A Google Thread

http://photos31.flickr.com/36648272_230c800f0d.jpg

http://www.smashsworld.com/2005/08/im-on-google-talk-right-now.php

You'll need a gmail account for it to work.

...so, who's on that google talk here?

http://www.rapbay.com/catalog/images/guce%20%20pure%20pressure.jpg

Or is it something different...

Surely the only thing left for them now is an operating system? Seriously.

Searches academic texts, then cross references your answers to other academic texts which cite your answer. And so on. It's like academic surfing.

Stand on the shoulders of giants

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I heart the 'Tea Room' iGoogle theme

F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5

http://www.google.com/chrome

crappy opera

what a bad, confusing product name

the icon looks like a pokeball crossed w/a plasma grenade

http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/thumb/9/94/Plasma_Grenade.jpg/250px-Plasma_Grenade.jpg + http://www.nintendo.com.au/ngmcontent/Image/Pokeball.jpg = http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Google_Chrome_Logo.jpg

google shite more like

god google's comic was so fucking smug

Anyone point me at site about this that hasn't been swamped?

Is everyone else seeing the digg-tastic buttons? You can promote or bury search results and comment on them!

Democracy sux btw.

How is this even useful? I can't be bothered by promoting a search result. I mean, if I search for something, and find it through Google, I'll either bookmark it (delicious) if it's worthwhile, and if not, I just don't go there anymore.
If the result you dig is at, say, page 4, would promoting it to number one mean you have to click it 40 times to get it there? I don't know, I just don't have the energy for this stuff anymore.

wtf sort of comment am I supposed to leave "this link looks lol good am gonna click on it btw"

"lol"

no comments on ilxor yet

i wonder if promoting will remember that you did it (if logged in) and then show you those results first when you repeat a search (like now, if you ave been to a page before it tells you how many visits, and when the last visit was). comments - yeah, lol. maybe a good way to warn people that the site is all spam?

when logging on to Google: anybody had experience with kitchensinks.n0t virus or advertising monitor/subversion or whatever the hell it is yet? "Certificate" pops up, also seems to relate to getting only "0" when trying for Google homepage, much less account(mostly affecting AOL dialup on IE and Firefox, but a few Earthlink [on whichever browser] and even Safari users have posted about it)If you are, and you check Google Discussion Groups, blocking most of the URLs reported by KDabbler and Avant-Guardist, plus SSL and other security settings, then using only https sign-on works for me

Or maybe it would work just with https, at this point(but don't use Quick Reply with https, lest you fire a blank message, Google Help warns)

Whoa, what's with that dude ^^^?

Whose idea was it for the Google front-page search box to have that insta-things-you-may-be-searching-for drop-down thing? It loads about five seconds after the rest of the page, and until it's loaded it doesn't have focus, which means everything you type is lost. ffs.

that was my idea

when logging on to Google: anybody had experience with kitchensinks.n0t virus or advertising monitor/subversion or whatever the hell it is yet? "Certificate" pops up, also seems to relate to getting only "0" when trying for Google homepage, much less account(mostly affecting AOL dialup on IE and Firefox, but a few Earthlink [on whichever browser] and even Safari users have posted about it)If you are, and you check Google Discussion Groups, blocking most of the URLs reported by KDabbler and Avant-Guardist, plus SSL and other security settings, then using only https sign-on works for me

I didn't understand a word of this.

Also lol at 'logging on to Google' unless (s)he has an igoogle account.

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/513/picture2tu2.png

next-level styles of like usic and then

rumors are flying around about a 1/3 reduction in workforce at google. could affect 10k workers.

Other than duplicating the functionality of the tabs at the top, does this do anything that's actually useful? Seems a bit pointless otherwise and takes up a good bit of space.

did any of you punks order a google netbook/CR48?

US only: http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program.html

Reading that Schmidt is out as CEO

Now 'executive chairman':

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20029094-265.html

Google Weddings

...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/you-may-kiss-the-bride-thanks-to-google-weddings/

Google's new two-factor authentication is pretty handy

how come sometimes if i type in "ilx" on google, and then i click on one of the results for I Love Everything, it takes me to another google search page showing the same result.

But then clicking the result again takes me to ilx

strange

It's to do with the atuo-login redirect.

are there rly ppl in the world who were thinking "u know what google search results would just be that much better if the text was just pale enough so that u have to squint or else its barely visible"

Guy gets his Google account disabled for no reason, becomes non-person: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bt2p2o

that's a really long tweet.

