On Nov 13, 2007 7:23 AM, Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Bob La Quey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi Tio Bob,
Como esta, sobrino :) > > So do you expect Google to go away because > > Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas ignores them? > > They should. Well, they won't. > > How do you define evil? As success? Or? > > I'm not the one who coined 'do no evil' or 'make some money without > doing evil', "evil" is in the eye of the beholder. What is "evil" to me > might not be to you. ;-) Es verdad, amigo. But follow this too far and we will end up talking about Hitler, which will kill the thread. > > Of course we could point at Microsoft. Is Google the > > next Microsoft or is it worse? > > They might turn out to be the web search and advertisement Monopoly in > the web industry, that might be why Microsoft is scared of Google and > Google is scared of Facebook. Indeed. > > Heaven forbid, Google could be even slightly better. > > > > What do you, gamaral, offer as an alternative? > > > > Criticism is easy; providing a way forward difficult. > > Google is indeed a great search engine for the masses -- never said it > wasn't but I find their search concept flawed, just because allot of > people link to something doesn't make that the best answer, it just > makes it the most popular one. Everyone knows that Google's search is flawed. It is just that it remains the "Best of a bad breed." Perhaps you disagree? While Google has a near monopoly on search I would suggest that a search engine that really did work a _lot_ better than Google would prove that monopoly to be a very fragile thing. > > How do you propose we move forward? I am eager to > > hear a viable alternative. > > How about trying a meaning search engine like "hakia" or "mahalo", > make the big bad Google sweat a little. The line "Try your search on Yahoo, Ask, AllTheWeb, Live, Lycos, Technorati, Feedster, Wikipedia, Bloglines, Altavista, A9" appears on my Google search page. These are links. Clicking on them executes the search in the competing engine. It is _not_ like Google is actively avoiding the competition. I just tried hakia and mahalo. Two questions, "What is a boat?" "How do I train my dog?" I like the hakia responses. Mahalo less so. Hakia has a _great_ lay out, much better than Google, imho. They have adds. Maybe they can give Google some useful competition in search. I hope so. Still I like the fact that Google is going after the telephone oligarchy. Surely you, in Mexico, suffering at the hands of Carlos Slim, must like that even if it is Google doing it. > You could always "Ask Jeeves" :-P but he seems to be a little retarded. I think it is senility. He is getting to be very old. Sigh, so am I, but at least my momma does not think so. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
