|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted on 07/06/2005 10:47:20 AM PDT by Asphalt
According to a spokesperson from Google, we can soon expect an official Google toolbar for the Firefox web browser. Up until now the only official Google toolbar was for Internet Explorer. Although all of the features provided by the Google toolbar have already been replicated by various Firefox extensions, it is a sign of confidence that search engines are working to make sure their services are functional on the upstart browser. It’s said to be due out tomorrow and will run on Windows 2000/XP as well as Apple OSX 10.2 and Linux 8.0+ (Can somebody who knows what Linux 8.0+ is E-mail and let me know please?) and it has much the same feature set as the Internet Explorer version.
The problem i've run into with that is that after a time, Google and other search engines will not respond with the default toolbar. i've never determined why. My response was to add the extension that adjusted the size of the searchbar, minimise it, and added the Groowe search bar. You can also add and remove engines with Groowe.
My point on Google -
Check their news sources... they actually have Al Jazeera as a NEWS SOURCE. As well as other opinion pieces - which to me aren't news - they are opinion.
I get your point, but one of the complaints against Google is that their bias shows up in how their "hits" are ranked and displayed.
They also use freerepublic do they not?
I have never done a news search and received a Free Republic link.
PS... your attitude is charming - /sarc
First Ping....from the Socialist Party?
Global Warming: G8 can't save the planet
Socialist Party, UK -
... Global warming is now a generally accepted phenomenon, but will the G8 be able to reach agreement over lowering carbon dioxide emissions? ...
From the article
Ex-oil man Bush used a White House official who had previously worked for the American Petroleum Institute to water down research showing the link between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change - he has now gone on to work for Exxon-Mobil. The appointment of a leading climatologist to the Panel on Climate Change has also been blocked. Ex-oil company executive, Dick Cheney, packed an 'Energy Task Force' full of other oil industry executives to engineer new legislation.
BUt if you really want to be a jerk about it..
Here they link free republic as a breaking news source.. My initial point was that many at the mozilla foundation are as far left as people at google, do you dispute that?
Tell me more. There are a very few sites that I must use IE for and I would rather not.
Get it a Mozilla .com?
Or add them yourself. All it takes is dropping a small text file and PNG file in the right place.
There is also corresponding extension that will add a "View in Firefox" option to the context menu in IE. Firefox View
Thanks, did it.
Just do what I do, ignore personal politics of developers, and people involved with software..
I can't speak for DD, but it's not the political inclinations of individual coders I have a problem with; it's the overt left-wing politically-based actions of Google as an institution that I find overbearing.
To my knowledge, the worst example of political bias I've ever seen from the Mozilla/Firefox crowd (heck, the only example) is that the "Firefox Crew Links" (included in the default Bookmarks folder when you first install Firefox, and easily removed in seconds) points to a couple of really liberal sites but no conservative ones. Google, on the other hand, has a long track record of forcing left-wing results onto its users while suppressing even mildly conservative ones.
And unlike with Firefox, where you can just remove the bookmarks you don't like, you can't do anything to reverse Google's actions. If you don't like that they refuse to accept Little Green Footballs as a "legitimate news source" while allowing dozens of hardcore socialist groups and anti-Semitic blogs onto the front page of Google News, there's nothing you can do about it. If you don't like that they'll happily run ads attacking Tom DeLay but refuse identically worded ads attacking Hillary Clinton on the basis that they're "too political", there's nothing you can do about it. You can't even complain, because they respond to all emails with form letters and don't take phone calls. And you can't really take your business elsewhere, because technologically speaking, Google is so far ahead of its competitors in most areas that you'll only be hurting yourself if you stop using them completely. (The few "competing" search engines that come anywhere clse to Google's breadth and functionality all use Google's databases as a starting point.)
So in the end, the only option we have is to keep openly complaining about Google's biases and actions, in the hopes that somewhere, someday, maybe they'll be shamed into cleaning up their act.
Firefox already has a google tool bar. I got it from Firefox website.
It did not work well. The autofill did not come up when I tried to download it. And now I tried to remove it and I can't.
I had weird things happen with no-script, froze my browser and crap. I got rid of it.
*Gasp*
Chode's graphic wasn't in the upper left-hand corner of his post! Did you forget, or stop using it?
That's what I do. 90% of major companies seem to be liberal (coke, pepsi, disney, etc.) So I just forget about it and go with my preference unless there is a good, unbiased option as well.
Google News does not use FR as a news source. (There are plenty of FR hits in the regular Google directory, of course.)
In this one instance, I can't really fault them for not including FR in the News section, since most threads posted here are copied over from other news sites that are tracked by Google News, and FR provides no easy way for a computer to determine which posts are purely original writing (say for example a Congressman Billybob column). They do run DU articles:
Current Google News articles from DU containing the word "Bush"
But DU has an "Articles" section that consists entirely of original commentary (such as it is), and that is the only section of DU that Google News scans and makes available on the Google News pages; they don't put up the DU message board material.
If FR ever started a separate original articles section linked off the front page, we might be able to get them to carry it. But that's a big maybe, given Google News' "we answer to no one" attitude.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I think that is an old Linux...Suse current is 9.3 ....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
