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Posted by zzbunker@netscape.net on March 5, 2008, 5:56 pm
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> > Tom Impelluso wrote:
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> > > Hello,
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> > > As I read about the attempt by Microsoft to take over Yahoo to compete=
> > > with Google, I wonder: what is google?
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> > > Is this nothing but a search engine? =A0A piece of software?
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> > > True, in the beginning Yahoo would search for terms, while Google woul=
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> > > search for terms that had also been successfully searched for...
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> > > But in the long run, both companies are just a piece of software.
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> > > Now while *I* cannot write a search engine, I *believe* (and there may=
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> > > my operative and misguided understanding), someone, with modicum of fu=
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> > > could easily write one.
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> > > Some might say "but Yahoo/Google" have amassed a data base of searches=
> > > that make the search easier. =A0But, could one not then argue that sit=
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> > > change: a site here today could be gone tomorrow?
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> > > So, I ask... what is google or yahoo that it is worth so much money?
> > > At least HP MAKES computers, INTEL MAKES chips.
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> > > What is Google?
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> > > t.
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> > Google sells text ads, classified display advertising is what it's
> > called in the real world.
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> > But as a search engine, I'm not sure about...
> > I mean, if I do a search for a word
> > it says it found a gazillion matches, ...but it only displays a thousand=
> > of it.
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> > Google will really be a Google when it displays *all* gazillion matches,=
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> Yes and strangely enough, things disappear. If I look up one of my
> friends
> who moved to other towns, for example, this week I'll find something
> on them, and
> in two weeks the entry will have disappeared. Why is that?
Because Google is like a lot of things that start with computer
networks.
The people that develop them first discover that they work great in
Supermakets.
But then they try to extend them to all markets, and find out
really fast,
that computer networks evolve a lot faster than supermarkets.
So they then start auto-editting everything that isn't priced right
for the supemarket.
> Depending on how many hits a site gets, it's either on page one at the
> top or on page 18 way back behind.
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> Well, there are other search engines, like Yahoo, Ask (Jeeves),
> Metacrawler
> etc.www.About.com, etc.
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