----- Original Message -----
From: CBB - Jay Fuller
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAD day
Go2net became a corporation during 1998, registered with Nasdaq, with its
primary asset being MetaCrawler.com. MetaCrawler.com and Go2net were acquired
by InfoSpace (now Blucora) during 1999 for $4.2 billion. As of March 2015, the
URL metacrawler.com is being redirected to zoo.com. As of December 2015, the
search engine on zoo.com has been removed and replaced with online quiz links.
There is no information available on whether the search engine will come back
or not.
Wow....monopoly money, or what? A 4.2 billion investment turned
into.....online quizzes?
That's very.....stock marketish... : /
----- Original Message -----
From: CBB - Jay Fuller
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAD day
I remember using metacrawler in college (1997-2000ish). It searched the
other 7? 8? big "search engines" at the time. What was the biggie back then?
webcrawler? I had a blackberry storm 2005-2006ish....I believe that was at the
same time as of just prior to the iphone. Things were just barely starting to
get rolling. I mean barely...that thing barely worked.
But...some of the innovation would have happened without Apple I think.
But Apple has made the products really soar - with their marketing, their
interface, etc.
BTW - I don't own anything Apple. I did win an Apple Ipad from FISPA but
my girlfriend has pretty much made it hers.
: /
Good to see you post Travis :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Travis Johnson
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAD day
I would use Yahoo or Bing or any other search engine. Nothing would
change if Google went away tomorrow.
Blackberries and Android wouldn't even exist if Apple hadn't created the
first iPhone. Same with tablets... look how many people tried tablets before
Apple, and they all failed.
I purchased a Macbook for my daughter headed to college 5 years ago. She
used that laptop literally every day, for over 5 years. She graduated with two
Bachelor's degrees... using that same laptop. Every paper, thousands of emails,
etc... and she has never had a single issue... no viruses, no hardware issues,
no software issues. Never a single issue. No OS reload, no malware scanners,
nothing. It just works. Just like all the rest of Apple's products... they just
work.
Travis
On 2/1/2016 10:28 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
The world's most popular site and you don't think the world would
change? Really???
Apple is gone. People buy Blackberries and Android. Tablets probably
won't exist. Mp3 players would probably have come to fruition without them.
What else do they have?
Josh Luthman
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On Feb 2, 2016 12:22 AM, "Travis Johnson" <t...@ida.net> wrote:
At least Apple makes products... products that literally changed the
computing world, the phone world, the retail world, created apps, and the music
world. Google created a search engine (actually copying Yahoo, Webcrawler,
Altavista and several others at the time). They aren't a "product". They don't
"sell" anything. They are a webpage, just like Facebook.
Imagine your life without Google or Facebook. NOTHING CHANGES.
Yes, they built a better mousetrap using their intelligence and hard
work... but they aren't "inventors". They didn't create anything new or
groundbreaking.
Travis
On 2/1/2016 10:09 PM, Colin Stanners wrote:
I'd much rather Google / Alphabet Inc. be in that position than
Apple with their overpriced yet restricted / non-upgradable / crappy consumer
electronics.
Google is making themselves the curator of access to the world's
information and communications. When you consider the value of those, it's not
just the most valuable company in matters of money. The founders had incredible
foresight in addition to their intelligence and hard work.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Travis Johnson <t...@ida.net>
wrote:
http://www.ibtimes.com/alphabet-inc-goog-surpasses-apple-inc-aapl-become-worlds-most-valuable-public-company-2289113
"The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money.
It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just
electrons."
~ Cosmo (Sneakers 1992)
Literally, a one page website for a company that is less than 19
years old is now the most valuable company in the world. :(
Travis
