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.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
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.
I have Comcast here in a Philly suburb. Download speed: 14,483 kbps; upload speed: 1596 kbps. We use them for tv and internet. We’re in kind of a rural area, so Verizon dsl is not available. But when it is, we’ll use Verizon FIOS and DSL. Don’t like Comcast. Prices go up and service gets worse. We’ve had an unresolved “tiling” issue with our HD for over 18 months. They can’t seem to correct the problem. And with HD + internet, we get a healthy bill every month.
I’m running 12,600 down and 1925 up today. Considerably slower than normal.
Fact is, life is too short to get our panties in a twist over whether or not Google weaves American flags and fireworks into their log on Independence Day. To be honest, I never even pay attention to the "Google Doodle" of the day though they did apparently celebrate Veteran's Day last year with the doodle I'll post below so they evidently aren't as anti-American as some folks make them out to be...
Can you be banned from Google?
Careful there! FrogDad and I were in a small-town cafe up close to Glacier Park in Columbia Falls, MT. There was a typical (to me) lumberjack fellow (beard, plaid jacket, boots, overalls) at a table over in deep conversation with a woman. I figured they were talking about, well, whatever lumberjacks talk about.
I had to visit the ladies room and passed right by their table. He was teaching her, with excellent diagrams, how hard drives work.
Check your prejudices at the door!
I have to give it to you there. I’m told that area isn’t concentrated on because it makes up a tiny minority of searches. Eventually.
Though I’ve felt like boxing a few ears on this issue.
I use Good Search and while I search, I’m donating money to the National Rifle Association Foundation. I mentioned this before and I was surprised how few freepers were interested in supporting the NRA and their Second Amendment Rights.
http://www.goodsearch.com/Default.aspx
Is that really what you look for (or expect) from a search engine?
Google has the best News search, hands down. No one else is even in their league.
As for Microsoft Live Search, it is not as comprehensive as google. Besides, Bill Gates himself is quite liberal
Google Apps is a great product. I use it in spite of my feelings towards Google.
Well there’s nothing wrong with lumberjacks knowing how hard drives work but I think it’s a little farfetched to believe that one would be sitting in a cafe drawing diagrams of high-speed linear motors and read/write heads in order to impress the ladies.
I've had a hunch it was a KGB op for years.
So I guess you know what I think.
But "hate" is a big word. It's probably more like unanalyzed covetousness; i.e. "we can't be you so we'll have to kill you." Very common.
http://www.download.com/TZ-Connection-Booster/3000-2155_4-10225667.html
wasn’t really saying yahoo is better..just saying what’s the difference in the products? I get find what i’m looking for on yahoo.. why should i use google?
You people select your search engines based on what holidays they commemorate? Seriously?
Wow.
FYI, TZ Conn Booster does not work with Windows Vista.
ALL liberals HATE America.
I thought I posted that.
What do you mean by “tiling” issue.
My Comcast HD is pretty bad as well.
On most channels anything fast moving becomes blocky and pixelated. Probably because they limit the bitrate to a point where they consider just passible.
Well, I don’t consider it passible at all.
We can’t even watch the Price is Right million Dollar spectacular(I know) in HD. When a contestant gets picked the HD can’t even handle her running up to the stage with out the picture breaking up.
It’s not our line i don’t think because i get very good up/down speeds on my modem.
Might go to FIOS but I believe they require a 1 or 2 year commitment to subscribe.
I have to say though that when nobody is moving too quickly the prime time Price is Right looks AMAZING in HD!
The colors and clarity are unreal.
That you did. I am sorry . I read the first few words and downloaded the program. You had correctly said it wouldn’t work with vista. My bad.
It could be my imagination and cynicism, but I swear....
Whenever I am at a conference center and go on one of their computers and try to access FR, I type Free Republic in the Google search field and the site never comes up. Ditto for RushLimbaugh.com.
I type in ABC News or CNN and voila....there it is.
I like http://www.dogpile.com
What I usually do is find out if I can get WiFi access and then I don’t really have any problem...(unless that’s what you’re doing and then I lost something in translation)
The only thing I use that’s Google related is Google Earth. If any of y’all know of a better satellite imaging program by all means let me know.
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