Posted on 03/09/2015 8:36:25 AM PDT by rktman
Let’s go back to the beginning of Google. The word itself is actually an error. The word the infant geeks who founded Google were looking for was “Googol,” the mathematicians’ term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes – a very large number. And have they corrected their mistake? No.
Google execs like to claim the corporation was founded in a garage. No, it wasn’t. The truth is, it was founded in a swank suburban villa on a leafy street. There was a garage attached, and the geeks set up a couple of old computers in there and typically spent one day a month there so that they could later claim Google was just another trad Silicon-valley start-up.
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I love a good Gargoyle bashing story ;’)
Both google and wikipedia are good for find information on non-controversial items, but that’s about it. I use both frequently for info for technical issues.
stopped using Google some time ago. I use Bing, as I like their pictures.
And the alternative?
In many cases (like when you want fast, up-to-date info), there is virtually no alternative.
Wingspan of the Space Shuttle? Number of ceramic tiles on its underside? Unusual features discovered on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres last week? Production of wheat last year in India? List of U.S. states with no state income tax? No. of base pairs in the genome of the Monarch Butterfly? List of land-locked countries?
Twenty years ago, you couldn't have found out all those things without access to a good, open-stack library - and even then, it might have literally taken minutes.
Today, with Wikipedia...
Regards,
I use google because they don’t have ads on their page,, and only for that reason...
Im still pissed I had to sign up for google account when I bought an android phone... ‘effers...
Whole bunch of secure competitors like Startpage, DuckDuckGo, etc.
No reason to let the overpaid twinkies at the ‘plex look up yer shorts.
I loved the quote about wackypedia in Monckton’s piece: “the encyclopedia that any idiot can edit but only a cretin would credit.”
The New World Currency will have “In Google We Trust”.
They appear to be hypocrites (sometimes naive ones at that) who wouldn't know what evil was if it slapped them in the face.
I do the same thing at those sites. But I VERY rarely use Google anymore. I rely on Ixquick.
YUP.
I eliminated everything I know to be associated with (big government) Google off my computer.
I use DuckDuck Go for searches.
And I REALLY like your tagline!
What’s a “goole”?
I hate google and gmail! Spy agencies for their advertisers! Before that big East Coast storm, I sent a gmail to a friend advising him to get a home generator. Next time I went to a news site, like five minutes after the email, the whole right side of the page was filled with ads for home generators.
I use IxQuick. No cookies. No tracking your IP. Private.
Barney Google song:
Who’s the most important man this country ever knew?
Do you know what politician I have reference to?
Well, it isn’t Mr. Bryan, and it isn’t Mr. Hughes.
I’ve got a hunch that to that bunch I’m going to introduce:
(Again you’re wrong and to this throng I’m going to Introduce:)
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google bet his horse would win the prize.
When the horses ran that day, Spark Plug ran the other way.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google had a wife three times his size
She sued Barney for divorce
Now he’s living with his horse
Who’s the greatest lover that this country ever knew?
And who’s the man that Valentino takes his hat off to?
No, it isn’t Douglas Fairbanks that the ladies rave about.
When he arrives, who makes the wives chase all their husbands
out?
Why, it’s Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google is the guy who never buys.
Women take him out to dine, then he steals the waiter’s dime.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google is the luckiest of guys.
If he fell in to the mud, he’d come up with a diamond stud.
Barney Google with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Who’s the greatest fire chief this country ever saw?
Who’s the man who loves to hear the blazing buildings roar?
Anytime the house is burning, and the flames leap all about,
Say, tell me do, who goes, “kerchoo!” and puts the fire out?
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google, thought his horse could win the prize.
He got odds of ten to eight; Spark Plug came in three days late.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
Barney Google tried to enter paradise.
When Saint Peter saw his face, he said, “Go to the other place”.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes
The sad part is that EVERYTHING ends up going through IE. At least it looks that way to me when I do a disk clean up. I never use it directly but during the clean up there is/are tons of stuff “cleaned” from IE. Insidious windows stuff. Linux? Apple? Guess we just do the best we can before net neutering kicks in. :>}
LOL! “Wingspan of the Space Shuttle? Number of ceramic tiles on its underside?”. You could ask some of us here on FRepublic. Of course I’d have to dig out my Space Shuttle users manual/guide. :>}
Up to dateness might be iffy. Does the landlocked country list include the split between Upper and Lower Buffoonia last week? Ok, the article containing it might have been touched since. But that was an unrelated edit about East and West Circosity.
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