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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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23 March 2005 - 3:52 pm
Silicon Beat is running an interesting analysis/summary on the wave of public opinion turning on google. Personally, I've been having some doubts about google and have switched over to a9 as my primary search engine (and I've been flirting with ask jeeves). I don't have a specific reason for this change, just a feeling that google may not be the nice guy that they've always claimed to be. I guess part of the problem a lack or transparency. Google tells us to trust them, but goes to great lengths to keep many things under the covers. I just keep hearing a voice telling me to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, and that has me (a tiny bit) worried.
Posted by on 23 March 2005 at 3:47 PM
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My big complaint is that Google search results seem to be in rapid decline. Too many sleazy sites are scamming their way into the results. I'm not sure what Google can do about that, but whenever somebody gets bad results, or malware from visiting one of the top sites, Google loses points. Their reserve is running out.
However, I find most other complaints about Google to be pretty weak, particularly the Autolink thing. And AFP's actions don't show any wrongdoing on Google's part, just reinforcement of the national stereotype of the French; other organizations have been delisted without a lawsuit.
Posted by Charlie on 24 March 2005 - 5:33 AM
Google's search results do seem to be a bit lacking as of late. Further, they seem more concerned with releasing new products than focusing on and improving their core service.
Posted by david on 24 March 2005 - 1:42 PM