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

[Stuart Burns]

I guess for the time being I shall just put up with adverts for Russian
brides, Viagra and hitmen for now. (kidding!)

On 26 January 2012 15:22, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Ben Arnold
> >>> Chester, UK
> >>>
> >>> Free Software Foundation (Europe) Fellow
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> >>>
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