Posted on 06/15/2008 7:10:55 AM PDT by WilliamReading
"If you're going to choose to commemorate some really quite bizarre occasions, and never, never in their history, never once commemorating Memorial Day, which is a very significant holiday in the United States, I think that says something about who Google is," says WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah. "By the way," he adds, "I like Google's product. I wish there were another company out there that didn't make me sick to my stomach."
Indeed, the blowback against Google just underscores how ubiquitous and powerful the company has become. Google now accounts for more than 60 percent of all online searches conducted in the United States, and whenever any company grows this indispensable, it seems to acquire a quasi-public quality, as if it has an obligation to make official pronouncements on behalf of the American people. In many ways, Google's quirky coders are still struggling to understand the ramifications of the company's global dominance. When Hwang posted a Thanksgiving doodle with fall colors one year, for example, he got endless e-mails from users in the Southern Hemisphere, who pointed out that they were in the middle of spring, in case he hadn't noticed. "We've never been able to keep everybody happy," he says.
Saturday is Flag Day. Will Google do right by America and stand up for Old Glory? Hwang won't say. "The randomness is very important to us," he says. "Otherwise it wouldn't be any fun." You can be sure the right will be watching.
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Use Live.com!
I’ve never understood the attraction of Google... I’ve always used the Yahoo search engine with perfectly fine results.. I don’t get what’s so special about Google.
Use a Micro$oft site to spite Google? No thanks.
Can you bring up Google right now...I keep timing out and can’t access Gmail this AM.
Works fine for me.
Hmmmm....I’ve dumped my cache, history, cookies....still no Google.
I can’t get my gmail either.
The Google-China deal comes to mind, plus their motto of “organizing the World's Information”.
If they went truly global, their header would have Bastille Day, Flag Day, Boxing Day, Mao's Birthday, and on and on, so they tend to restrict themselves to non-nationalistic themes like Avogadro's Birthday or every nation would demand a special header for all of their special days.
I use mostly Altavista and Yahoo, I like Live for the aerial graphics/maps, I can zoom in to where I can see my car in the driveway and see the sunroof.
Interestingly enough, using a Microsoft product to search for difficult programming problems is terrible. Google does a much better job of interpreting intent of a search argument. I frequently use both engines for programming arguments and compare the results. Google wins, hands down. Why?
I switched over to my laptop with the same negative results. I’m on Comcast Cable. Seems terribly slow this AM.
Yes.
I use Live.com. Works for me.
Heres a good site to test your internet speed.
http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/
I usually pull between 23-26000 kbps with my Comcast modem to the closest listed server (NYC)
I’d be interested in what other Comcast subscribers get for speeds.
“Don’t use Google!
Use Live.com!”
Good suggestion! I bookmarked it.
“I use Clusty as much as possible.”
Looks good. Thank you.
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