made the technology involved in getting to the moon and fighting the war just simply background, that would not be sci-fi. A literal re-telling of a Shakespeare play in a loosely space-based setting, is not sci-fi.

      The fact that you don't like a definition which is both older than you and doesn't apply to Star Wars is something for you to reconcile.

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