google - Don't be evil they said

mike65

What the hell is going on at google towers? They have taken the best web search engine and are making poop of it, they mess up images, dropped real time news from twitter, are desperately trying to track your every move and "integrate", in their latest wheeze they have moved the page cache/similar feature to the top of the right hand preview column. And that right hand preview column sucks away! *loading*

STOP IT!

Seachmall

Do not speak ill of the Google!!

smash

It's a free service and it still works... I don't see the problem.

maygitchell

Google.com>Images>Search "upskirt"> Safesearch off



Nope, still working for me

blaze1

Is there another search engine?

I was only thinking about this the other day as if I've nothing else to do.. Does anyone still use yahoo or msn anymore?

Wetai

I think you've mistaken AH for Google's support forums.

OutlawPete

Altavista all the way.

maygitchell

OutlawPete wrote: »

Altavista all the way.

Interesting, does it search angellfire websites?

chin_grin

Do you know what would be a nice ironic touch if you were posting this from google chrome.

Iron is where it's at.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php

Snakeblood

Ask Jeeves. If you can't ask a snooty English butler, I'm not interested. ANSWER ME IN RETURN FOR THE 800 YEARS OF OPPRESSION.

mike65

LiamN wrote: »

I think you've mistaken AH for Google's support forums.

Nope this is definitely After Hours. (like google care what users think)

hooradiation

mike65 wrote: »

Nope this is definitely After Hours. (like google care what an exceptionally vocal minority think)

Fixed that for you.

Blazer

and you believed them?
Google will sell your soul in a heartbeat...actually they already do, how do you think they make their money?

I always had to laugh at the android fanboys who claimed Apple/Microsoft were Satan's spawn and keeping you in a locked in environment while they supported a company that tracks all your emails sent within gmail and offers your ads based on this and sells your profile data to various companies allowing them to target you for advertisments.

Wibbs

I use this crowd for my search page http://www.startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html

hooradiation

Did targeted advertising suddenly become worse than Hitler or something?

I must have missed that.

General General

mike65 wrote: »

What the hell is going on at google towers? They have taken the best web search engine and are making poop of it, they mess up images, dropped real time news from twitter, are desperately trying to track your every move and "integrate", in their latest wheeze they have moved the page cache/similar feature to the top of the right hand preview column. And that right hand preview column sucks away! *loading*

STOP IT!

Yahoo mail & altavista search ftw.

What's twitter?

chin_grin

hooradiation wrote: »

Did targeted advertising suddenly become worse than Hitler or something?

I must have missed that.

Thought that was common knowledge, no? :pac:

Standard Toaster

Google posted a fix for that a couple of days ago.

4leto

They just keep giving us great things for free.

But in return we give up part of our anonymity, seeing I have nothing to hide, I think that is a good deal.

Cormic

User complains about free service they are not forced to use. First World problems -> http://whitewhine.com/

chin_grin

This script includes a nice little option to "disable google tracking my results".

Cormic wrote: »

User complains about free service they are not forced to use. First World problems -> http://whitewhine.com/

Prefer www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems myself.

hooradiation

chin_grin wrote: »

Thought that was common knowledge, no? :pac:

Like a lot of things that are 'common knowledge' it's stupid and wrong.

Protip kids, all advertising is targeted - and seeing as I can't reasonably expect a free product on the scale of Google to be ad-free I'd rather have advertising that is for things I might conceivably want rather than something I don't.

Kadongy

The image search is a bad copy of how the results have been displayed for ages by bing

Mike 1972

4leto wrote: »

But in return we give up part of our anonymity

If you want to talk about loss of anonymity look at all those organisations that now set up a facebook page in lieu of a proper website.

4leto wrote: »

seeing I have nothing to hide

Yes you do

Naos

smash wrote: »

It's a free service and it still works... I don't see the problem.

If someones supplying something and you're getting it for free - you're not the customer, you're the product.

Seachmall

Naos wrote: »

If someones supplying something and you're getting it for free - you're not the customer, you're the product.

I'm no more a "product" for using Google than I am a "product" for watching ads on TV.

"Target Market" is the correct term, but I guess it's not as melodramatic.

hooradiation

hooradiation wrote: »

Did targeted advertising suddenly become worse than Hitler or something?

I must have missed that.

The stuff I search for often confuses the hell out of targeted adverts, nothing advertised is of any interest to me at all. :pac:

starch4ser

I'm a Googler and i'm highly offended by your anti Google sentiment. Stop it right now you Douchebag.

Steodonn

Do not question google

They know all your secrets

MungBean

I think theres a huge opportunity for another search engine to grab a share of the market from people looking to ditch google. I thought Bing would do it but Microsoft arnt known for being the most innovative bunch.

