Their ranking order is algorithmically unbiased. If the search has an answer that google can provide inline (movie showtimes, stock prices, math), it shows that result first. It only shows it once and you have to ask it exactly the right way (unlike bing, which always adds its link).
With google instant, it doesn't even push you toward the "google" question. For example, the get the calculator answer, you must search for "2 degrees celsius in farenheit". With instant on, "2 degrees c" will suggest "2 degrees celsius" first. That won't give you the google calculator answer. After that, it will suggest "2 degrees celsius farenheit" (which won't get you the calculator answer either.
Once you have asked a question that google has the answer to in one of its database, it tells you the answer. They don't hide this and it's fully documented: http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/
Ok, you've convinced me. This is a horrible injustice. From now on, when I search for a movie currently playing, I want a bunch of links that may or may not have showtimes first. I want a search engine to obscure my results. Just because google probably has the correct answer because they've developed services designed to answer specific questions doesn't mean they should be allowed to use them.
Actually, google does not *always* put their results first. There is a google page with reviews for "the social network," but if you search for "the social network reviews," you don't get the google result. You get the google result first when it is the right answer. Bing, however, will always give you their page first.
If you search for a stock ticker, you will get the current quote and a chart. On google, you will also get a link to "Google Finance," "Yahoo Finance," "MSN Money," "DailyFinance," "CNN Money," and "Reuters". Other than the order, these are all top-line results linked in the first result just above the chart. On bing, you get the quote and the chart (from bing). You don't get *any* offsite links in the first result.
The purpose of a search engine is to provide answers. In 1990, the way they provided answers was to find a link to the site that had the answer. Since it's obvious that people want the answer, google enhanced their service to provide the answer first. It's always obvious when they are showing their widget and it is exactly what everyone wants and expects.
Bing saw this was what people wanted as well, and they copied the idea (and also removed offsite links from their first result and made sure the bing result really did show up first, even when it wasn't the correct result).
If I search for "the social network" on bing, I get showtimes from bing (and the comma trick doesn't even work there). Showtimes (and not a link to another page with showtimes) is *always* the most relevant result when the search is the name of a movie currently playing. If I search for "the social network reviews" the google result doesn't come up at all and the top results are from another site. On bing, that search still just returns their showtimes widget.
If my search is for something that can be calculated, the top result should *always* be the answer, and not a link to a table or formula. And, again, it's the exact same thing bing does.
In addition to the show times appearing as part of the first result are the words "Trailer" and "Reviews". If you want a review, click "review". If you have google instant on, it will actually suggest you add "review" as a key word (and you only need to type "r" to see the review links).
If, instead, you stick with "the social network" and you follow the main link, it will tell you the main cast as well as offer you a link to imdb. If that's too far, the second link is the imdb page.
Searching for "3 degrees f in c" will bring up the google calculator as the first result and it will tell me the exact answer I'm looking for. If I use the trick of adding a comma to the end of my search string, the top result has a table with some conversion results (but it doesn't have the exact answer there).
I don't think I'd call it "bias" if the search engine is able to determine that I'm asking a question with a specific answer and it can provide me the exact answer.
At some point between 2144 and 2154, Arik Soong was able to open all the locks in the San Francisco prison he was being held at using just a PADD. After this incident, he was only allowed to use paper when sketching and writing his ideas.
PADDs were usually only used exactly the same way paper is
Not! From the article:
But PADDs were much more powerful than electronic note pads. "We realized that with the networking capabilities we had postulated for the ship, and given the [hypothetical] flexibility of the software, you should be able to fly the ship from the PADD," Okuda said.
They pay for delivery (which also pays for gas) and they pay federal taxes. And on the other hand, they don't have buildings or employees in those states.
Plus, netflix sells you a plan that is limited only by how often you can get mail. If you can't get mail on Saturday, that's one less DVD they have to send you. Amazon, on the other hand, gets paid for every package they send you.
Sorry, forgot my tag. I don't really have a problem with nudity (cartoon or otherwise). I was just commenting on the fact that our right-leaning AG is so opposed to nudity but doesn't see any problem with that phrase on the seal. "Death to tyrants" is fine, except that "tyrant" has been a bit overused (Cuccinelli previously believed that Obama was born in Kenya).
It's also useful to consider the phrase in context, and given that VA was the capital of the rebellion and still celebrates Lee-Jackson Day, it's a pretty insensitive in this context. Maybe not as insensitive as Maryland's state song which explicitly praises Lincoln's assassination, but y'know, still a bit insensitive.
