Posted on 03/12/2009 1:18:52 AM PDT by dennisw
If Google search revolutionized the Web, and Gmail revolutionized free e-mail, then one thing’s for sure: Google Voice, unveiled Thursday, will revolutionize telephones.
It unifies your phone numbers, transcribes your voice mail, blocks telemarketers and elevates text messages to first-class communication citizens. And that’s just the warm-up.
Google Voice began life in 2005 as something called GrandCentral. It was, in its own way, revolutionary.
It was intended to solve the headaches of having more than one phone number (home, work, cellphone and so on): Having to check multiple answering machines. Missing calls when people try to reach you on your cell when you’re at home (or the other way around). Sending around e-mail at work that says, “On Thursday from 5 to 8:30, I’ll be on my cell; for the rest of the weekend, call me at home.” And having to change phone numbers when you switched jobs or cities.
GrandCentral’s solution was to offer you a new, single, unified phone number, in an area code of your choice. Whenever somebody dialed your uni-number, all of your phones rang at once.
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Well, actually..., sounds interesting...
But, Google is trying to take over the world... LOL...
Sounds like “The Lawnmower Man”.
“Google search revolutionized the Web”
No, it didn’t. There were plenty of very good search engines about that time, for example alltheweb, which then just became another crappy yahoo portal.
Google only got where they are by having their logo on Yahoo. People just starting going direct to google
Google is crud. It’s not even a proper search engine. It’s more like a human-edited directory now, which is why everyone left Yahoo. Google is dropping stuff from their directory & you can’t find what you want on there
Plus they are leftarded scum too.
use scroogle.org or dogpile.com
Sorry, too much centralized everything here. Next thing you know, Google is going want to put a bar code on our hands.
Dear folk, use Google as a tool. and realize that Google actually is run by tools.
Nuff said, cept:
I can’t count how many times I’ve seen, or heard of Google doing the dirty work of the lefties.
“Plus they are leftarded scum too.”
they all are...
No, it didn’t. There were plenty of very good search engines about that time, for example alltheweb, which then just became another crappy yahoo portal.What made google great was their massive size and pagerank. People forget that google was *much* more comprehensive than other search engines when it first came out. Also page rank made sense of all the previously unorganized goop of the web. Yahoo results back in those days were *awful*.Google only got where they are by having their logo on Yahoo. People just starting going direct to google
Google is crud. It’s not even a proper search engine. It’s more like a human-edited directory now, which is why everyone left Yahoo. Google is dropping stuff from their directory & you can’t find what you want on there
Plus they are leftarded scum too.
use scroogle.org or dogpile.com
Google revolutionized search by being easy, huge and good.
No way I want that!!!!
don’t forget cache. I neeeed that
and scroogle is google, btw
“google was *much* more comprehensive than other search engines when it first came out”
no it wasn’t. It was better than Yahoo, but “pagerank” is hype. alltheweb was just as good as google, but they were bought up by the yahoo people.
you use to be able to FIND what you were looking for with the advanced search features, which you can no longer get.
“page rank made sense of all the previously unorganized goop of the web”
you weren’t looking properly. there were other good search engines. google was one of many. they only got the top position because they provided spider results for google, after taking over from INKTOMI.
They are leftist scum, hyped by the media, just like all the other “big” sites like facebook. There is a better web out there, and we should be making it our business to grow it. It won’t be many years before Google starts cutting the “page rank” of conservative sites, many say it is happening already
We should at least be using scroogle.org, which gets you google results without funding liberal fascism.
don’t forget cache. I neeeed that and scroogle is google, btwOoooh... yeah. I loved cache. Now I take it for granted.
I often search for stuff I’ve seen on here, and the top results 90% of the time leftist sites like DU.
That will incrementally increase.
Google has proved they are anti American leftards, we shouldn’t need any more proof to TOTALLY boycott them.
WTH?? You can't answer your cell phone at home?
I don't use Google for anything else. I certainly don't want all my calls going through them!
I use Ixquick for searches. They don't record your IP or keep track of your searches. Try it. You'll like it! :)
Google has another good phone feature for commerical applications. You can dial the following number, give them the name of the business, city, state and they connect you to that number. No charge, fee, etc.
800-466-44141
800-466-44141
is that for real?
mark for later read
And in the darkness bind them.
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