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

[Les Pritchard]

Blimey, their profiling is spot on!

On 26 January 2012 15:25, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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