Posted: 6/22/2006 10:25:28 PM EDT
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I always see people typing "Google is your friend" etc.. etc... Is Google better than any other search engine? Such as Yahoo or Geeves ? |
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Are you the sexual harassment panda, or the don't sue people panda? |
Im the "dont sue peopel because you were sexually harrased" panda. 
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1. It works 2. It works really well, most often much better than competitors 3. Extras and features - the calculator, spell check, deskbar, froogle, image search (life saver for powerpoints....) 4. Gives the superpatriots something to whine about when their holiday isn't recognized with new google frontpage images 5. They have a good sense of humor. |
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Google used to be better than the others for at least one major reason: for a while, it was the ONLY search engine that did not insert paid-advertisements into its results. Just about all others did--they would place ads into search results, but the ads were displayed as a regular search result,,, so you had no way to know just by looking if any search return listing was an actual search result rank, or if it had been placed there because it was a paid placement. For example: if you happened to sell frog clothing, you could have paid a fee to MSN in order to guarantee that (for an agreed length of time) your website would have always turned up #1 in the search results if anyone did a search for "frog clothing". If it actually held that search engine ranking did not matter; if you paid the search engine's fee, it would turn up #1. As I said--Google was the ONLY company that did not do this type of advertising. ...... Google shows ads "in their results" pages now--but those ads are offset and in a different location and type face, so it is obvious that they are advertisements. ------ For a while most other search engines didn't really do their own crawling either (analysis of the internet's contents)--many were just grabbing Google's results, and then imposing some "optimizations" of their own on top of that. Such as--for a while, Microsoft's MSN search portal was using Google's results--but MSN would have a tendency to "miss" a lot of entries if you happened to be searching for "Linux help", for example. And you'd get a lot of links on where to buy MS software instead. ....This was why if you ever tried using something like DogPile (that would search a bunch of search engines for you from one web page)--the other search engines' results were usually mostly-identical to whatever Google gave. Because most of those other companies were just using Google search results anyway. ------ Google has lately come out with lots of add-ons that are nifty, like Google Maps (the Google toolbar vulnerability is something of an embarassment really). But all that stuff is relatively recent; what propelled Google to the #1 search engine rank early on was that they didn't let advertisers pay to screw with their search results and they didn't edit out anything. Alltheweb.com is one that had a good buzz going for a while--but the problem with introducing a seach engine now is that Google's database of internet content is vastly huge compared to anyone else's. There's also other things that "look like" search engines but aren't: directories and indexes, for two. There are technical differences in how all these are constructed, orgainzed and maintained. ...... http://searchenginewatch.com/ is one website that explains some of this for free--but it is a website concerned with search engine optimization (for commercial sites) so some content there costs money. Every time Google tweaks their search system you find lots of people on the forums fretting about their business websites tumbling in the results. ~ |
The founders of Google are buddy-buddy with Al Gore. He owns A LOT of Google stock, which is why Al Gore's wealth is estimated at the $100 million mark. |
That and their kowtowing to Chinese pressure to filter content based on search origination (couldn't have their citizens reading freerepublic or Duh or some such). Personally use google anyway. Good results and fast load times. |
What they said. |
It used to be better. Today, it's pretty easy to design a web site to game the search results. It's called SEO. Webmasters and bloggers work together to link to each other's web sites, which fools Google's PageRank algorithm, resulting in a higher position in the search results for both parties. There are major problems with click fraud, AdWords, and all that crap, and I think Google in vulnerable in certain respects. Google's "Do no evil" motto is bullshit. They are just as evil as Microsoft, if not worse. Their money comes from ads, and they are in no hurry to do anything about link farms and domain parking, as all these things make them money. But the search results suffer, and every day their search results become more meaningless and spam-ridden. It’s getting worse. The quality of their search results has deteriorated over the past couple of years and it’s not getting any better. |
