Here are some search results for "Lycos" on other search engines:
Yahoo! of course has a link to their search engine web directory on the bottom of every search page.
Infoseek returns the official Lycos web page as the first hit, but rates it as only 83% relevant.
On AltaVista, the Lycos main page comes in 3rd with the U.K. Lycos and their pagebuilder beating out index.
On MSN, the main Lycos page comes in 1st. Be afraid.
Google: also 1st place.
Excite reports not only the Lycos site, but their address, and current stock quotes.
I guess the results show that only Lycos seems to be doing this, but I'll bet more search engines will follow suit and ignore the others as time passes.
A very interesting topic. I believe that the media is responsible for computer illiteracy to some extent, and it is not confined to movies.
For example, all of DELL's commercials, when they show off their CD-Rom drive, show the CD upside down! If I were new to computers, this would make me think that's the way the computer reads CD's. I wonder how many technical support calls Dell has had that their CD drives don't work-- and it's their own commercials that's giving the customers the wrong idea of how to use them.
There is also a commercial for Excedrin headache medicine, where a woman taps a single key on her keyboard, and suddenly all sorts of warnings come up, and she gets a flashing message saying "You have just deleted all your files." Now this is pretty extreme, but new computer users are very cautious around new technology and these types of portrayals do nothing to prevent techno-phobia.
It would take very little to correct this type of misrepresentation. Why not hire a technical consultant, as a period film would hire a historian? I'm sure the Dell tech guys would appreciate if the commercials showed a CD label side up.
I don't want to go overboard, fantasy is o.k. too, but too few people realize it is just that. Educating the public would not hurt.
BTW- in TheMatrix "neo" tries to kill a terminal session by hitting 'control-x' i was so impressed.;)
Nobody is saying Jobs didn't do those things.. because he did.. more than 10 years ago. He was booted out of Apple, and has since returned. Lots of people had really questioned the move when they asked him back, but he has proven to have turned over a new leaf.. gotten Apple's stock from a 10 year low to an all-time high. What you wrote is only a half-truth, like the fact that the G3's aren't upgradeable. They are. Check out:
http://www.xlr8.com/
XlR8 antipated releasing G4 upgrades to G3 machines shortly. They just have to do a little more software tweeking to get them to work than previous models needed. This does not mean that Apple will not modify the existing ROMs to make it simpler to upgrade.. they respond well to user feeback.. just look at their Open Source Darwin license, which they modified within the first few weeks due to feedback from users.
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Here are some search results for "Lycos" on other search engines:
Yahoo! of course has a link to their search engine web directory on the bottom of every search page.
Infoseek returns the official Lycos web page as the first hit, but rates it as only 83% relevant.
On AltaVista, the Lycos main page comes in 3rd with the U.K. Lycos and their pagebuilder beating out index.
On MSN, the main Lycos page comes in 1st. Be afraid.
Google: also 1st place.
Excite reports not only the Lycos site, but their address, and current stock quotes.
I guess the results show that only Lycos seems to be doing this, but I'll bet more search engines will follow suit and ignore the others as time passes.
Yes, this is a really cheap deal, plus if you use Red Hat linux, you get a discount certificate at Thawte, which saves you even more $.
A very interesting topic. I believe that the media is responsible for computer illiteracy to some extent, and it is not confined to movies.
;)
For example, all of DELL's commercials, when they show off their CD-Rom drive, show the CD upside down! If I were new to computers, this would make me think that's the way the computer reads CD's. I wonder how many technical support calls Dell has had that their CD drives don't work-- and it's their own commercials that's giving the customers the wrong idea of how to use them.
There is also a commercial for Excedrin headache medicine, where a woman taps a single key on her keyboard, and suddenly all sorts of warnings come up, and she gets a flashing message saying "You have just deleted all your files." Now this is pretty extreme, but new computer users are very cautious around new technology and these types of portrayals do nothing to prevent techno-phobia.
It would take very little to correct this type of misrepresentation. Why not hire a technical consultant, as a period film would hire a historian? I'm sure the Dell tech guys would appreciate if the commercials showed a CD label side up.
I don't want to go overboard, fantasy is o.k. too, but too few people realize it is just that. Educating the public would not hurt.
BTW- in TheMatrix "neo" tries to kill a terminal session by hitting 'control-x' i was so impressed.
Nobody is saying Jobs didn't do those things.. because he did.. more than 10 years ago. He was booted out of Apple, and has since returned. Lots of people had really questioned the move when they asked him back, but he has proven to have turned over a new leaf.. gotten Apple's stock from a 10 year low to an all-time high. What you wrote is only a half-truth, like the fact that the G3's aren't upgradeable. They are. Check out:
http://www.xlr8.com/
XlR8 antipated releasing G4 upgrades to G3 machines shortly. They just have to do a little more software tweeking to get them to work than previous models needed. This does not mean that Apple will not modify the existing ROMs to make it simpler to upgrade.. they respond well to user feeback.. just look at their Open Source Darwin license, which they modified within the first few weeks due to feedback from users.