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

[Les Pritchard]

In fact, that reminds me. A few years back I met a guy who was in the
business of selling Eastern European wifes (although I think he worded
it a bit better and legally than that!). He was setting up a website
for his company, all I could think of were pages with the Amazon style
"Customers who looked at this lady also liked..." at the bottom :-)

On 26 January 2012 15:30, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>> >>>
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