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Google Seeking "Search Without Search"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pre-emptive-sandwiches-next dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Forget Google Instant, the search giant is working on ways to push relevant info to users before they have even asked for it... Foursquare-style location 'check-ins' are also apparently on the way next year."

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  1. I remember by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When Altavista and other search engines (many names I cannot remember) were pushing crap on our search screens. You had a hell of a time finding anything between the paid ads (that were not marked as such) and the sites that gamed the search engine.

    Google came along with the smallest footprint and the best algorithm. Fast forward 15 years and Google is more about the cute google art, gawdy gadgets and tracking your every move. And over the past couple years, I find more gamed sites making it into my search results. It has been slow, but Google is turning into the companies they replaced.

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    1. Re:I remember by Amorymeltzer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's the natural order of things, whether for a company or for people. They want to waltz in, change everything radically, then settle down and grow old with their affluence. "If you want to know what is going to happen to the youngest generation, they're going to grow up and worry about the youngest generation."

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  2. Re:42 by IAmGarethAdams · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh yeah and as a bonus if you don't run Google's JS you get the actual URLs of the search results and not some redirection server that helps to track you.

    Yeah, I really hate it when a company looking to improve search results tries to find out which search results the user ends up choosing!

  3. Here's a feature i want: FIND by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, Google, have you looked at your search results lately? It's getting so I can't find anything relevant amongst all the garbage. Maybe this is because the internet is turning into a morass of crap, but I don't think it is. I think it's because SEO have figured out how to game your results, and all I can find with simple keyword or phrases is useless. Do a better job of filtering out crap so I can actually find something useful.

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