The motto on the Great Seal of Virginia is "Sic Semper Tyrannis". It means "thus always to yyrants" and was attributed to Brutus after stabbing Caesar and was also what John Wilkes Booth said after murdering Lincoln. Timothy McVeigh was wearing the motto (with a picture of Lincoln, not the VA seal) when we was arrested.
That (now) hateful phrase remains on the seal, but at least the cartoon titty is gone.
Ah, that's clear then. Private contractors working on behalf of the government are clearly allowed to retain copyrights (although they give full credit to "The Whitehouse").
Presumably at least a few enterprise customers have enough brains to internally test updates before rolling them out. I expect McAfee doesn't consider those customers "affected".
There's no requirement that work done by the Federal Government has to be published or released. Unreleased code can be classified or avoid FOIA for various reasons, but it cannot be protected by copyright.
In this case, they actually did release code and they attached a copyright notice to it. They don't have to publish it, but if they do, they can't copyright it either.
The GPL requires copyright ownership, but work done by the Federal Government can not be copyrighted. I looked at a couple of the modules and they all include GPL v2 license. Shouldn't they be public domain?
This being/., I guess I shouldn't even ask if you RTFA. Here, try this:
It's probably the largest crime to be tracked via Google Maps so far, and, if successful, it will act as a blueprint for future three-way collaborations between law enforcers, the fourth estate, and the public.
It is HOSTED by the media. The data was PROVIDED by "the authorities". What was your complaint again?
So EFF shouldn't be asking for balanced copyright laws, they should be asking for the complete abolition of all copyright (and willing to settle for a rational policy).
Xinhua is state run, so accusing a google of being a puppet of the government is kind of silly. Anyways, Chinese propaganda used to be a lot like the USSR's Pravda or KNCA today, but it's not quite that extreme anymore. That probably makes it more effective. I mean, don't people begin to catch on after 50 years of weekly "the west will experience nuclear armageddon at our hands" rants?
"The matchless fighting spirit of the leader, who continued the forced march of high intensity to vibrant hard-fought fields for an upsurge throughout the year, burning his heart with noble love of his country and fellow people, gave free rein to the mental strength of all the service personnel and people and worked world-startling miracles across the country." -- KCNA, http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2010/201001/news01/20100101-08ee.html
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Their ranking order is algorithmically unbiased. If the search has an answer that google can provide inline (movie showtimes, stock prices, math), it shows that result first. It only shows it once and you have to ask it exactly the right way (unlike bing, which always adds its link).
With google instant, it doesn't even push you toward the "google" question. For example, the get the calculator answer, you must search for "2 degrees celsius in farenheit". With instant on, "2 degrees c" will suggest "2 degrees celsius" first. That won't give you the google calculator answer. After that, it will suggest "2 degrees celsius farenheit" (which won't get you the calculator answer either.
Once you have asked a question that google has the answer to in one of its database, it tells you the answer. They don't hide this and it's fully documented: http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/
Ok, you've convinced me. This is a horrible injustice. From now on, when I search for a movie currently playing, I want a bunch of links that may or may not have showtimes first. I want a search engine to obscure my results. Just because google probably has the correct answer because they've developed services designed to answer specific questions doesn't mean they should be allowed to use them.
Actually, google does not *always* put their results first. There is a google page with reviews for "the social network," but if you search for "the social network reviews," you don't get the google result. You get the google result first when it is the right answer. Bing, however, will always give you their page first.
If you search for a stock ticker, you will get the current quote and a chart. On google, you will also get a link to "Google Finance," "Yahoo Finance," "MSN Money," "DailyFinance," "CNN Money," and "Reuters". Other than the order, these are all top-line results linked in the first result just above the chart. On bing, you get the quote and the chart (from bing). You don't get *any* offsite links in the first result.
The purpose of a search engine is to provide answers. In 1990, the way they provided answers was to find a link to the site that had the answer. Since it's obvious that people want the answer, google enhanced their service to provide the answer first. It's always obvious when they are showing their widget and it is exactly what everyone wants and expects.
Bing saw this was what people wanted as well, and they copied the idea (and also removed offsite links from their first result and made sure the bing result really did show up first, even when it wasn't the correct result).
If I search for "the social network" on bing, I get showtimes from bing (and the comma trick doesn't even work there). Showtimes (and not a link to another page with showtimes) is *always* the most relevant result when the search is the name of a movie currently playing. If I search for "the social network reviews" the google result doesn't come up at all and the top results are from another site. On bing, that search still just returns their showtimes widget.
