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A Peek at Personalized Google

Posted by timothy on from the must-resist-comment-about-evil dept.

Seoulstriker writes "Sci-tech Today is describing how Google will be offering customized homepages as seen here. Is this one step closer to Google becoming a web portal like Yahoo? Although it is not currently in Beta, it is only available through the Google Labs site. It definitely doesn't look like Yahoo yet, but I don't want my search site to be any more cluttered than it is now."

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  1. Google by XanC · · Score: 5, Funny
    They just seem to be everybody's best friend. Google can do no wrong!

    I just hope they don't execute Order 66...

    1. Re:Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Clearly this is a violation of DCMA... ;)
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    2. Re:Google by PsychicX · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm so confused:
      Google
      Yahoo

  2. You know it's a dupe when... by The+Hobo · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of the links on the story shows up darker than the rest. (For those who don't get it, firefox shows visited slashdot links as darker)

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    1. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by pdbaby · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know it's slashdot when we rely on our browser first to tell us that the story's a dupe before we bother using our memories

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    2. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by justforaday · · Score: 4, Funny

      I restarted my computer between that story and this one, so it's not in my memory anymore...

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    3. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by nokilli · · Score: 2, Funny

      And what is especially dispiriting about this dupe is that I submitted a completely different story about Google yesterday and it gets rejected.

      I don't know, maybe my story wasn't really very relevant. You tell me. Google is tracking which search results you click on now. This is new, right? I don't know whether this is necessarily an invasion of privacy or anything, but it seems to be something they should have been more upfront about.

      "Don't be evil" is slowly morphing into "It's OK to be just a little evil."

    4. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      >For those who don't get it, firefox shows visited slashdot links as darker

      Welcome to the World Wide Web.
      Let me show you around a bit. Over here we have what we call a "Hyperlink". A hyperlink has a number of features.
      Hyperlinks are usually underlined, and usually a different colour to the rest of the text (blue by convention, unless the web site design specifies otherwise)
      When you click on a hyperlink, you web browser will take you to the page it references.
      If you have already been to that page, the hyperlink will be a different colour to one that refers to a page you have not visited (purple by convention or sometimes red, depending on the browser, unless the web site design specifies otherwise).

      This is standard behaviour in all graphical web browsers, and has been since HTML was invented, around about 15 years ago. I appreciate that you probably weren't born then, and so therefore may think this is a new feature, or one limited to Firefox.

    5. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Welcome to the World Wide Web.
      Let me show you around a bit. Over here we have what we call a "Hyperlink". A hyperlink

      Welcome indeed. Nice to see he got a simple explanation instead of rude barbs from some condescending pedant. Oh wait...

    6. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by ginotech · · Score: 4, Funny

      Welcome to Slashdot...over here we have a pedant...and over there, too...and there. oh wait, there's another one.

    7. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by Compact+Dick · · Score: 2, Funny


      Do other people find jokes in the parent funnier when the Oh wait.. is left out?

      Yes!

      Oh, wait...

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  3. Cluttered search engine? How about crap editors? by furiousgeorge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would you want it cluttered enough so it could spot the dupe story? I could see that being useful to the lazy editors.

  4. They already are one step closer by HG2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://yagoohoogle.com/

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  5. How long until... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We get personalized Slashdot dupes?

  6. Slashdot... by dj245 · · Score: 2, Funny

    News by Timothy. Stuff that matters... to timothy

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  7. Google-Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "They just seem to be everybody's best friend. Google can do no wrong!"

    I'm still waiting for my blowjob.

  8. How I love thee, Google... by Wyellbee · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow, that's pretty spiffy. I just hope they do something about how cluttered it looks and how uneven the boxes are. Coming soon: Google Bongos! Practice this beloved African instrument from the comfort of your own computer. Fully customizable, the colour of the bongos changes automatically with your mood and interests!

  9. Wow by pHatidic · · Score: 3, Funny

    I certainly hope the word of the day is harder than 'aficionado' in the future. I think word of the day should come in four difficulty settings:

    1. Unwashed Masses
    2. Smarter than average
    3. I'm a fucking genius
    4. I read /.

    1. Re:Wow by ucblockhead · · Score: 4, Funny

      (4) should go between (1) and (2)

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    2. Re:Wow by uchi · · Score: 4, Funny

      Since when are /. readers and "unwashed masses" not one in the same? I could have swore that being unwashed was part of the conditions you agreed to by reading this site.

    3. Re:Wow by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Funny
      4. I read /.
      In other words, the non-fucking geniuses.
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  10. Re:Dupe! by metlin · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Dupe anyone ???!?!

    Oh yeah, the Slashdot Editors dupe us on all days and twice on Sundays.

  11. Google should help Slashdot with a technology by melted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google should help Slashdot with a technology that would help filter out ridiculous dupes like this one.

  12. Re:Fixing dupes... by Sparr0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, because that worked so well with the US patent system :)

  13. The comment on evil by cspring007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, google is either perfect or really really evil.
    Not the big blundering stupid kind of evil that microsoft is, but the creepy really really bad kind of evil.
    Like the kind of evil in that story 'event horizon' where everyone rips their eyes out.

    ...or they are just really really good at internet programming

  14. Re:Dupe! by ucblockhead · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be new here. The rule is that each editor submits his own version of the story.

    They found that this was a lot easier than actually reading their own site.

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  15. Re:Dupe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not fair... that implies timothy knows how to read!

  16. Re:So.... by Gentlewhisper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Complaining earns you karma and it makes you look smart. I know that's why I do it. Heh.

    Yeh, it gives you the big penis kinda feeling eh?

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