"Google" has become an adjective, thus why it is used. I do agree with your point though.
-Nye On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Someone <[email protected]> wrote: > How often does someone say, use Google to get the answer for your Linux > question? The suggestion isn't to use Yahoo, Dogpile, Bing, drop in > some other obscure search engine. The suggestion is to use Google as > if Google has become the defacto standard for answering Linux questions. > > The whole point of Linux mailing lists is that community is built up and > perhaps just perhaps, the question related to the question being asked > might get answered. By asking about serial ATA enclosures on a Linux > list I am asking beyond my question if external SATA is worth pursuing > on a Linux based system. > > A search engine has a hard time answering a question behind a question > unless there is a valuable programmed in expectation. Search engines > are not intelligent and they never will be. Expectations can be > statistically helpful, but they do not always lead to presenting what > the researcher wants/needs. A human being with creativity has a much > better chance than a computer of making a useful presentation to > someone. A thing to be aware of is that Google has advertisers who pay > money which puts pressure on Google to produce hits for those > advertisers even if that is nonsensical. > > Google does not equal Linux. Linux is a phenomenon outside of Google > that predates Google and one which will hopefully outlast it. > > Google may not stay free. > > Google's chrome will likely be pushed by Google instead of Linux. > > Google's book plans, are the freedoms associated with paper back books > that are taken for granted going to be lost in the e-book world? > > I've used Google a lot to do Linux research and I must say that Google > is not always a good tool. Sometimes you get bogged down with old > information and junk. A lot of the HOWTOs haven't been updated for > recent changes and in general this kind of documentation seems to be > lapsing. Use Google or use my wiki seems to be the mantra, but there > are problems with that. First off, search engines have trouble getting > the right information in front of you at times whereas wikis can be > destroyed by malicious people injecting erroneous information or > removing correct information. > > Search engines are impersonal and have limited utility. They cannot > give you a sense of community whereas being on a mailing list where > there are other real people on the list can. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- "There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity" --Tom Peters _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
