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Google is clearly useful in searching for stuff, though other search engines are almost as good.
Facebook got me the email addresses of some long-lost relatives.
Google is clearly useful in searching for stuff, though other search engines are almost as good.
Google has lost it as research tool of any use, beyond the usual suspect sites.
Wiki, YouTube, Movie database all other results beyond that are every online and brick and mortar with phish links to their sites. Even if you are searching for information on a 1972 Ford Pinto, the Google results assures me I can buy a brands spanking new one from Best Buy or Amazon. And any one of the myriad cloned affiliate sites.
Google has lost it as research tool of any use, beyond the usual suspect sites.
http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html
If you haven't used it, you'll find it under the "more" dropdown menu
Marcus if you don't know what I mean, then just say so.
Perhaps you never really used Google, you just took the first link in the list for granted all of these years.
I partly understand what you mean. But regarding your statement about research, I was just pointing out that there is the "scholar option" for people doing serious research using google.
I think searching could possibly be more effective, but a lot has to do with the people who make webpages. Isn't it their responsibility to put the keyowrd tags on the page and to do whatever they can to optimize their search ranking. I guess getting it linked from other places helps, and that there are other things people do to optimize the search rank. MAybe it's the commercialization of that process that bothers you.
MEanwhile, I know that google has their own algorithms for identifying articles and so on, given topics or search terms.
Here let's try, I'll do a google search on "housing, shadow inventory." A lot of articles came up. Not too bad.
I know that in the technical world newsgroups are going to be FAR better for discussing cutting edge technologies and so on, but those are user groups (discussion oriented). For what it's supposed to be, I am not that down on google .
What is your preferred method to find articles from periodicals on a given topic. Library search engines ?
What is your preferred method to find articles from periodicals on a given topic. Library search engines ?
I guess knowledge is power, and GOP doesn't want to share his methods, lest he lose his big edge.
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Shares of the search giant tanked 10% Thursday in after-hours trading, after Google reported quarterly profit and sales that rose from year-ago results but badly missed Wall Street's forecasts.
And...
THAT was THAT!
Perhaps they've hit their ceiling.
I get the feeling Facebook is getting there too.
What is your preferred method to find articles from periodicals on a given topic. Library search engines ?
I guess knowledge is power, and GOP doesn't want to share his methods, lest he lose his big edge.
Ah crap I'm sorry Marcus, I didn't see your reply.
I type shit in the text bar and hit enter.
I'm not looking for insight from academia in the searches I'm speaking of. But more from user groups, and vanity pages where someone posts a wealth of knowledge about a topic they are passionate about.
It could very well be, that with Social Networks being the flavor of the month. Those style of page I was speaking about, don't exist anymore. People are do busy hooking a piezo magnetic pick up to their sphincter to send out Tweets every time they fart. Perhaps the coolness of just being able to do that in first place, trumps any desire to actually write a blog on how they actually managed to create their homemade rig.
Then perhaps, 15 years later, those folks early on, that found the internet an invaluable place to forever archive their knowledge for prosperity, have died knowing they left their legacy. Then Irony kicked, and nobody was left to pay the hosting bill, and their directory was whipped clean, and Ratemypoo.com was placed their instead.
Perhaps we've finally figured out to use the internet.
Welcome to Network Television 2.0.
Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn’t hand over at all, but that was collected from other people’s contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that I’ve come to call “shadow contact information.” I managed to place an ad in front of Alan Mislove by targeting his shadow profile. This means that the junk email address that you hand over for discounts or for shady online shopping is likely associated with your account and being used to target you with ads.
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed something strange was happening to my Google Chrome web browser. Where Chrome had always allowed me to browse the internet as an anonymous user, suddenly my browser had signed itself into my Google account. A bit of investigation (and a visit to a nerd forum) pointed me to the cause: Chrome had logged itself in after I visited my Gmail account.
The change in Chrome’s behavior, it turns out, was not a bug. It’s part of a new technical “feature” in the browser called “identity consistency between browser and cookie jar.” Despite the gritty technical name of the feature, it represents a truly fundamental change in the way Chrome works. For the first 10 years of Chrome’s existence, Chrome was simply a typical web browser. You had the option to sign the browser into Google—and thus take advantage of Google’s many data-sharing and cloud-synchronization options—but you never had to. In the stroke of an update, the sign-in became mandatory: If you happened to visit a Google property, the browser would attach itself to your Google account.
America needs SKULLFUCKBOOK!, an app that works 24/7 to enroll synthetic personalities and pump them full of plausible, persona-specific transactions and searches at a rate of 100,000 new personalities per minute, until Facebook and Google ads are statistically worthless.
Pat, tell me now. Are you ready to face down Larry and Serge and Zuckfuck in your drive way with M134?
The first few suggestions when I registered for a new Twitter Account selecting only "Politics" coming in from a VPN in Miami.
The top three: Maddow, Nate Silver, Krugman. NO Conservatives, Not even Fox News or Limbaugh. Only Liberals. Even Obama but not the current POTUS.
Executive Order: Any companies with a contract to hold US Government material on any server can only censor criminal behavior of US citizen users.
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Both Facebook and Google have way too much power. They know who we know and can censor what we see.
Are there any viable decentralized ways to accomplish the same functionality as Facebook and Google?
Bittorrent is a good model, I think. Just keeps popping up and they can't squash it yet, though SOPA is definitely intended to.