Why hasnt Apple tackled it ? With a slogan like "We wont track your every move!" it would probably knock google for six within a month of release.


PS. An online forum that doesnt give me 503 errors every single time I try to post might do well too :mad:

4leto

Mike 1972 wrote: »

If you want to talk about loss of anonymity look at all those organisations that now set up a facebook page in lieu of a proper website.



Yes you do

Well then
Now that it is out in the open I am not worried.

Besides our anonymity has been chipped away for a while now, you would be amazed at what Tesco know about you.

This is it, big brother is here, with our computers our smartphones, facial recognition CC cameras (coming soon) ETC.

And it wasn't put in position by an autocrat, no, we put it there and we even paid for it. George Orwell never seen that coming.

iamstop

http://www.dogpile.com/

4leto

iamstop wrote: »

http://www.dogpile.com/

That seems a good search engine. I will try it for a while.

LH Pathe

mike65 wrote: »

What the hell is going on at google towers? They have taken the best web search engine and are making poop of it, they mess up images, dropped real time news from twitter, are desperately trying to track your every move and "integrate", in their latest wheeze they have moved the page cache/similar feature to the top of the right hand preview column. And that right hand preview column sucks away! *loading*

STOP IT!

aside from google things often get changed for the worse. But that's not the issue where the main thing is they 'completed' their apparently mandatory update regardless, just for that stay hip sensation or some shìt and you're essentially forced to use a beta til the fix. if a fix.. then they do it again

Mike 1972

4leto wrote: »

Besides our anonymity has been chipped away for a while now, you would be amazed at what Tesco know about you..

Tesco know damn all about me. I dont shop there that much, always pay cash and I dont have a clubcard (although Ive used various housemates clubcard's )

Mickey H

hooradiation wrote: »

Did targeted advertising suddenly become worse than Hitler or something?

It did.

hooradiation wrote: »

I must have missed that.

You did.

Trevor451

Why did Google have to buy youtube? They completely ruined it :mad:

WolfForager

Hold on a second....

Why do you all (anti-googlers) care so much that they're tracking you? It hasn't affected my use of the Internet, in fact it's probably made it somewhat better. Instead of getting ads for **** i'd never be interested in, i get ads for things i might actually find useful.

And if you think MS don't do the same with Bing then there's really something wrong with your logic.

Mark200

MungBean wrote: »

I think theres a huge opportunity for another search engine to grab a share of the market from people looking to ditch google. I thought Bing would do it but Microsoft arnt known for being the most innovative bunch.

Why hasnt Apple tackled it ? With a slogan like "We wont track your every move!" it would probably knock google for six within a month of release.

Ermm because there'd be no money in giving a free search engine to people that they can't effectively advertise to?

DublinWriter

Sc@recrow wrote: »

Google will sell your soul in a heartbeat...actually they already do, how do you think they make their money?

As a 'user' on the Internets to Google, you are someone who is either being sold something or someone who is buying something.

4leto

There are loads of search engines, but they are all **** (including Bing) when compared to Google.

Yahoo is good, but still, I would rather Google.

Hobbes

The point is "Don't be Evil". They never said "Do no evil". Evil is very subjective as well.

Steve Jobs wrote:

We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them ... This don’t be evil mantra: It’s bull****.

Personally I'm very disappointed with their POS mobile search portal. Switched to Bing long ago (not by choice either). Bing search results almost 100% match Googles. There is very little difference in who is better.

4leto

Hobbes wrote: »

The point is "Don't be Evil". They never said "Do no evil". Evil is very subjective as well.



Personally I'm very disappointed with their POS mobile search portal. Switched to Bing long ago (not by choice either). Bing search results almost 100% match Googles. There is very little difference in who is better.

Its one of those things, Google is now the most seen and recognised brand in the world, they don't really have to do much to stay on top and there is nothing more they can do to a search engine to boost or grow their business.

So they have to expand into other markets. So they are going for Facebook's market share and the other emerging IT market is smartphones, its safe to say everyone will have a smart phone 2 to 5 years from now.

But Apple are only as good as their last product, one bad move from them and they suffer badly, google are going for a bigger business spread.

I was actually waiting to see what the iphone 5 was like, but not to impressed so I am going for the samsung galaxy2, (my quit smoking treat):)

dixiefly

blaze1 wrote: »

Is there another search engine?

I was only thinking about this the other day as if I've nothing else to do.. Does anyone still use yahoo or msn anymore?

Try this

http://www.dogpile.com/

humbert

Hobbes wrote: »

mobile search portal

I'm picturing something from sliders...?

iamstop

4leto wrote: »

That seems a good search engine. I will try it for a while.

I've had a t-shirt fro mthem for ages. Only bought it cos it looked like the Chiquita banana logo. Didn't know it was a search engine for a year or so of having it! :P