John, I do most of my web searching through Starter Page, not really a
search engine, but a front end to Google that sanitizes the search
criteria of any references to your machine before it passes the search
on the Google. Maybe that's unethical but I consider a lot of Google's
policies to be a bit on the suspect side. The nice thing about Starter
Page is that it works like Google used to work, but with less targeted
results. That's something I can live with.
On 3/11/2012 7:40 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
If anyone on the list has any influence what-so-ever with Google, I
hope they'll pass this along to someone there who has a f****ng clue.
If any such exists anymore.
With the changes to Google's privacy policy have also come some
changes in the way the search engine works. Google Hints, Google
Auto-complete & Google Instant are back with a vengeance, and there's
no way to turn the goddamn thing *OFF*.
Google DOES NOT KNOW WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR and it's getting damn
annoying having it hare off in all directions instead of just waiting
for me to finish telling it what I'm looking for. Especially since
when it does go off into the wild blue yonder, it takes the cursor
with it so I can no longer finish typing my search term and have to
start all over again.
What I want in a search engine ...
I want to type my search term into the text box, hit enter and have
the search engine look for what I typed into the text box.
That's what Google used to do and is why I started using Google in the
first place. But Google doesn't do that any more. Is there a search
engine that does?
I don't care if it gathers information about what I searched for &
gives me ads. I don't care if it sells the aggregated data to
advertisers. I do care if it wastes my time with a bunch of CRAP that
gets in the way of actually finding what I'm looking for.
Which Google is doing.
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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