What happened to cached pages?

still there? after the address line under the search result ..?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Oqt78Iifz9wJ:www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet%3Fboardid%3D40+ilx&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

still there? after the address line under the search result ..?

Not for me. Oh wait, it looks like if you hover to the right of the search result, there's a magnifying glass that shows you an image of the page, as well as the familiar links to "Cached" and "Similar."

followup to the blacklisted google guy

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bvqdos

how long has it been giving synonyms? never noticed this til lately. fucking annoying as hell.

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/google-search-is-dead.php?ref=fpb

It’s not Google Plus that’s at risk now, per se, but Google Search itself. By watering down it’s once pristine search results with a number of mistaken notions about what users want, Google’s actually risking undermining the very core business that made it into the tech empire it is today.

Either way, like it or not, Search Plus Your World means that Google Search as we know it is no more.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3121164/project-glass-demo-io

http://live.theverge.com/google-io-2012-live-blog-day-one/#/entry/22321/549000
http://live.theverge.com/google-io-2012-live-blog-day-one/#/entry/22322/550000

i don't know where it fits between the amazon thing & the ipad but that's a p cheap tablet, right?

same price as the kindle fire iirc

£159 is way cheaper than iPad in the UK.

and over here in the US it's $300 cheaper than the 16 gb wifi-only ipad

The Winsor McCay Google Doodle is an absolute treat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Tsrg_EQMw

https://medium.com/editors-picks/c02f1ff471c6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qeyt2Mw4sK4

how in the world does google make money?

well, i know how. according to respected website http://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2012/what-does-google-actually-make-money-from-goog1121.aspx ,

96% of google revenue (that's over 14 trillion dollars!) comes from advertising, and 70% of that comes from AdWords. AdWords are these:

http://i.imgur.com/9bsAEyv.png

?!?!! there can't be THAT many people who actually click on those, right? who is clicking on them? there aren't enough old people in the world! seriously, i don't get how this entire thing doesn't work. and it feels like a house of cards, like how in the 90s everyone was into chat rooms, and then one day everyone in the world, simultaneously, was totally over chat rooms. i see that shift approaching with google ads. the end is near, google! buy Excite.com stock while you still can!!!

Yeah but it turns out people click on those ads and then buy stuff.

google search gets shitter by the day, i swear

corporate results prioritised (companies buying up first page results i assume?), slant towards recency that means stories over a year or two old get buried, fucking synonyms as though i didn't google specific words for a reason, and where have blog search and discussion search disappeared to??

i did not think half a decade ago that using the internet would get WORSE

re synonyms, inflected forms, and that kind of crap: put quotes around everything. Bit of a hassle, but it still works I think?

oh yeah (though it still tries to synonym everything even with quotes sometimes), i was just bitching how thoroughly shit it is. i shouldn't need to try to work around google's idiocy half the time, right?

kudos to today's doodle for Holi, which makes a valiant attempt to celebrate multiculturalism by de-ethnicizing the participants as far as possible

at least they're not cartoon animals

true

how come i used to be able to type "movies hull" and now i have to type "movies showing in hull" to get the (depressing) list of movies that are showing across the top of the page

works for me:

https://i.imgur.com/pbOq8D4.jpg

I find my google search acts differently on my upstairs pc, which seems to be twinned with my smartphone (in terms of search history), but fuck knows what settings are different on that one.

Youtube nor google search working on my phone. NyTimes games not loading either. What’s going on?

Youtube nor any of the google suite of products are working for me on phone or browser.

Search, too.

looks like the bastards have finally finished off youtube vanced

According to this ilx was scraped to be part of their AI training set. Rude. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/

You'd think more of our catchphrases would be used at least.

Quick, somebody get ChatGpt to generate good reasons to ask for Jamie Spears phone number

youtube vanced has just started working again after a couple of down days. which is nice because all the fixes I could find were convoluted and all apparently caused lagging issues. It will eventually die, but at least the huawei tablet can still be of use for now.

look at this garbage

https://thebaseballlifestyle.com/what-does-the-red-sox-hand-signal-mean/

don't click it only encourages them

This symbol was used to represent the “C” in the team’s name, which stood for “Boston Americans.”

never change, AI.