Google is amazing!!

jasonz

jasonz

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Sure all knows this, but i recently discovered all the sweet things that google offers. I love having the rss feeds on my home page from my school paper and athlets, weather, news. Google calendar is the best thing thats happened to me in college so far. for free and being able to access it anywhere, it is so cool and helps me so much. Man, the wonders....
 
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Google has always been the best, and not just for searching. I use it as a calculator, map, currency converter, unit converter, and more.
 
yea, i always thought it was search only, then i got gmail since hotmail cant use pop, and i found out how versatile it is.
 
Now Google UK seems to be offering a broadband service where you stick a cable down your toilet for free broadband! That can't be healthy for the pipework.
 
jasonz said:
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How did you change the theme at the top and the colours of the title bars etc? I noticed in the image near to the top right that theres a 'Select Theme' option. Is that an addon or is that there by default? As with mine it doesn't have that displayed there.

I know Google can be a little slow at migrating such features to all Google members as people I knew had features with their email before I did. I was wondering if this was the case with that feature etc.
 
Google is good but only if you dont have any idea of what you're looking for. If you're looking for something specific, Google, like all other search engines, can be a hairpulling experience. Anyone that's tried to do market research, or loooking for exact model numbers is pretty much SOL when it comes to search engines because, for the time being, they are optimized for the dull-masses.

Specifically I'm referring to the way Google's search (as with most), doesnt actually search for you they way it tells you it will -- instead, Google assumes you're a dumb moron and you obviously dont know what you're searching for.... What i'm referring to here is googles "search for this exact string" feature....
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Case in point
Suppose I'm looking for information on a model number for a part I've got ... the sticker's a bit torn off but I did manage to get the first bit ... so we type it in, in quotations "3-14-92-". What do we get? this Notice how the results are NOT what we searched for.


Now this is the funnier one... with google's default searching, it searches for results that have ALL the keywords you add..
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This means that the more keywords we enter, the fewer results should pop up (basic combinatorics -- the more constraints we put on the system, the fewer results)... let's have some fun:
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While we're here, its neat to see how Google differentiates , and ","
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Which is neat cuz now Google told us there are just as many sites (for those terms) with commas as there are without .... (which is flawed if you think about it :P)


;)
 
i think you just inspired me to get a google mail name and etc etc.
DUDE this is soooo sweeeeett.
 
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Breaks said:
How did you change the theme at the top and the colours of the title bars etc? I noticed in the image near to the top right that theres a 'Select Theme' option. Is that an addon or is that there by default? As with mine it doesn't have that displayed there.

I know Google can be a little slow at migrating such features to all Google members as people I knew had features with their email before I did. I was wondering if this was the case with that feature etc.
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It is the beach theme when you click choose theme. It may look like a different color because it changes to match the time of day..
 
Praetor said:
Google is good but only if you dont have any idea of what you're looking for. If you're looking for something specific, Google, like all other search engines, can be a hairpulling experience. Anyone that's tried to do market research, or loooking for exact model numbers is pretty much SOL when it comes to search engines because, for the time being, they are optimized for the dull-masses.

Specifically I'm referring to the way Google's search (as with most), doesnt actually search for you they way it tells you it will -- instead, Google assumes you're a dumb moron and you obviously dont know what you're searching for.... What i'm referring to here is googles "search for this exact string" feature....
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You're being a little rough. For your serial number search, you should have tried this (which is equally unfruitful, but what can you expect with a fraction of a serial number?). Also, with your "this is" search, if you'll notice, when you type in a longer list of words Google sometimes returns results that do not have every word in them. This is because Google first finds all of the results with all of the words, but then starts removing the words one at a time and searching for those results too. It may just be a tactic to make it look like it has more results (which some people would think would equal a better search engine), but that is a very nitpicky thing to complain about, as it's not like the results after the first few thousand matter anyway.
 
You're being a little rough. For your serial number search, you should have tried this <http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%223-14-92-%22*&btnG=Search&meta=> (which is equally unfruitful, but what can you expect with a fraction of a serial number?). Also, with your "this is" search, if you'll notice, when you type in a longer list of words Google sometimes returns results that do not have every word in them. This is because Google first finds all of the results with all of the words, but then starts removing the words one at a time and searching for those results too. It may just be a tactic to make it look like it has more results (which some people would think would equal a better search engine), but that is a very nitpicky thing to complain about, as it's not like the results after the first few thousand matter anyway.
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Harsh? Not at all: try searching for "3.1 4159565" -- and see how many invalid results are returned ;)

Regardless, at the end of the day its NOT searching for what it says it's searching for, which was my point -- zillions of things out there have serial numbers (or model numbers or standard numbers or code numbers or reference numbers) -- and this is particularly true when you're looking up Medical Journals, Reports sent to congress/military or IT stuff -- it's not as "obscure and miniscule" as you might think

if you just put what you're looking for in quotes, it looks for the exact phrase, "you halfwit"
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Please reference my post first ;) I shot that down already
http://www.computerforum.com/624420-post11.html
 
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