Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the just-a-hundred-years-from-one-point-oh dept.
korc writes
"Looks like Google has gone
from it's rather long alpha stage to Beta. Looks like they
expanded their pages and hey, they're hiring! " Also
amusing to me is that their cached version of Slashdot is
from October. But it is all running on Linux.
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Google vs. Dogpile
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By coincidence, just yesterday I e-mailed the folks over at www.dogpile.com, making the suggestion to include Google as one of the engines they could metasearch.
The feedback was more or less that they acknowledge Google's good press, but that when they had put a load on Google in the past, they (Google) seemed to suffer.
Silly me had forgotten that Google was still alpha.:P
Not All Linux
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AFAIK it is not all run under Linux.
I can't find the technology page anymore, but I remember, that they also use other OSs like Slowlaris.
Python also!
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Google uses another piece of important free software: Python. So also does Infoseek, btw.
Forgot it was still alpha? Yeah, me too :)
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I just had two searches like your "I'll be impressed if..". I needed to know if PCI token ring cards and the S3 Trio3D would work. I put those in (one at a time of course), clicked the I Feel lucky button, and was wisked away to the XFree86 faq and a token ring howto. I had my answers in a couple minutes. Very good job to the Googlers.
Re: Forgot it was still alpha? Yeah, me too :)
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abischof
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>Ever since I came across google. typed in my standard "If they find these I'll be impressed" terms and it returned the right link as number 1 for three of them and as number 2 for the rest, I've been a huge fan.
Ok, I'll bite (byte?;), what are these "benchmark" searches?
So much for "slashdot-like speed"
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Google has been in beta for at least one, maybe two weeks now. And just a few articles ago the submitter talked about slashdot-like speed.
I <heart> Google
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Anonymous Coward
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I have my own "portal" with links to all sorts of stuff, including search engines. Some time ago I figured out that Google was the one I used 90% of the time. I use it so much, in fact, that I have created a little form at the top of the page to submit a Google query.
Google rocks. When can I buy stock in it?
www.python.org
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Anonymous Coward
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is a fine start. O'reilly has a good book or two.
Neat, but ...
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Anonymous Coward
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where can we GET THE SOURCE ? (Couldn't find any references to that on their site!)
Where's Linux
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Anonymous Coward
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Hey, they took the "Linux Search" link off the front page. You have to click "More Google" to get there now.
Sellouts!
No, not really. Just kidding. But I still hate that Romper Room logo.
ignorance must be pure bliss
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Anonymous Coward
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I can't stand people who berate a programming language, especially one that has proved itself over many years.
LANGUAGES ARE JUST TOOLS!
(Much like yourself, so to speak.)
-thomas
More evil than the devil
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Anonymous Coward
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Try this query at google.
python
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Anonymous Coward
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uh, what does this have to do with Google going to Beta? It's pretty moronic to say one programming language is better than another. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Better yet, learn both perl and python, then pick the best tool for each task.
More evil than the devil
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They're # 1 for "evil satan", too...
I tried adding (one at a time) vile, ghastly, terrible, wicked, and horrible, but our favorite corp was nowhere to be found on those lists
I just hope they dont turn to a bloddy Portal
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Anonymous Coward
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Good search engines are getting scarcer everyday, because all they want (Yahoo, Altavista) is not to search the web, and go to other sites, but to stay on theys site, and make them money through advertising and selling your personal information. I just hope google turns out to be just a search engine, and with time they would make their engine better. They would have the edge on search engines, then.
Every now and then someone comes up with an idea that makes you say, "Now why didn't I think of that?" Google is just such an idea. Giving priority to the words used to link to a page from other pages is brilliant, and it works! I quickly dropped hotbot (which I had had the most success with) and now use Google for most of my searches. (I use DejaNews for the rest.) With Hotbot, I used to think I was doing well if the info I wanted was on a page within the first few screens. With Google, I'm disappointed if it's not the #1 hit. Ahh, progress.....
