RealPlayer is a commercial virus. No matter how much they have changed it, no matter if they crawl across broken glass to kiss my feet and beg me, I won't ever install it again!
If my only option for a site serving streaming media is RealPlayer, I will just skip on by and not watch / listen. There are too many alternatives on the web; I can always find somethign as good or better that won't force me to install RealPlayer.
RealPlayer lost my trust a long time ago and there are too many options that are far more consumer-friendly for me to bother to give them a second chance.
I love Linux--but I still use Windows--mostly becasue my favorite apps are still not avaialble on Linux. Porting the Macromedia apps to Linux was one of the last hurdles to moving over completely to Linux. Hurrah!
Sure, you won't get the results you expect if you use bad seach terms!
The writer of this article draws conclusions about "the probelms with Google" but the real problem is that he draws conclusions from examples he derived from really bad search term!
Type in "Apple" and he is shocked that the results for Apple Computer are at the top and the fruit and Fiona Apple are way down the list.
DUH!
Type in "Fiona Apple" or "Apple AND (Tree OR Fruit)" and, surprise surprise, you get A LOT more results that are relevant!
No wonder nobody was willing to pay for Slate subscriptions if this is any indication of the quality of it's reporting.
Doomsayers are rarely correct in predicting doom. My God, how often have we seen doom forcast for almost any product, company, etc.?
Text ads have been show to work and continue to work (although, possibly to a lesser degree after the "novelty" wears off). It's a matter of finding the niche WHERE they work effectively.
Text ads on Google? Love 'em!
Often I use Google to conduct searches for products and services I want to buy. They key word there is WANT. Often, the text ads are more useful to me than the Google search results because (surprise, surprise) they are from companies that WANT to sell that product. What a perfect match! I just go down the list (of ads, not search results) and choose a vendor that has what I want and offers terms I find acceptable.
I give further props to those guys that are clever enough to put an ad in front of me, at the time I want to buy, about a product I want to buy and do it in THE LEAST ANNOYING MANNER POSSIBLE.
I figure they deserve my business for the fact that they are not advertsing in an annoying manner. I will gladly support a smart and non-annoying advertisier with my hard-earned money!
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I guess somebody realized that obscurity might add some security. But if you scroll up somebody has the google cache url...
RealPlayer is a commercial virus. No matter how much they have changed it, no matter if they crawl across broken glass to kiss my feet and beg me, I won't ever install it again!
If my only option for a site serving streaming media is RealPlayer, I will just skip on by and not watch / listen. There are too many alternatives on the web; I can always find somethign as good or better that won't force me to install RealPlayer.
RealPlayer lost my trust a long time ago and there are too many options that are far more consumer-friendly for me to bother to give them a second chance.
Fuhgettaboutit.
I love Linux--but I still use Windows--mostly becasue my favorite apps are still not avaialble on Linux. Porting the Macromedia apps to Linux was one of the last hurdles to moving over completely to Linux. Hurrah!
Sure, you won't get the results you expect if you use bad seach terms!
The writer of this article draws conclusions about "the probelms with Google" but the real problem is that he draws conclusions from examples he derived from really bad search term!
Type in "Apple" and he is shocked that the results for Apple Computer are at the top and the fruit and Fiona Apple are way down the list.
DUH!
Type in "Fiona Apple" or "Apple AND (Tree OR Fruit)" and, surprise surprise, you get A LOT more results that are relevant!
No wonder nobody was willing to pay for Slate subscriptions if this is any indication of the quality of it's reporting.
Doomsayers are rarely correct in predicting doom. My God, how often have we seen doom forcast for almost any product, company, etc.?
Text ads have been show to work and continue to work (although, possibly to a lesser degree after the "novelty" wears off). It's a matter of finding the niche WHERE they work effectively.
Text ads on Google? Love 'em!
Often I use Google to conduct searches for products and services I want to buy. They key word there is WANT. Often, the text ads are more useful to me than the Google search results because (surprise, surprise) they are from companies that WANT to sell that product. What a perfect match! I just go down the list (of ads, not search results) and choose a vendor that has what I want and offers terms I find acceptable.
I give further props to those guys that are clever enough to put an ad in front of me, at the time I want to buy, about a product I want to buy and do it in THE LEAST ANNOYING MANNER POSSIBLE.
I figure they deserve my business for the fact that they are not advertsing in an annoying manner. I will gladly support a smart and non-annoying advertisier with my hard-earned money!