If my search is for something that can be calculated, the top result should *always* be the answer, and not a link to a table or formula. And, again, it's the exact same thing bing does.
> what if I just wanted to read some reviews?
In addition to the show times appearing as part of the first result are the words "Trailer" and "Reviews". If you want a review, click "review". If you have google instant on, it will actually suggest you add "review" as a key word (and you only need to type "r" to see the review links).
If, instead, you stick with "the social network" and you follow the main link, it will tell you the main cast as well as offer you a link to imdb. If that's too far, the second link is the imdb page.
Searching for "3 degrees f in c" will bring up the google calculator as the first result and it will tell me the exact answer I'm looking for. If I use the trick of adding a comma to the end of my search string, the top result has a table with some conversion results (but it doesn't have the exact answer there).
I don't think I'd call it "bias" if the search engine is able to determine that I'm asking a question with a specific answer and it can provide me the exact answer.
Sounds so good, I wish I had two!
And the bubbles are on a track. Can you even pass a slower-moving Schweeb?
Source: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD (this is first link in TFA).
Not! From the article:
It's 100% death proof. But to get the benefit of it, you really need to be sitting in the driver's seat.
BlackBerries do the same.
They pay for delivery (which also pays for gas) and they pay federal taxes. And on the other hand, they don't have buildings or employees in those states.
Plus, netflix sells you a plan that is limited only by how often you can get mail. If you can't get mail on Saturday, that's one less DVD they have to send you. Amazon, on the other hand, gets paid for every package they send you.
Sorry, forgot my tag. I don't really have a problem with nudity (cartoon or otherwise). I was just commenting on the fact that our right-leaning AG is so opposed to nudity but doesn't see any problem with that phrase on the seal. "Death to tyrants" is fine, except that "tyrant" has been a bit overused (Cuccinelli previously believed that Obama was born in Kenya).
It's also useful to consider the phrase in context, and given that VA was the capital of the rebellion and still celebrates Lee-Jackson Day, it's a pretty insensitive in this context. Maybe not as insensitive as Maryland's state song which explicitly praises Lincoln's assassination, but y'know, still a bit insensitive.
The motto on the Great Seal of Virginia is "Sic Semper Tyrannis". It means "thus always to yyrants" and was attributed to Brutus after stabbing Caesar and was also what John Wilkes Booth said after murdering Lincoln. Timothy McVeigh was wearing the motto (with a picture of Lincoln, not the VA seal) when we was arrested.
That (now) hateful phrase remains on the seal, but at least the cartoon titty is gone.
Ah, that's clear then. Private contractors working on behalf of the government are clearly allowed to retain copyrights (although they give full credit to "The Whitehouse").
Presumably at least a few enterprise customers have enough brains to internally test updates before rolling them out. I expect McAfee doesn't consider those customers "affected".
There's no requirement that work done by the Federal Government has to be published or released. Unreleased code can be classified or avoid FOIA for various reasons, but it cannot be protected by copyright.
In this case, they actually did release code and they attached a copyright notice to it. They don't have to publish it, but if they do, they can't copyright it either.
The GPL requires copyright ownership, but work done by the Federal Government can not be copyrighted. I looked at a couple of the modules and they all include GPL v2 license. Shouldn't they be public domain?
> And if they do nothing, call the media.
This being /., I guess I shouldn't even ask if you RTFA. Here, try this:
It is HOSTED by the media. The data was PROVIDED by "the authorities". What was your complaint again?
> Leave it to the authorities
Yeah, they're doing such a great job...
So EFF shouldn't be asking for balanced copyright laws, they should be asking for the complete abolition of all copyright (and willing to settle for a rational policy).
PS: Your shift key broken or something?
What if you are a Nielson family in an undesirable demographic?
> Besides the obvious: what's your name, race and address there are no other questions.
There's this question:
Xinhua is state run, so accusing a google of being a puppet of the government is kind of silly. Anyways, Chinese propaganda used to be a lot like the USSR's Pravda or KNCA today, but it's not quite that extreme anymore. That probably makes it more effective. I mean, don't people begin to catch on after 50 years of weekly "the west will experience nuclear armageddon at our hands" rants?
"The matchless fighting spirit of the leader, who continued the forced march of high intensity to vibrant hard-fought fields for an upsurge throughout the year, burning his heart with noble love of his country and fellow people, gave free rein to the mental strength of all the service personnel and people and worked world-startling miracles across the country." -- KCNA, http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2010/201001/news01/20100101-08ee.html