While I join others in hoping that Google doesn't become as butt-ugly as hotbot, I do hope that they can make a ton of money off of this idea. They deserve it. If that means I look at a few ads, so be it.
--
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
Python makes perl look like a pile of dog crap. Perl is the most unstructured mess of a programming language ever created. "Hmm, what else can I throw in this language?". Also Python handles OO style programming MUCH better than perl. Forget perl, teach your children python.
Interesting you should mention google.. I was just there for other reasons, and found a post to the linux-kernel list about a program to recreate partition tables..:)
it's 'fixdisktable' at
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.ht ml
Perl's still more convenient for text processing than Python, because regular expressions are part of the language instead of being in a module, as in Python. But, since there are lots of people who don't do text processing, that's not much of a disadvantage.
Java hackers should take a look at JPython, a 100% Pure Java reimplementation of Python that's an astoundingly cool tool for prototyping and testing Java code.
People interested in the Web should look at the recently freed Zope; the documentation still needs work, and lots, lots more examples, but it's also a very powerful publishing system.
I spend far too much time in the same data center where Google's equipment is housed. They use the same cabinets-o'-PCs that Hotmail uses - with 21 drawers each having a motherboard screwed to it with some RAM and disk drives. Quite dense. I'd love to get some of those cabinets and run Beowulf on them. Anyway, Kingstar makes them -- www.kingstarusa.com.
Been meaning to go back to learning Python... I just have a huge, huge, huge pet peeve with any language that uses indentation as a language construct. I hate Python indentation style!
Well, either live with the prospect of banners, ads, and links-- or start sending money. How else do you expect Google to stick around when everyone flocks to it?\
Hey, filthy zero, stop wasting oxygen. You are a stupid sissy. You booze even more than a butt-licking arse-dweller. Slimy dumbfuck, fuck a failed redneck.
As long as they dont start putting a ton of ads etc etc on their pages, a few doesnt matter but a couple of big time ads would be best, they will be pretty big. I hate using altavista, yahoo and the other search engines because they dont give me the information I need. Also when searching for good linux docs google seems to pull up the most relevant pages. I really like google and I hope they work on getting their search engine even better and then worry about the advertisers. They better not sell out they better stay small and they will be the the top.
I am a Yahoo user (by habit, it was the first and only one that actually gave me what I was looking for, way back when in '95), but I have slowly come around to them. Their "I Feel Lucky" button has save my bacon a couple of times since it can get you to a company's driver page usually on the first go.
I just hope that they get the context menu like the other search engines have. Sometimes I can't really think of what I need and just wandering around in related URLs helps.
Two thumbs up.
Chris
--
Chris
So Buddha walks into a pizza parlor and says:
"Hey, make me one with everything."
Google is now my primary search engine
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Mudhiker
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though I haven't bothered to figure out if Netscape will let me use it for the quicksearch thingy. I started with Yahoo in '96, used metacrawler until it got too much like the other search engines, with ads and fluff. I like the ability to display 100 results at once and it gives me good returns. Also sometimes use altavista for those obcure text string.
-- "I want peace on earth and good will toward men." "We're the U.S. government. We don't do that sort of thing!!"
What's to evolve AFTER Google?
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Maxim
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Open GRiD stands for Open Global Ranking Search Engine and Directory.
The ideas of this project should lead to creation of a distributed architecture for searching, ranking, and categorization, that improves on the good features of Google (and the Open Directory) as to for example provide Google ranks with stabilizing peer-review and evaluation feedback (currently Google uses only positive feedback).
I hope this doesn't mean...
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Dilbert_
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...they`re going to throw in loads of banners, adds and "related" links. One of the more important reasons why I use Google is the speedy way it gets me to the pages I need, without having to wait for all that cr*p to be downloaded. Anyway, Google rules !
