By: meehawl
However crappy Google may get in the future, I think Yahoo will always retain the #1 Stinker spot for anti-user nastiness and crusty uselessness. Google would have to try really, really, really hard to...
View ArticleBy: skallas
>Google are taking the "salami" approach to introducing advertising. I kind of expected this once they went public. Considering yahoo and alltheweb are kicking ass in the search engine department...
View ArticleBy: chunking express
Why don't people wait till Google actually start doing all the things being bitched about here, before starting to bitch? People act like Google is stabbing them in the back — Google, their oldest and...
View ArticleBy: bonaldi
Because they're clever and cool and when they hit the scene they appeared to "save" us from the suffering imposed by a more traditionally braindead corporation. Same thing that happened with Apple and...
View ArticleBy: lodurr
Here's a question: Why does everybody treat Google like they're some kind of paragons of virtue? They're just a vendor. That's all. And they will behave like one. Everything they do, from "Don't be...
View ArticleBy: Mitheral
bonaldi TE, I don't know how true that is. I've been using google since it was in beta and had a small fraction of the hardware it does now, and really have noticed no quantitative difference *in...
View ArticleBy: humuhumu
Although as an off-topic, the new Google Groups Beta is just horrible... the first thing Google's done that I've found horrid to look at and horrid to use.
View ArticleBy: humuhumu
I don't much care whether my search results come from google or yahoo or teoma or wherever, as long as they're good results. Google is my current favourite because it has more pages than anyone else,...
View ArticleBy: smackfu
Graphical ads are WAY easier to block than text ads. (Right-click, "Block images from ads.google.com") So I'm ok with that. Now Flash ads with sound....
View ArticleBy: bonaldi
... "and, well, shit, but loading that ad has slowed me down from getting the quick results. But, hey, I can find information on the French Revolution near me!" [/wild sarcasm]
View ArticleBy: obfusciatrist
Yes, because a banner ad is going to suddenly make Google a less useful search engine compared to all the others (most of which already have banner ads). "Curses," I shall say, "I really wanted...
View ArticleBy: reklaw
The day Google dies is the day it puts a graphical banner ad anywhere on google.com... and that day seems less and less far away.
View ArticleBy: bonaldi
TE, I don't know how true that is. I've been using google since it was in beta and had a small fraction of the hardware it does now, and really have noticed no quantitative difference *in search* over...
View ArticleBy: roboto
I don't want to know how they make the scrapple, I just know Weaver's tasetes the best.
View ArticleBy: TheophileEscargot
humuhumu: "Don't be evil" was their motto, and was part of the philosophy behind google's lack of intrusive ads. I think especially after the IPO they're going to be hard put to resist the pressure to...
View ArticleBy: bonaldi
You're on to something salmacis. I'd forgotten just what Altavista was like at its worst. For reference: Altavista as a research projectAltavista at the height of the horror ... after they'd gone...
View ArticleBy: salmacis
It sounds like Google are taking the "salami" approach to introducing advertising. Over time, they make little adjustments, until after a while, you see that Google are hardly better than the...
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