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Why is google so stupid (part 2)?

Post 21

Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences

It's for you to rate the link. They're transparent to start with beucase you haven't rated it, turns yellow when you have. Like Amazon, or Windows Media Player.

smiley - ale


Why is google so stupid (part 2)?

Post 22

kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website

What's the point?


Why is google so stupid (part 2)?

Post 23

Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences

Oh, actually, no they're not - hover your mouse over them - they tell which other search engines have found them. The more stars, the more other engines have found them, and I guess that's an indicator of how stable etc they are.

smiley - ale


Why is google so stupid (part 2)?

Post 24

kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website

I'm not getting anything when I hover (in Safari or Firefox) smiley - erm

And all the hits have only one star.


Why is google so stupid (part 2)?

Post 25

kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website

Here's an explanation (thanks google smiley - rolleyessmiley - winkeye)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/stars-make-search-more-personal.html


Why is google so stupid (part 2)?

Post 26

Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences

Oh, sorry - we were talking at crossed-purposes, I meant the stars on ixquick!

smiley - ale


Why is google so stupid (part 2)?

Post 27

kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website

smiley - ok I was wondering what you were meaning.


Why is google so stupid (part 2)?

Post 28

TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office

I like ixquick's video search (even if it does use flash).

TRiG.smiley - geeksmiley - cool


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