Hehe... now that you say it. I've noticed I'm geting up to three hits per minute ! I should have put up some porn banners dammit. I could have been made rich by the $lashdot effect by now:-)
Some fun things to do with Google
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jlowry
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You can find out how important your home page is by looking at the number in the top left corner. The web site I work on scores 61. Slashdot scores 64. Yahoo has the most important page on the internet that I have seen (scores 87). My home page is not indexed yet.
I found what algorigthm Google uses to rate a page by using Google itself to retrieve a page which had been removed from the net but cached by Google's database. It's a nifty system. See http://www.google.com/cache?q=google.stanford.edu/ %7ebackrub/google.html&docid=19591632
Go Google!
-- Alexium - open source software and
articles for web publishers
Slashdot Mirror
By coincidence, just yesterday I e-mailed the folks over at www.dogpile.com, making the suggestion to include Google as one of the engines they could metasearch.
:P
The feedback was more or less that they acknowledge Google's good press, but that when they had put a load on Google in the past, they (Google) seemed to suffer.
Silly me had forgotten that Google was still alpha.
AFAIK it is not all run under Linux.
I can't find the technology page anymore, but I remember, that they also use other OSs like Slowlaris.
Google uses another piece of important free software: Python. So also does Infoseek, btw.
I just had two searches like your "I'll be impressed if..". I needed to know if PCI token ring cards and the S3 Trio3D would work. I put those in (one at a time of course), clicked the I Feel lucky button, and was wisked away to the XFree86 faq and a token ring howto. I had my answers in a couple minutes. Very good job to the Googlers.
Google has been in beta for at least one, maybe two weeks now. And just a few articles ago the submitter talked about slashdot-like speed.
I have my own "portal" with links to all sorts of stuff, including search engines. Some time ago I figured out that Google was the one I used 90% of the time. I use it so much, in fact, that I have created a little form at the top of the page to submit a Google query.
Google rocks. When can I buy stock in it?
is a fine start. O'reilly has a good book or two.
where can we GET THE SOURCE ? (Couldn't find any references to that on their site!)
Hey, they took the "Linux Search" link off the front page. You have to click "More Google" to get there now.
Sellouts!
No, not really. Just kidding. But I still hate that Romper Room logo.
I can't stand people who berate a programming
language, especially one that has proved itself
over many years.
LANGUAGES ARE JUST TOOLS!
(Much like yourself, so to speak.)
-thomas
Try this query at google.
uh, what does this have to do with Google going to Beta? It's pretty moronic to say one programming language is better than another. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Better yet, learn both perl and python, then pick the best tool for each task.
They're # 1 for "evil satan", too...
I tried adding (one at a time) vile, ghastly, terrible, wicked, and horrible, but our favorite corp was nowhere to be found on those lists
Good search engines are getting scarcer everyday, because all they want (Yahoo, Altavista) is not to search the web, and go to other sites, but to stay on theys site, and make them money through advertising and selling your personal information.
I just hope google turns out to be just a search engine, and with time they would make their engine better.
They would have the edge on search engines, then.
Eduardo
Posted by Tanq Tonic:
here is the site to learn up on linux
http://google.stanford.edu/about.html
Every now and then someone comes up with an idea that makes you say, "Now why didn't I think of that?" Google is just such an idea. Giving priority to the words used to link to a page from other pages is brilliant, and it works! I quickly dropped hotbot (which I had had the most success with) and now use Google for most of my searches. (I use DejaNews for the rest.) With Hotbot, I used to think I was doing well if the info I wanted was on a page within the first few screens. With Google, I'm disappointed if it's not the #1 hit. Ahh, progress.....
While I join others in hoping that Google doesn't become as butt-ugly as hotbot, I do hope that they can make a ton of money off of this idea. They deserve it. If that means I look at a few ads, so be it.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
Python makes perl look like a pile of dog crap.
