Could you live without google?


	Could you live without google?

ghiberti

6-27-2007 5:14 AM

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google, search engines, ask, msn, microsoft, experiment, internet, web

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6-28-2007 5:20 AM

aerynvala

huh...I started with Infoseek, moved to Altavista, moved to Yahoo, moved to Google. I'm good with Google. It does all that I want it to do, I understand the 'language' of the search and I don't have to look at an ugly/busy start page

6-28-2007 6:35 AM

ghiberti

I understand the 'language' of the search

Great point aery... and one that I think 'natural language' search advocates (powerset etc.) underestimate.

The language of the search is becoming (has become?) part of our natural language

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