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.
They appear to be hypocrites (sometimes naive ones at that) who wouldn't know what evil was if it slapped them in the face.
What’s a “goole”?
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
I tried googling google once. Apparently I started an infinite recursion loop that ended up crashing all the computers in Newfoundland. To this day i still get occasional death threats from IT guys in St. Johns.
=^)
CC
Would I trust what Wikipedia had to say about Ronald Reagan ... NO! Would I trust what it has to say about the flight speed of an African swallow? ... Probably so.
As a point, the name is based on a play on word of “Googol,” but also of “googly,” which meant to have wide eyes, as one who stares in amazement has.
They must have run out of money. When I google "monckton video", the first thing that comes up is the 95-minute complete speech. The second thing that comes up is the 4-minute excerpt he refers to in the article.