Perl is the most unstructured mess of a programming language ever created. "Hmm, what else can I throw in this language?". Also Python handles OO style programming MUCH better than perl. Forget perl, teach your children python.
Interesting you should mention google.. I was just there for other reasons, and found a post to the linux-kernel list about a program to recreate partition tables.. :)
t ml
it's 'fixdisktable' at
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.h
in case anyone is interested!
Anyway, most things can be found on www.python.org. Many people started off with GvR's tutorial; O'Reilly's "Learning Python" book is currently scheduled for release in April.
Java hackers should take a look at JPython, a 100% Pure Java reimplementation of Python that's an astoundingly cool tool for prototyping and testing Java code.
People interested in the Web should look at the recently freed Zope; the documentation still needs work, and lots, lots more examples, but it's also a very powerful publishing system.
I spend far too much time in the same data center where Google's equipment is housed. They use the same cabinets-o'-PCs that Hotmail uses - with 21 drawers each having a motherboard screwed to it with some RAM and disk drives. Quite dense. I'd love to get some of those cabinets and run Beowulf on them. Anyway, Kingstar makes them -- www.kingstarusa.com.
Been meaning to go back to learning Python... I just have a huge, huge, huge pet peeve with any language that uses indentation as a language construct. I hate Python indentation style!
Well, either live with the prospect of banners, ads, and links-- or start sending money. How else do you expect Google to stick around when everyone flocks to it?\
Lying arse-dweller,
Hey, filthy zero, stop wasting oxygen.
You are a stupid sissy.
You booze even more than a butt-licking arse-dweller.
Slimy dumbfuck, fuck a failed redneck.
Go to hell !
In name of the world
As long as they dont start putting a ton of ads etc etc on their pages, a few doesnt matter but a couple of big time ads would be best, they will be pretty big. I hate using altavista, yahoo and the other search engines because they dont give me the information I need. Also when searching for good linux docs google seems to pull up the most relevant pages. I really like google and I hope they work on getting their search engine even better and then worry about the advertisers. They better not sell out they better stay small and they will be the the top.
I just hope that they get the context menu like the other search engines have. Sometimes I can't really think of what I need and just wandering around in related URLs helps.
Two thumbs up.
Chris
Chris
So Buddha walks into a pizza parlor and says: "Hey, make me one with everything."
though I haven't bothered to figure out if Netscape will let me use it for the quicksearch thingy.
I started with Yahoo in '96, used metacrawler until it got too much like the other search engines, with ads and fluff.
I like the ability to display 100 results at once and it gives me good returns. Also sometimes use altavista for those obcure text string.
"I want peace on earth and good will toward men." "We're the U.S. government. We don't do that sort of thing!!"
Open GRiD stands for Open Global Ranking Search Engine and Directory.
The ideas of this project should lead to creation of a distributed architecture for searching, ranking, and categorization, that improves on the good features of Google (and the Open Directory) as to for example provide Google ranks with stabilizing peer-review and evaluation feedback (currently Google uses only positive feedback).
...they`re going to throw in loads of banners, adds and "related" links. One of the more important reasons why I use Google is the speedy way it gets me to the pages I need, without having to wait for all that cr*p to be downloaded. Anyway, Google rules !
superblog.org: all your favourite blogs on o
Hehe... now that you say it. I've noticed I'm geting up to three hits per minute ! I should have put up some porn banners dammit. I could have been made rich by the $lashdot effect by now :-)
superblog.org: all your favourite blogs on o
You can find out how important your home page is by looking at the number in the top left corner. The web site I work on scores 61. Slashdot scores 64. Yahoo has the most important page on the internet that I have seen (scores 87). My home page is not indexed yet.
/ %7ebackrub/google.html&docid=19591632
I found what algorigthm Google uses to rate a page by using Google itself to retrieve a page which had been removed from the net but cached by Google's database. It's a nifty system. See http://www.google.com/cache?q=google.stanford.edu
Go Google!
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