"Bob La Quey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Como esta, sobrino :)
Not to bad uncle Bob. >>> So do you expect Google to go away because >>> Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas ignores them? >> They should. > Well, they won't. And that makes me a very sad Mechican :-( >>> 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. Yes let's move away from the subject. Evil do it may be. >> 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. I can't disagree with that logic, but I do want to give new players a chance, sadly it's becoming the defacto standard in the World Wide Webaverse. >> 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 mean Lord Slim? You hit the nail on the head, that is why I dislike monopolies so much, Google keeps it's standards high thanks to competition, take that away by making it the default web search engine and you will only make them lazy big cats. That's what happened to Microsoft, they make shit software because they have no real competitors. And yes Hikia is the best of the two ;-). -- Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas (gamaral) Free/Libre/Open-Source Software Advocate & KDE Developer http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ > LocalWords: defacto
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