[Chester LUG] You've heard about the Google thing..

[Les Pritchard]

Yes, in a way Google is run in a very honest way. They're a bunch of
techies who don't enjoy the support and personal interaction. Normally
there's a buffer between them and customers in most companies, but
that never happened for Google.

On 26 January 2012 15:07, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
>
> The interesting thing to me about Google is their almost non existent
> support. More and more my online presence relies on them but if
> something goes wrong there appears to be little in the way of
> resolution, sans their poor help system. I compare this to say Amazon,
> who in my experience provide excellent support, their Kindle support is
> amazing.
>
> Dave.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 26/01/12 15:00, Les Pritchard wrote:
>> Interesting stuff, the whole search engine world seemed to go very
>> quiet for a while - like everyone had given up and let Google get on
>> with it.
>>
>> The trouble with all of these is scaling and that's where Google got
>> it bang on. They've now got to such a size that all these other sites
>> feel so slow - even if we're just talking seconds!
>>
>> It's really good to have some more competition in this area though and
>> I'll have a good play. I do find it funny that this slightly
>> anti-Google conversation has included three Gmail users, I'm sure
>> they're watching us :-p
>>
>> Les
>>
>> On 26 January 2012 14:27, Ben Arnold <BenArnold at fsfe.org> wrote:
>>> Highly recommended, I've had it as my default for months as the search box
>>> in my Opera no longer has a Google entry :)
>>>
>>> I believe this is (to become) the default in Linux Mint n+1, probably just
>>> Firefox but I imagine they could do it for all the browsers they package.
>>> The bang search terms are ridiculously useful, "!github <search>" etc.,
>>> though "!google <search terms>" not so much...
>>>
>>>
>>> I've also come across Seeks, http://www.seeks-project.info/ and search with
>>> thier instance https://www.seeks-project.info/search.php, which I think
>>> that, as a decentralised service, aims to group users that search for
>>> similar terms so they can provide useful results for that group. Sort of
>>> like voting up, but not for individual searches. Yes, I'm still confused.
>>>
>>>
>>> Until later,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 January 2012 12:52, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I found out about a new search engine and have been using it for a week or
>>>> so. Google like it used to be, without annoying ads, tracking, and asking do
>>>> I want to upload to + etc. It also, most importantly has good privacy, and
>>>> all sorts of customisable options, to include fully secure search, no search
>>>> term passing etc.
>>>>
>>>> www.duckduckgo.com
>>>>
>>>> It's clean, it's simple, it's relevant and quick.
>>>>
>>>> Also it has some geeky toys http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
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