Posted on 12/01/2008 5:38:19 PM PST by jetxnet
Google's CEO is *still* funding Obama, even after the election. What does he expect in return?
It's no secret that Google wants to basically own the Internet from Youtube to you name it. They want to be to the Internet what Microsoft was to desktops.
What would Obama get in return for having Congress pass Internet regulations that only favor Google? Google will collect data via searches and censor information not privy to the Government view.
Can you say "Communism", no different than China and Google has already censored information relative to Obama searches. It is fact. Google is guilty of censorship in favor of their Candidate etc.
Do not use Google.
DOGPILE.com
http://www.dogpile.com
dogpile still searches google...
Is there a better alternative? I remember switching once before, and I think the new service was even worse.
Google has been pretty good about not abusing its potential as spyware, unlike many earlier search services.
I agree, they are on the left, but is any other search service better?
“They want to be to the Internet what Microsoft was to desktops. “
Haven’t you heard, they aren’t limiting themselves to the internet. They are working on hosted applications to compete with MS office and other popular applications.
They have come out with a cell phone.
They want to store your medical records.
They give you search results based on what your government wants you to see.
Yes, but dogpile gets the credit for the search.
Cuil is supposed to be good
That is like saying “don’t use the Internet.”
There may be more effective strategies for undermining Google’s revenue than simply “don’t use.”
But it is good that you point out the bias that has started to be very prevalent and unhidable (not a word, I know) in the Google universe.
Google is garbage and so is their stupid browser, its total garbage. A few months ago I downloaded it, looked at it, laughed, then uninstalled it. I hope google goes down the drain
Agreed on both points.
The chances however, are slim.
I love google services sorry.
However that said I don’t send or pay for any google services and I got enough ad-block software so I never see google ads either.
You can have my gmail/calendar when you pry it from my cold dead computer!
Just as the broadcast airwaves belong to “the people” so will the narrowcast entities be forced into the “public domain.”
Google operators will get their justs. Too bad that they have to screw all of us first.
Unfortunately, Goggle is the best, most comprehensive, and the fastest to get new material of all the search engines.
Cuil is several years let behind Google in comprehensiveness.
I use clusty.com because I heard they are better with your privacy....but I don’t know their politics. I am extremely happy with Clusty and AVOID using Google wherever and whenever possible.
Is there any other search engine? Before Google came out, I used to use Excite and some others I’ve already forgotten.
Google gets income every time you do a search on it? Who knew?!
Am I ignorant, or is it very hard to get a true Boolean search out of Google? That’s what I miss about the old days with Excite and so on.
Use Google, just do not click on the ads.
And do alot of searches for GUNS.
of course you can get a true Boolean out of google...what makes you think this is impossible?
I’ve been using Yahoo as an alternative. Seems fine for my needs.
I throw darts at my DSL modem. Works every time!
Sometimes ask.com is what I use.
You signed up last week to tell us that? ;-)
Thank you for the link Mathluv.
I use Scroogle and I LOVE it!
Bump!
Bump!
You are welcome, Cindy. I like it because I can put the info I am looking for in the form of a question.
I really don’t like being told what or what no to do by newbies.
Don’t have to be flippant. Just tell me how.
I’ve never really tried it, but it doesn’t say you can. I’ve used Advanced for a long time but it’s really not perfect.
It was “AskJeeves”, and way back then I recall being on some website on which AJ was a banner ad, and it sampled some obnoxious sexual thing in its ad! I wrote them right away and asked why did they have to put out sexual stuff on an ad?
“dogpile still searches google...”
Better than using ONLY google, but do you know of any search engines that are good that don’t use google?
I was wondering who was paying for that $30,000.00 ring.
Scroogle is great just for the commentary alone...no annoying ads, either.
See post #28...
Thank you.
How does Scroogle work? Do they use Google, but bypass the spying?
>> Is there a better alternative?
Try “Clusty”. Anything you search for on Google is stored - forever. Not so with Clusty.
Not sure how my comments were taken to be flippant but here is how google supports Boolean....they also support many other commands but since you are already using “advanced search” you probably already know that.
Boolean search is nothing more than AND OR and NOT commands. Google supports all three as does every search engine I can think of.
Here is an example...cut and paste this into a google search box....
FAR “subcontract administrator” (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) -job -jobs -send -submit -you
This search utilizes the AND command the OR command and the NOT command. AND is signified by the space between FAR and subcontract administrator” the OR is signified by the OR between (intitle:resume and inurl:resume) and the NOT is signified by the minus sign after the search string telling you not to show you pages that contain the words job/jobs/send/submit and you.
So if the search worked right you should have returned the resumes of several subcontract administrators with FAR experience whose intilte and inurl pages does not contain the words job/jobs/submit/send and you.
Thanks. I simply never tried to do Boolean there because it didn’t invite me to as the old engines did (with “help” for rules, etc). I assumed you couldn’t do it - further by the fact they have an “Advanced” page. Which is really only half-baked.
Hi Cicero, I’ve found Yahoo to be very good .. made major improvements. I’ve found things there that I couldn’t on Google.
Google started with Yahoo’s database, so many of the searches are inherently the same.
Do and search on both, and you’ll see what I mean.
Google makes it’s money on traffic, if half the US were to ban Google, they would lose sponsored advertisers etc.
Search engines really are simplistic. Most novice programmers can create them in matter of a few days or less with many features.
It’s just that Google has been majorly hyped in the movies over the years.
I have yet to find something on Google i couldn’t find with Yahoo.
It's spyware by default. That by itself is a non-starter for me setting aside the fact it has little cookie management and zero for javascript.
Google is turning into RealPlayer, shoving themselves in everyone’s face and trying to take over your system. If the OEMs allow their spyware browser to be the default at installation then they are part of the problem and not the solution. It’s bad enough we’ve got IE but I’d argue even that’s not as bad as Chrome despite the standards problem.
Thanks. My daughter seems to have a Yahoo toolbar on her computer, and it seemed to work perfectly well. But isn’t Yahoo also liberal?
I don’t use the toolbar on my computer, but the IE7 Search window, which gives you a choice of what provider you want to use. I think that keeps the footprint smaller and uses less memory.
Jason Lewis did recommend Dogpile as well and he is a conservative radio talk show host.
I wonder if I can get google off the opening page of the browser for firefox? It’s really not that important of a question though.
Open firefox, go to tools, properties and make Freerepublic or whatever you want your starting page.
My absolute favorite! Been a fan for many years.
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